Lord Yahweh Demands Human Sacrifice
The Lord Yahweh did as he had promised—Sarah soon conceived and gave birth to a son that Abraham named Isaac. Abraham circumcised Isaac when he was eight days old, as Yahweh had told him to do with all males in his household. Abraham was now a hundred years old and Sarah, who was almost as old as Abraham, proclaimed, "I am happy. Yahweh has brought me happiness in my old age. Now everyone who hears about me giving birth at my age will laugh with me instead of laughing at me. Who would have ever thought that Sarah would nurse children in her old age—but I have borne Abraham a son.” The child grew and was weaned and no longer suckled at his mother's breast. Abraham made a great feast for his household on the day that Isaac was weaned. Sarah saw Ishmael, Abraham's son born to the slave Hagar the Egyptian, playing with her son Isaac, so she said to Abraham, "You must throw this slave woman and her son out of our house, because I do not want the son of th...