1 And it happened about the seventh hour of the night Isaac awoke, and came to the door of his father's chamber, crying out and saying, “Open, father, that I may touch you before they take you away from me.”
2 Abraham arose and opened to him, and Isaac entered and hung upon his father's neck weeping, and kissed him with lamentations.
3 And Abraham wept together with his son, and Michael saw them weeping and wept likewise.
4 And Sarah hearing them weeping called from her bed-chamber,
5 saying, “My Lord Abraham, why is this weeping? Has the stranger told you of your brother's son Lot that he is dead? Or has anything else befallen us?”
6 Michael answered and said to Sarah, “Nay, Sarah, I have brought no tidings of Lot, but I knew of all your kindness of heart, that therein you excel all men upon earth, and the Lord has remembered you.”
7 Then Sarah said to Abraham, “How dare you weep when the man of God has come in to you,
8 and why have your eyes shed tears for today there is great rejoicing? Abraham said to her,
9 How do you know that this is a man of God?”
10 Sarah answered and said, “Because I say and declare that this is one of the three men who were entertained by us at the oak of Mamre, when one of the servants went and brought a kid and you killed it,
11 and said to me, Arise, make ready that we may eat with these men in our house.”
12 Abraham answered and said, “You have perceived well, O woman,
13 for I too, when I washed his feet knew in my heart that these were the feet which I had washed at the oak of Mamre, and when I began to enquire concerning his journey, he said to me, I go to preserve Lot your brother from the men of Sodom, and then I knew the mystery.”