Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.”
So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
“Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”
that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site.”
“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
So the field and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth.
and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.”
She said, “Drink, my lord”; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.
Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.”
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.
And he said, “Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”
Now Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.
My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;
behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;
But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”
Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.
Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.
Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water,
So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.’
Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
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