26:5 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” 26:6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.Ģ6:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”Ģ6:8 After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. 26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham. 26:2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt settle down in the land that I will point out to you. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar. So Esau despised his birthright.Ģ6:1 There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. 25:30 So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed me some of the red stuff – yes, this red stuff – because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)Ģ5:31 But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” 25:32 “Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?” 25:33 But Jacob said, “Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.Ģ5:34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out.
25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.Ģ5:29 Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.Ģ5:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents. 25:26 When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. 25:25 The first came out reddish all over, like a hairy garment, so they named him Esau. One people will be stronger than the other,Ģ5:24 When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb. 25:22 But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord, 25:23 and the Lord said to her,Īnd two peoples will be separated from within you. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.Ģ5:21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
A Chronological Daily Bible Study of the Old Testamentħ-Day Sections with a Summary-Commentary, Discussion Questions, and a Practical Daily ApplicationĢ5:19 This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Ībraham became the father of Isaac.
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