Study Desk

Here I am, standing by this well of water, and the young women from the city are coming out to get water.

The servant said, "I am Abraham's servant.

So Esau said to Jacob, "I am weak with hunger. Let me have some of that red soup." (That is why people call him "Red.")

Esau said, "I am almost dead with hunger, so what good are these rights to me now?"

The Lord spoke to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid. I am with you, and I will bless you. I will make your family great. I will do this because of my servant Abraham."

Isaac grew old, and his eyes became so weak that he could not see clearly. One day he called his older son Esau to him and said, "Son!" Esau answered, "Here I am."

Isaac said, "I am old. Maybe I will die soon.

But Jacob told his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man. I am not hairy like him.

If my father touches me, he will know that I am not Esau. Then he will not bless me—he will curse me because I tried to trick him."

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your first son. I have done what you told me. Now sit up and eat the meat from the animals that I hunted for you. Then you can bless me."

Isaac said, "Are you really my son Esau?" Jacob answered, "Yes, I am."

Esau prepared the food in the special way his father loved. He brought it to his father and said, "Father, I am your son. Get up and eat the meat from the animals that I killed for you. Then you can bless me."

But Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son—your first son—Esau."

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "Your son Esau married Hittite women. I am very upset about this, because they are not our people. I'll have nothing to live for if Jacob marries one of these women!"

And then Jacob saw the Lord standing by the ladder. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. I will give you the land that you are lying on now. I will give this land to you and to your children.

"I am with you, and I will protect you everywhere you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised."

I am setting this stone up as a memorial stone. It will show that this is a holy place for God, and I will give God one-tenth of all he gives me."

Leah became pregnant again and had another son. She named this son Simeon. She said, "The Lord has heard that I am not loved, so he gave me this son."

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, "I am not God. He is the one who has caused you to not have children."

Leah said, "I am lucky." So she named the son Gad.