Study Desk

This was very distressing to Abraham because of his son.

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the Lord’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,

And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord was receptive to his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.

because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.”

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek because they argued with him.

and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.”

He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls. If Jacob marries someone from around here, like these Hethite girls, what good is my life?”

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

Laban said to him, “Just because you’re my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.