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Abraham replied, "I said to myself, 'There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

for the LORD had closed up every womb in Abimelech's household because of Abraham's wife Sarah.

The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.

But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring."

So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

"Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD , that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful."

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her."

Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."

When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

There he saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

Laban said to him, "Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."