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Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed."

Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, [fn] because the two of them swore an oath there.

and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son--

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, "She is my sister"; for he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," because he thought, "lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold."

Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, "She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, "Lest I die on account of her.'

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, [fn] because they quarreled with him.

And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, [fn] because he said, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God brought it to me."

And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.

Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.

Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon. [fn]