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For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

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

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

Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

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

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, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

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

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

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."