Study Desk

At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said, "Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will not be destroyed when the city is punished."

So that night they got their father drunk again, and the younger daughter went and had sexual relations with him. Again, Lot did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

So early the next morning, Abimelech called all his officers and told them everything that had happened in the dream. They were very afraid.

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his servant girls so they could have children.

Then Abraham gave Abimelech some sheep and cattle, and they made an agreement.

Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took Isaac and two servants with him. After he cut the wood for the sacrifice, they went to the place God had told them to go.

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Then Abraham returned to his servants. They all traveled back to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.

Abraham agreed and paid Ephron in front of the Hittite witnesses. He weighed out the full price, ten pounds of silver, and they counted the weight as the traders normally did.

The servant and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, the servant said, "Now let me go back to my master."

They called her and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man now?" She said, "Yes, I do."

So they allowed Rebekah and her nurse to go with Abraham's servant and his men.

They blessed Rebekah and said, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of people, and may your descendants capture the cities of their enemies."

His wife Rebekah was very beautiful, and the men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so they could have her.

But the herdsmen of Gerar argued with them and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac named that well Argue because they argued with him.

So Isaac prepared food for them, and they all ate and drank.

Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them away, and they left in peace.

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We found water in that well."

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

He looked and saw a well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying nearby, because they drank water from this well. A large stone covered the mouth of the well.