Study Desk

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, "The matter has gone out from Yahweh; we are not able to speak bad or good to you.

And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. And they got up in the morning, and he said, "Let me go to my master."

And they said, "Let us call the girl and ask her opinion."

And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men.

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "You are our sister; may you become countless thousands; and may your offspring take possession of the gate of his enemies."

And Rebekah and her maidservants arose, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah and left.

And the first came out red, all his body was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau.

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them the same names which his father had given them.

And when the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, they found a well of fresh water there.

Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah.

Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. And he called its name Rehoboth, and said, "Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

And they said, "We see clearly that Yahweh has been with you, so we thought let there be an oath between us—between us and you—and let us make a covenant with you

So he made a meal for them, and they ate and drank.

And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other, and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace.

And it happened that on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, "We have found water!"

And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well. And they watered the sheep and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place.