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So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.'"

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

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

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.

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

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.

And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."

So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.

So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the Lord your God granted me success."

So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

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