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Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn either to the right hand or to the left."

So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham's servant and his men.

and said to the servant, "Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is to be this way, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the Lord .

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau.

Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

So Abimelech called for Isaac, and said, "So she is your wife! Why then did you say, ‘She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I might die because of her."

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

He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and settled there.

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

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah.

He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth, saying, "Now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

So he built an altar there, called on 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 say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you

so that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord ."

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