Study Desk

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

“Look,” said Esau, “I’m about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

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

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”

So Abimelech warned all the people, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”

So Isaac left there, camped in the Gerar Valley, and lived there.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek because they argued with him.

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

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

So he prepared a banquet for them, and they ate and drank.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

So now take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.

Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

‘Bring me game and make a delicious meal for me to eat so that I can bless you in the Lord’s presence before I die.’

Then take it to your father to eat so that he may bless you before he dies.”

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”