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and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" The servant answered, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the Lord .

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 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'?" Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might die on account of her."

So Abimelech warned all the people with these words: "Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly die."

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

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.

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

So he built an altar there, called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. Isaac's slaves 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." And he answered, "Here I am."

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 the 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.