Study Desk

If I say to a girl, ‘Let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she answers, ‘Drink, and I will give water to your camels also,' let her be the one whom You have chosen for your servant Isaac. I will know by this that You have shown loving-kindness to my boss."

So the man came into the house. Laban took the load off the camels, and gave them straw and food. He got water to wash the feet of Abraham's servant and the feet of the men who were with him.

So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

"So I came to the well today. I said, ‘O Lord, the God of my boss Abraham, may all go well during my visit here.

And she was quick to take down her jar from her shoulder. She said, ‘Drink, and I will give water to your camels also.' So I drank and she gave water to the camels also.

So now if you will show kindness and be true to my boss, tell me. And if not, tell me so I may know which way to turn."

But he said to them, "Do not make me stay any more days, since the Lord has made my way go well. Send me away so I may go to my boss."

So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse. They went with Abraham's servant and the men who were with him.

Then Rebekah and her servants got up on the camels and followed the man. So the servant of Abraham took Rebekah and left.

and said to Abraham's servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" Abraham's servant said, "He is my boss." So she took a cloth and covered her face.

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent, and she became his wife. And he loved her. So Isaac found comfort after his mother's death.

But the babies within her fought together. And she said, "If this is so, why am I like this?" She went to ask the Lord why.

Then the brother was born. His hand was holding Esau's heel. So he was given the name of Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

Esau said, "See, I am about to die. So what good is my birth-right to me?"

Jacob said, "First give me your promise." So Esau promised, and sold his birth-right to Jacob.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and vegetables, and Esau ate and drank. Then Esau stood up and went on his way. So Esau hated his birth-right.

Now there was another time when there was no food in the land, after the time of no food in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

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

So Abimelech told all the people, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will be put to death."