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But he replied, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master."

So they said, "We will call the girl and ask her opinion."

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

Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

and asked the servant, "Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?" "It is my master," the servant answered. 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 Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

"Look," said Esau, "I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?"

"Swear to me first," Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister." For he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," since he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful."

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is really your wife! How could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought I might die on account of her."

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

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled 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 contended with him.

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

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