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Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivka, the daughter of Betu'el the Arammian of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Lavan the Arammian, to be his wife.

Yitzchak entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rivka his wife conceived.

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esav's heel. He was named Ya`akov. Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.

Now Yitzchak loved Esav, because he ate his venison. Rivka loved Ya`akov.

Esav said to Ya`akov, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

Ya`akov said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Ya`akov.

Ya`akov gave Esav bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esav despised his birthright.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rivka, because she was beautiful to look on.

It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was caressing Rivka, his wife.

Avimelekh charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, the Pelishtim had stopped, and filled with eretz.

Yitzchak dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father. For the Pelishtim had stopped them after the death of Avraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. There Yitzchak's servants dug a well.

Then Avimelekh went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzat his friend, and Pikhol the captain of his host.

It happened, that when Yitzchak was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esav his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

Rivka heard when Yitzchak spoke to Esav his son. Esav went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

Ya`akov said to Rivka his mother, "Behold, Esav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.