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And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers.

And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau.

And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.

And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup , for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom.

And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, My wife, lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful of form.

And it happened when his days were many to him there, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window and saw; and, behold, Isaac was sporting with his wife Rebekah.

And Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, Anyone touching this man and his wife dying shall die.

And possessions of flocks and possessions of herds, and many slaves were his. And the Philistines envied him.

And all the wells which the slaves of his father dug in the days of his father Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with dirt.

And Isaac returned and dug the wells of water which they dug in the days of his father Abraham; and the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called names to them like the names which his father had called them.

And he built an altar there and called on the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there. And the slaves of Isaac dug a well there.

And Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and his aide Ahuzzath, and Phicol the general of his army.

And they started up early at dawn, and each swore to his brother. And Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.

And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me.

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field to hunt game, to bring it in.

and you shall bring it to your father and let him eat, so that he may bless you before his death.

And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I a smooth man.