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And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in the face of all his brothers.

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

And Isaac entreated Yahweh on behalf of his wife because she was barren; and Yahweh was moved by his entreaty. So Rebekah his wife conceived.

Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

Then Esau said to Jacob, "Please give me a swallow from the red stuff—this red stuff, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

And Jacob said, "First swear to me"; so he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank and rose and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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

Now it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, but the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by the same names by which his father had called them.

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of Yahweh and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug out a well.

Now Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

Now it happened that when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I am."

Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Then Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring to Isaac.

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

Then Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a mocker in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."

But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me."