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And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; so Esau slighted his birthright.

And the men of the place questioned him concerning Rebecca his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the place should slay him because of Rebecca, because she was fair.

And he remained there a long time, and Abimelech the king of Gerara leaned to look through the window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca his wife.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.

And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Phylistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraam had dug, and the Phylistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraam; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.

And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley of Gerara.

And Abimelech came to him from Gerara, and so did Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army.

And they arose in the morning, and swore each to his neighbour; and Isaac sent them forth, and they departed from him in safety.

And it came to pass after Isaac was old, that his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see; and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him, My son; and he said, Behold, I am here.

And Rebecca heard Isaac speaking to Esau his son; and Esau went to the plain to procure venison for his father.

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

And his mother said to him, On me be thy curse, son; only hearken to my voice, and go and bring them me.

So he went and took and brought them to his mother; and his mother made meats, as his father liked them.

And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck.

And he brought them to his father, and said, Father; and he said, Behold I am here; who art thou, son?

And Jacob said to his father, I, Esau thy first-born, have done as thou toldest me; rise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And Isaac said to his son, What is this which thou hast quickly found? And he said, That which the Lord thy God presented before me.

And Jacob drew night to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of his brother Esau, hairy; and he blessed him,