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And Iacob said, Sweare to mee this day: and he sware to him: and he sold his birthright vnto Iacob.

Then Iacob gaue Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eate and drinke, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife: and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because shee was faire to looke vpon.

And it came to passe when he had bene there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistims looked out at a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Hee that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely bee put to death.

For all the wels which his fathers seruants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, the Philistims had stopped them, & filled them with earth.

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And Isaac digged againe the wels of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

And he builded an altar there, and called vpon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaacs seruants digged a well.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chiefe captaine of his armie.

And it came to passe that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dimme, so that he could not see, hee called Esau his eldest son, and said vnto him, My sonne. And hee said vnto him, Behold, here am I.

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his sonne: and Esau went to the fielde to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eate, and that he may blesse thee, before his death.

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

And his mother said vnto him, Upon me be thy curse, my sonne: onely obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And hee went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother, and his mother made sauoury meat, such as his father loued.

And shee put the skinnes of the kids of the goats vpon his hands, and vpon the smooth of his necke.

And he came vnto his father, and said, My father: And he said, Here am I: who art thou, my sonne?

And Iacob said vnto his father, I am Esau, thy first borne; I haue done according as thou badest mee: arise, I pray thee, sit, and eate of my venison, that thy soule may blesse me.

And Isaac said vnto his sonne, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my sonne? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.