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Isaac Blesses Jacob

Gen 27:1  And it came to pass when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called his oldest son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Behold, I am here.”

Gen 27:2  And he said, “Behold now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death.

Gen 27:3  And now please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.

Gen 27:4  And make savory meat for me, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Gen 27:5  And Rebekah listened when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt venison in order to bring it.

Gen 27:6  And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,

Gen 27:7  ‘Bring me venison, and make me delicious food so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.’

Gen 27:8  And now, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

Gen 27:9  Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make of them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.

Gen 27:10  And you shall bring it to your father so that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.”

Gen 27:11  And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Gen 27:12  My father will perhaps feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.”

Gen 27:13  And his mother said to him, “Your curse be upon me, my son—only obey my voice and go bring them to me.”

Gen 27:14  And he went and he took them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made delicious things such as his father loved.

Gen 27:15  And Rebekah took the clothes of her older son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.

Gen 27:16  And she put the skins from the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck.

Gen 27:17  And she gave the delicious food and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

Gen 27:18  And he came to his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am; who are you, my son?”

Gen 27:19  And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you asked me. Arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

Gen 27:20  And Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to me.”

Gen 27:21  And Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, I pray you, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are truly my son Esau or not.”

Gen 27:22  And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Gen 27:23  And he did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. And he blessed him.

Gen 27:24  And he said, “Are you truly my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

Gen 27:25  And he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, so that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank.

Gen 27:26  And his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.”

Gen 27:27  And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.

Gen 27:28  And may God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.

Gen 27:29  Let people serve you, and let nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone that curses you, and blessed be he that blesses you.”

Gen 27:30  And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Gen 27:31  And he also had made a dish of savory meat and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s venison so that your soul may bless me.”

Gen 27:32  And his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

Gen 27:33  Then Isaac trembled greatly, and said, “Who then was the one who has hunted deer and brought it to me—and I have eaten it all before you came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed!”

Gen 27:34  And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

Gen 27:35  And he said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

Gen 27:36  And Esau said, “Is he not rightly called Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times—he took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Gen 27:37  And Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brethren I have given him for servants. And with grain and wine I have sustained him. And what shall I do now to you, my son?”

Gen 27:38  And Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

Gen 27:39  And Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Behold, your dwelling shall be far from the fatness of the earth and far from the dew of heaven from above.

Gen 27:40  And you shall live by your sword and shall serve your brother. But it shall come to pass that when you shall have the dominion, you shall break his yoke from off your neck.”

Gen 27:41  And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand—then I will kill my brother Jacob.

Gen 27:42  And these words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau is going to comfort himself concerning you—for he is planning to kill you.

Gen 27:43  And now therefore, my son, obey my voice—arise, and flee to my brother Laban, to Haran,

Gen 27:44  And stay with him a few days until your brother’s fury turns away,

Gen 27:45  Until your brother’s anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved of both of you in one day?”

Gen 27:46  And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these of the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me?”

God’s Promise to Isaac

Gen 26:1  And there was a famine in the land (besides the former famine that had been in the days of Abraham). And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Gen 26:2  And the LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land which I shall tell you of.

Gen 26:3  Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed, I will give all these lands; and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Gen 26:4  And I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and will give to your seed all these lands. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Gen 26:5  Because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Isaac and Abimelech

Gen 26:6  And Isaac lived in Gerar.

Gen 26:7  And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister” for he feared to say, “She is my wife,” lest the men of the place should kill him for Rebekah because she was beautiful to look upon.

Gen 26:8  And when he had been there a long time, it came to pass that Abimelech, king of the Philistines, was looking out a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.

Gen 26:9  And Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she surely is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’ “

Gen 26:10  And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us!”

Gen 26:11  And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

Gen 26:12  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him.

Gen 26:13  And the man became great—and continued gaining until he became very great.

Gen 26:14  And he had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants. And the Philistines envied him.

Gen 26:15  (Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father and filled them with dirt.)

Gen 26:16  And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are mightier than we are.”

Gen 26:17  So Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and lived there.

Gen 26:18  And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.

Gen 26:19  And Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water.

Gen 26:20  But the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Contention because they strove with him.

Gen 26:21  And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too. And he called its name, Opposition.

Gen 26:22  Then he moved from there and dug another well, but they did not strive over it. So he called its name, Broad Places. And he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

Gen 26:23  And he went from there to Beersheba.

Gen 26:24  And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you, and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham’s sake.”

Gen 26:25  And he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. And Isaac’s servants dug a well there.

Gen 26:26  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army.

Gen 26:27  And Isaac said to them, “Why do you come to me since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

Gen 26:28  And they said, “We saw certainly that the LORD was with you. And we said, ‘Let there be now an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

Gen 26:29  That you will do us no harm since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing but good to you, and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.’ “

Gen 26:30  And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Gen 26:31  And they rose up early in the morning and swore an oath to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Gen 26:32  And the same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about a well which they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water.”

Gen 26:33  And he called the well, Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is The Well of Sheba to this day.

Gen 26:34  And when Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Gen 26:35  And they both were a grief of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

The Call of Abram

Gen 12:1  And the LORD said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you.

Gen 12:2  And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.

Gen 12:3  And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

Gen 12:4  Then Abram departed, even as the LORD had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Gen 12:5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the people that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

Gen 12:6  And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Gen 12:7  And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” And he built an altar there to the LORD, Who had appeared to him.

Gen 12:8  And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

Gen 12:9  And Abram journeyed, going on toward the south.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

Gen 12:10  Now there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Gen 12:11  And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

Gen 12:12  And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Gen 12:13  I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you.”

Gen 12:14  And it came to pass that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Gen 12:15  The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Gen 12:16  And he treated Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male servants, and maidservants, and female donkeys, and camels.

Gen 12:17  And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Gen 12:18  And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?

Gen 12:19  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore, behold your wife. Take her and go your way.”

Gen 12:20  And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.