Genesis 24

1 NOW ABRAHAM was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.2 And Abraham said to the eldest servant of his house [Eliezer of Damascus], who ruled over all that he had, I beg of you, put your hand under my thigh; 3 And you shall swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I have settled,4 But you shall go to my country and to my relatives and take a wife for my son Isaac.5 The servant said to him, But perhaps the woman will not be willing to come along after me to this country. Must I take your son to the country from which you came?6 Abraham said to him, See to it that you do not take my son back there.7 The Lord, the God of heaven, Who took me from my father’s house, from the land of my family and my birth, Who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, To your offspring I will give this land--He will send His Angel before you, and you will take a wife from there for my son.8 And if the woman should not be willing to go along after you, then you will be clear from this oath; only you must not take my son back there.9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.10 And the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking some of all his master’s treasures with him; thus he journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates], to the city of Nahor [Abraham’s brother].11 And he made his camels to kneel down outside the city by a well of water at the time of the evening when women go out to draw water.12 And he said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, I pray You, cause me to meet with good success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.13 See, I stand here by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming to draw water.14 And let it so be that the girl to whom I say, I pray you, let down your jar that I may drink, and she replies, Drink, and I will give your camels drink also--let her be the one whom You have selected and appointed and indicated for Your servant Isaac [to be a wife to him]; and by it I shall know that You have shown kindness and faithfulness to my master.15 Before he had finished speaking, behold, out came Rebekah, who was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor the brother of Abraham, with her water jar on her shoulder.16 And the girl was very beautiful and attractive, chaste and modest, and unmarried. And she went down to the well, filled her water jar, and came up.17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, I pray you, let me drink a little water from your water jar.18 And she said, Drink, my lord; and she quickly let down her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.19 When she had given him a drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they finish drinking.20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.21 The man stood gazing at her in silence, waiting to know if the Lord had made his trip prosperous.22 And when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold earring or nose ring of half a shekel in weight, and for her hands two bracelets of ten shekels in weight in gold,23 And said, Whose daughter are you? I pray you, tell me: Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge there?24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah and [her husband] Nahor.25 She said also to him, We have both straw and provender (fodder) enough, and also room in which to lodge.26 The man bowed down his head and worshiped the Lord27 And said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, Who has not left my master bereft and destitute of His loving-kindness and steadfastness. As for me, going on the way [of obedience and faith] the Lord led me to the house of my master’s kinsmen.28 The girl related to her mother’s household what had happened.29 Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the well.30 For when he saw the earring or nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and when he heard Rebekah his sister saying, The man said this to me, he went to the man and found him standing by the camels at the well.31 He cried, Come in, you blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside? For I have made the house ready and have prepared a place for the camels.32 So the man came into the house; and [Laban] ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to bathe his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.33 A meal was set before him, but he said, I will not eat until I have told of my errand. And [Laban] said, Speak on.34 And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.35 And the Lord has blessed my master mightily, and he has become great; and He has given him flocks, herds, silver, gold, menservants, maidservants, camels, and asses.36 And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.37 And my master made me swear, saying, You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,38 But you shall go to my father’s house and to my family and take a wife for my son.39 And I said to my master, But suppose the woman will not follow me.40 And he said to me, The Lord, in Whose presence I walk [habitually], will send His Angel with you and prosper your way, and you will take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.41 Then you shall be clear from my oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they do not give her to you, you shall be free and innocent of my oath.42 I came today to the well and said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if You are now causing me to go on my way prosperously--43 See, I am standing by the well of water; now let it be that when the maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, I pray you, give me a little water from your [water] jar to drink,44 And if she says to me, You drink, and I will draw water for your camels also, let that same woman be the one whom the Lord has selected and indicated for my master’s son.45 And before I had finished praying in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, I pray you, let me have a drink.46 And she quickly let down her [water] jar from her shoulder and said, Drink, and I will water your camels also. So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.47 I asked her, Whose daughter are you? She said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the earring or nose ring on her face and the bracelets on her arms.48 And I bowed down my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, Who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter to his son.49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master [showing faithfulness to him], tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right or to the left.50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, The thing comes forth from the Lord; we cannot speak bad or good to you.51 Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has said.52 And when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the Lord.53 And the servant brought out jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and garments and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.54 Then they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed there all night. And in the morning they arose, and he said. Send me away to my master.55 But [Rebekah’s] brother and mother said, Let the girl stay with us a few days--at least ten; then she may go.56 But [the servant] said to them, Do not hinder and delay me, seeing that the Lord has caused me to go prosperously on my way. Send me away, that I may go to my master.57 And they said, We will call the girl and ask her [what is] her desire.58 So they called Rebekah and said to her, Will you go with this man? And she said, I will go.59 So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse [Deborah] and Abraham’s servant and his men.60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, You are our sister; may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your posterity possess the gate of their enemies.61 And Rebekah and her maids arose and followed the man upon their camels. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.62 Now Isaac had returned from going to the well Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me], for he [now] dwelt in the South country (the Negeb).63 And Isaac went out to meditate and bow down [in prayer] in the open country in the evening; and he looked up and saw that, behold, the camels were coming.64 And Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.65 For she [had] said to the servant, Who is that man walking across the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, He is my master. So she took a veil and concealed herself with it.66 And the servant told Isaac everything that he had done.67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25

1 ABRAHAM TOOK another wife, and her name was Keturah.2 And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.6 But to the sons of his concubines [Hagar and Keturah] Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son [of promise].7 The days of Abraham’s life were 175 years.8 Then Abraham’s spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and was gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,10 The field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me].12 Now this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)--twelve princes according to their tribes. [Foretold in Gen. 17:20.]17 And Ishmael lived 137 years; then his spirit left him, and he died and was gathered to his kindred.18 And [Ishmael’s sons] dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt in the direction of Assyria. [Ishmael] dwelt close [to the lands] of all his brethren.19 And this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac.20 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.21 And Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.22 [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.23 The Lord said to her, [The founders of] two nations are in your womb, and the separation of two peoples has begun in your body; the one people shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.25 The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy].26 Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob [supplanter]. Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain and quiet man, dwelling in tents.28 And Isaac loved [and was partial to] Esau, because he ate of Esau’s game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.29 Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].30 And Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint and famished! That is why his name was called Edom [red].31 Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).32 Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?33 Jacob said, Swear to me today [that you are selling it to me]; and he swore to [Jacob] and sold him his birthright.34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice.

Genesis 26

1 AND THERE was a famine in the land, other than the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I will tell you.3 Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.4 And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your posterity all these lands (kingdoms); and by your Offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, or by Him bless themselves, 5 For Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.7 And the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife--[thinking], Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is attractive and is beautiful to look upon.8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.9 And Abimelech called Isaac and said, See here, she is certainly your wife! How did you [dare] say to me, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her.10 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the men might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt and sin upon us.11 Then Abimelech charged all his people, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.12 Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.13 And the man became great and gained more and more until he became very wealthy and distinguished;14 He owned flocks, herds, and a great supply of servants, and the Philistines envied him.15 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had closed and filled with earth.16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we are.17 So Isaac went away from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names by which his father had called them.19 Now Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living [spring] water.20 And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he named the well Esek [contention] because they quarreled with him.21 Then [his servants] dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he named it Sitnah [enmity].22 And he moved away from there and dug another well, and for that one they did not quarrel. He named it Rehoboth [room], saying, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.23 Now he went up from there to Beersheba.24 And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will favor you with blessings and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.25 And [Isaac] built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants were digging a well.26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzah, one of his friends, and Phicol, his army’s commander.27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?28 They said, We saw that the Lord was certainly with you; so we said, Let there be now an oath between us [carrying a curse with it to befall the one who breaks it], even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you29 That you will do us no harm, inasmuch as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed or favored of the Lord!30 And he made them a [formal] dinner, and they ate and drank.31 And they rose up early in the morning and took oaths [with a curse] with one another; and Isaac sent them on their way and they departed from him in peace.32 That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, We have found water!33 And he named [the well] Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba [well of the oath] to this day. 34 Now Esau was 40 years old when he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.35 And they made life bitter and a grief of mind and spirit for Isaac and Rebekah [their parents-in-law].

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