Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death.”
12 Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in the same year reaped a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,
and the man became rich; he prospered more and more until he became very wealthy.
He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
(Now the Philistines had stopped up and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.)
And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
17 So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and settled there.
Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names that his father had given them.
But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,
the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the well Esek, [77 (#ulink_d86ade98-9e23-51c6-baa6-db2cfa59fb4e)] because they contended with him.
Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also; so he called it Sitnah.[78 (#ulink_3edcbfba-1747-5695-80ce-bb054ea67333)]
He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called it Rehoboth, [79 (#ulink_e9752424-6251-54cd-8de9-07de34a273ce)] saying, “Now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
23 From there he went up to Beer-sheba.
And that very night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you and make your offspring numerous for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you
so that you will do us no harm, just 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 of the LORD.”
So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths; and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water!”
He called it Shibah;[80 (#ulink_34d761db-eba8-5925-b1d0-4f08236dcc54)] therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba[81 (#ulink_eb5b03d7-2658-54f7-a38c-a7d0e7456fe4)] to this day.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite;
and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
27 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”
He said, “See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me.
Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father say to your brother Esau,
‘Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food to eat, that I may bless you before the LORD before I die.’
Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you.
Go to the flock, and get me two choice kids, so that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he likes;
and you shall take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a man of smooth skin.
Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”
His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my word, and go, get them for me.”
So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.
Then Rebekah took the best garments of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob;
and she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Then she handed the savory food, and the bread that she had prepared, to her son Jacob.
18 So he went in to his father, and said, “My father”; and he said, “Here I am; who are you, my son?”
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”
But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the LORD your God granted me success.”
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.
He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”
