So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
ESAU’S GRIEF AND ANGER
ESAU’S GRIEF AND ANGER
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JACOB GETS ESAU’S BLESSING
JACOB GETS ESAU’S BLESSING
So he went to his father and said, “My father.” And Isaac said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now please, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC
REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC
Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau’s best clothes, which were with her in her house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Then she gave her son Jacob the delicious meat and the bread which she had prepared.
ISAAC’S WELLS AND COVENANT
ISAAC’S WELLS AND COVENANT
The Philistines had stopped up the wells which Abraham had dug—an unfriendly act signifying that the newcomers were not welcome. Strife ensued with the Philistines at Esek (contention) and Sitnah (enmity).
GOD’S PROMISE TO ISAAC
GOD’S PROMISE TO ISAAC
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB
THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB
The Birth of Esau and Jacob. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
ABRAHAM’S DEATH AND BURIAL
ABRAHAM’S DEATH AND BURIAL
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
REBEKAH MARRIES ISAAC AND BECAME HIS WIFE
REBEKAH MARRIES ISAAC AND BECAME HIS WIFE
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
REBEKAH MEETS ABRAHAM’S SERVANT
REBEKAH MEETS ABRAHAM’S SERVANT
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
A WIFE SOUGHT FOR ISAAC
A WIFE SOUGHT FOR ISAAC
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.