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The Philistines envy Isaac.

CHAP. XXVII. He covenants with Abimelech.

king of the Philistines looked out at a called upon the name of the LORD, and window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's sporting with Rebekah his wife. servants digged a well.

9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and 26 T Then Abimelech went to him from said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And and Phichol the chief captain of his army. Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me,

I die for her.

10 And Abimelech said, What is this and have sent me away from you? thou hast done unto us? one of the people 28 And they said, We saw certainly might lightly have lain with thy wife, and that the LORD was with thee and we thou shouldest have brought guiltiness said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make

upon us.

11 And Abimelech charged all his peo-a covenant with thee: ple, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

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

13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

31 And they rose up betimes in the 14 For he had possession of flocks, and morning, and sware one to another and possession of herds, and great store of ser-Isaac sent them away, and they departed vants: And the Philistines envied him. from him in peace. 15 For all the wells which his father's 32 And it came to pass the same day, servants had digged in the days of Abra- that Isaac's servants came and told him ham his father, the Philistines had stopped concerning the well which they had digthem, and filled them with earth. ged, and said unto him, We have found

16 ̊ And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go water. from us: for thou art much mightier than we. 33 And he called it Shebah: therefore 17 And Isaac departed thence, and the name of the city is Beer-sheba unte pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and this day.

dwelt there.

34 And Esau was forty years old when 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of he took to wife Judith the daughter of water which they had digged in the days Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the of Abraham his father; for the Philistines daughter of Elon the Hittite: had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and be called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the

35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

CHAP. XXVII.

valley, and found there a well of springing AND it came to pass, that when Isaac

water.

20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours; and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son : and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death':

3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;

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22 And he removed from thence, and 4 And make me savoury nieat, such as digged another well; and for that they love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; strove not: and he called the name of it that my soul may bless thee before I die. Rehoboth; and he said, For now the 5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake LORD bath made room for us, and we shall to Esau his son: and Esau went to the be fruitful in the land. field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 23 And he went up from thence to 6 ¶ And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her Beer-sheba. son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father 24 And the LORD appeared unto him speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, the same night, and said, I am the God of 7 Bring me venison, and inake me saAbraham thy father: fear not, for I am voury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee with thee, and will bless thee, and multi-before the LORD, before my death. ply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an altar there, and

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, according to that which I command thee. 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me

Isaac sends Esau for venison.

GENESIS.

Jacob obtains a blessing.

from thence two good kids of the goats; of my son is as the smell of a field whick and I will make them savoury meat for thy the LORD hath blessed: father, such as he loveth:

10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

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

28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a 30 And it came to pass, as soon as blessing. Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from me be thy curse, my son; only obey my the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau voice, and go fetch me them. his brother came in from his hunting.

14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon smooth of his neck:

31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father; and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.

33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingthe ly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I and have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

17 And she gave the savoury meat the bread,which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 ¶ And he came unto his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father!

35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. 36 And he said, Is not he rightly named 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my two times: he took away my birth-right; son? And he said, Because the LORD thy and behold, now he hath taken away my God brought it to me. blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau,

or not.

37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his for servants; and with corn and wine have father; and he felt him, and said, The I sustained him: and what shall I do now voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are unto thee, my son? the hands of Esau.

23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.

38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father! And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 And Isaac his father answered, and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. 27 And he came near, and kissed him: 41 ¶ And Esau hated Jacob because of and he smelled the smell of his raiment, the blessing wherewith his father blessed and blessed him, and said, See, the smell him and Esau said in his heart, The days

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