and possessions of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells
which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped
them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier
than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for
the philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names
by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well
of springing 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.
22 And he removed from thence, and
digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said,
For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from
thence to Beer-sheba.
24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of
Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched
his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and
Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto them,
Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 And they said,
We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even
betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
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 morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning
the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore
the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife
Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a
grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac 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;
4 And make me
savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I
die.
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for
venison, and to bring it.
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father
speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according
to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the
goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy 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:
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 blessing.
13
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me
them.
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 the smooth of his neck:
17 And she gave the savoury meat and
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 firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it