Gen 25:27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Gen 25:28 Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.
Gen 25:29 And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;
Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.
Gen 25:31 And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.
Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?
Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.
Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.
Gen 26:1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
Gen 26:2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:
Gen 26:3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
Gen 26:4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
Gen 26:5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
Gen 26:6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
Gen 26:7 And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
Gen 26:8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
Gen 26:9 And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
Gen 26:10 Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
Gen 26:11 And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
Gen 26:12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
Gen 26:13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
Gen 26:14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
Gen 26:15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
Gen 26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.
Gen 26:17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
Gen 26:18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
Gen 26:19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
Gen 26:20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gav"};
