Isaac

Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.

So Isaac abode in Gerara.

And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech, king of the Palestines, looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.

And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.

And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

So he departed, and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:

And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and which, after his death, the Philistines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names, by which his father before had called them.

And they digged in the torrent, and found living water:

But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent; and commanded his servants to dig a well.

Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his father's commandment,

And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way:

And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or no.

He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of Esau.

He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.