Isaac

and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she is barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac is a son of sixty years in her bearing them.

and Isaac loveth Esau, for his hunting is in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;

And it cometh to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looketh through the window, and seeth, and lo, Isaac is playing with Rebekah his wife.

And Abimelech calleth for Isaac, and saith, `Lo, she is surely thy wife; and how hast thou said, She is my sister?' and Isaac saith unto him, `Because I said, Lest I die for her.'

And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

And Abimelech saith unto Isaac, `Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;'

and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;

and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water is ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.

and Isaac saith unto them, `Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'

and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.

And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'

and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

And it cometh to pass that Isaac is aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calleth Esau his elder son, and saith unto him, `My son;' and he saith unto him, `Here am I.'

And Rebekah is hearkening while Isaac is speaking unto Esau his son; and Esau goeth to the field to hunt provision--to bring in;

And Isaac saith unto his son, `What is this thou hast hasted to find, my son?' and he saith, `That which Jehovah thy God hath caused to come before me.'

And Isaac saith unto Jacob, `Come nigh, I pray thee, and I feel thee, my son, whether thou art he, my son Esau, or not.'

And Jacob cometh nigh unto Isaac his father, and he feeleth him, and saith, `The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.'

And Isaac his father saith to him, `Come nigh, I pray thee, and kiss me, my son;'