Abraham and Isaac bible study Genesis 21 through 27

 

            This next study follows both Abraham and Isaac’s life including the birth of Isaac, God’s order for Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, Isaac getting a wife and even Jacob and Esau’s birth and how Jacob got both Esau’s birthright and blessing. This study is a continuation of the last study of Abraham. Here is a link to the prior study

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In Genesis chapter 21 Sarah at long last conceives and gives birth to Isaac who then grows up. Hagar and her son Ishmael are then cast out, then Abraham and Abimelech then make a covenant between each other at Beersheba and Abraham plants a tree

(Genesis 21:1)  The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.

 

(Genesis 21:2)  And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

 

(Genesis 21:3)  Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

 

(Genesis 21:4)  And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

 

(Genesis 21:5)  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

 

(Genesis 21:6)  And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."

 

(Genesis 21:7)  And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

 

(Genesis 21:8)  And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

 

(Genesis 21:9)  But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

 

(Genesis 21:10)  So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

 

(Genesis 21:11)  And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.

 

(Genesis 21:12)  But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

 

(Genesis 21:13)  And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."

 

(Genesis 21:14)  So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

 

(Genesis 21:15)  When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

 

(Genesis 21:16)  Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.

 

(Genesis 21:17)  And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

 

(Genesis 21:18)  Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."

 

(Genesis 21:19)  Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

 

(Genesis 21:20)  And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.

 

(Genesis 21:21)  He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

 

(Genesis 21:22)  At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.

 

(Genesis 21:23)  Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."

 

(Genesis 21:24)  And Abraham said, "I will swear."

 

(Genesis 21:25)  When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

 

(Genesis 21:26)  Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."

 

(Genesis 21:27)  So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

 

(Genesis 21:28)  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

 

(Genesis 21:29)  And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"

 

(Genesis 21:30)  He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."

 

(Genesis 21:31)  Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.

 

(Genesis 21:32)  So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

 

(Genesis 21:33)  Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

 

(Genesis 21:34)  And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

 

In Genesis chapter 22 Abraham is then ordered to take his son Isaac and sacrifice him as a burnt offering, to which Abraham complies then God then stops Abraham as he is about to sacrifice Isaac and gives him a ram instead to sacrifice. God then promises to richly bless Abraham for this obedience and being unwilling to hold back his only son. Much later on, then God would indeed sacrifice His only son, Jesus as an offering to pay for all mankind’s sin

(Genesis 22:1)  After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

 

(Genesis 22:2)  He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

 

(Genesis 22:3)  So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

 

(Genesis 22:4)  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

 

(Genesis 22:5)  Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."

 

(Genesis 22:6)  And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.

 

(Genesis 22:7)  And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

 

(Genesis 22:8)  Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.

 

(Genesis 22:9)  When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

 

(Genesis 22:10)  Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

 

(Genesis 22:11)  But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

 

(Genesis 22:12)  He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

 

(Genesis 22:13)  And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

 

(Genesis 22:14)  So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided."

 

(Genesis 22:15)  And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

 

(Genesis 22:16)  and said, "By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

 

(Genesis 22:17)  I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

 

(Genesis 22:18)  and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

 

(Genesis 22:19)  So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.

 

(Genesis 22:20)  Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

 

(Genesis 22:21)  Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

 

(Genesis 22:22)  Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."

 

(Genesis 22:23)  (Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

 

(Genesis 22:24)  Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

 

In Genesis chapter 23 Abraham’s wife Sarah dies and then he goes ahead and buys a field to buy here even though the people wanted to give it to him.

(Genesis 23:1)  Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

 

(Genesis 23:2)  And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

 

(Genesis 23:3)  And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,

 

(Genesis 23:4)  "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

 

(Genesis 23:5)  The Hittites answered Abraham,

 

(Genesis 23:6)  "Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."

 

(Genesis 23:7)  Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.

 

(Genesis 23:8)  And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,

 

(Genesis 23:9)  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."

 

(Genesis23:10)  Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

 

(Genesis 23:11)  "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

 

(Genesis 23:12)  Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

 

(Genesis 23:13)  And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."

 

(Genesis 23:14)  Ephron answered Abraham,

 

(Genesis 23:15)  "My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."

 

(Genesis 23:16)  Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

 

(Genesis 23:17)  So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

 

(Genesis 23:18)  to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

 

(Genesis 23:19)  After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

 

(Genesis 23:20)  The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.

 

In Genesis chapter 24, Abraham sends his servant Isaac to go get a wife for him and actually during the course of the chapter he succeeds, and brings back Rebekah to be Isaac’s wife and Isaac loved her

(Genesis 24:1)  Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

 

(Genesis 24:2)  And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,

 

(Genesis 24:3)  that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

 

(Genesis 24:4)  but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

 

(Genesis 24:5)  The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"

 

(Genesis 24:6)  Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.

 

(Genesis 24:7)  The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

 

(Genesis 24:8)  But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."

 

(Genesis 24:9)  So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

 

(Genesis 24:10)  Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.

 

(Genesis 24:11)  And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.

 

(Genesis 24:12)  And he said, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

 

(Genesis 24:13)  Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

 

(Genesis 24:14)  Let the young woman to whom I shall say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels'--let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master."

 

(Genesis 24:15)  Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.

 

(Genesis 24:16)  The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

 

(Genesis 24:17)  Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."

 

(Genesis 24:18)  She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.

 

(Genesis 24:19)  When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."

 

(Genesis 24:20)  So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.

 

(Genesis 24:21)  The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.

 

(Genesis 24:22)  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

 

(Genesis 24:23)  and said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

 

(Genesis 24:24)  She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

 

(Genesis 24:25)  She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night."

 

(Genesis 24:26)  The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD

 

(Genesis 24:27)  and said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."

 

(Genesis 24:28)  Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.

 

(Genesis 24:29)  Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.

 

(Genesis 24:30)  As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

 

(Genesis 24:31)  He said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."

 

(Genesis 24:32)  So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

 

(Genesis 24:33)  Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." He said, "Speak on."

 

(Genesis 24:34)  So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

 

(Genesis 24:35)  The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.

 

(Genesis 24:36)  And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.

 

(Genesis 24:37)  My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

 

(Genesis 24:38)  but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'

 

(Genesis 24:39)  I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

 

(Genesis 24:40)  But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.

 

(Genesis 24:41)  Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'

 

(Genesis 24:42)  "I came today to the spring and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,

 

(Genesis 24:43)  behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

 

(Genesis 24:44)  and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'

 

(Genesis 24:45)  "Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'

 

(Genesis 24:46)  She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.

 

(Genesis 24:47)  Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.

 

(Genesis 24:48)  Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.

 

(Genesis 24:49)  Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."

 

(Genesis 24:50)  Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

 

(Genesis 24:51)  Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."

 

(Genesis 24:52)  When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.

 

(Genesis 24:53)  And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

 

(Genesis 24:54)  And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."

 

(Genesis 24:55)  Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."

 

(Genesis 24:56)  But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

 

(Genesis 24:57)  They said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her."

 

(Genesis 24:58)  And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

 

(Genesis 24:59)  So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.

 

(Genesis 24:60)  And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!"

 

(Genesis 24:61)  Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.

 

(Genesis 24:62)  Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.

 

(Genesis 24:63)  And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.

 

(Genesis 24:64)  And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel

 

(Genesis 24:65)  and said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.

 

(Genesis 24:66)  And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

 

(Genesis 24:67)  Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

 

In chapter 25 of Genesis Abraham dies then the chapter lists the offspring of Ishmael, then the story goes on to relate Rebekah’s twin children Jacob and Esau, with Jacob holding Esau’s ankle when born. Then Jacob has Esau sell his birthright for a bowl of stew at the end of the chapter

(Genesis 25:1)  Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

 

(Genesis 25:2)  She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

 

(Genesis 25:3)  Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

 

(Genesis 25:4)  The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

 

(Genesis 25:5)  Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

 

(Genesis 25:6)  But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

 

(Genesis 25:7)  These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.

 

(Genesis 25:8)  Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

 

(Genesis 25:9)  Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,

 

(Genesis 25:10)  the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.

 

(Genesis 25:11)  After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

 

(Genesis 25:12)  These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.

 

(Genesis 25:13)  These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

 

(Genesis 25:14)  Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

 

(Genesis 25:15)  Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

 

(Genesis 25:16)  These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

 

(Genesis 25:17)  (These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)

 

(Genesis 25:18)  They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.

 

(Genesis 25:19)  These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac,

 

(Genesis 25:20)  and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

 

(Genesis 25:21)  And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

 

(Genesis 25:22)  The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

 

(Genesis 25:23)  And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."

 

(Genesis 25:24)  When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.

 

(Genesis 25:25)  The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

 

(Genesis 25:26)  Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

 

(Genesis 25:27)  When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

 

(Genesis 25:28)  Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

 

(Genesis 25:29)  Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

 

(Genesis 25:30)  And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)

 

(Genesis 25:31)  Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now."

 

(Genesis 25:32)  Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"

 

(Genesis 25:33)  Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

 

(Genesis 25:34)  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

 

Chapter 26 tells of Isaac and his wife’s journeys in areas where God tells him, his encounters with Abimelech, redigging the wells that were stopped up by the Philistines and making others then Esau gets married at 40

(Genesis 26:1)  Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

 

(Genesis 26:2)  And the LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.

 

(Genesis 26:3)  Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

 

(Genesis 26:4)  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

 

(Genesis 26:5)  because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

 

(Genesis 26:6)  So Isaac settled in Gerar.

 

(Genesis 26:7)  When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.

 

(Genesis 26:8)  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.

 

(Genesis 26:9)  So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

 

(Genesis 26:10)  Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

 

(Genesis 26:11)  So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

 

(Genesis 26:12)  And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,

 

(Genesis 26:13)  and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.

 

(Genesis 26:14)  He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

 

(Genesis 26:15)  (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)

 

(Genesis 26:16)  And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."

 

(Genesis 26:17)  So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

 

(Genesis 26:18)  And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.

 

(Genesis 26:19)  But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,

 

(Genesis 26:20)  the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

 

(Genesis 26:21)  Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.

 

(Genesis 26:22)  And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

 

(Genesis 26:23)  From there he went up to Beersheba.

 

(Genesis 26:24)  And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."

 

(Genesis 26:25)  So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

 

(Genesis 26:26)  When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,

 

(Genesis 26:27)  Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

 

(Genesis 26:28)  They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

 

(Genesis 26:29)  that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD."

 

(Genesis 26:30)  So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

 

(Genesis 26:31)  In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

 

(Genesis 26:32)  That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water."

 

(Genesis 26:33)  He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

 

(Genesis 26:34)  When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

 

(Genesis 26:35)  and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

 

Then when Isaac was old and his sight dim Rebekah and Jacob concoct a successful plan which enables Jacob to successfully steal Esau’s blessing. When Esau finds out about it he is really angry and wants to kill Jacob , so Jacob’s mother then has Jacob flee to Laban until Esau can get over his anger

(Genesis 27:1)  When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

 

(Genesis 27:2)  He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

 

(Genesis 27:3)  Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

 

(Genesis 27:4)  and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."

 

(Genesis 27:5)  Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

 

(Genesis 27:6)  Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

 

(Genesis 27:7)  'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.'

 

(Genesis 27:8)  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.

 

(Genesis 27:9)  Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.

 

(Genesis 27:10)  And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."

 

(Genesis 27:11)  But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

 

(Genesis 27:12)  Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."

 

(Genesis 27:13)  His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."

 

(Genesis 27:14)  So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.

 

(Genesis 27:15)  Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

 

(Genesis 27:16)  And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

 

(Genesis 27:17)  And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

 

(Genesis 27:18)  So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

 

(Genesis 27:19)  Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."

 

(Genesis 27:20)  But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."

 

(Genesis 27:21)  Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."

 

(Genesis 27:22)  So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

 

(Genesis 27:23)  And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

 

(Genesis 27:24)  He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."

 

(Genesis 27:25)  Then he said, "Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

 

(Genesis 27:26)  Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."

 

(Genesis 27:27)  So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!

 

(Genesis 27:28)  May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

 

(Genesis 27:29)  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"

 

(Genesis 27:30)  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

 

(Genesis 27:31)  He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."

 

(Genesis 27:32)  His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

 

(Genesis 27:33)  Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."

 

(Genesis 27:34)  As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"

 

(Genesis 27:35)  But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."

 

(Genesis 27:36)  Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

 

(Genesis 27:37)  Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"

 

(Genesis 27:38)  Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

 

(Genesis 27:39)  Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.

 

(Genesis 27:40)  By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck."

 

(Genesis 27:41)  Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

 

(Genesis 27:42)  But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

 

(Genesis 27:43)  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran

 

(Genesis 27:44)  and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away--

 

(Genesis 27:45)  until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"

 

(Genesis 27:46)  Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

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This continued story of Genesis continues to show God’s grace and mercy to His chosen people and even foreshadows the coming of Jesus when God tests Abraham by ordering him to sacrifice his only son. Eventually God Himself would send His own Son, Jesus and sacrifice Him for the good of all mankind so all our sins may be forgiven once and for all, because God wants this wonderful relationship us and there is no other relationship that can be compared to a relationship with God to any degree whatsoever. I am now including a prayer which can be said which will enable Jesus to come to you and establish this love relationship or even to return to it if you have drifted away. Please pray this prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours