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(Read Isaac Part 1 First)
This is my request. I will ask one of them for a drink. If she says, `Yes, certainly, and I will water your camels, too!'--let her be the one you have appointed as Isaac's wife. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." - Genesis 24:14
And my master made me swear that I would not let Isaac marry one of the local Canaanite women. - Genesis 24:37
Meanwhile, Isaac, whose home was in the Negev, had returned from Beer-lahairoi. - Genesis 24:62
When Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted. - Genesis 24:64
Then the servant told Isaac the whole story. - Genesis 24:66
And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother's tent, and she became his wife. He loved her very much, and she was a special comfort to him after the death of his mother. - Genesis 24:67
Abraham left everything he owned to his son Isaac. - Genesis 25:5
But before he died, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from Isaac. - Genesis 25:6
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite. - Genesis 25:9
After Abraham's death, God poured out rich blessings on Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahairoi in the Negev. - Genesis 25:11
This is the history of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham. - Genesis 25:19
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban. - Genesis 25:20
Isaac pleaded with the LORD to give Rebekah a child because she was childless. So the LORD answered Isaac's prayer, and his wife became pregnant with twins. - Genesis 25:21
Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So they called him Jacob.* Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.3 - Genesis 25:26
Isaac loved Esau in particular because of the wild game he brought home, but Rebekah favored Jacob. - Genesis 25:28
Now a severe famine struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham's time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived. - Genesis 26:1
So Isaac stayed in Gerar. - Genesis 26:6
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New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers. |
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