When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob,“Give me children, or I’ll die!” Jacob became angry with her and said,“Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” Then she said,“Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep…
Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were…
Isaac asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” he replied. Then he said,“My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought some wine, and he drank. Then his father Isaac said to him,“Come here, my son,…
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him,“My son.”“Here I am,” he answered. Isaac said,“I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and…
Now there was a famine in the land—besides the earlier famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I…
Abraham took another wife, named Keturah. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, Letushites, and Leummites. The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah. Abraham gave all he owned to Isaac….