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- Genesis 25:33
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“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
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- Genesis 26:2
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
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- Genesis 26:7
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But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
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- Genesis 26:9
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Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
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- Genesis 26:10
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“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
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- Genesis 26:11
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So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
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- Genesis 26:16
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
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- Genesis 26:20
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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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- Genesis 26:22
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
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- Genesis 26:24
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and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
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- Genesis 26:27
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“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
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- Genesis 26:28
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“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
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- Genesis 26:32
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On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
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- Genesis 27:1
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
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- Genesis 27:2
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“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
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- Genesis 27:6
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
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- Genesis 27:11
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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
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- Genesis 27:13
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His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
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- Genesis 27:18
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So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
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- Genesis 27:19
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Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
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- Genesis 27:20
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But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
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- Genesis 27:21
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
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- Genesis 27:22
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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- Genesis 27:24
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Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
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- Genesis 27:25
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“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.
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- Genesis 27:26
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Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
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- Genesis 27:27
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So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
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- Genesis 27:31
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He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
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- Genesis 27:32
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But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
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- Genesis 27:33
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Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
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- Genesis 27:34
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When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
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- Genesis 27:35
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But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
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- Genesis 27:36
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So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
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- Genesis 27:37
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But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
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- Genesis 27:38
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Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
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- Genesis 27:39
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His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
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- Genesis 27:41
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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- Genesis 27:42
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When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
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- Genesis 27:46
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
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- Genesis 28:1
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
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- Genesis 28:6
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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- Genesis 28:13
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
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- Genesis 28:16
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When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
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- Genesis 28:17
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And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
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- Genesis 28:20
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
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- Genesis 29:4
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“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
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- Genesis 29:5
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“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
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- Genesis 29:6
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“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
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- Genesis 29:7
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“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
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- Genesis 29:8
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But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
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