TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
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Page 11 of 227. 11323 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Read word by wordand she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Read word by wordAbraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
Read word by wordBut while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Read word by wordAnd at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
Read word by wordHis sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Read word by wordAfter Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Read word by wordIshmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
Read word by wordIshmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
Read word by wordand Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Read word by wordLater, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Read word by wordBut the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
Read word by wordand He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Read word by wordWhen her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.
Read word by wordThe first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Read word by wordAfter this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
Read word by wordWhen the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Read word by wordBecause Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Read word by wordOne day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Read word by wordHe said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Read word by word“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
Read word by word“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
Read word by word“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
Read word by wordThen Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Read word by wordNow there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Read word by wordThe LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
Read word by wordStay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Read word by wordI will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Read word by wordbecause Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
Read word by wordSo Isaac settled in Gerar.
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by wordWhen Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Read word by wordAbimelech 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.”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordSo Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Read word by wordNow Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
Read word by wordand he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.
Read word by wordHe owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Read word by wordSo the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Read word by wordThen Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
Read word by wordSo Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
Read word by wordIsaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
Read word by wordThen Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordThen they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Read word by wordHe 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.”
Read word by wordFrom there Isaac went up to Beersheba,
Read word by wordand 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.”
Read word by wordSo Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
Read word by word“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
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