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  Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram 1.  Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.   2  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.   3  When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well. 4  Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We’re from Harran,” they replied. 5  He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered. 6  Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” 7  “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and ta...

1.  So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.   2  Go at once to Paddan Aram, [ a ]  to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.   3  May God Almighty [ b ]  bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.   4  May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”   5  Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6  Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he...

  1.   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. 2  Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.   3  Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.   4  Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.” 5  Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,   6  Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,   7  ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the  Lord  before I die.’   8  Now, my son, listen carefully and...

Isaac and Abimelek 1.   Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.   2  The  Lord  appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.   3  Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.   4  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring [ a ]  all nations on earth will be blessed, [ b ]   5  because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”   6  So Isaac stayed in Gerar. 7  When the men of that place asked him about h...