God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”

When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

Isaac began to shake violently and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”

He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.