When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.

Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, in the tent.”

The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”

But they exclaimed, “No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy grain for food!

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies!

The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, “and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

So they approached the man who was in charge of Joseph’s household and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.