He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”

What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied.

After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor –

After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’

Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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.