<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> Isaac came from<n id="2" /> Beer Lahai Roi,<n id="3" /> for<n id="4" /> he was living in the Negev.<n id="5" />

so that I may make you solemnly promise<n id="1" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire<n id="2" /> a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, &#8220;This is a very sad occasion<n id="1" /> for the Egyptians.&#8221; That is why its name was called<n id="2" /> Abel Mizraim,<n id="3" /> which is beyond the Jordan.p>