God heard their groaning,<n id="1" /> God remembered<n id="2" /> his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

He added, &#8220;I am the God of your father,<n id="1" /> the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.&#8221; Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look<n id="2" /> at God.p>

&#8220;that they may believe that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.&#8221;p>

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as<n id="1" /> God Almighty,<n id="2" /> but by<n id="3" /> my name &#8216;the <sc>Lord&#8217;sc><n id="4" /> I was not known to them.<n id="5" />

I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham,<n id="1" /> and I will remember the land.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I have let you see it,<n id="2" /> but you will not cross over there.&#8221;p>

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,<n id="1" /> while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

O <sc>Lordsc> God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.<n id="1" /> I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual<n id="2" /> covenant for his descendants after him.

But God said to Abraham, &#8220;Do not be upset<n id="1" /> about the boy or your slave wife. Do<n id="2" /> all that Sarah is telling<n id="3" /> you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.<n id="4" />

God<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Take your son &#8211; your only son, whom you love, Isaac<n id="2" /> &#8211; and go to the land of Moriah!<n id="3" /> Offer him up there as a burnt offering<n id="4" /> on one of the mountains which I will indicate to<n id="5" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.<n id="1" /> He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out<n id="2" /> for the place God had spoken to him about.p>

<p class="bodytext">When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there<n id="1" /> and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up<n id="2" /> his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

I will say to a young woman, &#8216;Please lower your jar so I may drink.&#8217; May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll give your camels water too.&#8217;<n id="1" /> In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After Isaac<n id="1" /> had been there a long time,<n id="2" /> Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed<n id="3" /> Isaac caressing<n id="4" /> his wife Rebekah.

Isaac reopened<n id="1" /> the wells that had been dug<n id="2" /> back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up<n id="3" /> after Abraham died. Isaac<n id="4" /> gave these wells<n id="5" /> the same names his father had given them.<n id="6" />p>

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Isaac replied to Esau, &#8220;Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I am deeply depressed<n id="1" /> because of these daughters of Heth.<n id="2" /> If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>