And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red
pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob
said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at
the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And
Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold
his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of
lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus
Esau despised his birthright.
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was
in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the
Philistines unto Gerar.
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;
dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: sojourn in this land,
and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto
thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the
oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy seed
to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all
these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
[Sidenote: Genesis 27]
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. And the man waxed great,
and went forward, and grew until he became very great: for he had
possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of
servants: and the Philistines envied him. For all the wells which his
father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the
Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier
than we. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of
water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for
the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he
called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
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