the Syrian, to be his wife. 025:021 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 025:022 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh. 025:023 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger. 025:024 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 025:025 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau. 025:026 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 025:027 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 025:028 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. 025:029 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 025:030 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom. 025:031 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." 025:032 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?" 025:033 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. 025:034 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. 026:001 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 026:002 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. 026:003 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 026:004 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, 026:005 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." 026:006 Isaac lived in Gerar. 026:007 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at." 026:008 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.