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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
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A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
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I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”
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But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
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I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
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Jacob and Esau
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
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The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
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After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
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The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.
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Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
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“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
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Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
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But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
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Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
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Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
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Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
