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Genesis 25

    ²And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

    ³Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

    ⁴The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

    ⁵And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

    ⁶But to the sons of his concubines [Hagar and Keturah] Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them to the east country, away from Isaac his son [of promise].

    ⁷The days of Abraham's life were 175 years.

    ⁸Then Abraham's spirit was released, and he died at a good (ample, full) old age, an old man, satisfied and satiated, and ^[a]was gathered to his people.^(A)

    ⁹And his sons ^[b]Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,

    ¹⁰The field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

    ¹¹After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who sees me].

    ¹²Now this is the history of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

    ¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their births: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

    ¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

    ¹⁵Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

    ¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)--twelve princes according to their tribes. [Foretold in Gen. 17:20.]

    ¹⁷And Ishmael lived 137 years; then his spirit left him, and he died and was gathered to his kindred.

    ¹⁸And [Ishmael's sons] dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is before Egypt in the direction of Assyria. [Ishmael] dwelt close [to the lands] of all his brethren.

    ¹⁹And this is the history of the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac.

    ²⁰Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

    ²¹And Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.

    ²²[Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

    ²³The Lord said to her, [The founders of] two nations are in your womb, and the separation of two peoples has begun in your body; the one people shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

    ²⁴When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

    ²⁵The first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they named him Esau [hairy].

    ²⁶Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand grasped Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob [supplanter]. Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

    ²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau was a cunning and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a plain and quiet man, dwelling in tents.

    ²⁸And Isaac loved [and was partial to] Esau, because he ate of Esau's game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

    ²⁹Jacob was boiling pottage (lentil stew) one day, when Esau came from the field and was faint [with hunger].

    ³⁰And Esau said to Jacob, I beg of you, let me have some of that red lentil stew to eat, for I am faint and famished! That is why his name was called Edom [red].

    ³¹Jacob answered, Then sell me today your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).

    ³²Esau said, See here, I am at the point of death; what good can this birthright do me?

    ³³Jacob said, Swear to me today [that you are selling it to me]; and he swore to [Jacob] and sold him his birthright.

    ³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau scorned his birthright as beneath his notice.

Genesis 26

    ²And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I will tell you.

    ³Dwell temporarily in this land, and I will be with you and will favor you with blessings; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

    ⁴And I will make your descendants to multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your posterity all these lands (kingdoms); and by your Offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, or by Him bless themselves,^(B)

    ⁵For Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.

    ⁶So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

    ⁷And the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife--[thinking], Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is attractive and is beautiful to look upon.

    ⁸When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.

    ⁹And Abimelech called Isaac and said, See here, she is certainly your wife! How did you [dare] say to me, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I thought, Lest I die on account of her.

    ¹⁰And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the men might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt and sin upon us.

    ¹¹Then Abimelech charged all his people, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

    ¹²Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.

    ¹³And the man became great and gained more and more until he became very wealthy and distinguished;

    ¹⁴He owned flocks, herds, and a great supply of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

    ¹⁵Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had closed and filled with earth.

    ¹⁶And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we are.

    ¹⁷So Isaac went away from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

    ¹⁸And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names by which his father had called them.

    ¹⁹Now Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living [spring] water.

    ²⁰And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he named the well Esek [contention] because they quarreled with him.

    ²¹Then [his servants] dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he named it Sitnah [enmity].

    ²²And he moved away from there and dug another well, and for that one they did not quarrel. He named it Rehoboth [room], saying, For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

    ²³Now he went up from there to Beersheba.

    ²⁴And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will favor you with blessings and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.

    ²⁵And [Isaac] ^[c]built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants were digging a well.

    ²⁶Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzah, one of his friends, and Phicol, his army's commander.

    ²⁷And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?

    ²⁸They said, We saw that the Lord was certainly with you; so we said, Let there be now an oath between us [carrying a curse with it to befall the one who breaks it], even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you

    ²⁹That you will do us no harm, inasmuch as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed or favored of the Lord!

    ³⁰And he made them a [formal] dinner, and they ate and drank.

    ³¹And they rose up early in the morning and took oaths [with a curse] with one another; and Isaac sent them on their way and they departed from him in peace.

    ³²That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, We have found water!

    ³³And he named [the well] Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba [well of the oath] to this day.^(C)

    ³⁴Now Esau was 40 years old when he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

    ³⁵And they made life bitter and a grief of mind and spirit for Isaac and Rebekah [their parents-in-law].

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Matthew 8

    ²And behold, a leper came up to Him and, prostrating himself, worshiped Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You are able to ^[a]cleanse me by curing me.

    ³And He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed ^[b]by being cured. And instantly his leprosy was cured and cleansed.

    ⁴And Jesus said to him, See that you tell nothing about this to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, for a testimony [to your healing] and as an evidence to the people.^(A)

    ⁵As Jesus went into Capernaum, a centurion came up to Him, begging Him,

    ⁶And saying, Lord, my servant boy is lying at the house paralyzed and ^[c]distressed with intense pains.

    ⁷And Jesus said to him, I will come and restore him.

    ⁸But the centurion replied to Him, Lord, I am not worthy or fit to have You come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant boy will be cured.

    ⁹For I also am a man subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my slave, Do this, and he does it.

    ¹⁰When Jesus heard him, He marveled and said to those who followed Him [^[d]who adhered steadfastly to Him, conforming to His example in living and, if need be, in dying also], I tell you truly, I have not found so much faith as this ^[e]with anyone, even in Israel.

    ¹¹I tell you, many will come from east and west, and will sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

    ¹²While the sons and heirs of the kingdom will be driven out into the darkness outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.^(B)

    ¹³Then to the centurion Jesus said, Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed. And the servant boy was restored to health at that very ^[f]moment.

    ¹⁴And when Jesus went into Peter's house, He saw his mother-in-law lying ill with a fever.

    ¹⁵He touched her hand and the fever left her; and she got up and began waiting on Him.

    ¹⁶When evening came, they brought to Him many who were ^[g]under the power of demons, and He drove out the spirits with a word and restored to health all who were sick.

    ¹⁷And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [^[h]in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore ^[i]away our diseases.^(C)