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Genesis 25

Abraham's Death

 ^2(A)She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

 ³Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.

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

 ^5(B)Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

 ⁶but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and ^(C)sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

 ⁷These are all the years of Abraham's life that he lived, ^(D)one hundred and seventy-five years.

 ⁸Abraham breathed his last and died ^(E)in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was ^(F)gathered to his people.

 ⁹Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in ^(G)the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,

 ^10(H)the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

 ¹¹It came about after the death of Abraham, that ^(I)God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by ^(J)Beer-lahai-roi.

Descendants of Ishmael

 ¹³and these are the names of ^(L)the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

 ¹⁴and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,

 ¹⁵Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.

 ¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; ^(M)twelve princes according to their tribes.

 ¹⁷These are the years of the life of Ishmael, ^(N)one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was ^(O)gathered to his people.

 ¹⁸They settled from ^(P)Havilah to ^(Q)Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; ^(R)he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

Isaac's Sons

 ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took ^(T)Rebekah, the ^(U)daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the ^(V)sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

 ²¹Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and ^(W)the LORD answered him and Rebekah his wife ^(X)conceived.

 ²²But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is so, why then am I this way?" So she went to ^(Y)inquire of the LORD.

 ²³The LORD said to her,
         "^(Z)Two nations are in your womb;
         ^(AA)And two peoples will be separated from your body;
         And one people shall be stronger than the other;
         And ^(AB)the older shall serve the younger."

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

 ²⁵Now the first came forth red, ^(AC)all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

 ²⁶Afterward his brother came forth with ^(AD)his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so ^(AE)his name was called ^[a]Jacob; and Isaac was ^(AF)sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

 ²⁷When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, ^(AG)living in tents.

 ²⁸Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had ^(AH)a taste for game, ^(AI)but Rebekah loved Jacob.

 ²⁹When Jacob had cooked ^(AJ)stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;

 ³⁰and Esau said to Jacob, "Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called ^[b]Edom.

 ³¹But Jacob said, "First sell me your ^(AK)birthright."

 ³²Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?"

 ³³And Jacob said, "First swear to me"; so he swore to him, and ^(AL)sold his birthright to Jacob.

 ³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26

Isaac Settles in Gerar

 ²The LORD ^(AO)appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; ^(AP)stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

 ³"Sojourn in this land and ^(AQ)I will be with you and ^(AR)bless you, for ^(AS)to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish ^(AT)the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

 ⁴"^(AU)I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and ^(AV)by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

 ⁵because Abraham ^(AW)obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws."

 ⁶So Isaac lived in Gerar.

 ⁷When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, "^(AX)She is my sister," for he was ^(AY)afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is ^(AZ)beautiful."

 ⁸It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

 ⁹Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I might die on account of her.'"

 ^10(BA)Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

 ¹¹So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who ^(BB)touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

 ¹²Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And ^(BC)the LORD blessed him,

 ¹³and the man ^(BD)became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy;

 ¹⁴for ^(BE)he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

 ¹⁵Now ^(BF)all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

 ¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are ^(BG)too powerful for us."

 ¹⁷And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.

Quarrel over the Wells

 ¹⁹But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water,

 ²⁰the herdsmen of Gerar ^(BH)quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

 ²¹Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.

 ²²He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, "^(BI)At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be ^(BJ)fruitful in the land."

 ²³Then he went up from there to ^(BK)Beersheba.

 ²⁴The LORD ^(BL)appeared to him the same night and said,
         "^(BM)I am the God of your father Abraham;
         ^(BN)Do not fear, for I am with you
         I ^(BO)will bless you, and multiply your descendants,
         For the sake of My servant Abraham."

 ²⁵So he built an ^(BP)altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

Covenant with Abimelech

 ²⁷Isaac said to them, "^(BR)Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

 ²⁸They said, "We see plainly ^(BS)that the LORD has been with you; so we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

 ²⁹that you will do us no harm, just 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 ^(BT)blessed of the LORD.'"

 ³⁰Then ^(BU)he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

 ³¹In the morning they arose early and ^(BV)exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

 ³²Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

 ³³So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is ^(BW)Beersheba to this day.

 ³⁴When Esau was forty years old ^(BX)he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

 ³⁵and ^(BY)they ^[c]brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

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Matthew 8

Jesus Cleanses a Leper; The Centurion's Faith

 ²And ^(A)a leper came to Him and ^(B)bowed down before Him, and said, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."

 ³Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately his ^(C)leprosy was cleansed.

 ⁴And Jesus said to him, "^(D)See that you tell no one; but ^(E)go, ^(F)show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

 ⁵And ^(G)when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, imploring Him,

 ⁶and saying, "Lord, my servant is lying ^(H)paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented."

 ⁷Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."

 ⁸But the centurion said, "Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

 ⁹"For I also am a man under ^(I)authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."

 ¹⁰Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, "Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel.

 ¹¹"I say to you that many ^(J)will come from east and west, and ^[a]recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

 ¹²but ^(K)the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into ^(L)the outer darkness; in that place ^(M)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

 ¹³And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it shall be done for you ^(N)as you have believed." And the servant was healed that very moment.

Peter's Mother-in-law and Many Others Healed

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

 ¹⁶When evening came, they brought to Him many ^(P)who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and ^(Q)healed all who were ill.

 ¹⁷This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: "^(R)HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES."