Genesis 25-28
Revised Geneva Translation
25 Now Abraham had taken another wife called Keturah,
2 who bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
3 And Jokshan, begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
4 Also the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
5 And Abraham gave all his goods to Isaac.
6 But to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac, his son (while he still lived), eastward to the east country.
7 And this is the age of Abraham’s life which he lived: a hundred seventy-five years.
8 Then Abraham yielded the spirit and died in a good age, an old man and of great years; and was gathered to his people.
9 And his sons, Isaac and Ishmael, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre
10 (which field Abraham bought from the sons of Heth), where Abraham was buried with Sarah, his wife.
11 And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer Lahai Roi.
12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian (Sarah’s handmaid) bore to Abraham.
13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, name by name, according to their kindreds: the eldest son of Ishmael, Nebajoth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
16 These are the sons of Ishmael; and these are their names, by their towns and by their castles, twelve princes of their nations.
17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred thirty-seven years. And he yielded up the spirit and died and was gathered to his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur (that is towards Egypt, as you go to Asshur). Ishmael dwelt in the presence of all his brothers.
19 Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac.
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife (the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramite of Padan Aram, sister to Laban, the Aramite).
21 And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was persuaded by him; and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.
22 But the children strove together within her. Therefore, she said, “Seeing this is so, why am I like this?” So, she went to ask the LORD.
23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples shall be divided out of your core. And the one people shall be mightier than the other; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
24 Therefore, when her time of deliverance was fulfilled, behold, twins were in her womb.
25 So he who came out first was red. And he was as rough as a garment all over. And they called his name, Esau.
26 And afterward, his brother came out. And his hand held Esau by the heel. Therefore, his name was called, Jacob. Now Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah bore them.
27 And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter and lived in the fields. But Jacob was a plain man and dwelt in tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau, for venison was his meat, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Now Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the field and was weary.
30 Then Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me eat of that porridge so red, for I am weary.” Therefore, his name was called, Edom.
31 And Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright today.”
32 And Esau said, “Lo, I am almost dead. What, then, is this birthright to me?”
33 Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of today.” And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and porridge of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up, and went his way. So, Esau despised his birthright.
26 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Therefore, Isaac went to Abimelech, King of the Philistines, to Gerar.
2 For the LORD appeared to him, and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Remain in the land which I shall show you.
3 “Dwell 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 countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father.
4 “Also, I will cause your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries. And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed;
5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My Ordinance, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws.”
6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, “She is my sister.” For he feared to say, ‘She is my wife’, “Lest,” said he, “the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah” (for she was beautiful to the eye).
8 So, after he had been there a long time, Abimelech, King of the Philistines, looked out a window. And lo, he saw Isaac, flirting with Rebekah, his wife.
9 Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Lo, she is certainly your wife. And why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” To which Isaac answered, “Because I thought ‘It may be that I shall die for her.’”
10 Then Abimelech said, “Why have you done this to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife. So would you have brought sin upon us.”
11 Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man, or his wife, shall die the death.”
12 Afterward, Isaac sowed in that land and found in the same year a hundredfold by estimation. And so, the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man grew mightily and continued to increase, until he was exceedingly great.
14 For he had flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and a mighty household. Therefore, the Philistines envied him,
15 insomuch that the Philistines stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in his father Abraham’s time.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Get away from us. For you are a great deal mightier than we.”
17 Therefore, Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac, returning, dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham, his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the same names that his father had given them.
19 Isaac’s servants then dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.
20 But the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” Therefore, he called the name of the well “Esek”, because they strove with him.
21 Afterward, they dug another well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it “Sitnah”.
22 Then he left there and dug another well for which they did not strive. Therefore, he called the name of it “Rehoboth”, and said, “Because the LORD has now made us room, we shall increase upon the Earth.”
23 So he went up from there to Beersheba.
24 And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham, your father. Do not fear. I am with you and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant, Abraham’s, sake.”
25 Then he built an altar there and called upon the Name of the LORD and spread his tent there (where also Isaac’s servants had dug a well).
26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath (one of his friends), and Phichol, the captain of his army.
27 To whom Isaac said, “Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me and have put me away from you?”
28 Who answered, “We saw that the LORD was certainly with you; and we thought, ‘Let there now be an oath between us — between us and you — and let us make a covenant with you,
29 ‘that you shall do us no harm (as we have not touched you and as we have done nothing but good to you and sent you away in peace).’ You, now, are the blessed of the LORD.”
30 Then he made them a feast; and they ate and drank.
31 And they rose up early in the morning and swore, one to another. Then Isaac let them go. And they departed from him in peace.
32 And that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him of a well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
33 So he called it “Shebah”. Therefore, the name of the city is called “Beersheba” to this day.
34 Now when Esau was forty years old, he took Judith for his wife (the daughter of Beeri, a Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, a Hittite).
35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.
27 And when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim (so that he could not see), he called Esau, his eldest son, and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “I am here.”
2 Then he said, “Behold, I am now old and do not know the day of my death.
3 “Therefore, now, please take your instruments — your quiver and your bow — and get to the field, so that you may hunt food.
4 “Then make me savory meat (such as I love) and bring it to me so that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
5 Now, Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau, his son. And Esau went into the field to hunt for food, and to bring it.
6 Then, Rebekah spoke to Jacob, her son, saying, “Behold, I have heard your father talking with Esau, your brother, saying,
7 “‘Bring me food, and make me savory meat, so that I may eat and bless you before the LORD before my death.’
8 “Now, therefore, my son, hear my voice in that which I command you.
9 “Get to the flock now and bring me two good kids from the goats there, so that I may make pleasant meat from them for your father (such as he loves).
10 “Then you shall bring it to your father; and he shall eat, to the intent that he may bless you before his death.”
11 But Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, “Behold, Esau, my brother, is rough; and I am smooth.
12 “My father may possibly feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. So shall I bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”
13 But his mother said to him, “May your curse be upon me, my son. Only hear my voice; and go and bring them to me.”
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made pleasant meat, such as his father loved.
15 And Rebekah took fair clothes of her elder son, Esau, which were in her house, and clothed Jacob, her younger son.
16 And she covered his hands and the smooth of his neck with the skins of the kids of the goats.
17 Afterward, she put the pleasant meat and bread which she had prepared in the hand of her son, Jacob.
18 And when he came to his father, he said, “My father.” Who answered, “I am here. Who are you, my son?”
19 And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you bid me. Please rise. Sit up and eat my food, so that your soul may bless me.”
20 Then Isaac said to his son, “How have you found it so quickly, my son?” Who said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to my hand.”
21 Again, Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near now, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my son, Esau, or not.”
22 Then Jacob came near to Isaac, his father. And he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23 (For he did not know him because his hands were rough, as his brother Esau’s hands. Therefore, he blessed him.)
24 Again he said, “Are you my son, Esau?” Who answered, “Yes.”
25 Then he said, “Bring it here to me and I will eat of my son’s food, so that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it to him; and he ate. Also, he brought him wine; and he drank.
26 Afterward, his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.”
27 And he came near and kissed him. Then he smelled the savor of his garments and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
28 “Therefore, God give you of the dew of Heaven, and the fatness of the Earth, and plenty of wheat and wine.
29 “Let people be your servants and nations bow down to you. Be Lord over your brothers and let your mother’s children honor you. Cursed be he who curses you; and blessed be he who blesses you.”
30 And when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob had barely gone out from the presence of Isaac, his father, then Esau, his brother, came from his hunting.
31 And he also prepared savory meat and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s food, so that your soul may bless me.”
32 But his father, Isaac, said to him, “Who are you?” And he answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who and where is he who hunted food and brought it to me; and I have eaten of all before you came? And I have blessed him; therefore, he shall be blessed.”
34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great cry and bitter, out of measure, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, my father.”
35 Who answered, “Your brother came with subtlety and has taken away your blessing.”
36 Then he said, “Was he not justly called “Jacob”? For he has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright; and lo, now has he taken my blessing.” Also, he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Then Isaac answered, and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord; and I have made all his brothers his servants. And I have furnished him with wheat and wine. And what now shall I do for you, my son?”
38 Then Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me; me, also, my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
39 Then Isaac, his father, answered, and said to him, “Behold, the fatness of the Earth shall be your dwelling place, and you shall have of the dew of Heaven from above.
40 “And by your word you shall live and shall be your brother’s servant. But it shall come to pass, when you shall get restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
41 Therefore Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau thought in his mind, “The days of mourning for my father will come shortly. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”
42 And the words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother, Esau, is comforting himself by plotting to kill you.
43 “Now therefore my son, hear my voice. Arise and flee to Haran, to my brother Laban,
44 “and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fierceness is assuaged,
45 “and until your brother’s wrath turns away from you and he forget the things which you have done to him. Then I will send and take you from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day?”
46 Also, Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be?”
28 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2 “Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and there take a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
3 “And God All Sufficient bless you and make you increase and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of people,
4 “and give you the blessing of Abraham—to you and to your seed with you—so that you may inherit the land wherein you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”
5 Thus, Isaac sent forth Jacob; and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6 Now, Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Padan Aram to fetch a wife from there, and given him a charge when he blessed him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.
8 Also, Esau, seeing that the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac, his father,
9 then went to Ishmael and added to the wives which he had Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 Now Jacob departed from Beersheba and went to Haran,
11 And he came to a place and stayed there all night because the Sun was down. And he took from the stones of the place and laid them under his head and slept in the same place.
12 Then he dreamed; and behold, there stood a ladder upon the Earth. And the top of it reached up to Heaven. And lo, the angels of God went up and down by it.
13 And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, “I am the LORD God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac. The land upon the which you sleep I will give you and your seed.
14 “And your seed shall be as the dust of the Earth; and you shall spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your seed shall all the families of the Earth be blessed.
15 “And lo, I am with you and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you back into this land. For I will not forsake you until I have performed that which I have promised you.”
16 Then Jacob awoke out of his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place; and I was not aware.”
17 And he was afraid, and said, “How fearful is this place! This is none other but the House of God; and this is the Gate of Heaven.”
18 Then Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place “Bethel”. But the name of that city was at the first called “Luz”.
20 Then Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat and clothes to put on,
21 “so that I come back to my father’s house in safety, then shall the LORD be my God.”
22 “And this stone which I have set up as a pillar shall be God’s House. And of all that You shall give me, I will give a tenth to You.”
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