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Ask a QuestionAnd the LORD said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older shall serve the younger."
And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary." Therefore his name was called Edom.
But Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright as of this day."
And Esau said, "Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?"
Then Jacob said, "Swear to me as of this day." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.
"And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, "She is my sister"; for he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," because he thought, "lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold."
So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;
And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."
And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"
'that you will do us no harm, since we have not touched you, and since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD."'
"Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
"And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."
'Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
"Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.
"Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death."
"Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."
But his mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."