1And in those days, after the death of Abraham, in that year the Lord

2And the Lord appeared that night to Isaac and he said to him, Do not go

3And Isaac rose up and went to Gerar, as the Lord commanded him, and he

4And when Isaac came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rebecca his

5And the princes of Abimelech went and praised the woman to the king, but he

6But he heard them say that Isaac declared her to be his sister, so the king

7And when Isaac had remained three months in the land, Abimelech looked out

8And the king said unto Isaac, What is this thou hast done to us in saying

9And Isaac said unto Abimelech, Because I was afraid lest I die on account

10At that time Abimelech gave orders to all his princes and great men, and

11And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments,

12And the Lord caused Isaac to find favor in the sight of Abimelech, and in

13And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Behold the whole earth is before thee;

14And Isaac sowed in that land, and received a hundred-fold in the same

15And the man waxed great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of

16And when the days of the famine had passed away the Lord appeared to Isaac

17And after this Shelach the son of Arpachshad died in that year, which is

18At that time Isaac sent his younger son Jacob to the house of Shem and

19And Esau was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could

20And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted after the

21And he remained in the land of Seir hunting in the field a year and four

22And Esau there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man of Canaan,

23And Esau took her for a wife, and he came unto her; forty years old was

24And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the

25And when Shem died Jacob returned to his father to Hebron which is in the

26And in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Jacob, people came from Haran,

27For the wife of Laban was barren in those days, and bare no children, and

28And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban, and she

29And those people came and told these things to Rebecca, and Rebecca

Chapter 28

On account of Famine, Isaac goes to Gerar, the Land of the