Genesis 25:29   (Read all of Genesis 25)

Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

Genesis 25:30   (Read all of Genesis 25)

He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom. )

Genesis 25:31   (Read all of Genesis 25)

Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."

Genesis 25:32   (Read all of Genesis 25)

"Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"

Genesis 25:33   (Read all of Genesis 25)

But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.

Genesis 25:34   (Read all of Genesis 25)

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26:2   (Read all of Genesis 26)

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

Genesis 26:3   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:4   (Read all of Genesis 26)

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26:6   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

Genesis 26:7   (Read all of Genesis 26)

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful."

Genesis 26:8   (Read all of Genesis 26)

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Genesis 26:9   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her."

Genesis 26:10   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Then Abimelek said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

Genesis 26:11   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: "Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

Genesis 26:12   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 26:14   (Read all of Genesis 26)

He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26:15   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

Genesis 26:16   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Then Abimelek said to Isaac, "Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us."

Genesis 26:17   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.

Genesis 26:18   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:19   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

Genesis 26:20   (Read all of Genesis 26)

But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

Genesis 26:21   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.