Genesis 2
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.l
2 By the seventh daym God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.n 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,o because on it he restedp from all the work of creatingq that he had done.
4 This is the accountr of the heavens and the earth when they were created,s when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the eartha and no plant had yet sprung up,t for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earthu and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streamsb came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formedv a manc w from the dustx of the groundy and breathed into his nostrils the breathz of life,a and the man became a living being.b
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;c and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—treesd that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of lifee and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.f
10 A riverg watering the garden flowed from Eden;h from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,i where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resind j and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.e 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris;k it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.l
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Edenm to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;n 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,o for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”p
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”q
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animalsr and all the birds in the sky.s He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man calledt each living creature,u that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adamf no suitable helperv was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;w and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribsg and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the ribh x he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;y
she shall be calledz ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.a”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is unitedb to his wife, and they become one flesh.c
25 Adam and his wife were both naked,d and they felt no shame.
Genesis 26:1–27:46
26:1–11Ref—Ge 12:10–20; 20:1–18
26 Now there was a famine in the lands—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistinest in Gerar.u 2 The Lord appearedv to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt;w live in the land where I tell you to live.x 3 Stay in this land for a while,y and I will be with youz and will bless you.a For to you and your descendants I will give all these landsb and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.c 4 I will make your descendantsd as numerous as the stars in the skye and will give them all these lands,f and through your offspringa all nations on earth will be blessed,b g 5 because Abraham obeyed meh and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decreesi and my instructions.j” 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.k
7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,l” 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.”
8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistinesm looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. 9 So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?n”
Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
10 Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us?o One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
11 So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harmsp this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”q
12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold,r because the Lord blessed him.s 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.t 14 He had so many flocks and herds and servantsu that the Philistines envied him.v 15 So all the wellsw that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up,x filling them with earth.
16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us;y you have become too powerful for us.z”
17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar,a where he settled. 18 Isaac reopened the wellsb 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.
19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. 20 But the herders of Gerar quarreledc with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!”d So he named the well Esek,c because they disputed with him. 21 Then they dug another well, but they quarrelede over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.d 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,e f saying, “Now the Lord has given us roomg and we will flourishh in the land.”
23 From there he went up to Beersheba.i 24 That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham.j Do not be afraid,k for I am with you;l I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendantsm for the sake of my servant Abraham.”n
25 Isaac built an altaro there and called on the name of the Lord.p There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.q
26 Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.r 27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?s”
28 They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you;t so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treatyu with you 29 that you will do us no harm,v just as we did not harm you but always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now you are blessed by the Lord.”w
30 Isaac then made a feastx for them, and they ate and drank. 31 Early the next morning the men swore an oathy to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.
32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the wellz they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!” 33 He called it Shibah,f and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.g a
34 When Esau was forty years old,b he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.c 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.d
27 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see,e he called for Esau his older sonf and said to him, “My son.”
“Here I am,” he answered.
2 Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.g 3 Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open countryh to hunt some wild game for me. 4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I likei and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessingj …