Hi and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you
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for joining with me today
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to read the Word of God.
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But before we do
that, let's pray together.
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Dear God, thank you so much
for the life that You have given
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to each one of us... a
life that we can use to serve
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others in Your name and
to serve You by doing that.
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Please now as we read these
words, may we be strengthened
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to serve You better and
may our faith be increased
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and may the correction that
we need to make in our lives
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be made clear to us.
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May the guidance that we
are looking for be found in the
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words that we will hear today.
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Please send Your Holy
Spirit to open up our minds
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to Your truth.
We love You so much,
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and thank you
for loving us. Amen.
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When we were last together
we were reading the story of
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Abraham and Isaac and
how Isaac's wife Rebekah
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had been found under
the direction of God.
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And now we are going to pick
up in Genesis in chapter 25.
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Then again Abraham took a
wife, and her name was Keturah.
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And she bare him
Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan,
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and Midian, and
Ishbak, and Shuah.
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And Jokshan
begat Sheba, and Dedan.
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And the sons of Dedan
were Asshurim, and Letushim,
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and Leummim.
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And the sons of Midian;
Ephah, and Epher, and Hanock,
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and Abidah, and Eldaah.
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All these were the
children of Keturah.
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And Abraham gave all
that he had unto Isaac.
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But unto the sons of the
concubines, which Abraham had,
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Abraham gave gifts, and sent
them away from Isaac his son,
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while he yet lived,
eastward, unto the east country.
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And these are the days of
the years of Abraham's life
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which he lived, a hundred
threescore and fifteen years.
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Then Abraham gave up the ghost,
and died in a good old age,
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an old man, and full of years;
and was gathered to his people.
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And his sons Isaac and Ishmael
buried him the cave of Machpelah
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in the field of Ephron
the son of Zohar the Hittite,
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which is before Mamre; The
field which Abraham purchased
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of the sons of Heth:
there was Abraham buried,
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and Sarah his wife.
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And it came to pass
after the death of Abraham,
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that God blessed his son Isaac;
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and Isaac dwelt
by the well Lahairoi.
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Now these are generations
of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
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whom Hagar the
Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid,
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bare unto Abraham:
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And these are the names of the
sons of Ishmael, by their names,
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according to their generations:
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the first-born of Ishmael,
Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel,
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and Mibsam, and
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
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Hadar, and Tema,
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
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These are the sons of Ishmael,
and these are their names,
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by their towns,
and by their castles,
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twelve princes
according to their nations.
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And these are the
years of the life of Ishmael,
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a hundred and thirty and seven
years; and he gave up the ghost
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and died; and was
gathered unto his people.
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And they dwelt from Havilah
unto Shur, that is before Egypt,
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as thou goest toward Assyria:
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and he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
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And these are the generations
of Isaac, Abraham's son:
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Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac
was forty years old when he
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took Rebekah to wife, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian
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of Padanaram, the
sister to Laban the Syrian.
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And Isaac entreated
the Lord for his wife,
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because she was barren: and
the Lord was entreated of him,
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and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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And the children
struggled together within her;
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and she said, "If it
be so, why am I thus? "
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And she went to
inquire of the Lord.
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And the Lord said unto her,
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"Two nations are in thy womb,
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and two manner of people shall
be separated from thy bowels;
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and the one people shall be
stronger than the other people;
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and the elder shall
serve the younger. "
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And when her days to be
delivered were fulfilled,
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behold, there
were twins in her womb.
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And the first came out red,
all over like a hairy garment;
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and they called his name Esau.
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And after that came his brother
out, and his hand took hold
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on Esau's heel; and
his name was called Jacob;
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and Isaac was threescore
years old when she bare them.
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And the boys grew: and
Esau was a cunning hunter,
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a man of the field;
and Jacob was a plain man,
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dwelling in tents.
And Isaac loved Esau,
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because he did
eat of his venison:
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but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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And Jacob sod pottage:
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and Esau came from the
field, and he was faint:
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And Esau said to
Jacob, "Feed me, I pray thee,
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with that same red
pottage; for I am faint: "
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therefore was
his name called Edom.
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And Jacob said, "Sell me
this day thy birthright. "
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And Esau said, "Behold,
I am at the point to die:
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and what profit shall
this birthright do to me? "
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And Jacob said,
"Swear to me this day; "
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and he sware unto him; and he
sold his birthright unto Jacob.
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Then Jacob gave Esau
bread and pottage of lentils;
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and he did eat and drink,
and rose up, and went his way:
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thus Esau
despised his birthright.
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Continuing to read in Genesis
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chapter 26, and this is the
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King James version.
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And there was a
famine in the land,
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beside the first famine
that was in the days of Abraham.
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And Isaac went unto Abimelech
king of the Philistines
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unto Gerar. And the Lord
appeared unto him, and said,
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"Go not down into Egypt;
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dwell in the land
which I shall tell thee of:
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Sojourn in this land,
and I will be with thee,
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and will bless thee; for
unto thee, and unto thy seed,
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I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath
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which I sware unto
Abraham thy father;
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And I will make thy seed to
multiply as the stars of heaven,
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and will give unto thy
seed all these countries;
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and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed;
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Because that Abraham obeyed
My voice, and kept My charge,
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My commandments, My
statutes, and My laws. "
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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And the men of the
place asked him of his wife;
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and he said, "She is my
sister: " for he feared to say,
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"She is my
wife; " lest, said he,
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"the men of the place
should kill me for Rebekah; "
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because she was
fair to look upon.
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And it came to pass, when
he had been there a long time,
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that Abimelech king of the
Philistines looked out at a
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window and saw, and,
behold, Isaac was sporting with
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Rebekah his wife.
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And Abimelech
called Isaac, and said,
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"Behold, of a
surety she is thy wife:
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and how saidst
thou, She is my sister? "
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And Isaac said unto him,
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"Because I said,
Lest I die for her. "
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And Abimelech said,
"What is this thou has done
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unto us? one of the people might
lightly have lain with thy wife,
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and thou shouldest have
brought guiltiness upon us. "
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And Abimelech charged
all his people, saying,
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"He that toucheth this
man or his wife shall surely
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be put to death. " Then
Isaac sowed in that land,
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and received in the
same year a hundredfold:
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and the Lord blessed him.
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And the man waxed
great, and went forward,
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and grew until he
became very great:
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For he had possession of
flocks, and possession of herds,
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and great store of servants:
and the Philistines envied him.
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For all the wells which is
father's servants had digged
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in the days of Abraham his
father, the Philistines had
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stopped them, and
filled them with earth.
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And Abimelech said unto Isaac,
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"Go from us; for thou
art much mightier than we. "
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And Isaac departed thence,
and pitched his tent in the
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valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And Isaac digged again the wells
of water, which they had digged
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in the days of Abraham his
father; for the Philistines had
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stopped them after
the death of Abraham:
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and he called their names after
the names by which his father
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had called them. And Isaac's
servants digged in the valley,
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and found there a
well of springing water.
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And the herdmen of Gerar
did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
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saying, "The water is ours: "
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and he called the
name of the well Esek;
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because they strove with him.
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And they digged another
well, and strove for that also:
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and he called the
name of it Sitnah.
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And he removed from
thence, and digged another well;
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and for that they strove not:
and he called the name of it
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Rehoboth; and he said,
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"For now the Lord
hath made room for us,
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and we shall be
fruitful in the land. "
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And he went up from
thence to Beersheba.
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And the Lord appeared unto
him the same night, and said,
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"I am the God of
Abraham thy father: fear not,
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for I am with thee,
and will bless thee,
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and multiply thy seed for
My servant Abraham's sake. "
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And he builded an altar there,
and called upon the name of the
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Lord, and
pitched his tent there:
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and there Isaac's
servants digged a well.
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Then Abimelech
went to him from Gerar,
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and Ahuzzath one of his friends,
and Phichol the chief captain
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of his army. And
Isaac said unto them,
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"Wherefore come ye to
me, seeing ye hate me,
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and have sent
me away from you? "
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And they said, "We saw certainly
that the Lord was with thee: "
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and we said, "Let there
be now an oath betwixt us,
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even betwixt us and thee,
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and let us make a
covenant with thee;
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That thou wilt do us no hurt,
as we have not touched thee,
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and as we have done
unto thee nothing but good,
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and have sent
thee away in peace:
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thou art now the
blessed of the Lord. "
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And he made them a feast,
and they did eat and drink.
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And they rose up
betimes in the morning,
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and sware one to another:
and Isaac sent them away,
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and they departed
from him in peace.
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And it came to pass the same
day, that Isaac's servants came,
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and told him concerning
the well which they had digged,
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and said unto him,
"We have found water. "
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And he called it Shebah:
therefore the name of the city
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is Beersheba unto this day.
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And Esau was forty years
old when he took to wife Judith
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the daughter of
Beeri the Hittite,
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and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
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Which were a grief of
mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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We are reading in Genesis,
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and we are continuing now with
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chapter 27, and this is the
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King James version.
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And it came to pass,
that when Isaac was old,
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and his eyes were dim,
so that he could not see,
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he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him,
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"My son: " and he said unto him,
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"Behold, here am I. "
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And he said,
"Behold now, I am old,
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I know not the day of my death:
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Now therefore take, I
pray thee, thy weapons,
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thy quiver and thy bow,
and go out to the field,
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and take me some venison;
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And make me savory
meat, such as I love,
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and bring it to
me, that I may eat;
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that my soul may
bless thee before I die. "
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And Rebekah heard when
Isaac spake to Esau his son.
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And Esau went to the
field to hunt for venison,
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and to bring it.
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And Rebekah spake
unto Jacob her son, saying,
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"Behold, I heard thy father
speak unto Esau thy brother,
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saying, "Bring me venison,
and make me savory meat,
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that I may eat, and
bless thee before the Lord
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before my death. "
Now therefore, my son,
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obey my voice according
to that which I command thee.
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Go now to the flock, and fetch
me from thence two good kids
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of the goats; and I
will make them savory meat
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for thy father,
such as he loveth:
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And thou shalt bring it to
thy father, that he may eat,
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and that he may bless
thee before his death. "
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And Jacob said to
Rebekah his mother,
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"Behold, Esau my
brother is a hairy man,
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and I am a smooth man:
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My father
peradventure will feel me,
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and I shall seem
to him as a deceiver;
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and I shall bring a curse
upon me, and not a blessing. "
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And his mother said unto him,
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"Upon me be thy curse,
my son: only obey my voice,
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and go fetch me them. "
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And he went, and fetched,
and brought them to his mother:
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and his mother made savory
meat, such as his father loved.
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And Rebekah took goodly
raiment of her eldest son Esau,
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which were with her in the
house, and put them upon Jacob
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her younger son: And she
put the skins of the kids
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of the goats upon his hands,
and upon the smooth of his neck:
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And she gave the
savory meat and the bread,
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which she had prepared,
into the hand of her son Jacob.
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And he came unto
his father, and said,
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"My father: " and he said,
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"Here am I; who
art thou, my son? "
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And Jacob said unto his father,
"I am Esau thy first-born;
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I have done
according as thou badest me:
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arise, I pray thee,
sit and eat of my venison,
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that thy soul may bless me. "
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And Isaac said unto his son,
"How is it that thou hast found
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it so quickly, my
son? " And he said,
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"Because the Lord thy
God brought it to me. "
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And Isaac said unto
Jacob, "Come near, I pray thee,
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that I may feel thee, my
son, whether thou be my very son
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Esau or not. " And Jacob
went near unto Isaac his father,
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and he felt him, and said,
"The voice is Jacob's voice,
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but the hands are
the hands of Esau. "
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And he discerned him not,
because his hands were hairy,
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as his brother Esau's
hands: so he blessed him.
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And he said, "Art
thou my very son Esau? "
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And he said, "I am. "
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And he said, "Bring it
near to me, and I will eat
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of my son's venison,
that my soul may bless thee. "
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And he brought it near
to him, and he did eat:
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and he brought him
wine, and he drank.
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And his father
Isaac said unto him,
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"Come near now,
and kiss me, my son. "
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And he came
near, and kissed him:
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and he smelled the smell of
his raiment, and blessed him,
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and said, "See,
the smell of my son
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is as the smell of a field
which the Lord hath blessed:
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Therefore God give
thee of the dew of heaven,
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and the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine: "
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Thank you for joining
with me to read today.
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Please join me again next time.
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Goodbye.
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