Genesis 25:28   (Read all of Genesis 25)

Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 26:1   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Now there was a famine in the land-besides the previous famine in Abraham's time-and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.

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 26:6   (Read all of Genesis 26)

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

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 26:12   (Read all of Genesis 26)

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

Genesis 26:16   (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 26:25   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

Genesis 26:27   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

Genesis 26:30   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 26:31   (Read all of Genesis 26)

Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.

Genesis 26:32   (Read all of Genesis 26)

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!"

Genesis 26:35   (Read all of Genesis 26)

They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Genesis 27:1   (Read all of Genesis 27)

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.

Genesis 27:2   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.

Genesis 27:5   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,

Genesis 27:20   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "The Lord your God gave me success," he replied.

Genesis 27:21   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."

Genesis 27:22   (Read all of Genesis 27)

Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."