I picked up my new Bible from Vine & Branches today. I got a gigantic "Comparative Study Bible." It's awesome! It's about 4 inches thick which makes sense since there are 4 versions of the Bible side by side. So lets continue...
Rebekah ran home and told everyone what had happened. They noticed the bling that Abraham's servant had given her. Laban, Rebekah's brother ran out to talk to the servant and told him that he had a place for him and the camels. So they all went in the house and Abraham's servant told them the story. They wanted Rebekah to wait to leave for a week or so, but the servant of Abraham wanted to finish the task and deliver her back home. They asked Rebekah what she wanted to do and she was fine with going right away. So she and her servant went with Abraham's servant. Rebekah saw Isaac and asked who he was. The servant told her and she covered herself with her veil. It was love at first sight. Isaac took Rebekah into his mother's tent, and married her and she comforted him after his mother's death.
Chapter 25 Abraham remarried and had six more sons. He lived to be 175. He was buried in the same cave he bought to bury Sarah.
Now we get into the history of Isaac's sons, Jacob and Esau. Rebekah eventually became pregnant with twins. She could tell that they fought with each other even in her womb. The first baby to be born was Esau. He was covered with red hair. The second, Jacob was holding Esau's heel as he came out of his mother. Esau became a hunter and Jacob was more of a contemplative sort. Jacob had cooked some stew and Esau came in from hunting and was famished. He told Jacob he didn't care about his birthright since it wouldn't do him any good if he had died from starvation. So Jacob said he'd give him food in exchange for Easu's birthright and Esau agrees, eats, and leaves.
Chapter 26 There was a famine, so Isaac went to Gerar. We see history repeating itself with Isaac telling the King that Rebekah is his sister, not his wife. Like father like son I guess. The King looks out a window and catches Isaac and Rebekah acting like more than brother and sister and asks him if she's really his sister. Then the truth comes out and the King says anyone messing with Isaac or Rebekah will die. The Lord blessed Isaacs crops, and animals and he becomes very wealthy. His success makes the King ask him to leave. They have some scuffles over water wells and finally reach an agreement. The chapter ends with Esau marrying two Hittite women named Judith and Basemath who gave his parents grief.
Tommorrow's passage is Genesis 27-29
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