the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, ¹  the son of Nahor,

Then Esau realized ¹  that the Canaanite women ²  were displeasing to ³  his father Isaac.

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really ¹  your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.” ² 

Then God ¹  gave Abraham ²  the covenant ³  of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, ⁴  and Isaac became the father of ⁵  Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. ⁶ 

Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. ¹ 

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives ¹  to find ²  a wife for my son Isaac.”

Now ¹  Isaac came from ²  Beer Lahai Roi, ³  for ⁴  he was living in the Negev. ⁵ 

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, ¹  but Rebekah loved ²  Jacob.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, ¹  for you have become much more powerful ²  than we are.”

God heard their groaning, ¹  God remembered ²  his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, ¹  our ancestor Isaac –

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

Then Isaac brought Rebekah ¹  into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her ²  as his wife and loved her. ³  So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. ⁴ 

When his son Isaac was eight days old, ¹  Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. ² 

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing ¹  water there,

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ¹  his father’s ²  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ³ 

Isaac prayed to ¹  the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, ¹  yet he was ready to offer up ²  his only son.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, ¹  the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. ²