KJV Bible MWP Genesis 26:1 - 28:22

GENESIS Chapters 26 - 28 KJV Bible (1769 Edition) Modern Words Paraphrase (MWP) Copyright (c) 2007 David A. Wagner.

Genesis Chapter 26

(26:1) And there was a famine in the land, after the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar. (26:2) And the Lord appeared to him, and said, “Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I will tell you of: (26:3) Visit in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your heirs, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath that I swore to Abraham your father; (26:4) And I will make your heirs to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your heirs all these countries; and in your heir will all the nations of the earth be blessed; (26:5) Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

(26:6) And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: (26:7) And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, “She is my sister:” for he feared to say, “She is my wife;” should, said he, “the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;” because she was attractive to look upon. (26:8) And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, see, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife. (26:9) And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “See, of a certainty she is your wife: and how said you, ‘She is my sister?’” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Should I die for her.’” (26:10) And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? one of the people might lightly have had sex with your wife, and you should have brought guiltiness upon us.” (26:11) And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.

(26:12) Then Isaac sowed grain in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold harvest: and the Lord blessed him. (26:13) And the man grew great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: (26:14) For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. (26:15) Therefore all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. (26:16) And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.”

(26:17) And Isaac departed there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. (26:18) And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. (26:19) And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. (26:20) And the herdsmen of Gerar did quarrel with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours”: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him. (26:21) And they dug another well, and quarreled for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. (26:22) And he removed from there, and dug another well; and for that they quarreled not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

(26:23) And he went up from there to Beersheba. (26:24) And the Lord appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your heirs for my servant Abraham's sake.” (26:25) And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

(26:26) Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phicol the chief captain of his army. (26:27) And Isaac said to them, “Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” (26:28) And they said, “We saw certainly that the Lord was with you: and we said, “Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you; (26:29) That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the Lord.” (26:30) And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. (26:31) And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. (26:32) And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” (26:33) And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

(26:34) And Esau was forty years old when he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: (26:35) That were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

Genesis Chapter 27

(27:1) And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said to him, “My son”: and he said to him, “See, here am I.” (27:2) And he said, “See now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: (27:3) Now therefore take, I ask you, your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me some wild game; (27:4) And make me tasty meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless you before I die.”

(27:5) And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for wild game, and to bring it. (27:6) And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “See, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, (27:7) ‘Bring me wild game, and make me tasty meat, that I may eat, and bless you before the Lord before my death.’ (27:8) Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. (27:9) Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats; and I will make them tasty meat for your father, such as he loves: (27:10) And you will bring it to your father, that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death.” (27:11) And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “See, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: (27:12) My father maybe will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver; and I will bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.” (27:13) And his mother said to him, “Upon me be your curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.” (27:14) And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made tasty meat, such as his father loved. (27:15) And Rebekah took attractive clothing of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: (27:16) And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: (27:17) And she gave the tasty meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

(27:18) And he came to his father, and said, “My father”: and he said, “Here am I; who are you, my son?” (27:19) And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done according as you instructed me: arise, I ask you, sit and eat of my wild game, that your soul may bless me.” (27:20) And Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the Lord your God brought it to me.” (27:21) And Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, I ask you, that I may feel you, my son, whether you be my very son Esau or not.” (27:22) And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” (27:23) And he recognized him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. (27:24) And he said, “Are you my very son Esau?” And he said, “I am.” (27:25) And he said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's wild game, that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. (27:26) And his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.” (27:27) And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed: (27:28) Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine: (27:29) Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons bow down to you: cursed be every one that curses you, and blessed be he that blesses you.”

(27:30) And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. (27:31) And he also had made tasty meat, and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son's wild game, that your soul may bless me.” (27:32) And Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn Esau.” (27:33) And Isaac trembled very greatly, and said, “Who? where is he that has taken wild game, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? yes, and he will be blessed.” (27:34) And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and very bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father.” (27:35) And he said, “Your brother came with subtlety, and has taken away your blessing.” (27:36) And he said, “Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, see, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” (27:37) And Isaac answered and said to Esau, “See, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants; and with grain and wine have I sustained him: and what will I do now to you, my son?” (27:38) And Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.” (27:39) And Isaac his father answered and said to him, “See, your dwelling will be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; (27:40) And by your sword will you live, and will serve your brother; and it will come to pass when you will reject the dominion, that you will break his yoke from off your neck.”

(27:41) And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing in which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I kill my brother Jacob.” (27:42) And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “See, your brother Esau, as touching you, does comfort himself, purposing to kill you. (27:43) Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee you to Laban my brother to Haran; (27:44) And stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turn away; (27:45) Until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forget that which you have done to him: then I will send, and fetch you from there: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?”

(27:46) And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these that are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Genesis Chapter 28

(28:1) And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, “You will not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. (28:2) Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take you a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. (28:3) And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people; (28:4) And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your heirs with you; that you may inherit the land wherein you are a visitor, which God gave to Abraham.” (28:5) And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

(28:6) When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from there; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You will not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;” (28:7) And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; (28:8) And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; (28:9) Then went Esau to Ishmael, and took to the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

(28:10) And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. (28:11) And he decided upon a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. (28:12) And he dreamed, and see a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and see the angels of God ascending and descending on it. (28:13) And, see, the Lord stood above it, and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your heirs; (28:14) And your heirs will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your heir will all the families of the earth be blessed. (28:15) And, see, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken to you of.” (28:16) And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” (28:17) And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

(28:18) And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. (28:19) And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. (28:20) And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, (28:21) So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then will the Lord be my God: (28:22) And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, will be God's house: and of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”