Isaac

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Scripture references

• Genesis 17:19

  your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac.

• Genesis 17:21

  But my covenant I shall maintain with Isaac...

• Genesis 21:3

  Abraham named the son born to him Isaac...

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old...

• Genesis 21:12

  for Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on.

• Genesis 22:2

  Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac...

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, loaded it on Isaac...

• Genesis 22:7

  here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?

• Genesis 22:9

  Then he bound his son and put him on the altar...

• Genesis 24:62

  Isaac meanwhile had come back from the well of Lahai Roi and was living in the Negeb.

• Genesis 24:67

  He married Rebekah and made her his wife...

• Genesis 25:11

  God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac settled near the well of Lahai Roi.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren.

• Genesis 25:26

  Isaac was sixty years old at the time of their birth.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac preferred Esau, for he had a taste for wild game;

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the country -- different from the previous famine which took place in the time of Abraham -- and Isaac went to Abimelech, the Philistine king at Gerar.

• Genesis 26:2

  Yahweh had appeared to him and said, 'Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the country which I shall point out to you.

• Genesis 26:6

  So Isaac stayed at Gerar.

• Genesis 26:7

  When the people of the place asked him about his wife he replied, 'She is my sister,' for he was afraid to say, 'She is my wife,'

• Genesis 26:12

  Isaac sowed his crops in that country, and that year he reaped a hundredfold. Yahweh blessed him

• Genesis 26:17

  So Isaac left; he pitched camp in the Valley of Gerar and there he stayed.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham's death,

• Genesis 26:22

  Then he left there, and dug another well, and since there was no dispute over this one, he named it Rehoboth,

• Genesis 26:24

  Yahweh appeared to him the same night and said: I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you.

• Genesis 26:25

  There he built an altar and invoked the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and there Isaac's servants sank a well.

• Genesis 26:27

  Isaac said to them, 'Why do you come to me since you hate me, and have made me leave you?'

• Genesis 26:30

  He then made them a feast and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 26:33

  So he called the well Sheba, and hence the town is named Beersheba to this day.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac had grown old, and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he summoned his elder son Esau.

• Genesis 27:4

  Make me the kind of appetising dish I like and bring it to me to eat and I shall give you my special blessing before I die.'

• Genesis 27:23

  He did not recognise him since his arms were hairy like his brother Esau's, and so he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:28

  May God give you dew from heaven, and the richness of the earth, abundance of grain and wine!

• Genesis 27:33

  At this Isaac was seized with a violent trembling and said, 'Who was it, then, that went hunting and brought me the game? I finished eating it just before you came; I blessed him, and now blessed he will remain!'

• Genesis 27:37

  I have already made him your master; I have given him all his brothers as servants, I have given him grain and wine to sustain him.

• Genesis 27:39

  Then his father Isaac spoke again and said: 'Far from the richness of the earth and the dew of heaven above, your home will be.'

• Genesis 28:1

  So Isaac summoned Jacob and blessed him; and he gave him this order: 'You are not to marry any of the Canaanite women.

• Genesis 28:3

  May El Shaddai bless you; may he make you fruitful and make you multiply so that you become a group of nations.

• Genesis 28:4

  May he grant you the blessing of Abraham, you and your descendants after you, so that one day you may own the country where you are now living as a stranger -- which God gave to Abraham.'

• Genesis 28:5

  Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and Jacob went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramaean and brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 31:18

  and drove off all his livestock -- with all the possessions he had acquired, the livestock belonging to him which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram -- to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.

• Genesis 35:27

  Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

• Genesis 35:28

  Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old

• Genesis 35:29

  when he breathed his last. He died and was gathered to his people, an old man who had enjoyed his full span of life. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

• Genesis 48:15

  Then he blessed Joseph saying: May the God in whose presence my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd from my birth until this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the Angel who has saved me from all harm, bless these boys, so that my name may live on in them, and the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and they grow into teeming multitudes on earth!

• Genesis 49:31

  There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah-

• Genesis 50:24

  At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'

• Exodus 2:24

  God heard their groaning; God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.