Quotes About Faith

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

On that same day, Isaacís servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

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

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

ëBring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.í

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

So Jacob came 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.”

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your motherís father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your motherís brother.