But they answered, “Move out of the way. This one has come into our midst as a foreigner and he would dare to judge us! Now we are going to treat you even worse than them.” And they so violently pushed against Lot that they almost broke open the door.

for we are ready to destroy this place. The complaint raised against them before the Lord is great, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

He looked down from the height on Sodom and Gomorrah and the entire extension of the valley, and he saw smoke rising out of the earth, like the smoke coming out of a furnace.

Come, we will give wine to our father and then lie with him; thus we will provide descendants for our father.”

Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him to do.

First Link with the Promised Land. At that time, Abimelech along with Phicol, the commander of his army, came and said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything that you do.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

After the covenant had been concluded at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

All the nations of the earth shall be blessed through your descendants, because you have obeyed my command.”

Behold, I am in front of the well and the young women of the town are coming out to draw water.

He said, “Come, blessed one of the Lord! Why are you still standing out here when I have already prepared the house for you and a place for your camels?”

since I am standing near the well, grant that when a young woman comes out to draw water and to whom I say, “Give me a little water from your jar to drink,”

She said to the servant, “Who is that man who is coming through the fields toward us?” The servant answered, “It is my master.” She took her veil and covered herself.

Isaac then brought Rebekah into the tent that had been his mother’s. He married Rebekah and loved her. So Isaac found comfort after the death of his mother.

for Abraham listened to my voice and observed that which I ordered: my commandments, my ordinances and my laws.”

The Covenant with Abimelech. Abimelech traveled from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the commander of his army, to see Isaac.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, for you hate me and have sent me away from your midst?”

Chapter 28

Isaac called to Jacob and blessed him and gave him this command: “You must not take a wife from among the daughters of Canaan.

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that when he had blessed him, he had commanded him, “You must not take a wife from among the Canaanites.”

He said to them, “Is he well?” They answered, “Yes, and here comes his daughter Rachel with his flock.”

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is completed and I wish to marry her.”

Laban said to him, “If I have found favor with you, please stay, for through divination I have come to know that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

In the future, let my honesty answer for me. When you come to verify my salary, every animal that is not speckled or spotted from among the goats and those that are not dark from among the sheep, if you find them with me, will be considered to have been robbed.”

Jacob was angry now and scolded Laban saying, “What crime have I committed, what sin did I do that you followed me?

Come, let us make a covenant between me and you, and let it be a witness between me and you.”