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After nine years my son Isaac brought unto me his wife Rebekah for she was yet barren.
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And she said unto me, My father, surely I know that my mother Sarah was barren for many years before she bare Isaac unto thee.
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Wherefore, pray for me, that I, like Sarah, may conceive.
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Therefore, I prayed over my daughter Rebekah, and I said unto Isaac, Thy mother Sarah bare thee after she received a blessing from my brother Abimelech king of Gerar.
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Abimelech, son of Abimelech, reigneth now in the place of his father in Gerar, and he, too, is a mighty man of God.
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Go ye in unto him that he may bless Rebekah and she shall conceive and bear unto thee two sons and the younger shall rule over the elder, but in the elder shall the word of the Lord also be fulfilled for through him shall I slay wicked Nimrod even as the Lord foretold at my birth.
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So Isaac took Rebekah and went unto Gerar, unto Abimelech, son of Abimelech, who blessed her after the order of the ancients, and she conceived and bare unto Isaac two sons, even as I had said.
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And on the eighth day, Isaac brought the lads unto me to be named and the elder I called Esau, for he was covered with hair and I said, Surely he shall be a mighty hunter before the Lord.
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But the second I called Jacob, for I said, Surely the elder shall serve the younger.