Quotes about Genesis
This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
— Genesis 25:19
and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
— Genesis 25:20
The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
— Genesis 25:25
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
— Genesis 26:3
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
— Genesis 26:6
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
— Genesis 26:15
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
— Genesis 26:21
He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
— Genesis 26:22
So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
— Genesis 26:33
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
— Genesis 26:34
Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
— Genesis 27:3
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
— Genesis 27:6