18. and they tabernacle from Havilah unto Shur, which [is] before Egypt, in [thy] going towards Asshur; in the presence of all his brethren hath he fallen.
19. And these [are] births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;
20. and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.
21. And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she [is] barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,
22. and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If [it is] right--why [am] I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.
23. And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'
24. And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins [are] in her womb;
25. and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau;
26. and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac [is] a son of sixty years in her bearing them.
27. And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents;
28. and Isaac loveth Esau, for [his] hunting [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.
29. And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he [is] weary;