18. His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.
19. This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
20. When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
22. But the children struggled inside her, and she said, “If it is going to be like this, I’m not so sure I want to be pregnant!” So she asked the Lord,
23. and the Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you.One people will be stronger than the other,and the older will serve the younger.”