Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Isaac is the only patriarch whose name was not changed, and the only one who did not move out of Canaan.
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Isaac had gone back to all of the wells that his father dug and saw that they were all stopped up with earth.
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So, Isaac unearthed them and began to dig for more wells all the way to Beersheba, where he made a pact with Abimelech, just like in the day of his father.
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Isaac called his son Esau and directed him to procure some venison for him, in order to receive Isaac's blessing.
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Thereafter, Isaac sent Jacob into Mesopotamia to take a wife of his mother's brother's house.
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Isaac was the oldest of the biblical patriarchs at the time of his death, and the only patriarch whose name was not changed.
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Tertullian draws a parallel between Isaac's bearing the wood for the sacrificial fire with Christ's carrying his cross.
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New Testament states Isaac was "offered up" by his father Abraham, and that Isaac blessed his sons.
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