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Isaac is the promised son of Abraham and Sarah, born when his father is 100 and Sarah is past 90. His name means “laughter” and speaks to how both Abraham and Sarah laughed in disbelief at the idea that God would grant them a child in their old age. When Isaac is a young boy, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice Isaac on a remote mountain. When Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son, an angel intervenes at the last moment. Later, Isaac marries Rebekah and becomes the father of Jacob and Esau. He settles in the valley of Gerar and later in Beer-sheba, becoming wealthy and recognized for God’s blessing in his life. Of his two sons, Isaac favors Esau, and when he is old and blind, he is tricked by Jacob into giving Jacob Esau’s blessing. After Isaac dies, he is buried with Abraham and Sarah.

Isaac Quotes in Genesis

The Genesis quotes below are all either spoken by Isaac or refer to Isaac. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
God, Humanity, and Creation Theme Icon
).
Chapter 22 Quotes

When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Related Characters: God/the LORD God (speaker), Abram (Abraham) (speaker), Isaac
Page Number: 22:9–13
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 27 Quotes

Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!” When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!” But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Related Characters: Isaac (speaker), Esau (speaker), Jacob (Israel), Rebekah
Page Number: 27:33–36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 32 Quotes

And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant […] Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children. Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’”

Related Characters: Jacob (Israel) (speaker), God/the LORD God, Abram (Abraham), Isaac, Esau
Page Number: 32:9–12
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 50 Quotes

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Related Characters: Joseph (speaker), God/the LORD God, Abram (Abraham), Isaac, Jacob (Israel)
Related Symbols: Land
Page Number: 50:24–26
Explanation and Analysis:
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Isaac Quotes in Genesis

The Genesis quotes below are all either spoken by Isaac or refer to Isaac. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
God, Humanity, and Creation Theme Icon
).
Chapter 22 Quotes

When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Related Characters: God/the LORD God (speaker), Abram (Abraham) (speaker), Isaac
Page Number: 22:9–13
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 27 Quotes

Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!” When Esau heard his father's words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!” But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

Related Characters: Isaac (speaker), Esau (speaker), Jacob (Israel), Rebekah
Page Number: 27:33–36
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 32 Quotes

And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant […] Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children. Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’”

Related Characters: Jacob (Israel) (speaker), God/the LORD God, Abram (Abraham), Isaac, Esau
Page Number: 32:9–12
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 50 Quotes

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Related Characters: Joseph (speaker), God/the LORD God, Abram (Abraham), Isaac, Jacob (Israel)
Related Symbols: Land
Page Number: 50:24–26
Explanation and Analysis: