Overview of Genesis 26–28 (KJV)

Famine strikes the land, and Isaac goes to Gerar, where God tells him not to go to Egypt but stay where He directs.
God reaffirms the covenant He made with Abraham, promising blessings, descendants, and land.
Isaac, like Abraham before him, says Rebekah is his sister out of fear. Abimelech discovers the truth but protects them.
God blesses Isaac, and his crops prosper a hundredfold. His wealth and power stir envy from the Philistines, who stop up his father’s wells.
Isaac digs new wells, and God appears again, promising His presence. Abimelech seeks peace with Isaac, and they make a covenant at Beersheba.
Esau, at age forty, marries two Hittite women, which brings grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Isaac, old and nearly blind, calls Esau to prepare venison so he can bless him.
Rebekah overhears and instructs Jacob to disguise himself as Esau.
Jacob, wearing Esau’s clothes and covered with goat skins, deceives Isaac and receives the blessing meant for Esau.
Esau returns too late and weeps bitterly when he realizes his blessing was taken. He vows to kill Jacob.
Rebekah warns Jacob and urges him to flee to her brother Laban in Haran until Esau’s anger cools.

Isaac sends Jacob away to Mesopotamia to find a wife among Laban’s daughters, charging him not to marry a Canaanite. He blesses Jacob again, reaffirming God’s covenant.
Esau, seeing that his marriages displeased his parents, takes another wife from Ishmael’s family.
On the way to Haran, Jacob stops for the night at Luz. While sleeping with a stone for a pillow, he dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven, with angels ascending and descending.
God appears, confirming the promises made to Abraham and Isaac: land, descendants, and blessing for all nations.
Jacob awakens in awe, declares the place “Bethel” (House of God), and vows that if God provides for him, the Lord will be his God, and he will give a tenth of all he receives.