Isaac meeteth her. CHAP. XXV Abraham dicta. take my master's brother's daughter up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the unto his son. 49 And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, teil me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 50 Then Laban and Bethuel an camels were coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes; and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the swered and said, The thing proceed-field to meet us? And the servant had eth from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, Lake her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD bath spoken. 52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing him self to the earth. 53 servant And that brought for and raiment, and gave them to Reockalı: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. 54 And they did eat and drink, he and the inen that were with him, and tarried all mght: and they rose up in the morning; and he said, Send me away unto my inaster. 55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least, ten; after that she shall go. 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away, that I may go to my master. 57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. said, It is my master: therefore she 67 And Isaac brought her into lus mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. CHAP. XXV. THEN again Abraham took a wife, and her 2 And she bare him Zioram, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Islibak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were As. shurim, and Letushim, and Leumınim. 4 And the sons of Midian; Ephab, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 Butunto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived) eastward, unto the east country. 7T And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which be lived, 68 And they called Rebekah, and said anto her, Wilt thou go with this man? Ja hundred threescore and fifteen years. And she said, I will go. 59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nwse, and Abrahain's servant, and bis men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them. 8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; 10 The field which Abraham pur chased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 611 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man; and the 11 11 And it came to pass, after the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi: for he dwelt in the south country. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the even tide; and he lifted death of Abraham, that God blessed bis sen Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by tho well Lahai-roi. 121 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hager the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, base unto Abraham. Jacob and Esau's birth. GENESIS. Esau seileth his birth-rig 13 And these are the names of the did eat of his venison; out Rebekah sons of Ishmael, by their names, ac- loved Jacob. cording to their generations: The first 291T And Jacob sod pottage: and born of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Ke- Esau came from the field, and he was dar, and Abdeel, and Mibsam, faint. 14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve prmees according to their nations. 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people. 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren. 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pot tage; for 1 am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. CHAP. XXVI. A ND there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the dare of Abrabam. And Isaac 20 And Isaac was forty years old when went unto Anchech king of the he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter Philistines unto Gerar. of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, 2 And the LORD appeared unto him the sister to Laban the Syrian. and said, Go not down into Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. 21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, 3 Sojourn in this land; and I will be and Rebekah his wife conceived. with thee, and will bless thee: for 22 And the children struggled to- unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will gether within her: and she said, If it give ail these countries; and I will per be so, why am I thus? And she went form the oath which I sware unto to inquire of the Lond. Abraham thy father: 23 And the Lon D said unto her, Two 4 And I will make thy seed to multinationsare in thy womb,and twoman-ply as the stars of heaven, and will ner of people shall be separated from give unto thy seed all these countries: thy bowels: and the one people shall and in thy seed shall all the nations ol be stronger than the other people; and the earth be blessed; the elder shall serve the younger. 5 Because that Abraham obeyed my 24 17 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red, allover like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. 27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for be feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; be cause she was fair to look upon. 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy Isaac groweth rich. CHAP wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Bezause I said, Lest I die for her. 24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed, for my servant 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with Abraham's sake. thy wife, and thou shouldest have 25 And he builded an altar there, and brought guiltiness upon us. il And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this inas, or his wife, shall surely be put to death. called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched listent there and there Isaac's cervants digged a well. 26 T Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzah one of his friende, and Phichol the chief captain 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hun-of his ariny. dred fold; and the Lord blessed him: 13 And the inan waxed great, and went forward, and grew, until he be came very great: 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, andgreat storejsaid, Let there be now an oath be of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. 17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerah aud dwelt there. 187 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20 And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. 21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lond hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 23 IT And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. twixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and 31 And they rose up betimes in tos morning, and sware one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32 And it came to pass the same day, thatIsaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto lum, We have found water. 33 And he called it Sheba; there. fore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daugh torof Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. A CHAP. XXVIL ND it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto hiın, Myson: and he said unto him, Behold, here am 1. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, aund go out to the field, and take me some venison; 4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to ine, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. 5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went the blessing. 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me. 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Como near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. to the field to hunt for venison, and 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac to bring it. 61 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lond, before my death. 8 Now therefore, iny son, obey my voice, according to that which I command thee. 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two goodkids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth. 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hary man, and I am a smooth man: 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and 1 shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brothet Esau's hands: so be blessed him. 24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And be brought it near to him, and he did eat; and he brought hun wine, and he drank. 26 And his fatherIsaac said unto him Come near now, and kiss me, my son 27 And he came near, and kissed Thim; and he sinelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lond hath blessed: 28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness or the earth, and plenty of corn and wine; 29 Let people serve thee, and nations 13 And his mother said unto him, bow down to thee: be lord over the Upon me be thy curse, my son: only brethren, and let thy mother's sous obey my voice, and go fetch me them. bow down to thee: cursed be every 14 And he went, and fetched, and jone that curseth thee, and blessed be he brought them to his mother and his that blesseth thee. mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. 15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her youngest son: 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac bad made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaachis father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that 17 And she gave the savoury meat 32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau. pared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am 1; who art thou, my son? 33 And Isaac trembled very exceed. 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I ingly, and said, Who? where is he am Esau thy first-born; I have done that hath taken venison, and brought according as thou badest me: arise, 1 it me, and I have eaten of all before pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, thou camest, and bave blessed him? that thy so al may bless me. yea, and he stall be blessed. 00 Esau hateth Jacob. CHAP. XXVII. Jacob's vision. 34 And when Esau heard the words weary of my life because of the daugh of his father, he cried with a great and ters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father! are the daughters of Heth, such as these A ND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Lahan thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people: 37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy iord, and all bis brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what 4 And give thee the blessing of Abrashal! I do now unto thee, my son? bam, to thee, and to thy seed with 38 And Esau said unto his father, thee; that thou mayest inherit the luna Hastthoubut one blessing, my father? wherein thou art a stranger, which bless me, even me also, O my father! God gave unto Abraham. And Esau lifted up his voice, and 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and wept. 39 And Isaac his father answered, and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob, and Esau's mother. 6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to 10 And by thy sword shalt thou live, Padan-aram, to take him a wife from and shalt serve thy brother and it thence; and that, ashe blessed himshall come to pass, when thou shalt be gave him a charge, saying, Thou have the dominion, that thou shalt shalt not take a wife of the daughters break his yoke from off thy neck. of Canaan; 41 And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my Father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. -12 And these words of Esau ber elder sou were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort Limsell, purposing to kill thee. +3 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother, to Haran; 44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; 45 Until thy brother's inger turn 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. 10 ff And Jacob went out from Beersbeba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain. place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set: and he took of the etones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. away from thee, and he forget that 12 And he dreamed, and, behold, & which thou hast done to him: then I will send and fetch thee from thence. Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am ladder set up on the earth, and the top ofit reached to heaven; and, behold. the angels of God ascending and de scending on it. 13 And behold, the LORD stood above |
