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B'reisheet 25:19-28:9
B’reisheet 25:19 And this is the genealogy of Yitzchak, Avraham’s son. Avraham brought forth Yitzchak.
B’reisheet 25:20 And Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivkah as wife, the daughter of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laḇan the Aramean.
B’reisheet 25:21 And Yitzchak prayed to יהוה for his wife, because she was barren. And יהוה answered his prayer, and Rivkah his wife conceived.
B’reisheet 25:22 And within her the children struggled together, and she said, “If all is right, why am I this way?” So she went to ask יהוה.
B’reisheet 25:23 And יהוה said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older serve the younger.”
B’reisheet 25:24 And when the days were filled for her to give birth, and see, twins were in her womb!
B’reisheet 25:25 And the first came out red all over, like a hairy garment, so they called his name Ěsaw.
B’reisheet 25:26 And afterward his brother came out, with his hand holding on to Ěsaw’s heel, so his name was called Ya`akov̱. And Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.
B’reisheet 25:27 And the boys grew up. And Ěsaw became a man knowing how to hunt, a man of the field, while Ya`akov̱ was a complete man, dwelling in tents.
B’reisheet 25:28 And Yitzchak loved Ěsaw because he ate of his wild game, but Rivkah loved Ya`akov̱.
B’reisheet 25:29 And Ya`akov̱ cooked a stew, and Ěsaw came in from the field, and he was weary.
B’reisheet 25:30 And Ěsaw said to Ya`akov̱, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” That is why his name was called Eḏom.
B’reisheet 25:31 But Ya`akov̱ said, “Sell me your birthright today.”
B’reisheet 25:32 And Ěsaw said, “Look, I am going to die, so why should I have birthright?”
B’reisheet 25:33 Then Ya`akov̱ said, “Swear to me today.” And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Ya`akov̱.
B’reisheet 25:34 Ya`akov̱ then gave Ěsaw bread and stew of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. Thus Ěsaw despised his birthright.
B’reisheet 26:1 And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Avraham. And Yitzchak went to Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar.
B’reisheet 26:2 And יהוה appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which I command you.
B’reisheet 26:3 “Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I give all these lands to you and your seed. And I shall establish the oath which I swore to Avraham your father.
B’reisheet 26:4 “And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
B’reisheet 26:5 because Avraham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My mitzvot, My laws, and My Torot1.” Footnote: 1Torot - plural of Torah, teaching
B’reisheet 26:6 And Yitzchak dwelt in Gerar.
B’reisheet 26:7 And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for Rivkah, because she is good-looking.”
B’reisheet 26:8 And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of the Philistines looked through a window, and he watched and saw Yitzchak playing with Rivkah his wife.
B’reisheet 26:9 So Aḇimeleḵ called Yitzchak and said, “See, truly she is your wife! So how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Yitzchak said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’ ”
B’reisheet 26:10 And Aḇimeleḵ said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”
B’reisheet 26:11 And Aḇimeleḵ commanded all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.”
B’reisheet 26:12 And Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.
B’reisheet 26:13 And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great.
B’reisheet 26:14 And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
B’reisheet 26:15 And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, and filled them with dirt.
B’reisheet 26:16 And Aḇimeleḵ said to Yitzchak, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
B’reisheet 26:17 So Yitzchak went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there.
B’reisheet 26:18 And Yitzchak dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Avraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.
B’reisheet 26:19 But when Yitzchak’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of running water there,
B’reisheet 26:20 the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitzchak’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with him.
B’reisheet 26:21 And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah.
B’reisheet 26:22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name Reḥoḇoth, and said, “For now יהוה has made room for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.”
B’reisheet 26:23 And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.
B’reisheet 26:24 And יהוה appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the Elohim of your father Avraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for My servant Avraham’s sake.”
B’reisheet 26:25 And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitzchak dug a well there.
B’reisheet 26:26 And Aḇimeleḵ came to him from Gerar, with Aḥuzzath, one of his friends, and Piḵol the commander of his army.
B’reisheet 26:27 And Yitzchak said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you have hated me and have sent me away from you?”
B’reisheet 26:28 But they said, “We have clearly seen that יהוה is with you. And we said, ‘Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you,
B’reisheet 26:29 that you do no evil to us, as we have not touched you, and as we have done only good toward you, and have sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by יהוה.’ ”
B’reisheet 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
B’reisheet 26:31 And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitzchak let them go, and they departed from him in peace.
B’reisheet 26:32 And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitzchak came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
B’reisheet 26:33 So he called it Shiv`ah. Therefore the name of the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa to this day.
B’reisheet 26:34 And when Ěsaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehuḏith the daughter of Be’ĕri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ělon the Hittite.
B’reisheet 26:35 And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitzchak and Rivkah.
B’reisheet 27:1 And it came to be, when Yitzchak was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called Ěsaw his elder son and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “Here I am.”
B’reisheet 27:2 And he said, “See now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death.
B’reisheet 27:3 “Now then, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt wild game for me.
B’reisheet 27:4 “And make me a tasty dish, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, in order that my being does bless you before I die.”
B’reisheet 27:5 And Rivkah heard when Yitzchak spoke to Ěsaw his son. And Ěsaw went to the field to hunt wild game and to bring it.
B’reisheet 27:6 And Rivkah spoke to Ya`akov̱ her son, saying, “See, I heard your father speak to Ěsaw your brother, saying,
B’reisheet 27:7 ‘Bring me wild game and make me a tasty dish to eat, and bless you in the presence of יהוה before my death.’
B’reisheet 27:8 “And now my son, listen to my voice according to what I command you.
B’reisheet 27:9 “Please go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I make a tasty dish from them for your father, such as he loves.
B’reisheet 27:10 “And you shall take it to your father, and he shall eat it, so that he might bless you before his death.”
B’reisheet 27:11 And Ya`akov̱ said to Rivkah his mother, “See, Ěsaw my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man.
B’reisheet 27:12 “What if my father touches me? Then I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”
B’reisheet 27:13 But his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.”
B’reisheet 27:14 And he went and fetched them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made a tasty dish, such as his father loved.
B’reisheet 27:15 And Rivkah took the best garments of her elder son Ěsaw, which were with her in the house, and put them on Ya`akov̱ her younger son.
B’reisheet 27:16 And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
B’reisheet 27:17 Then she gave the tasty dish and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya`akov̱.
B’reisheet 27:18 And he went to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
B’reisheet 27:19 And Ya`akov̱ said to his father, “I am Ěsaw your first-born, I have done as you said to me. Please rise, sit and eat of my wild game, so that your being might bless me.”
B’reisheet 27:20 But Yitzchak said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because יהוה your Elohim brought it to me.”
B’reisheet 27:21 Then Yitzchak said to Ya`akov̱, “Please come near, so that I feel you, my son, whether you truly are my son Ěsaw or not.”
B’reisheet 27:22 And Ya`akov̱ went near to Yitzchak his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Ya`akov̱, but the hands are the hands of Ěsaw.”
B’reisheet 27:23 And he did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like his brother Ěsaw’s hands, and he blessed him.
B’reisheet 27:24 And he said, “Are you truly my son Ěsaw?” And he said, “I am.”
B’reisheet 27:25 And he said, “Bring it near to me, and let me eat of my son’s wild game, so that my being might bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank.
B’reisheet 27:26 And his father Yitzchak said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
B’reisheet 27:27 And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which יהוה has blessed.
B’reisheet 27:28 And Elohim give you of the dew of the heavens, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
B’reisheet 27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you!”
B’reisheet 27:30 And it came to be, as soon as Yitzchak had finished blessing Ya`akov̱, and Ya`akov̱ had hardly left the presence of Yitzchak his father, that Ěsaw his brother came in from his hunting.
B’reisheet 27:31 And he too had made a tasty dish and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father rise and eat of his son’s wild game, so that your being might bless me.”
B’reisheet 27:32 And his father Yitzchak said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your first-born, Ěsaw.”
B’reisheet 27:33 Then Yitzchak trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who was it then who hunted wild game and brought it to me? And I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him. Yea, he is blessed.”
B’reisheet 27:34 When Ěsaw heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me too, O my father!”
B’reisheet 27:35 And he said, “Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing.”
B’reisheet 27:36 And Ěsaw said, “Was his name, then, called Ya`akov̱? For he has caught me by the heel these two times. He took my birthright, and see, now he has taken my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
B’reisheet 27:37 Then Yitzchak answered and said to Ěsaw, “See, I have made him your master, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants. And I have sustained him with grain and wine. And what, then, shall I do for you, my son?”
B’reisheet 27:38 And Ěsaw said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, me too, O my father!” And Ěsaw lifted up his voice and wept.
B’reisheet 27:39 And Yitzchak his father answered and said to him, “See, your dwelling is of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the heavens from above.
B’reisheet 27:40 And by your sword you are to live, and serve your brother. And it shall be, when you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.”
B’reisheet 27:41 And Ěsaw hated Ya`akov̱ because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Ěsaw said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father draw near, then I am going to kill my brother Ya`akov̱.”
B’reisheet 27:42 And the words of Ěsaw her older son were reported to Rivkah, and she sent and called Ya`akov̱ her younger son, and said to him, “See, your brother Ěsaw comforts himself concerning you, to kill you.
B’reisheet 27:43 “And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee to my brother Laḇan in Ḥaran.
B’reisheet 27:44 “And stay with him a few days, until your brother’s wrath turns away,
B’reisheet 27:45 until your brother’s displeasure turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. And I shall send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
B’reisheet 27:46 And Rivkah said to Yitzchak, “I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Ḥĕth. If Ya`akov̱ takes a wife from the daughters of Ḥĕth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?”
B’reisheet 28:1 And Yitzchak called Ya`akov̱ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan.
B’reisheet 28:2 “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother.
B’reisheet 28:3 “And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,
B’reisheet 28:4 and give you the blessing of Avraham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Avraham.”
B’reisheet 28:5 So Yitzchak sent Ya`akov̱ away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Rivkah, the mother of Ya`akov̱ and Ěsaw.
B’reisheet 28:6 And Ěsaw saw that Yitzchak had blessed Ya`akov̱ and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan,”
B’reisheet 28:7 and that Ya`akov̱ had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
B’reisheet 28:8 So Ěsaw saw that the daughters of Kenaʽan did not please his father Yitzchak,
B’reisheet 28:9 and Ěsaw went to Yishmaʽĕl and took Maḥalath the daughter of Yishmaʽĕl, Avraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the wives he had.