dourh - Genesis:25:19-27:40

dourh@Genesis:25:19 @ These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

dourh@Genesis:25:20 @ Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

dourh@Genesis:25:21 @ And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

dourh@Genesis:25:22 @ But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

dourh@Genesis:25:23 @ And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

dourh@Genesis:25:24 @ And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

dourh@Genesis:25:25 @ He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

dourh@Genesis:25:26 @ Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

dourh@Genesis:25:27 @ And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.

dourh@Genesis:25:28 @ Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

dourh@Genesis:25:29 @ And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

dourh@Genesis:25:30 @ Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

dourh@Genesis:25:31 @ And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

dourh@Genesis:25:32 @ He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me.

dourh@Genesis:25:33 @ Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

dourh@Genesis:25:34 @ And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

dourh@Genesis:26:1 @ And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.

dourh@Genesis:26:2 @ And the Lord appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

dourh@Genesis:26:3 @ And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

dourh@Genesis:26:4 @ And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

dourh@Genesis:26:5 @ Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

dourh@Genesis:26:6 @ So Isaac abode in Gerara.

dourh@Genesis:26:7 @ And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would like him because of her beauty.

dourh@Genesis:26:8 @ And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech king of the Palestines looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca his wife.

dourh@Genesis:26:9 @ And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.

dourh@Genesis:26:10 @ And Abimelech said: Why hadst thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:

dourh@Genesis:26:11 @ He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.

dourh@Genesis:26:12 @ And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

dourh@Genesis:26:13 @ And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:

dourh@Genesis:26:14 @ And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

dourh@Genesis:26:15 @ Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:

dourh@Genesis:26:16 @ Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

dourh@Genesis:26:17 @ So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:

dourh@Genesis:26:18 @ And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, after his death, the Palestines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names by which his father before had called them.

dourh@Genesis:26:19 @ And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.

dourh@Genesis:26:20 @ But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

dourh@Genesis:26:21 @ And they digged also another; and for that they quarreled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.

dourh@Genesis:26:22 @ Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

dourh@Genesis:26:23 @ And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

dourh@Genesis:26:24 @ Where the Lord appeared to him that same might, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father; do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

dourh@Genesis:26:25 @ And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and commanded his servants to dig a well.

dourh@Genesis:26:26 @ To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers came from Gerara,

dourh@Genesis:26:27 @ Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

dourh@Genesis:26:28 @ And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

dourh@Genesis:26:29 @ That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee: but with peace have sent thee away increased with the blessing of the Lord.

dourh@Genesis:26:30 @ And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

dourh@Genesis:26:31 @ Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

dourh@Genesis:26:32 @ And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

dourh@Genesis:26:33 @ Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

dourh@Genesis:26:34 @ And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place.

dourh@Genesis:26:35 @ And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

dourh@Genesis:27:1 @ Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

dourh@Genesis:27:2 @ And his father said to him: Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.

dourh@Genesis:27:3 @ Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad: and when thou hast taken some thing by hunting,

dourh@Genesis:27:4 @ Make me savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it, that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee before I die.

dourh@Genesis:27:5 @ And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfill his father's commandment,

dourh@Genesis:27:6 @ She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying to him:

dourh@Genesis:27:7 @ Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.

dourh@Genesis:27:8 @ Now, therefore, my son, follow my counsel:

dourh@Genesis:27:9 @ And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth:

dourh@Genesis:27:10 @ Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

dourh@Genesis:27:11 @ And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am smooth.

dourh@Genesis:27:12 @ If my father shall feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

dourh@Genesis:27:13 @ And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.

dourh@Genesis:27:14 @ He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.

dourh@Genesis:27:15 @ And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her:

dourh@Genesis:27:16 @ And the little skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck.

dourh@Genesis:27:17 @ And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that she had baked.

dourh@Genesis:27:18 @ Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?

dourh@Genesis:27:19 @ And Jacob said: I am Esau thy firstborn: I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

dourh@Genesis:27:20 @ And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son?

dourh@Genesis:27:21 @ And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

dourh@Genesis:27:22 @ He came near to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the hands are the hands of Esau.

dourh@Genesis:27:23 @ He said: Art thou my son Esau? He answered: I am.

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dourh@Genesis:27:25 @ Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee. And when they were brought, and he had eaten, he offered him wine also, which after he had drunk,

dourh@Genesis:27:26 @ He said to him: Come near me, and give me a kiss, my son.

dourh@Genesis:27:27 @ He came near, and kissed him. And immediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field, which Lord hath blessed.

dourh@Genesis:27:28 @ God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

dourh@Genesis:27:29 @ And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let they mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings.

dourh@Genesis:27:30 @ Isaac had scarce ended his words, when Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,

dourh@Genesis:27:31 @ And brought in to his father meats made of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that thy soul may bless me.

dourh@Genesis:27:32 @ And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son Esau.

dourh@Genesis:27:33 @ Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished exceedingly: and wondering beyond what can be believed, said Who is he then the even now brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate of all before thou camest? and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.

dourh@Genesis:27:34 @ Esau having heard his father's words, roared out with a great cry: and being in a great consternation, said: Bless me also, my father.

dourh@Genesis:27:35 @ And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully and got thy blessing.

dourh@Genesis:27:36 @ But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: my first birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

dourh@Genesis:27:37 @ Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants: I have established him with corn and wine, and after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?

dourh@Genesis:27:38 @ And Esac said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,

dourh@Genesis:27:39 @ Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,

dourh@Genesis:27:40 @ Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by the sword and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.