Beresheet, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} Avraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. {25:2}
She bore him Zimran, Yokshan, Medan, Midyan, Yishbak, and Shuach.
{25:3} Yokshan became the father of Sheva, and Dedan. The sons of
Dedan were Ashshurim, Letushim, and Le'ummim. {25:4} The sons of
Midyan: `Efah, `Efer, Hanokh, Avida, and Elda`ah. All these were the
children of Keturah. {25:5} Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchak,
{25:6} but to the sons of the concubines who Avraham had, Avraham gave
gifts. He sent them away from Yitzchak his son, while he yet lived,
eastward, to the east country. {25:7} These are the days of the years
of Avraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
{25:8} Avraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. {25:9}
Yitzchak and Yishma'el, his sons, buried him in the cave of Makhpelah,
in the field of `Efron, the son of Tzochar the Hittite, which is
before Mamre, {25:10} the field which Avraham purchased of the
children of Het. There was Avraham buried, with Sarah his wife.
{25:11} It happened after the death of Avraham, that God blessed
Yitzchak, his son. Yitzchak lived by Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i.
{25:12} Now this is the history of the generations of Yishma'el,
Avraham's son, whom Hagar the Mitzrian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to
Avraham. {25:13} These are the names of the sons of Yishma'el, by
their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of
Yishma'el, Nevayot, then Kedar, Adbe'el, Mivsam, {25:14} Mishma,
Dumah, Massa, {25:15} Hadad, Tema, Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah. {25:16}
These are the sons of Yishma'el, and these are their names, by their
villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their
nations. {25:17} These are the years of the life of Yishma'el: one
hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was
gathered to his people. {25:18} They lived from Havilah to Shur that
is before Mitzrayim, as you go toward Ashshur. He lived opposite all
his relatives.
{25:19} This is the history of the generations of Yitzchak,
Avraham's son. Avraham became the father of Yitzchak. {25:20} Yitzchak
was forty years old when he took Rivka, the daughter of Betu'el the
Arammian of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Lavan the Arammian, to be his
wife. {25:21} Yitzchak entreated the LORD for his wife, because she
was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rivka his wife
conceived. {25:22} The children struggled together within her. She
said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the LORD.
{25:23} The LORD said to her,
Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples will be separated from your body.
The one people will be stronger than the other people.
The elder will serve the younger.
{25:24} When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
were twins in her womb. {25:25} The first came out red all over, like
a hairy garment. They named him Esav. {25:26} After that, his brother
came out, and his hand had hold on Esav's heel. He was named Ya`akov.
Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.
{25:27} The boys grew. Esav was a skillful hunter, a man of the
field. Ya`akov was a quiet man, living in tents. {25:28} Now Yitzchak
loved Esav, because he ate his venison. Rivka loved Ya`akov. {25:29}
Ya`akov boiled stew. Esav came in from the field, and he was famished.
{25:30} Esav said to Ya`akov, "Please feed me with that same red stew,
for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
{25:31} Ya`akov said, "First, sell me your birthright."
{25:32} Esav said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the
birthright to me?"
{25:33} Ya`akov said, "Swear to me first."
He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Ya`akov. {25:34} Ya`akov
gave Esav bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and
went his way. So Esav despised his birthright.
{26:1} There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Avraham. Yitzchak went to Avimelekh king of the
Pelishtim, to Gerar. {26:2} The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Don't
go down into Mitzrayim. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.
{26:3} Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I
will establish the oath which I swore to Avraham your father. {26:4} I
will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your
seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the
[1>]eretz[<1] be blessed, {26:5} because Avraham obeyed my voice, and
kept my charge, my [2>]mitzvot[<2], my statutes, and my laws."
{26:6} Yitzchak lived in Gerar. {26:7} The men of the place asked
him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to
say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me
for Rivka, because she was beautiful to look on. {26:8} It happened,
when he had been there a long time, that Avimelekh king of the
Pelishtim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was
caressing Rivka, his wife. {26:9} Avimelekh called Yitzchak, and said,
"Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'"
Yitzchak said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
{26:10} Avimelekh said, "What is this you have done to us? One of
the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have
brought guilt on us!"
{26:11} Avimelekh charged all the people, saying, "He who touches
this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
{26:12} Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one
hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him. {26:13} The man
grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. {26:14}
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great
household. The Pelishtim envied him. {26:15} Now all the wells which
his father's servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, the
Pelishtim had stopped, and filled with [3>]eretz[<3]. {26:16}
Avimelekh said to Yitzchak, "Go from us, for you are much mightier
than we."
{26:17} Yitzchak departed from there, encamped in the valley of
Gerar, and lived there.
{26:18} Yitzchak dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in
the days of Avraham his father. For the Pelishtim had stopped them
after the death of Avraham. He called their names after the names by
which his father had called them. {26:19} Yitzchak's servants dug in
the valley, and found there a well of springing water. {26:20} The
herdsmen of Gerar argued with Yitzchak's herdsmen, saying, "The water
is ours." He called the name of the well `Esek, because they contended
with him. {26:21} They dug another well, and they argued over that,
also. He called the name of it Sitnah. {26:22} He left that place, and
dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it
Rechovot. He said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will
be fruitful in the land."
{26:23} He went up from there to Be'er-Sheva. {26:24} The LORD
appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Avraham
your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you,
and multiply your seed for my servant Avraham's sake."
{26:25} He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD,
and pitched his tent there. There Yitzchak's servants dug a well.
{26:26} Then Avimelekh went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzat his
friend, and Pikhol the captain of his host. {26:27} Yitzchak said to
them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me
away from you?"
{26:28} They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We
said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you,
and let us make a covenant with you, {26:29} that you will do us no
harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing
but good, and have sent you away in shalom.' You are now the blessed
of the LORD."
{26:30} He made them a feast, and they ate and drink. {26:31} They
rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Yitzchak
sent them away, and they departed from him in shalom. {26:32} It
happened the same day, that Yitzchak's servants came, and told him
concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have
found water." {26:33} He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the
city is Be'er-Sheva to this day.
{26:34} When Esav was forty years old, he took as wife Yehudit, the
daughter of Be'eri the Hittite, and Basemat, the daughter of Elon the
Hittite. {26:35} They grieved Yitzchak and Rivka's spirits.
{27:1} It happened, that when Yitzchak was old, and his eyes were
dim, so that he could not see, he called Esav his elder son, and said
to him, "My son?"
He said to him, "Here I am."
{27:2} He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my
death. {27:3} Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and
your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. {27:4} Make me
savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and
that my soul may bless you before I die.
{27:5} Rivka heard when Yitzchak spoke to Esav his son. Esav went to
the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. {27:6} Rivka spoke to
Ya`akov her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esav
your brother, saying, {27:7} 'Bring me venison, and make me savory
food, that I may eat, and bless you before the LORD before my death.'
{27:8} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command you. {27:9} Go now to the flock, and get me from there two
good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father,
such as he loves. {27:10} You shall bring it to your father, that he
may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
{27:11} Ya`akov said to Rivka his mother, "Behold, Esav my brother
is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. {27:12} What if my father
touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a
curse on myself, and not a blessing."
{27:13} His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son.
Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
{27:14} He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His
mother made savory food, such as his father loved. {27:15} Rivka took
the good clothes of Esav, her elder son, which were with her in the
house, and put them on Ya`akov, her younger son. {27:16} She put the
skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his
neck. {27:17} She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Ya`akov.
{27:18} He came to his father, and said, "My father?"
He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
{27:19} Ya`akov said to his father, "I am Esav your firstborn. I
have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my
venison, that your soul may bless me."
{27:20} Yitzchak said to his son, "How is it that you have found it
so quickly, my son?"
He said, "Because the LORD your God gave me success."
{27:21} Yitzchak said to Ya`akov, "Please come near, that I may feel
you, my son, whether you are really my son Esav or not."
{27:22} Ya`akov went near to Yitzchak his father. He felt him, and
said, "The voice is Ya`akov's voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esav." {27:23} He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy,
like his brother, Esav's hands. So he blessed him. {27:24} He said,
"Are you really my son Esav?"
He said, "I am."
{27:25} He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's
venison, that my soul may bless you."
He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he
drank. {27:26} His father Yitzchak said to him, "Come near now, and
kiss me, my son." {27:27} He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the
smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said,
"Behold, the smell of my son
Is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
{27:28} God give you of the dew of the sky,
of the fatness of the [1>]eretz[<1],
and plenty of grain and new wine.
{27:29} Let peoples serve you,
Nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
Let your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
{27:30} It happened, as soon as Yitzchak had made an end of blessing
Ya`akov, and Ya`akov had just gone out from the presence of Yitzchak
his father, that Esav his brother came in from his hunting. {27:31} He
also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his
father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your
soul may bless me."
{27:32} Yitzchak his father said to him, "Who are you?"
He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esav."
{27:33} Yitzchak trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who
has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before
you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
{27:34} When Esav heard the words of his father, he cried with an
exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me,
even me also, my father."
{27:35} He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away
your blessing."
{27:36} He said, "Isn't he rightly named Ya`akov? For he has
supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he
has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing
for me?"
{27:37} Yitzchak answered Esav, "Behold, I have made him your lord,
and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and
new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
{27:38} Esav said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my
father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esav lifted up his voice,
and wept.
{27:39} Yitzchak his father answered him,
"Behold, of the fatness of the [2>]eretz[<2] will be your dwelling,
and of the dew of the sky from above.
{27:40} By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother.
It will happen, when you will break loose,
That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
{27:41} Esav hated Ya`akov because of the blessing with which his
father blessed him. Esav said in his heart, "The days of mourning for
my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya`akov."
{27:42} The words of Esav, her elder son, were told to Rivka. She
sent and called Ya`akov her younger son, and said to him, "Behold,
your brother Esav comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
{27:43} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Lavan, my
brother, in Haran. {27:44} Stay with him a few days, until your
brother's fury turns away; {27:45} until your brother's anger turn
away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will
send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in
one day?"
{27:46} Rivka said to Yitzchak, "I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Het. If Ya`akov takes a wife of the daughters of Het,
such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do
me?"
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Footnotes:
[1] {26:4} earth
[2] {26:5} commandments
[3] {26:15} earth
[1] {27:28} earth
[2] {27:39} earth
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