禧年書 第 24 章

And it came to pass, after the death of Abraham, that the Lord blessed Isaac his son; and he arose from Hebron and went and dwelt at the well of vision in the first year of the third week of this jubilee, seven years. And in the year of the fourth week the famine began in the land, besides the first famine which had been in the days of Abraham.

And Jacob sod lentil potage, and Esau came from the field hungry. And he said to Jacob his brother: "Give me of this red potage, " 3 And Jacob said to him: "Sell to me thy [primogeniture, this ] birthright and I will give thee bread, and also some of this lentil potage. "

And Esau said in his heart: "I shall die; of what profit to me is this birthright? " And he said to Jacob: "I give it to thee. "

And Jacob said "Swear to me, this day, " and he sware unto him.

And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and potage, and he ate till he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright; for this reason was Esau's name called Edom, 4 on account of the red potage which Jacob gave him for his birthright.

And Jacob became the elder, and Esau was brought down from his dignity. Footnotes

And the famine was over the land, and Isaac departed to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week, and went to the king of the Philistines to Gerar, unto Abimelech.

And the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him: "Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of, and sojourn in this land, and I shall be with thee and bless thee.

For to thee and to thy seed shall I give all this land, and I shall establish My oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father, and I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and shall give unto thy seed all this land.

And in thy seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thy father obeyed My voice, and kept My charge and My commandments, and My laws, and My ordinances, and My covenant; and now obey My voice and dwell in this land. " 2080-2101 12 . And he dwelt in Gerar three weeks of years.

And he dwelt in Gerar three weeks of years. And Abimelech commanded concerning him and concerning all that was his, saying, Any man who touches him or anything of his shall surely die.

And Isaac waxed strong among the Philistines, and he got many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and asses and a great household.

Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and filled them with earth.

And Abimelech said unto Isaac: "Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we "; and Isaac departed thence in 2101 A.M. the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar.

And they digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham, his father, had digged, and which the Philistines had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called their names as Abraham his father had named them.

And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley, and found living water, and the shepherds of Gerar drove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying: "The water is ours "; and Isaac called the name of the well "Perversity, " 2 because they had been perverse with us.

And they dug a second well, and they strove for that also, and he called its name "Eminity, " 1 And he arose from thence and they digged another well, and for that they strove not, and he called the name of it "Room, " 2 and Isaac said: "Now the Lord hath made room for us, and we have increased in the land. "

And he went up from thence to the Well of the Oath 3 in the first year of the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee.

And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father,

And they digged a well and they found living water.

And he called the name of that place the "Well of the Oath "; for there he had sworn to Abimelech and Abuzzath his friend and Philcol the prefect of his host.

And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines 1 and said: "Cursed be the Philistines unto the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations; may God make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.

And whoever escapeth the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation 3 root out in judgment from under heaven; for they will be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth. 29. And no remnant will be left to them, Nor one that will be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment; For for destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines (reserved), And there will no longer be left for these Caphtorim 4 a name or a seed on the earth.

And if he go into captivity, By the hands of those that seek his life will they slay him on the way, And neither name nor seed will be left to him on all the earth; For into eternal malediction will he depart. " [paragraph continues ]

And if he goes into captivity by the hand of those who seek his life, in the midst of the way they shall slay him, and there shall be left to him no name or seed in all the earth.

And thus is it written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tables, to do unto him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth. Footnotes 5.