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Genesis 26

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1 γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δε-X λιμος-N2--NSM επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF χωρις-P ο- A--GSM λιμος-N2--GSM ο- A--GSM προτερον-D ος- --NSM γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S εν-P ο- A--DSM χρονος-N2--DSM ο- A--DSM *αβρααμ-N---GSM πορευομαι-VCI-API3S δε-X *ισαακ-N---NSM προς-P *αβιμελεχ-N---ASM βασιλευς-N3V-ASM *φυλιστιιμ-N---GPM εις-P *γεραρα-N2--AS

2 οραω-VVI-API3S δε-X αυτος- D--DSM κυριος-N2--NSM και-C ειπον-VBI-AAI3S μη-D καταβαινω-VZ--AAS2S εις-P *αιγυπτος-N2--ASF καταοικεω-VA--AAD2S δε-X εν-P ο- A--DSF γη-N1--DSF ος- --DSF αν-X συ- P--DS ειπον-VBI-AAS1S

3 και-C παραοικεω-V2--PAD2S εν-P ο- A--DSF γη-N1--DSF ουτος- D--DSF και-C ειμι-VF--FMI1S μετα-P συ- P--GS και-C ευλογεω-VF--FAI1S συ- P--AS συ- P--DS γαρ-X και-C ο- A--DSN σπερμα-N3M-DSN συ- P--GS διδωμι-VF--FAI1S πας-A1S-ASF ο- A--ASF γη-N1--ASF ουτος- D--ASF και-C ιστημι-VF--FAI1S ο- A--ASM ορκος-N2--ASM εγω- P--GS ος- --ASM ομνυμι-VAI-AAI1S *αβρααμ-N---DSM ο- A--DSM πατηρ-N3--DSM συ- P--GS

4 και-C πληθυνω-VF2-FAI1S ο- A--ASN σπερμα-N3M-ASN συ- P--GS ως-C ο- A--APM αστηρ-N3--APM ο- A--GSM ουρανος-N2--GSM και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S ο- A--DSN σπερμα-N3M-DSN συ- P--GS πας-A1S-ASF ο- A--ASF γη-N1--ASF ουτος- D--ASF και-C ενευλογεω-VC--FPI3P εν-P ο- A--DSN σπερμα-N3M-DSN συ- P--GS πας-A3--NSN ο- A--NPN εθνος-N3E-NPN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF

5 αντι-P ος- --GPM υποακουω-VAI-AAI3S *αβρααμ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM πατηρ-N3--NSM συ- P--GS ο- A--GSF εμος-A1--GSF φωνη-N1--GSF και-C φυλασσω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--APN προσταγμα-N3M-APN εγω- P--GS και-C ο- A--APF εντολη-N1A-APF εγω- P--GS και-C ο- A--APN δικαιωμα-N3--APN εγω- P--GS και-C ο- A--APN νομιμος-A1--APN εγω- P--GS

6 και-C καταοικεω-VAI-AAI3S *ισαακ-N---NSM εν-P *γεραρα-N2--DP

7 επιερωταω-VAI-AAI3P δε-X ο- A--NPM ανηρ-N3--NPM ο- A--GSM τοπος-N2--GSM περι-P *ρεβεκκα-N---GSF ο- A--GSF γυνη-N3K-GSF αυτος- D--GSM και-C ειπον-VBI-AAI3S αδελφη-N1--NSF εγω- P--GS ειμι-V9--PAI3S φοβεω-VCI-API3S γαρ-X ειπον-VBI-AAN οτι-C γυνη-N3K-NSF εγω- P--GS ειμι-V9--PAI3S μηποτε-D αποκτεινω-VA--AAS3P αυτος- D--ASM ο- A--NPM ανηρ-N3--NPM ο- A--GSM τοπος-N2--GSM περι-P *ρεβεκκα-N---GSF οτι-C ωραιος-A1A-NSF ο- A--DSF οψις-N3I-DSF ειμι-V9--IAI3S

8 γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δε-X πολυχρονιος-A1B-NSM εκει-D παρακυπτω-VA--AAPNSM δε-X *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM βασιλευς-N3V-NSM *γεραρα-N2--NP δια-P ο- A--GSF θυρις-N3D-GSF οραω-VBI-AAI3S ο- A--ASM *ισαακ-N---ASM παιζω-V1--PAPASM μετα-P *ρεβεκκα-N---GSF ο- A--GSF γυνη-N3K-GSF αυτος- D--GSM

9 καλεω-VAI-AAI3S δε-X *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM ο- A--ASM *ισαακ-N---ASM και-C ειπον-VBI-AAI3S αυτος- D--DSM αρα-X γε-X γυνη-N3K-NSF συ- P--GS ειμι-V9--PAI3S τις- I--ASN οτι-C ειπον-VAI-AAI2S αδελφη-N1--NSF εγω- P--GS ειμι-V9--PAI3S ειπον-VBI-AAI3S δε-X αυτος- D--DSM *ισαακ-N---NSM ειπον-VAI-AAI1S γαρ-X μηποτε-D αποθνησκω-VB--AAS1S δια-P αυτος- D--ASF

10 ειπον-VBI-AAI3S δε-X αυτος- D--DSM *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM τις- I--ASN ουτος- D--ASN ποιεω-VAI-AAI2S εγω- P--DP μικρος-A1A-GSM κοιμαω-VCI-API3S τις- I--NSM ο- A--GSN γενος-N3E-GSN εγω- P--GS μετα-P ο- A--GSF γυνη-N3K-GSF συ- P--GS και-C επιαγω-VBI-AAI2S επι-P εγω- P--AP αγνοια-N1A-ASF

11 συντασσω-VAI-AAI3S δε-X *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM πας-A3--DSM ο- A--DSM λαος-N2--DSM αυτος- D--GSM λεγω-V1--PAPNSM πας-A3--NSM ο- A--NSM απτομαι-V1--PMPNSM ο- A--GSM ανθρωπος-N2--GSM ουτος- D--GSM η-C ο- A--GSF γυνη-N3K-GSF αυτος- D--GSM θανατος-N2--GSM ενοχος-A1B-NSM ειμι-VF--FMI3S

12 σπειρω-VAI-AAI3S δε-X *ισαακ-N---NSM εν-P ο- A--DSF γη-N1--DSF εκεινος- D--DSF και-C ευρισκω-VB--AAI3S εν-P ο- A--DSM ενιαυτος-N2--DSM εκεινος- D--DSM εκατοστευω-V1--PAPASF κριθη-N1--ASF ευλογεω-VA--AAI3S δε-X αυτος- D--ASM κυριος-N2--NSM

13 και-C υψοω-VCI-API3S ο- A--NSM ανθρωπος-N2--NSM και-C προβαινω-V1--PAPNSM μεγας-A3C-NSMC γιγνομαι-V1I-IMI3S εως-P ος- --GSM μεγας-A1P-NSM γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S σφοδρα-D

14 γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δε-X αυτος- D--DSM κτηνος-N3E-NPN προβατον-N2N-GPN και-C κτηνος-N3E-NPN βους-N3--GPM και-C γεωργιον-N2N-NPN πολυς-A1--NPN ζηλοω-VAI-AAI3P δε-X αυτος- D--ASM ο- A--NPM *φυλιστιιμ-N---NPM

15 και-C πας-A3--APN ο- A--APN φρεαρ-N3T-APN ος- --APN ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM παις-N3D-NPM ο- A--GSM πατηρ-N3--GSM αυτος- D--GSM εν-P ο- A--DSM χρονος-N2--DSM ο- A--GSM πατηρ-N3--GSM αυτος- D--GSM ενφρασσω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--APN ο- A--NPM *φυλιστιιμ-N---NPM και-C πιμπλημι-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--APN γη-N1--GSF

16 ειπον-VBI-AAI3S δε-X *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM προς-P *ισαακ-N---ASM αποερχομαι-VB--AAD2S απο-P εγω- P--GP οτι-C δυνατος-A1--NSMC εγω- P--GP γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI2S σφοδρα-D

17 και-C αποερχομαι-VBI-AAI3S εκειθεν-D *ισαακ-N---NSM και-C καταλυω-VAI-AAI3S εν-P ο- A--DSF φαραγξ-N3G-DSF *γεραρα-N2--GP και-C καταοικεω-VAI-AAI3S εκει-D

18 και-C παλιν-D *ισαακ-N---NSM ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--APN φρεαρ-N3T-APN ο- A--GSN υδωρ-N3T-GSN ος- --APN ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM παις-N3D-NPM *αβρααμ-N---GSM ο- A--GSM πατηρ-N3--GSM αυτος- D--GSM και-C ενφρασσω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--APN ο- A--NPM *φυλιστιιμ-N---NPM μετα-P ο- A--ASN αποθνησκω-VB--AAN *αβρααμ-N---ASM ο- A--ASM πατηρ-N3--ASM αυτος- D--GSM και-C επιονομαζω-VAI-AAI3S αυτος- D--DPM ονομα-N3M-APN κατα-P ο- A--APN ονομα-N3M-APN ος- --APN επιονομαζω-VAI-AAI3S *αβρααμ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM πατηρ-N3--NSM αυτος- D--GSM

19 και-C ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3P ο- A--NPM παις-N3D-NPM *ισαακ-N---GSM εν-P ο- A--DSF φαραγξ-N3G-DSF *γεραρα-N2--GP και-C ευρισκω-VB--AAI3P εκει-D φρεαρ-N3T-ASN υδωρ-N3T-GSN ζαω-V3--PAPGSN

20 και-C μαχομαι-VAI-AMI3P ο- A--NPM ποιμην-N3--NPM *γεραρα-N2--GP μετα-P ο- A--GPM ποιμην-N3--GPM *ισαακ-N---GSM φασκω-V1--PAPNPM αυτος- D--GPM ειμι-V9--PAN ο- A--ASN υδωρ-N3--ASN και-C καλεω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--ASN ονομα-N3M-ASN ο- A--GSN φρεαρ-N3T-GSN *αδικια-N1A-NSF αδικεω-VAI-AAI3P γαρ-X αυτος- D--ASM

21 αποαιρω-VA--AAPNSM δε-X *ισαακ-N---NSM εκειθεν-D ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3S φρεαρ-N3T-ASN ετερος-A1A-ASN κρινω-V1I-IMI3P δε-X και-C περι-P εκεινος- D--GSM και-C επιονομαζω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--ASN ονομα-N3M-ASN αυτος- D--GSM *εχθρια-N1A-NSF

22 αποαιρω-VA--AAPNSM δε-X εκειθεν-D ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3S φρεαρ-N3T-ASN ετερος-A1A-ASN και-C ου-D μαχομαι-VAI-AMI3P περι-P αυτος- D--GSM και-C επιονομαζω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--ASN ονομα-N3M-ASN αυτος- D--GSM *ευρυχωρια-N1A-NSF λεγω-V1--PAPNSM διοτι-C νυν-D πλατυνω-V1I-IAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM εγω- P--DP και-C αυξανω-VAI-AAI3S εγω- P--AP επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF

23 αναβαινω-VZI-AAI3S δε-X εκειθεν-D επι-P ο- A--ASN φρεαρ-N3T-ASN ο- A--GSM ορκος-N2--GSM

24 και-C οραω-VVI-API3S αυτος- D--DSM κυριος-N2--NSM εν-P ο- A--DSF νυξ-N3--DSF εκεινος- D--DSF και-C ειπον-VBI-AAI3S εγω- P--NS ειμι-V9--PAI1S ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM *αβρααμ-N---GSM ο- A--GSM πατηρ-N3--GSM συ- P--GS μη-D φοβεω-V2--PMD2S μετα-P συ- P--GS γαρ-X ειμι-V9--PAI1S και-C ευλογεω-VX--XAI1S συ- P--AS και-C πληθυνω-VF2-FAI1S ο- A--ASN σπερμα-N3M-ASN συ- P--GS δια-P *αβρααμ-N---ASM ο- A--ASM πατηρ-N3--ASM συ- P--GS

25 και-C οικοδομεω-VAI-AAI3S εκει-D θυσιαστηριον-N2N-ASN και-C επικαλεω-VAI-AMI3S ο- A--ASN ονομα-N3M-ASN κυριος-N2--GSM και-C πηγνυμι-VAI-AAI3S εκει-D ο- A--ASF σκηνη-N1--ASF αυτος- D--GSM ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3P δε-X εκει-D ο- A--NPM παις-N3D-NPM *ισαακ-N---GSM φρεαρ-N3T-ASN

26 και-C *αβιμελεχ-N---NSM πορευομαι-VCI-API3S προς-P αυτος- D--ASM απο-P *γεραρα-N2--GP και-C *οχοζαθ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM νυμφαγωγος-N2--NSM αυτος- D--GSM και-C *φικολ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM αρχιστρατηγος-N2--NSM ο- A--GSF δυναμις-N3I-GSF αυτος- D--GSM

27 και-C ειπον-VBI-AAI3S αυτος- D--DPM *ισαακ-N---NSM ινα-C τις- I--ASN ερχομαι-VAI-AAI2P προς-P εγω- P--AS συ- P--NP δε-X μισεω-VAI-AAI2P εγω- P--AS και-C αποστελλω-VAI-AAI2P εγω- P--AS απο-P συ- P--GP

28 και-C ειπον-VAI-AAI3P οραω-VB--AAPNPM οραω-VX--XAI1P οτι-C ειμι-V9--IAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM μετα-P συ- P--GS και-C ειπον-VAI-AAI1P γιγνομαι-VB--AMD3S αρα-N1A-NSF ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM εγω- P--GP και-C ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASM συ- P--GS και-C διατιθημι-VF--FMI1P μετα-P συ- P--GS διαθηκη-N1--ASF

29 μη-D ποιεω-VF--FAN μετα-P εγω- P--GP κακος-A1--ASN καθοτι-D εγω- P--NP συ- P--AS ου-D βδελυσσω-VAI-AMI1P και-C ος- --ASM τροπος-N2--ASM χραω-VAI-AMI1P συ- P--DS καλως-D και-C εκ αποστελλω-VAI-AAI1P συ- P--AS μετα-P ειρηνη-N1--GSF και-C νυν-D συ- P--NS ευλογητος-A1--NSM υπο-P κυριος-N2--GSM

30 και-C ποιεω-VAI-AAI3S αυτος- D--DPM δοχη-N1--ASF και-C εσθιω-VBI-AAI3P και-C πινω-VBI-AAI3P

31 και-C αναιστημι-VH--AAPNPM ο- A--ASN πρωι-D ομνυμι-VAI-AAI3P ανθρωπος-N2--NSM ο- A--DSM πλησιον-D αυτος- D--GSM και-C εκ αποστελλω-VAI-AAI3S αυτος- D--APM *ισαακ-N---NSM και-C αποοιχομαι-V1I-IMI3P απο-P αυτος- D--GSM μετα-P σωτηρια-N1A-GSF

32 γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δε-X εν-P ο- A--DSF ημερα-N1A-DSF εκεινος- D--DSF και-C παραγιγνομαι-VB--AMPNPM ο- A--NPM παις-N3D-NPM *ισαακ-N---GSM αποαγγελλω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--DSM περι-P ο- A--GSN φρεαρ-N3T-GSN ος- --GSN ορυσσω-VAI-AAI3P και-C ειπον-VAI-AAI3P ου-D ευρισκω-VB--AAI1P υδωρ-N3--ASN

33 και-C καλεω-VAI-AAI3S αυτος- D--ASN *ορκος-N2--NSM δια-P ουτος- D--ASN ονομα-N3M-ASN ο- A--DSF πολις-N3I-DSF *φρεαρ-N3T-NSN ορκος-N2--GSM εως-P ο- A--GSF σημερον-D ημερα-N1A-GSF

34 ειμι-V9--IAI3S δε-X *ησαυ-N---NSM ετος-N3E-GPN τεσσαρακοντα-M και-C λαμβανω-VBI-AAI3S γυνη-N3K-ASF *ιουδιν-N---ASF ο- A--ASF θυγατηρ-N3--ASF *βεηρ-N---GSM ο- A--GSM *χετταιος-N2--GSM και-C ο- A--ASF *βασεμμαθ-N---ASF θυγατηρ-N3--ASF *αιλων-N---GSM ο- A--GSM *ευαιος-N2--GSM

35 και-C ειμι-V9--IAI3P εριζω-V1--PAPNPF ο- A--DSM *ισαακ-N---DSM και-C ο- A--DSF *ρεβεκκα-N---DSF

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3419

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3419. 'Isaac came back and dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father' means that the Lord disclosed the truths that had existed with the Ancients. This is clear from the representation of 'Isaac' as the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with already; from the meaning of 'coming back and digging again' as disclosing once again; from the meaning of 'the wells of water' as truths that are the sources of cognitions - 'wells' being truths, see 2702, 3096, and 'waters' cognitions, 28, 2702, 3058; and from the meaning of 'the days of Abraham his father' as a former time and state as regards truths, which are meant by 'which they had dug in those days', and so which had existed with the Ancients - 'days' meaning a time and a state, see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893. When a state is meant by 'days', 'Abraham his father' represents the Lord's Divine itself before this had joined the Human to Itself, see 2833, 2836, 3251; but when a time is meant by 'days', 'Abraham his father' means the goods and truths which came from the Lord's Divine before this had allied the Human to Itself, and so which had existed with the Ancients.

[2] The truths which existed with the Ancients have been completely effaced at the present time, so much so that scarcely anybody knows that they have ever existed or that they could have been anything different from those also taught today. But those truths were indeed quite different. People had representatives and meaningful signs of celestial and spiritual things in the Lord's kingdom, and so of the Lord Himself; and those who understood them were called the wise. They were also wise, because they were accordingly able to talk to spirits and angels; for when angelic speech which is spiritual and celestial and therefore unintelligible to man comes down to someone in the natural realm, it falls into representatives and meaningful signs like those that occur in the Word and consequently make the Word a sacred document. To make correspondence complete the Divine cannot present Itself before man in any other way. And because with the Ancients there were manifested representatives and meaningful signs of the Lord's kingdom, which hold nothing else than celestial and spiritual love within them, the Ancients also possessed matters of doctrine too which wholly and completely were concerned with love to God and charity towards the neighbour, by virtue of which also they were called the wise.

[3] From those matters of doctrine they knew that the Lord was going to come into the world, that Jehovah would be within Him, and that He would make the Human within Him Divine and in so doing would save the human race. From them they also knew what charity was, namely the affection for serving others without any thought of reward; and what was meant by the neighbour to whom they were to exercise charity, namely all persons throughout the world, though each one had to be treated differently. These matters of doctrine have now been completely lost, and instead there are matters of doctrine concerning faith, which the Ancients had regarded as being relatively worthless. These matters of doctrine, that is to say, those concerning love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, have at the present time been rejected on one hand by those who in the Word are referred to as Babylonians and Chaldeans, and on the other by people called Philistines and also Egyptians. They have become so completely lost that scarcely any trace of them remains. Who at the present day knows what charity is which is devoid of all self-regard and repudiates all self-interest? Who knows what is meant by the neighbour - that individual persons are meant who are to be treated each one differently according to the nature and amount of good that resides with him? Thus good itself is meant, and therefore in the highest sense the Lord Himself since He resides in good and is the source of good; for good that does not originate in Him is not good, however much it may seem to be. And because there is no knowledge of what charity is and of what is meant by the neighbour, there is no knowledge of who are really meant in the Word by the poor, the wretched, the needy, the sick, the hungry and thirsty, the oppressed, widows, orphans, captives, the naked, strangers, the blind, the deaf, the lame, the maimed, and others such as these. Yet the matters of doctrine which existed with the Ancients taught who each of these really was and to which category of the neighbour and so of charity each belonged. It is in accordance with those matters of doctrine that the whole Word so far as the sense of the letter is concerned has been written, and therefore those who have no knowledge of them cannot possibly know of any interior sense of the Word.

[4] As in Isaiah,

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you may bring afflicted outcasts to your house; when you see the naked and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then will your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up speedily, and your righteousness will walk before you, the glory of Jehovah will gather you up. Isaiah 58:7-8.

Anyone who keeps rigidly to the sense of the letter believes that if he merely gives bread to the hungry, brings afflicted outcasts or wanderers into his house, and clothes the naked, he will on that account enter into Jehovah's glory, or into heaven. Yet those actions are solely external, which the wicked also can perform to merit the same. But by the hungry, the afflicted, and the naked are meant those who are spiritually such, thus differing states of wretchedness in which one who is the neighbour may find himself and to whom charity is to be exercised.

[5] In David,

He executes judgement for the oppressed, He gives bread to the hungry, Jehovah sets the bound free, Jehovah opens the blind [eyes], Jehovah lifts up the bowed down, Jehovah loves the righteous, Jehovah guards strangers, He upholds the orphan and the widow. Psalms 146:7-9.

Here the oppressed, the hungry, the bound, the blind, those bowed down, strangers, the orphan and the widow are not used to mean people who are ordinarily called such but those who are spiritually so, that is, as to their souls. It was who these were, what state and degree of the neighbour they belonged to, and so what charity needed to be exercised towards them, that was taught by the matters of doctrine which existed with the Ancients. Besides these verses from Psalms 146 there are others elsewhere throughout the Old Testament. Indeed when the Divine comes down into what is natural existing with man it comes down into such things as constitute the works of charity, each work differing from the rest according to its genus and species.

[6] The Lord also spoke in a similar way since He spoke from the Divine itself, as in Matthew,

The King will say to those at His right hand, Come, O blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you; for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me. Matthew 25:34-36.

The works listed here mean all the main kinds of charity and the degree of good to which each work - that is, to which each person who is a neighbour towards whom charity is to be exercised - belongs. Also taught is the truth that the Lord in the highest sense is the neighbour, for He says,

Insofar as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers you did it to Me. Matthew 25:40.

From these few places one may see what is meant by truths as they existed among the Ancients. The utter effacement of these truths however by those concerned with matters of doctrine concerning faith and not with the life of charity, that is, by those who in the Word are called 'the Philistines', is meant in the words that come next - 'the Philistines stopped up the wells after Abraham's death'.

  
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Genesis 27

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1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.

3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

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."

5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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."

13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau 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."

20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

23 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

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.

26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

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 Yahweh has blessed.

28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

29 Let peoples serve you, and 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."

30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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."

32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

33 Isaac 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."

34 When Esau 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."

35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? 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?"

37 Isaac answered Esau, "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?"

38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

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."

41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

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?"

46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"