Genesis 25 Cross References - LITV

¹ And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah. ² And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. ³ And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim. ⁴ And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ⁵ And Abraham gave all that was his to Isaac. ⁶ And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land. ⁷ And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people. ⁹ And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him at the cave of Mach-pelah, at the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre, ¹⁰ The field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there. ¹¹ And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder. ¹² And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people. ¹⁸ And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers. ¹⁹ And these were the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac. ²⁰ And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padanaram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife. ²¹ And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived. ²² And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah. ²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; even two peoples shall break from your body And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ And her days were fulfilled to bear. And behold! Twins were in her womb. ²⁵ And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them. ²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents. ²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹ And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what good is this, a birthright to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.

¹ And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty seven years, the years of the life of Sarah. ² And Sarah died in Kirjatharba, it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

¹ And Isaac called Jacob. And he blessed him and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan. ³³ And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

³⁵ And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city, Avith.

²⁸ And men, Midianites, traders, passed. And they drew up and took Joseph out of the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

³⁶ And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners.

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well. ¹⁶ And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father's flocks.

¹ And Jethro the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that which God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, that Jehovah had caused Israel to go out from Egypt. ² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, (after Moses had sent her away,) ³ and her two sons, of one's name was Gershom (for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land;) ⁴ and one's name was Eliezer (for the God of my father was my Help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh).

⁴ And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this assembly is licking up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

¹⁷ Vex the Midianites; and you shall strike them; ¹⁸ For they are vexers to you, because of the wiles with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was struck in the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor.

² Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.

⁸ And they killed the kings of Midian, besides the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

¹ And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah, and Jehovah gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. ² And the hand of Midian was strong against Israel. And the sons of Israel made dens for themselves before the faces of Midian, in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. ³ And it happened after Israel had sown crops, Midian, and Amalek, and the sons of the east came; and they came against them, ⁴ and camped against them, and destroyed the produce of the land until you enter Gaza. And they left no food in Israel, either sheep, or ox, or ass. ⁵ For they came up with their livestock, and with their tents. They came in like locusts for number, and there was no number to them, to their camels. And they came into the land to destroy it. ⁶ And Israel was brought very low before Midian. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah. ⁷ And it happened when the sons of Israel had cried to Jehovah about Midian, ⁸ Jehovah sent a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel. And he said to them, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, I have brought you up out of Egypt; and I have brought you out from a house of slaves.

¹¹ And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that had come on him. And they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite; Bildad the Shuhite; and Zophar the Naamathite. And they had met together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him.

²⁵ and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media,

⁹ And he caused him to reign over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon as to the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions.

¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them;

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who cut the corners of their beards,

⁸ Flee, turn back, go deep to dwell, O people of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau on him in the time I will visit him.

¹³ so the Lord Jehovah says this: I will stretch My hand on Edom and will cut off from it man and beast, and I will lay it waste. From Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

⁶ They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan. They made your deck with ivory from the coasts of Kittim, daughter of Assyria.

²⁰ Dedan was your merchant in loose cloths for riding.

⁶ A host of camels shall cover you, young camels of Midian and Ephah. All of them shall come from Sheba, they shall carry gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah.

¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Drive away this slave-girl and her son, for the son of this slave-girl shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son. ¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy, and on account of your slave-girl. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your Seed shall be called.

³⁶ And my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and he has given to him all that is his.

¹⁸ You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men; yea, to dwell among the rebellious, O Jehovah God.

²⁷ All things were yielded up to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him .

¹⁸ And coming up Jesus talked with them, saying, All authority in Heaven and on earth was given to Me.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

² as You gave to Him authority over all flesh, so that to all which You gave to Him, He may give to them everlasting life.

¹⁷ And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint-heirs of Christ, if indeed we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

³² Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not freely give us all things with Him?

⁷ nor because they are Abraham's seed are all children, but "In Isaac a Seed shall be called to you." Gen. 21:12 ⁸ That is: Not the children of flesh are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for a seed. ⁹ For the word of promise is this, According to this time I will come, and a son will be to Sarah. Gen. 18:10

²¹ So let no one glory in men; for all things are yours, ²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours, ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

²⁹ And if you are of Christ, then you are a seed of Abraham, even heirs according to promise.

²⁸ But, brothers, we are children of promise according to Isaac.

¹⁹ because all the fullness was pleased to dwell in Him,

² in these last days He spoke to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all; through whom He indeed made the ages;

³ And Sarai, Abram's wife, took her slave-girl, Hagar, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan.

¹⁴ And Abraham started up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹ And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

⁴ And she gave her slave-girl Bilhah to him for a wife. And Jacob went in to her.

⁹ And Leah saw that she had ceased from bearing. And she took Zilpah, her slave-girl, and gave her to Jacob for a wife.

²² And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two slave-girls, and his eleven children. And he passed over the ford Jabbok.

²² And it happened as Israel lived in that land, it happened; even Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine And Israel heard. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

³ And it happened after Israel had sown crops, Midian, and Amalek, and the sons of the east came; and they came against them,

¹ And it happened in those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a man, a Levite, living on the further side of the hills of Ephraim. And he took a wife to himself, a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah. ² And his concubine committed adultery against him. And she went away from him to her father's house, to Bethlehem-judah, and was there many days, four months.

⁴ And his father-in-law, the young woman's father, detained him. And he stayed with him three days. And they ate and drank, and stayed there.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job. And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and turning away from evil.

³ And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household, so that this man was greater than all the sons of the east.

¹⁴ from men, by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and their belly You fill with Your treasure; they are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes. ¹⁵ As for me, in righteousness I will look upon Your face; when I awaken, I shall be satisfied by Your image.

⁴⁵ so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. Because He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust.

¹¹ And what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? And if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹² And if he should ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? ¹³ Then if you being evil know to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father out of Heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him.

¹⁷ though indeed He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good, giving rain and fruitful seasons to us from heaven, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

⁴ And Abram went out, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was a son of seventy five years when he went out from Haran.

¹⁵ And you shall come to you fathers in peace. You shall be buried in good old age.

⁷ And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years.

¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁸ And it happened, when her soul was going forth (for she died) even she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ And Isaac expired and died and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

⁸ And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of your life? ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my camps are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their camps.

²⁹ And he commanded them and said to them I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

³³ And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

²⁴ Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not go into the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My mouth at the Waters of Strife.

¹³ And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as your brother Aaron was gathered.

¹⁰ And also all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them who had not known Jehovah, nor yet the works which He had done for Israel.

³² And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the burial place of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

²⁸ And he died in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honor. And his son Solomon reigned in his place.

²⁶ You shall come to the grave in full vigor, like a stack of grain comes up in its season.

¹⁷ And Job died, being old and full of days.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their vigor, and the honor of old men is the gray head.

¹¹ And I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in. Pour it out on the child in the street and on the circle of the young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the elder with fullness of days.

⁵ And hearing these words, Ananias fell down and expired. And great fear came on all those hearing these things.

¹⁰ And she immediately fell at his feet and expired. And entering, the younger ones found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her husband.

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

³⁶ For having served his own generation by the counsel of God, David truly fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption. 1 Kg. 2:10

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, he whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Drive away this slave-girl and her son, for the son of this slave-girl shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac.

⁹ that he may give to me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is in the edge of his field. In full silver let him give it to me among you, for a possession of a burying place. ¹⁰ And Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, to all those entering the gate of his city, saying, ¹¹ No, my lord, hear me. I have given the field to you; also the cave that is in it. I have given it to you. Before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to you. Bury your dead. ¹² And Abraham bowed before the people of the land, ¹³ and spoke to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, Only if you would hear me. I have given the silver for the field; take it from me, that I may bury my dead there. ¹⁴ And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, ¹⁵ My lord, hear me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? And bury your dead. ¹⁶ And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels which passes with the merchant. ¹⁷ And was certified the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the cave and the field in it, and all the trees in the field, which were in all its borders around it, ¹⁸ to Abraham for a purchase before the sons of Heth, with all entering the gate of his city. ¹⁹ And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; it is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the field was certified, and the cave in it, to Abraham for a burial possession from the sons of Heth.

²⁹ And Isaac expired and died and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

²⁹ And he commanded them and said to them I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.

¹³ And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

¹⁶ And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels which passes with the merchant.

³¹ They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there;

² And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing.

¹⁴ On account of this, the well was called, The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁹ And God said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

¹⁷ that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the shore of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

⁶² And Isaac had come from the gate of the Well of the Living One My Beholder. And he was dwelling in the land of the Negeb.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold! You are with child and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has attended to your affliction. ¹² And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers. ¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here I have looked after the One seeing me? ¹⁴ On account of this, the well was called, The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵ And Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

²⁰ And as to Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ And also I will make a nation of the son of the slave-girl, for he is your seed.

⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

³ and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebajoth.

²⁹ These are their generations. The first-born of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are they, the sons of Ishmael.

⁵ Woe is me that I sojourned in Meshech; I dwell with the tents of Kedar!

⁵ I am black, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

¹⁶ For so the Lord has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended, ¹⁷ and the rest of the number of the archers, the warriors of the sons of Kedar, shall be few. For Jehovah God of Israel has spoken.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up, the villages where Kedar lives. Let the dwellers of the rock sing; let them shout from the top of the mountains.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; rams of Nebaioth shall serve you; they shall come up for acceptance on My altar; and I will glorify the house of My glory.

¹¹ The burden of Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹⁶ For so the Lord has said to me, Within a year, as the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall be ended,

¹⁹ And they made war with the Hagarites, and Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

²³ And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the ones born of his house, and all that were bought with his silver, every male among the men of the house of Abraham. And he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in that same day, even as God spoke to him.

⁷ And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people.

¹¹ The name of the first was Pishon; it is the one surrounding all the land of Havilah where gold is;

⁷ And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.

²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. These all were the sons of Joktan.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

¹⁰ And the valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And they that remained fled to the mountain.

¹² And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers.

¹ And Abraham moved from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

²¹ And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

⁷ And Saul struck Amalek from Havilah, as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.

²⁹ In his days Pharaoh-necho the king of Egypt came up against the king of Assyria by the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went out to meet him, and he killed him in Megiddo, when he saw him.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

²³ In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria. And Assyria shall come into Egypt; and Egypt into Assyria; and Egypt shall serve with Assyria. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

³² And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.

² Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

³⁴ the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

⁸ And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision; and so he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

²³ And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother, his name being Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother.

⁵ And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Padanaram, to Laban, the son, of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. ⁶ And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and had sent him away to Padan-aram to take a wife for himself from there. In his blessing he had commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

¹⁸ And he drove all the livestock, and he took all his goods which he had gotten, livestock of his property which he had gotten in Padan-aram, to come to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil.

⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram, and He blessed him.

⁵ And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a perishing Aramean! And he went down to Egypt with few men, and lived there, and became a nation there, great, mighty and many.

²⁷ And many lepers were in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian.

³⁰ And Sarai was barren; there was no child to her.

² And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus? ³ And Abram said, Behold! You have given no seed to me; and lo, the son of my house is inheriting of me! And behold!

² And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

¹⁶ and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her. Yea, I have blessed her and she shall become nations; kings of people shall be from her. ¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years? And shall Sarah bear, a daughter of ninety years? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before You! ¹⁹ And God said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

² And he had two wives the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the second, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if You will certainly look upon the affliction of Your handmaid, and shall remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, and shall give to Your maidservant a man-child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life; and a razor shall not go up on his head.

²⁷ I prayed for this boy, and Jehovah has given my petition which I asked of Him to me.

²⁰ And they were helped against them. And the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them, because they trusted in Him.

¹³ and prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and returned him to Jerusalem to his kingdom; and Manasseh knew that Jehovah, He is God.

²³ So we fasted and prayed to our God for good. And He was pleased to hear us.

¹⁵ And call on Me in the day of distress; and I will save you; and you shall glorify Me.

² To You who hears prayer, all flesh comes.

¹⁵ He shall call on Me and I will answer Him; I will be with Him in distress; I will rescue Him and honor Him.

³ Behold! Children are an inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is His reward.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of the ones who fear Him; and He will hear their cry and save them.

²⁴ That which the wicked fears shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous is granted.

¹¹ So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?

⁹ Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am . If you put the yoke away from among you, the sending out of the finger, and the speaking of vanity;

²⁴ And it will be, before they call, I will answer. While they are speaking, then I will hear.

⁷ And no child was born to them, because Elizabeth was barren. And both were advanced in their days.

¹³ But the angel said to him, Do not fear, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you shall call his name John.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac, ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling, ¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23

⁹ In former times in Israel, a man who was going to seek God said this, Come and we shall go to the seer; for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.

²² And they inquired again of Jehovah, Has the man yet come here? And Jehovah said, Behold he is hiding himself by the baggage.

¹⁵ Have I today begun to ask of God for him? Far be it from me! Do not let the king lay anything against his servant, against any of my father's house, for your servant has known nothing of this, more or less.

⁶ And Saul asked of Jehovah, but Jehovah did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

⁸ And David asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake it? And He said to him, Pursue for you shall certainly overtake, and shall certainly recover.

³¹ For when you lift up your gifts, when you pass your sons through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And I will not be inquired of by you, O house of Israel As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.

³⁷ So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.

⁴ As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

¹⁶ and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her. Yea, I have blessed her and she shall become nations; kings of people shall be from her.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of their haters.

²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.

²⁹ May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.

⁴⁰ and you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck.

⁶ And the messengers came back to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

³ And he passed over in front of them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came even to his brother.

³¹ And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: So says your brother Israel, You surely have known all the travail which has found us;

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in all Edom; and all Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went.

⁴⁷ No king was in Edom; a deputy was king.

¹³ and he put command posts in Edom, and all the Edomites were servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David wherever he went.

¹¹ And Amaziah made himself strong and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the sons of Seir. ¹² And the sons of Judah captured ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock; and all of them were broken.

⁸ Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast out My shoe; over me, Philistia, shout in triumph. ⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You; ⁶ even the tents of Edom, and of the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Also Assyria has joined with them; they were an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon. ¹⁰ At Endor they were destroyed; they became dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles as Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; ¹² who said, Let us take possession of God's pastures for ourselves. ¹³ O my God, make them as whirling dust, as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm.

¹ Nations, come near to hear; and peoples, listen! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring. ² For the wrath of Jehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter. ³ And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall rise; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. ⁴ And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig tree. ⁵ For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment. ⁶ A sword is to Jehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with strong bulls; and their land is drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. ⁸ For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of repayments for Zion's cause. ⁹ And its torrents shall be turned to pitch, and its dust to brimstone; and its land shall become burning pitch. ¹⁰ It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation, it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and forever. ¹¹ But the owl and the hedgehog shall possess it; and the eared owl and the raven shall live in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness. ¹² They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing. ¹³ And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches. ¹⁴ The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl shall also settle there, and find a place of rest for herself. ¹⁵ The snake shall nest there, and shall lay, and hatch, and shall gather in her shadow. Vultures shall also be gathered together, each with its mate. ¹⁶ Search and read from the Book of Jehovah; not one of these misses, each not lacking her mate; for He has commanded my mouth, and by His Spirit He has assembled them. ¹⁷ And He has made fall a lot for them, and His hand divided it to them by line. They shall possess it until forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending in His great power? It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save! ² Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? ³ I have trodden the winepress, I alone, and no man of the peoples was with Me. And I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury; and their juice shall be spattered on My garments; and I will pollute all My clothes. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and no one was helping. And I wondered that no one was upholding. Then My own arm saved for Me, and My fury upheld Me. ⁶ And I trod down the people in My anger, and made them drunk in My fury. And I poured their juice to the earth.

⁷ So says Jehovah of hosts concerning Edom: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? ⁸ Flee, turn back, go deep to dwell, O people of Dedan. For I will bring the calamity of Esau on him in the time I will visit him. ⁹ If the grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves come by night, will they ruin more than enough for them? ¹⁰ But I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is ravaged, also his brothers and his neighbors, and he is not. ¹¹ Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive. And let your widows trust in Me. ¹² For so says Jehovah: Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have surely drunk. And are you to be entirely acquitted? You shall not be acquitted, but you shall surely drink. ¹³ For I have sworn by Myself, declares Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever. ¹⁴ I have heard a message from Jehovah, and a herald is sent to the nations: Gather together and come against her, and rise up to the battle. ¹⁵ For, behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among men. ¹⁶ Your fearfulness has deceived you, the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, declares Jehovah. ¹⁷ And Edom shall be a ruin, everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and its neighbor, declares Jehovah, no man shall remain there, a son of man shall not live in it. ¹⁹ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the home of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from it. And who is the chosen one I shall appoint over it? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who then is a shepherd who will stand before Me? ²⁰ So then, hear the counsel of Jehovah which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them, the least of the flock. Surely He shall make their dwellings desolate over them. ²¹ The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall. When they cried, the noise of it was heard in the Sea of Reeds. ²² Behold, he shall come up and fly like the eagle and spread his wings over Bozrah. And at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

¹² So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has acted by taking vengeance against the house of Judah, and they are very guilty and are avenged on them, ¹³ so the Lord Jehovah says this: I will stretch My hand on Edom and will cut off from it man and beast, and I will lay it waste. From Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will put My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. And they shall do in Edom as is My anger and as is My fury. And they shall know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.

¹ And the word of Jehovah was to me, saying, ² Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. ³ And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste. ⁴ I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a ruin. And they shall know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end. ⁶ Therefore, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely for blood I appoint you, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, so blood shall pursue you. ⁷ And I will make Mount Seir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning. ⁸ And I will fill his mountains with his slain. In your hills and in your valleys, and in your every torrent, the slain by the sword shall fall in them. ⁹ I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah. ¹⁰ Because you have said, these two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we shall possess it (yet Jehovah was there), ¹¹ so, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will act by your anger and by envy which you have done out of your hatred against them, and I will be known among them when I have judged you. ¹² And you shall know that I am Jehovah. I have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, Desolation! They are given to us for food! ¹³ And you magnified with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard. ¹⁴ So says the Lord Jehovah: As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a ruin. ¹⁵ As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a ruin, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it! And they shall know that I am Jehovah.

¹¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger tore continually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever. ¹² But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

¹ The vision of Obadiah: So says the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard a message from Jehovah, and a messenger is sent among the nations; rise up, and let us rise up against her for battle. ² Behold, I have given you to be small among the nations; you are greatly despised. ³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock; his dwelling is lofty, saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, declares Jehovah. ⁵ If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night, how you have been cut off! Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? ⁶ How Esau is searched out! His hidden things are sought out! ⁷ All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and have prevailed over you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in him. ⁸ Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding out of the mount of Esau? declares Jehovah. ⁹ And your mighty ones, Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. ¹⁰ Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers take his force captive, and foreigners enter his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. ¹² But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered into My people's gate on the day of his calamity; also you should not have looked on his evil on the day of his calamity, nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity. ¹⁴ Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped, nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress. ¹⁵ For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations: As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head! ¹⁶ For as you have drunk on My holy mount, so all the nations shall continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they will be as if they had not been.

² I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob, ³ and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness. ⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; so says Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down. And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant until forever. ⁵ And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, Jehovah will be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac, ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling, ¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23 ¹³ even as it has been written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." Mal. 1:2, 3

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

¹⁶ and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smoothness of his neck.

²³ And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

³⁶ And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

²⁸ And in her bearing, it happened that one put forth a hand, and the midwife took it and tied crimson on his hand, saying, This one came out first. ²⁹ And it happened as he withdrew his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And one called his name Pharez. ³⁰ And then his brother came out, on whose hand was the crimson. And one called his name Zarah.

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended with God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; so it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.

²⁰ And God was with the boy. And he grew up. And he lived in the wilderness and became a great archer.

³ And now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field and hunt game for me. ⁴ And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die. ⁵ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field to hunt game, to bring it in.

¹⁰ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. ¹¹ And he came on a place and stayed the night there, for the sun had gone. And he took stones of the place and placed them at his head; and he lay down in that place.

³⁹ I did not bring to you the mangled; I replaced it. From my hand you exacted it, that stolen by day and that stolen by night. ⁴⁰ I was there; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night. And my sleep fled from my eyes. ⁴¹ Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.

³⁴ You shall say, Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers. This is so that you may live in the land of Goshen. For the abomination of Egypt is every shepherd of flocks.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil?

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God, and turning away from evil? And he is still holding to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to swallow him for nothing.

³⁷ Watch the perfect and behold the upright one; for the end of that man is peace.

⁹ By faith he resided as a foreigner in a land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

⁴ And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die.

⁶ And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying, ⁷ Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before I die.

⁹ Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them into delicious things for your father, such as he loves;

¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father, I am your first born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me.

²⁵ And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine.

³¹ And he also made delicious things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me.

⁴ And Gideon came to the Jordan, he crossing over, and three hundred who were with him, being weary, yet pursuing. ⁵ And he said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people at my feet, for they are weary; and I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

²⁸ And one of the people answered and said, Your father certainly took an oath of the people, saying, Cursed shall be the man who eats food today. And the people were weak.

³¹ And they struck the Philistines on that day from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people were very weak.

²⁵ The righteous eats to the satisfying of his appetite, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.

³⁰ Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men surely shall stumble; ³¹ but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!

¹ And these are the generations of Esau; that is Edom.

⁹ And these were the generations of Esau, the father of Edom on Mount Seir;

⁴³ Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwellings, in the land of their possession; he is Esau, the father of Edom.

¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Edom were terrified; the leaders of Moab were seized by trembling; all the dwellers of Canaan were melted.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: So says your brother Israel, You surely have known all the travail which has found us; ¹⁵ that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians did evil to us and to our fathers. ¹⁶ And we cried to Jehovah, and He heard our voice, and sent a messenger, and is bringing us out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. ¹⁷ Please let us pass over, through your land; we shall not pass over through a field, nor through a vineyard, nor shall we drink water of a well; we shall go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed your border. ¹⁸ And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you. ¹⁹ And the sons of Israel said to him, We shall go in the highway; and if we drink of your waters, our cattle and us, then I shall give their price. Only let me pass through on my feet; there shall be no harm. ²⁰ And he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. ²¹ And Edom refused to allow Israel to pass over through his border. And Israel turned away from him.

⁷ You shall not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, for you were an alien in his land;

²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they caused a king to reign over them.

⁹ In every case of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for anything lost of which it is said that it is his, the case of both of them shall come to God. Whom God declares guilty, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what do we profit if we entreat Him?

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them?

⁹ For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

¹⁴ You have said, It is vain to serve God. And, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of hosts?

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,

³ And I will cause you to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, among whom I dwell.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his livestock, and all the beasts of burden, and all his property which he had gained in Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their possessions had become too great for them to dwell together. And the land was not able to bear their travels, because of their livestock.

²³ And he swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give to you, up to half of my kingdom.

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath to make things sure is to them the end of all gainsaying.

¹⁶ that not any fornicator, or profane one, as Esau, who for one feeding gave up his birthright;

²⁴ They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His word.

¹⁵ Then I praised mirth, because nothing is good for man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be glad. For that shall go with him in his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and slaughtering sheep; eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

¹³ And Jehovah said to Me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it to the potter in the house of Jehovah.

⁵ But not caring they went away, one to his own field, and one to his trading.

¹⁵ said, What will you give to me, and I will deliver Him up to you? "And they weighed to him thirty silver pieces." Zech. 11:12

¹⁸ And all with one mind began to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused. ¹⁹ And another said, I bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to try them out; I ask you, have me excused. ²⁰ And another said, I married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to come.

⁴¹ "Behold, you despisers," "and marvel," "and perish, because I work a work in your days," a work which you would "in no way believe if anyone declares it to you." Hab. 1:5

³² If according to man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what the profit to me if the dead are not raised? ("Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.") Isa. 22:13

¹⁸ For many walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ, of whom I often told you, and now even weeping I say it, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and who glory in their shame, those who mind earthly things.

¹⁶ that not any fornicator, or profane one, as Esau, who for one feeding gave up his birthright; ¹⁷ for you know also that afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, although seeking it with tears. Gen. 27:36-39