Genesis 25 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Chettura ² and she bore to him Zembran and Jesan and Madal and Madiam and Jesbok and Soie. ³ And Jesan begat Saba and Dedan. And the children of Dedan were Assurieim and Latusieim and Laomeim. ⁴ And the children of Madiam were Gephar and Apheir and Enoch and Abeida and Eldaga. All these were children of Chettura. ⁵ But Abraham gave to his son Isaak all his possessions, ⁶ and to the children of his concubines Abraham gave gifts and sent them, while he was yet living, towards the east, into the eastern country from his son Isaak. ⁷ Now these were the years of the days of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred and seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and he was added to his people. ⁹ And his sons Isaak and Ismael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre; ¹⁰ in the field and the cave which Abraham bought of the children of Chet, there they buried Abraham with Sarah his wife. ¹¹ And after the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaak; and Isaak dwelt at the well of Vision. ¹² Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Ismael whom Agar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham; ¹³ and these are the names of the children of Ismael according to the names of his families. The first born of Ismael was Nabaioth, then Kedar and Nabdael and Massam ¹⁴ and Masma and Duma and Masse ¹⁵ and Choddan and Thaiman and Jetur and Naphes and Kedma. ¹⁶ These are the children of Ismael and these are their names in their tents and in their habitations; twelve chiefs of their respective nations. ¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ismael, one hundred and thirty seven years, and he declining died and was added to his race. ¹⁸ Now he inhabited the country from Evilat to Sour which is in front of Egypt, all the way to the Assyrians. In front of all his brethren was his habitation. ¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaak the son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaak. ²⁰ And Isaak was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekka the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Syro Mesopotamia the sister of Laban the Syrian. ²¹ And Isaak intreated the Lord for Rebekka his wife because she was barren, and the Lord hearkened to him; And Rebekka his wife conceived ²² and the children struggled within her and she said; If it is to be so with me, what doth this portend? So she went to inquire of the Lord. ²³ And the Lord said to her, two nations are in thy womb and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, and the one people will excel the other and the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ So when her days to be delivered were fulfilled there were twins in her womb. ²⁵ And the first born came forth red all over hairy like a hide and she called his name Esau; ²⁶ and after that came forth his brother and his hand had hold of Esau's heel, and she called his name Jacob. Now Isaak was sixty years old when Rebekka bore them. ²⁷ And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home. ²⁸ And Isaak loved Esau, because his game was his food; But Rebekka loved Jacob. ²⁹ Now when Jacob was boiling pottage Esau came from the field fainty. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste some of that red pottage, for I am fainty. For this cause his name was called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said to Esau, give me this day in exchange thy rights of primogeniture. ³² And Esau said, Lo! I am going to die, what then are these rights of primogeniture to me? ³³ And Jacob said to him, Swear now to me. So he swore to him. Thus were Esau's rights of primogeniture transferred to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil pottage. And when he had eaten and drunk he arose and went away. Thus did Esau undervalue the rights of primogeniture.

¹ Now the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty seven years. ² And Sarah died in the city Arbok, which is in the vale, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan. And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to make lamentation.

¹ Upon this Isaak called Jacob to him and blessed him and charged him saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.

³² With regard to the children of Chettura the concubine of Abraham; she bore to him, Zembram, Jexan, Madiam, Madam, Sobak, Soe. And the children of Jexan were Daidan and Sabai. ³³ And the children of Madiam were Gopher and Opher and Enoch and Abida and Eldada. All these were children of Chettura.

³⁵ and when Asom died, Adad son of Barad who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was Gethaim.

²⁸ And when the Madienite merchants came, they drew him up. They lifted Joseph up out of the pit and sold him to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they carried Joseph down to Egypt.

³⁶ But the Madienites sold Joseph in Egypt to Petephres the chamberlain of Pharao, the captain of the guards.

¹⁵ Now when Pharao heard of this deed he sought to slay Moses, but he withdrew from the presence of Pharao and took up his abode in the land of Madiam. When he came to the land of Madiam he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Madiam had seven daughters who tended the flocks of their father Jothor. And they having come to the well began to draw water to fill the troughs that they might water the flocks of their father Jothor,

¹ Now when Jothor the priest of Madiam, Moses' father in law heard of all that the Lord had done for his people Israel, [for while the Lord was bringing Israel out of Egypt ² Jothor the father in law of Moses had taken home Sepphora, Moses' wife, after she had gone back, ³ with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a strange land; ⁴ and the name of the other Eliezar; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao]

⁴ and said to the Senate of Madiam, Now will this congregation lick up all around us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. Now Balak, son of Sepphor, was at that time king of Moab,

¹⁷ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, Treat as enemies the Madianites, and smite them, ¹⁸ for they are acting as enemies against you, with craftiness, in all their attempts to beguile you by means of Phogor, and by means of Chasbi, the daughter of a prince of Madiam, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague, on account of Phogor.

² Avenge the cause of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

⁸ and in the slaughter they slew the kings of Madian, Evin, and Rokon, and Sur, and Ur, and Robok, the five kings of Madian. They slew also Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword among their slain.

¹ Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Madiam seven years. ² And the hand of Madiam prevailed against Israel, so that because of Madiam, the Israelites made for themselves those dens which are in the mountains, and those caves and strong holds in cliffs. ³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them, ⁴ and encamped against them, and destroyed their fruits, all the way to Gaza. In all the land of Israel they did not leave sustenance for life, nor among the herds a bull or a jack ass. ⁵ For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and their camels were innumerable. And they came into the land of Israel, and wasted it; ⁶ so that Israel was greatly impoverished by the Madianites. ⁷ And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord because of Madiam, ⁸ the Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel. It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt. I brought you out of a house of your bondage,

¹¹ Now when his three friends heard of all the calamities which were come upon him, they came to him each from his own country, namely, Eliphaz the king of the Thaimanites, Baldad the sovereign of the Saucheans, and Sophar the king of the Minaians. Having made an appointment they came to him to comfort and take care of him,

²⁵ and all the kings of Ailam and all the kings of the Persians

⁹ and made him king over Galaaditis, and over Thasiri, and over Jezrael, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

¹ When the queen of Saba heard of the fame of Solomon and the name of the Lord, she came to try him with questions hard to be solved,

¹⁹ Take a view of the ways of the Thaimanites, ye who mark out the Sabean tracks!

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents.

²³ and Daidan and Thaiman and Ros, and all that had their foreheads shaven;

⁸ Their place hath been led into error. [p] O inhabitants of Daidan! retire to a deep settlement for he hath brought on calamities. [J] I brought them on him at the time when I visited him.

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also stretch forth my hand against Idumea, and destroy out of it man and beast and make it a desolation. And they who are driven out of Thaiman shall fall by the sword.

⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians:

²⁰ Daidan was a dealer with thee and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages.

⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁰ she said to Abraham, Send away this girl and her son; for the son of this girl shall not be heir with my son Isaak. ¹¹ And the thing appeared very hard in Abraham's view, touching his son. ¹² But God said to Abraham, Let not this respecting thy son and respecting the handmaid appear hard in thy view. Hearken to the voice of Sarah in whatever she may have said to thee. For in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee.

³⁶ And Sarah, the wife of my master, hath born one son to my master when he was old, and he hath given him all that belonged to him.

¹⁸ In this holy place having ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive; and received gifts in the manner of man in token [for some were incredulous] of thy dwelling there.

²⁷ All things are delivered up to me by my father; and none but the father knoweth the son; nor doth any know the father, but only the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him.

¹⁸ Then Jesus came near and spoke to them, saying, All power in heaven and on earth is given to me.

³⁵ The father loveth the son, and hath given all things into his hand.

² that, as thou hast given him power over all flesh, he may, according to all that thou hast given him, give to these everlasting life.

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ if we suffer with him so that with him we may also be glorified.

³² He who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely grant us all things?

⁷ nor are they all children, because they are of the race of Abraham; but in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee. ⁸ That is to say, It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed. ⁹ For this is the word of the promise. "About this time twelve month I will come and Sarah shall have a son."

²¹ So let no one boast 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 Christ's, you are then the seed of Abraham and heirs according to promise.

²⁸ Now we, brethren, are children of promise, as Isaak was.

¹⁹ Because all the plenitude was pleased to dwell in him, and by him to reconcile all to himself,

² hath in these last days spoken to us by a son whom he hath constituted heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

³ And Sara the wife of Abram took Agar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

¹⁴ So Abraham arose early the next morning and took loaves and a skin full of water, and when he had put them on her shoulder he gave the boy to Agar and sent her away. And she departing lost her way between the wilderness and Well of the Oath;

¹ Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Chettura

⁴ So she gave him her maid Balla for a wife: and Jacob went in unto her,

⁹ Now when Leia saw that she had ceased from bearing, she also took her maid Zelpha and gave her to Jacob for a wife, and he went in unto her.

²² And he arose in the night and took his two wives with the two handmaids and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabok.

²² And while Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Balla the concubine of his father Jacob, and Israel heard of it, and it appeared evil in his sight. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them,

¹ In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and he took him a concubine from Bethlehem Juda, ² and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem Juda. And when she had been there four months,

⁴ And his father in law, the young woman's father, detained him, and he abode with him three days, and they eat, and drank, and lodged there.

¹ There was a man in the country of Ausitis whose name was Job. He was a man of truth and integrity, just, pious, and who abstained from every thing that was evil.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

¹⁴ from thine enemies hand Dismiss them, Lord, from the land: disperse them in their life time. Though their belly was filled with thy stores; they glutted themselves with swine's flesh, and left the relicks for their children. ¹⁵ But as for me, let me appear righteous before thee; let me be satisfied with a display of thy glory.

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

¹¹ What father among you would give his son a stone, when he asketh for bread? Or, if he asketh for a fish, would, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? ¹² Or, if he asked for an egg, would give him a scorpion? ¹³ If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more will your heavenly father give a holy spirit to them who ask him?

¹⁷ though at the same time he did not fail to give an evidence of himself, by conferring favours, giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

⁴ So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy five years old when he came out of Charran.

¹⁵ Thou indeed shalt go to thy fathers in peace, having been nourished in a good old age.

⁷ Now these were the years of the days of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred and seventy five years.

¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ismael, one hundred and thirty seven years, and he declining died and was added to his race.

¹⁸ And just as she was departing [for she died] she called his name Sun of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin.

²⁸ Now the days which Isaak lived were one hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ And Isaak fainting away died and was added to his race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

⁸ Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of thy life? ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the life of my fathers which they sojourned.

²⁹ And when he had blessed them he said, I am going to be added to my people, and you shall bury me with my fathers,

³³ And when Jacob had finished this charge to his sons he drew up his feet into the bed and gave up the ghost and was added to his people.

²⁴ Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For you shall not enter the land which I have given the children of Israel for a possession, because you provoked me at the water of strife.

¹³ And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered on mount Hor,

¹⁰ and all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them, who knew not the Lord, nor the works which he had done for Israel,

³² And Gideon son of Joas died in his city, and was buried in the tomb of his father Joas, in Ephratha Abiesdri.

²⁸ he died at a good old age, full of days, riches and glory. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

²⁶ And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe grain cut in due season; or like a heap from a threshing floor, carried home in time.

¹⁷ and died an old man and full of days. And it is written that he will rise again with them whom the Lord raiseth up. This is translated out of a book in the Syrian language: For he dwelt in the land of Ausitis, on the confines of Idumea and Arabia. His first name was Jobab, and having married an Arabian woman, he had by her a son whose name was Ennon. Now he himself was a son of father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and his mother"s name was Bosorra: so that he was the fifth in descent from Abraham. Now these were the kings who reigned in Edom, over which country he also bore rule. The first was Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dannaba. And after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job; and after him, Asom who was general from the region of Thaimanitis; and after him, Adad, son of Barad, who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And the friends who came to Job were Eliphaz, of the sons of Esau, the king of the Thaimanites; Baldad, the sovereign of the Saucheans, and Sophar, the king of the Minaians.

²⁹ Wisdom is an ornament to young men: and grey hairs are the glory of the old.

¹¹ Therefore my wrath, which I filled up and restrained that I might not destroy them, I now pour out on infants in the streets, and on the congregation of youths at the same time. Because husband and wife shall be comprehended; the elder with him who is full of days;

⁵ Upon hearing these words Ananias fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard these things.

¹⁰ At that instant she fell at his feet and expired. And the young men coming in found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died.

³⁶ For David indeed, having in his generation answered the purpose of God, went to rest and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

⁹ And when Sarah saw the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham sporting with her son Isaak, ¹⁰ she said to Abraham, Send away this girl and her son; for the son of this girl shall not be heir with my son Isaak.

⁹ And let him give me the double cave which belongeth to him; that which is in a part of his field. Let him give it to me for the full value of it, among you, for a possession of a burying place. ¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting among the children of Chet; And Ephron the Chettite answered Abraham and said in the hearing of the children of Chet and of all coming into the city, ¹¹ Attend, Sir, and hearken to me. The field and the cave which is in it I give thee. In the presence of my fellow citizens I have given them to thee. Bury thy dead. ¹² And when Abraham had made obeisance before all the people of the land, ¹³ he said to Ephron in the hearing of all the people of the land, As thou art here before me, hearken to me. Take of me in silver the value of the field and I will bury my dead there. ¹⁴ Whereupon Ephron answered Abraham, saying, ¹⁵ Nay, Sir, I have indeed heard that the land is worth four hundred didrachms of silver; but what can that be between me and thee? But bury thou thy dead. ¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham paid down to Ephron the money which he mentioned in the hearing of the children of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver current among merchants. ¹⁷ So the field of Ephron including the double cave which is situate before Mambre, the field and the cave in it and all the wood in the field and all within the bounds thereof round about were conveyed ¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Chet and of all who entered the city. ¹⁹ After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the double cave of the field which is over against Mambre [the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan. ²⁰ And the property of the field and the cave in it was confirmed to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Chet.

²⁹ And Isaak fainting away died and was added to his race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

²⁹ And when he had blessed them he said, I am going to be added to my people, and you shall bury me with my fathers, ³⁰ in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Chettite, in the double cave which is over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan; the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Chettite for the possession of a burying place.

¹³ when they had carried him to the land of Chanaan and buried him in the double cave; the cave which Abraham bought for the possession of a burying place from Ephron the Chettite over against Mambre,

¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham paid down to Ephron the money which he mentioned in the hearing of the children of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver current among merchants.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaak and Rebekka his wife. There Leia was buried;

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;

¹⁴ for this cause she called the well, The well before which I saw. Lo! it is between Kades and Barad.

¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him.

¹⁷ with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multiply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries;

⁶² Now Isaak had travelled through the wilderness to the well of Vision, and dwelt in the south country.

²⁴ Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gave to our fathers, Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

¹⁰ Moreover the angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply thy seed so that it shall not be numbered on account of the multitude of it. ¹¹ Furthermore the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ismael; for the Lord hath hearkened to thy affliction. ¹² He will be a wild man. His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, against him. And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren." ¹³ So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "Thou the God who lookest upon me;" for said she, I saw plainly him who appeared to me; ¹⁴ for this cause she called the well, The well before which I saw. Lo! it is between Kades and Barad. ¹⁵ And Agar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son whom Agar bore to him Ismael.

²⁰ And as for Ismael, lo! I have hearkened to thee and behold I have blessed him, and I will increase him and multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve nations, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ Nevertheless I will make the son of this handmaid a great nation, because he is thy seed.

⁶ the Ismaelites, Moab and the Agarenians;

³ and Basemath, Ismael's daughter, the sister of Nabaioth.

²⁹ And these are their genealogies. Ismael the first born: Nabaioth and Kedar, Nabdeel, Massam, ³⁰ Masma, Iduma, Masse, Chondan, Thaiman, ³¹ Jettur, Naphes, Kedma. These were the sons of Ismael.

⁵ Ah Woe is me that my sojourn is so long protracted; That I have dwelt with the tents of Kedar;

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

¹⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the year of an hireling, the glory of the children of Kedar shall fail; ¹⁷ and the remnant of the mighty bowmen of Kedar shall be small. For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken."

¹¹ Let the desert be glad and the villages thereof; the folds for flocks and them who inhabit Kedar: let the inhabitants of Petra rejoice; let them shout from the top of the mountains:

⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified.

¹¹ The vision concerning Idumea. TO me one calleth from Seir, "Guard ye the fortifications, "

¹⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the year of an hireling, the glory of the children of Kedar shall fail;

¹⁹ When they were at war with the Agarenians and the Itureans, and the Naphaisaians and the Nadabeans,

²³ Abraham took his son Ismael and all the servants born in his family and all those who were bought with money, even every male of the men in Abraham's family and circumcised their foreskins that very day, as God had ordered him.

⁷ Now these were the years of the days of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred and seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and he was added to his people.

¹¹ The name of the first is Physon. This is that which encircleth the whole country Evilat, where there is gold,

⁷ And the children of Chous; Saba and Evila and Sabatha and Regma and Sabathaka. And the sons of Regma; Saba and Dadan.

²⁹ and Oupheir and Evila and Jobab. All these were the children of Jektan,

¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt.

¹⁰ Now in this salt vale there were wells of Asphaltus. And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorra fled and fell there. And they who were left fled to the hilly country.

¹² He will be a wild man. His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, against him. And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren."

¹ Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned among the Gerarites.

²¹ Thus he dwelt in the wilderness, and his mother took for him a wife from Pharan of Egypt.

⁷ Saul smote Amelek from Evilat to Sur in front of Egypt;

²⁹ In those days when Pharao Nechao king of Egypt was going up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates, Josias went out to meet him. And Nechao slew him at Mageddo when he saw him.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows are not to bewail them.

²³ In that day this will be the highway from Egypt to Assyria; and Assyrians will come to Egypt and Egyptians to Assyria; and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be a third, among the Egyptians and among the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of Hosts hath blessed

³² With regard to the children of Chettura the concubine of Abraham; she bore to him, Zembram, Jexan, Madiam, Madam, Sobak, Soe. And the children of Jexan were Daidan and Sabai.

² Abraham begat Isaak, and Isaak begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren,

³⁴ son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Thara, son of Nachor,

⁸ Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham begat Isaak, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaak begat Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

²³ and Phaldes and Jeldaph and Bathuel; and Bathuel begot Rebekka. These were the eight sons, whom Melcha bore to Nachor the brother of Abraham. And his concubine whose name was Reuma bore also Tabek and Gaam and Tochos and Mocha.

²⁹ Now Rebekka had a brother whose name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man at the well.

⁶⁷ And Isaak went to his mother's house and took Rebekka, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaak was comforted for the loss of his mother Sarah.

⁵ So Isaak sent away Jacob and he went to Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian the brother of Rebekka who was the mother of Jacob and Esau. ⁶ When Esau saw that Isaak had blessed Jacob and sent him to Syro Mesopotamia to take there a wife for himself, and that when he blessed him he charged him saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;

¹⁸ and carried off all his substance, and all the goods which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to go to his father Isaak in the land of Chanaan.

²⁰ And Jacob concealed his design from Laban the Syrian by not telling him that he was going away.

²⁴ But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said to him, Take care that thou speak not evil to Jacob.

⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him

⁵ and in the presence of the Lord shall answer, and say, My father left Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, with a small number, and became there a great nation, and a vast multitude.

²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the days of Eliseus the prophet, but none of them was cleansed; none but Naeman the Syrian.

³⁰ And Sara was barren and did not bear children.

² Whereupon Abram said, sovereign Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I die childless, and the son of Masek my servant, this Damascus Eliezer; ³ Then Abram said, seeing thou hast not given me seed, this servant of mine is to be my heir.

² Sara said to Abram, Behold the Lord hath shut me up that I may not bear. Go in therefore to my maid that I may have children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations." ¹⁷ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, To him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. ¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him.

² And he had two wives. The name of the one was Anna, and the name of the other Phennana.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, Adonai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented liquor, nor shall a razor come on his head.

²⁷ For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath granted me the petition which I asked of him;

²⁰ they prevailed over them. And the Agarenians with all their tents, were delivered into their hands. For in the battle they cried to God and he hearkened to them, because they trusted in him.

¹³ and prayed to him, and he hearkened to him and heard his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. So Manasses knew that the Lord himself is God.

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he hearkened to us.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

² Hearken to my prayer. To thee all flesh should come.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb.

¹⁹ He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him: he will hear their prayer and save them.

²⁴ A wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, even he who made the train of events; Do you question me concerning my children; and concerning the works of my hands give me directions!

⁹ Then thou shalt cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he will say, Lo I am here. If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and decree which occasion murmuring,

²⁴ therefore it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking I will say, "What is the matter."

⁷ Now they had no child, as Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in years.

¹³ Whereupon the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias; for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife, Elizabeth, will bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

¹⁰ And not only so but the same was the case with Rebecca, when she was with child of twins by one man, namely, our father Isaak. ¹¹ For the children being not yet born, nor having done any thing good or evil that the purpose might rest on the choice of God, not in consideration of works, but of his call, ¹² it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

⁹ Now heretofore in Israel, when any one went to consult God, he spoke thus, Come let us go to the Seer; for the people in former times called the prophet, Seer.

²² Whereupon Samuel again inquired of the Lord, whether he would come thither. And the Lord said, Behold he is hid among the baggage.

¹⁵ Have I now begun to consult God for him? Xo. Let not the king bring a charge against his servant, and against all my father's house. For thy servant knew nothing of all these things, less or more.

⁶ And Saul inquired of the Lord; but the Lord did not answer him; neither by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets.

⁸ And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue this horde? Shall I overtake them? And he said to him, Pursue, for thou shalt overly take them and without fail rescue.

³¹ even with the first fruits of your gifts; with those dedications? with which you are polluted by all your desires even to this day, shall I return you an answer, house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you.

³⁷ Thus saith Adonai the Lord, Still that they may do this, the house of Israel must seek me;

⁴ "On my part lo! this is my covenant with thee, Thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations,

¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations."

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekka and said to her, Thou art our sister. Mayest thou become thousands of myriads and may thy seed inherit the cities of their enemies.

²⁷ And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home.

²⁹ May nations serve thee; and princes bow down to thee. Be thou lord of thy brother. And let the children of thy father pay thee homage. Cursed be he who curseth thee; and let him who blesseth thee be blessed.

⁴⁰ By thy sword thou shalt live and thou shalt serve thy brother. But the time will come when thou mayst shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.

⁶ So the messengers returned to Jacob and said, We have been to thy brother Esau; and lo! he is coming to meet thee; and four hundred men with him.

³ And he himself went before them; and he made a low obeisance to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.

³¹ And these were the kings who reigned in Edom before a king reigned in Israel;

¹⁴ Then Moses sent messengers from Kades, to the king of Edom, saying, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us.

¹⁴ and placed garrisons in Idumea, throughout the whole extent of it. So all the Idumeans became servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

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¹³ he put garrisons in the vale; and the Idumeans became David's vassals, and the Lord preserved David wherever he went.

¹¹ And Amasias strengthened himself, and took his own people and went to the valley of salt, and there smote of the sons of Seir ten thousand. ¹² And the children of Juda took ten thousand alive and carried them to the top of a precipice, and threw them down from the top of the precipice, so that they were all dashed to pieces.

⁸ Moab is the cauldron of my hope. Over Idumea I will extend my march: to me the Philistines are subjected. ⁹ Who will lead me to the fortified city: Who will guide me to Idumea?

⁵ For with this intent they consulted in concert. Against thee have entered into conspiracy the hordes of the Idumeans and ⁶ the Ismaelites, Moab and the Agarenians; ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, and the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ Assur also is joined with them: they are come to the assistance of the children of Lot. ⁹ Do thou to them as to Madiam and Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. ¹⁰ They were utterly cut off at Aendor: they became as dung for the ground; ¹¹ make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeb; all their chiefs like Zebee and Salmana. ¹² They said, Let us possess ourselves of the altar of God. ¹³ My God make them like a whirl; like stubble opposed to wind. ¹⁴ As fire blazeth through a forest; as a spark can set mountains on fire: ¹⁵ so thou with thy tempest wilt pursue them, and trouble them with thy wrath.

¹ Attend O nations, and hearken ye chiefs. Let the earth hear and the inhabitants thereof; The World and the people who are therein ² Because the wrath of the Lord is against all the nations, and his anger against this number of them to destroy them and deliver them up to slaughter; ³ therefore their wounded and dead shall be cast out, and the stench of them shall ascend; and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood; ⁴ and all the powers of the heavens shall waste away; and the heaven shall be rolled up like a scroll and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a fig tree. ⁵ [J] My sword hath drunk deep in the heaven; behold it shall come down on Idumea and on the people justly doomed to destruction. ⁶ [p] The sword of the Lord hath been glutted with blood; it is pampered with suet; with the blood of he; goats and lambs, and with the suet of goats and rams. Because there is a sacrifice for the Lord in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea; ⁷ therefore the fatlings shall fall with them, namely the rams and the bulls. And the land shall be drenched with blood, and glutted with their suet. ⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year for a judicial retribution to Sion: ⁹ and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and night, ¹⁰ and which shall not be extinguished: for a long time the smoke of it shall ascend. During its generation it shall be desolate. ¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell. ¹² The chiefs of it shall be no more; for its kings and its nobles shall be for destruction. ¹³ And in their cities shall spring up brakes; and brambles shall be its fortresses: and they shall be cots for Sirens, and for the ostrich's court. ¹⁴ And demons shall meet onocentaurs; and bellow one to the other. Onocentaurs shall there enjoy repose having found for themselves a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the porcupine hath made its nest; and the land hath safely kept its young. There the deer have assembled and seen each other's face. ¹⁶ I counted them and there is not one of them lost. They have not had occasion to seek each other: for the Lord hath issued orders to them; and his spirit hath brought them together. ¹⁷ And he will himself cast the lots for them, his hand hath meted the place for them to feed. For a long time you shall inherit it. [c] For generations of generations let them rest therein.

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand. ⁵ When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused, ⁶ and I trampled them down in mine anger and shed their blood on the earth.

⁷ Respecting Idumea. THUS said the Lord, There is no more any wisdom in Thaiman. Counsel is perished from the prudent. Wisdom is fled from them. ⁸ Their place hath been led into error. [p] O inhabitants of Daidan! retire to a deep settlement for he hath brought on calamities. [J] I brought them on him at the time when I visited him. ⁹ Because grape gatherers are come, who will not leave thee a gleaning. Like thieves by night they will lay to their hands. ¹⁰ Because I plundered Esau and discovered their hidden stores; They could not be concealed, they were destroyed. ¹¹ [p] By means of the hand of his brother my neighbour, there is indeed no place for thine orphan to be left that it may live. [J] But I will cause it to live. In me the widows have trusted. ¹² Because they [said the Lord] who had a law not to drink the cup, drank it; thou therefore shalt not escape unpunished. ¹³ For by myself I have sworn saith the Lord, thou shalt be a desolation and a reproach and a curse in this country and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. ¹⁴ [p] I have heard a report from the Lord. He hath sent messengers to the nations, [saying] assemble and come against her; arise for battle. ¹⁵ [J] I have made thee little among the nations, very contemptible among men. ¹⁶ Thine insolency hath entrapped thee; the wantonness of thy heart destroyed the holes of rocks. It took possession of a strong, lofty mountain. Because like an eagle thou hast built thy nest high; thence I will pull thee down: ¹⁷ and Idumea shall be a desolation. Every passenger shall express for it the sound of pity. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, said the Lord Almighty, no man shall abide there, nor shall a son of man dwell there. ¹⁹ Behold they shall be like the lion which must go up from the swelling of Jordan to Aitham. For I will speedily drive them from that place. Therefore set ye chosen warriors against it. ²⁰ Because who is like me? Or who can withstand me? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me? Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which he hath taken against Idumea, and the determination he hath come to against the inhabitants of Thaiman: Let all but the tenderest of the flock be destroyed; let all but a resting place for them be made a desolation. ²¹ [p] At the sound of their fall the earth trembled, so that the roaring of the sea was not heard. ²² Behold he will take a view like an eagle, and expand his wings against her fortifications; and the heart of the valiant men of Idumea shall be on that day like the heart of a woman in travail.

¹² Thus saith the Lord, Because Idumea in executing vengeance on the house of Juda gratified private resentment and executed the sentence with rigour. ¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also stretch forth my hand against Idumea, and destroy out of it man and beast and make it a desolation. And they who are driven out of Thaiman shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will execute vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my people Israel who shall deal with Idumea according to mine indignation, and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance saith the Lord. For the same cause,

¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against the mountain of Seir, and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, mountain of Seir; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and make thee a desert and thou shalt be desolate. ⁴ And I will make a devastation among thy cities, and thou shalt be a desert and shalt know that I am the Lord. ⁵ Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy and didst deceitfully lie in wait for the house of Israel; hast been a sword in the hand of enemies, in the time of revolt, in their last extremities; ⁶ therefore as I live, saith the Lord, Lord, as thou hast sinned unto blood, blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir an entire desert; and I will destroy from it men and cattle, ⁸ and fill with the wounded thy hills and thy vallies: and in all thy plains, the victims of the sword shall fall in thee. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall no more be inhabited, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because thou saidst, "The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I will possess them, though the Lord is there." ¹¹ Therefore, as I live saith the Lord, I will deal with thee according to thine enmity, and be made known to thee, when I judge thee; ¹² and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the sound of thy revilings; because thou saidst, "The waste mountains of Israel are given us to be devoured, ¹³ "and didst utter swelling words against me with thy mouth: I heard them: therefore thus saith the Lord, to the joy of the whole land I will make thee a desert. ¹⁴ Thou mountain of Seir shalt be a desert; and all Idumea shall be destroyed; and thou shalt know that I the Lord am their God.

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Idumea, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they pursued their brother with a sword, and violated a mother on the ground: he indeed to evidence his intention seized by force; he kept up his horror and his onset till he accomplished his purpose; ¹² therefore I will send a fire against Thaiman, and it shall consume the foundation of its walls.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea, [I heard the report from the Lord. When he sent a message to the nations. ² Arise and let us go up against it to battle.] ³ Behold I have made thee very small among the nations: thou art dishonoured in a high degree. The pride of thy heart puffed thee up, dwelling in the clefts of rocks. [Having made his habitation high he said in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground?] ⁴ Though thou shouldst soar aloft like an eagle, and make thy nest among the stars; thence I will pull thee down, saith the Lord. ⁵ If thieves come to thee, or robbers by night; in what place soever thou mayst be cast; would they not steal what would satisfy them? And if grape gatherers came to thee, would they leave no gleaning? ⁶ How Esau hath been searched! are even his hidden stores left? ⁷ They have driven thee to the borders. All the men in league with thee, have risen up against thee. Thy men of peace prevailed against thee. They laid snares under thee. They have no understanding. ⁸ In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau. ⁹ And thy warriors from Thaiman shall be dismayed, that man may be removed from the mountain of Esau. ¹⁰ On account of the impious slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. ¹¹ From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them. ¹² But thou shouldst not have looked on thy brother's day in the day of strangers; nor rejoiced over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in the day of affliction; ¹³ nor entered people's gates in the day of their distresses. Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army in the day of their defeat; ¹⁴ nor beset the passes to cut off such of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed in his fugitives, in a calamitous day. ¹⁵ Because the day of the Lord, against all the nations is near; as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head. ¹⁶ For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never been.

² I have loved you, saith the Lord. But you said, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau the brother of Jacob? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob ³ and slighted Esau and made his borders a waste, and the houses of a desert his inheritance. ⁴ For should he say, "Idumea is overthrown, let us return and build up the waste cities. "Thus saith the Lord Almighty, "Let them build, but I will overturn. They shall indeed be surnamed The borders of iniquity and A people to whom the Lord hath ever been opposed." ⁵ And your eyes shall see and you will say, "The Lord is magnified far beyond the borders of Israel."

¹⁰ And not only so but the same was the case with Rebecca, when she was with child of twins by one man, namely, our father Isaak. ¹¹ For the children being not yet born, nor having done any thing good or evil that the purpose might rest on the choice of God, not in consideration of works, but of his call, ¹² it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger." ¹³ As it is written "Jacob I have loved and Esau I have slighted."

¹¹ And Jacob said to his mother Rebekka, My brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

¹⁶ And she put the skins of the kids on his arms and the naked parts of his neck;

²³ So he did not discover him, because his hands were hairy like the hands of his brother Esau, when he blessed him.

³⁶ And Esau said, His name is rightly called Jacob; for lo! he hath now supplanted me a second time. He took from me my rights of primogeniture; and now he hath taken my blessing. Then Esau said to his father, Hast thou not, father, reserved a blessing for me?

²⁸ And when she was in child birth, one put forth its hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread about its hand, saying, This will be the first born. ²⁹ But when it had drawn back its hand, his brother immediately came forth. Whereupon she said, What! Hath there been a breach made for thee? So she called his name Phares. ³⁰ And after this his brother came forth, on whose hand was the scarlet thread. So she called his name Zara.

³ In the womb Jacob kicked his brother, but in his troubles he wrestled with God.

⁹ Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased God.

⁹ He was a giant hunter before the Lord God. For this cause they say, "Like Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord."

²⁰ And God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became a bowman.

³ now therefore take thy arms; the quiver and the bow; and go out into the field and hunt game for me ⁴ and make me savory meat such as I love and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

¹⁰ Now when Jacob set out from Well of the Oath, and was proceeding on his journey to Charran ¹¹ he came to a place and went to rest there, for the sun was setting. Having taken one of the stones of the place and put it at his head he composed himself to rest in that place

³⁹ What was torn by wild beasts I brought not to thee. I made up at my own expence the loss of what was stolen by day or by night. ⁴⁰ I have borne the sultry heat of the day and the frost of the night, and sleep departed from my eyes. ⁴¹ I have been in thy family these twenty years. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters; and six years for thy flocks; though thou didst change my wages at the ten lambings.

³⁴ you will say, We thy servants are feeders of cattle from our youth even to this time, as well as our fathers; that you may dwell in Gesem-Arabia. For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou harboured in thy mind any thing against my servant Job? For there is not like him on the earth, a man unblameable, true, pious, abstaining from every thing evil.

³ And the Lord said to Satan, Thou hast therefore attended to my servant Job; that there is not of those on the earth a man like him, guiltless, true, unblameable, abstaining from all evil. Still he retaineth his innocence; so that thou hast ordered the destruction of his property, without accomplishing thy purpose.

³⁷ Preserve innocence and eye rectitude; for there is a remnant for the man of peace.

⁹ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange land, and dwelt in tents with Isaak and Jacob, who were coheirs with him of the same promise.

⁴ and make me savory meat such as I love and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

⁶ Now Rebekka heard Isaak speaking to his son Esau. So when Esau was gone to the field to hunt game for his father, Rebekka said to Jacob her younger son. Lo! I heard thy father speaking to thy brother Esau saying, ⁷ Bring me game and make me savory meat that I may eat and bless thee in the presence of the Lord before I die.

⁹ and go to the flock and fetch me thence two kids tender and good, and I will make them savory meat for thy father such as he loveth

¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father. I am Esau, thy first born. I have done as thou badest me. Arise, sit up, and eat of my game that thy soul may bless me.

²⁵ And he said, Bring it near to me and I will eat of thy game, my son, that my soul may bless thee. So he brought it near to him and he ate. And he brought wine and he drank.

³¹ He also had made savory meat and he brought it to his father and said to him, Arise my father and eat thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

⁴ And when Gideon came to the Jordan, and crossed it, he and the three hundred men who were with him, hungry, but still pursuing, ⁵ he said to the men of Sokchoth, Give, I pray you, bread to feed the people who follow me, for they are fainty, and behold I am pursuing Zebee and Salmana, the kings of Madiam.

²⁸ And one of the people addressing him said, Thy father solemnly adjured the people saying, Cursed be the man who eateth bread this day, so the people are become faint.

³¹ They had now smitten on that day those of the Philistines at Machmas, and as the people were very fainty,

²⁵ A righteous man eateth and satisfieth his soul; but the souls of the wicked are insatiate.

³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; ³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

¹ Now these are the families of Esau, the same is Edom.

⁹ Now these are the families of Esau, the father of the Edomites, on mount Seir.

⁴³ emir of Magediel, emir of Zaphoin. These are the emirs of Edom in their respective abodes in the land of their possession. Esau and father Edom is the same.

¹⁵ The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them: All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled.

¹⁴ Then Moses sent messengers from Kades, to the king of Edom, saying, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us. ¹⁵ Our fathers went down in 16 to Egypt, and we have sojourned in Egypt many years. And when the Egyptians ill treated us and our fathers, ¹⁶ we cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to our voice; and having sent a messenger he hath brought us out of Egypt, and we are now at Kades, a city on the extremity of thy borders. ¹⁷ Let us pass through thy land. We will not march through the fields, nor vineyards, nor drink water out of thy cisterns. We will march along the king's high way, and will not turn aside to the right, nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. ¹⁸ But Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass through me. If thou attempt it, I will come out to meet thee in battle. ¹⁹ Whereupon the children of Israel said, Let us pass through along the mountains, and if I, or my cattle drink of thy water, I will make thee compensation. Grant but this. It is but a small matter. Let us march through along the mountain. ²⁰ But he said, Thou shalt not pass through me. And Edom came out to meet him with a great multitude, and a strong hand. ²¹ As Edom would not grant Israel a passage through his borders, therefore they turned aside from him;

⁷ Thou shalt not abominate an Idumean; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not hold in abhorrence an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Juda, and made a king over themselves.

⁹ On every supposed act of injustice touching an ox or an ass or a sheep or raiment or any kind of deposit which is lost, whatever it may be, the cause of both parties shall come before God, and he whom God pointeth out shall pay his neighbour two fold.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him?

¹⁷ who said, What can the Lord do to us, or what can the Almighty bring upon us?

⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

¹⁴ You say, "Vain is he who serveth God: and what advantage is it, that we have kept his charges. For though we have walked as supplicants before the Lord Almighty,

²² Whereupon Abram said to the king of Sodom, With this uplifted hand of mine I swear by the Lord the God Most High, who created the heaven and the earth,

³ and let me cause thee to swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son Isaak, of the daughters of the Chananites among whom I dwell;

⁶ And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons belonging to his family, and all his substance, and all his cattle, and all that he possessed, and all that he had gotten in the land of Chanaan, and went out from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob: ⁷ for their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them on account of the abundance of their stock.

²³ nay, he swore to her, Whatever thou shalt ask of me, I will give, even to the half of my kingdom.

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by a greater, and an oath for confirmation being to them an end of strife,

¹⁶ that there be no fornicator, nor profane person like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birth right;

²⁴ When they despised the pleasant land and did not confide in his word:

¹⁵ and I praised pleasurable enjoyment, because there is nothing good for men under the sun; nothing save eating and drinking and being made glad; and this one may have conjoined with his labour all the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun.

¹³ yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and sacrificing sheep, that they might eat flesh and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

¹³ then the Lord said to me, Put them in the smelting furnace, and let me see whether it be proof: as I have been proved for them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them down in the house of the Lord, for the smelting furnace.

⁵ But they turned away with indifference, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise

¹⁵ and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him up to you. And they weighed to him thirty shekels of silver:

¹⁸ they all, from one [motive] began to make excuses. The first said to him, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. I pray thee make my excuse. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them: I pray thee make my excuse. ²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot go.

⁴¹ "Behold ye despisers, and express your amaze and vanish. For I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe, though one tell you."

³² "if I as a man had fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is that to me if the dead are not raised up? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we die."

¹⁸ For many walk of whom I have frequently told you, and now tell you with tears, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their end is destruction; their God is their belly; and their glory is their shame. Their minds are bent on earthly things.

¹⁶ that there be no fornicator, nor profane person like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birth right; ¹⁷ for you know that afterwards when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no way to change his father's mind, though he earnestly sought it with tears.