Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 43:172 (Oct 1886)
Article: The Book Of Jubilees
Author: George H. Schodde

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The Book Of Jubilees

Prof. Geo. H. Schodde

Chap. 24:1. And it happened after the death of Abraham that the Lord blessed Isaac, his son, and he arose from Hebron and went and dwelt at the fountain of the vision, in the first year of the third week of this jubilee, seven years. 2. And in the first year of the fourth week a famine began in the land, in addition to the first famine which was in the days of Abraham. 3. And Jacob cooked a mess of lentils, and Esau came from the field hungry. 4. And he said to Jacob, his brother, “Give me of thy mess of pulse;” and Jacob said to him, “Give up to me thy right of first birth, and I will give thee bread

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and also from this mess of pulse.” 5. And Esau said in his heart, “I shall die; what is it to me to be born first?” 6. And he said to Jacob, “I will give it to you.” 7. And Jacob said, “Swear to me this day,” and he swore to him. 8. And Jacob gave to his brother Esau bread and the mess, and he ate and was satisfied, and Esau despised his right of first birth; and from this was Esau called Edom,1 on account of the mess of grain which Jacob gave him for his right of first birth. 9. And Jacob became the older, but Esau diminished from his greatness. 10. And the famine was over the land, and Isaac went to go down to Egypt in the second year of this week, and he went to the king of the Philistines at Gêrârâ, to Abimelech. 11. And the Lord appeared to him and said to him: “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I tell thee of: be a stranger in this land, and I will be with thee and will bless thee. 12. For to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land, and I will confirm my oath which I swore to Abraham, thy father, and I will increase thy seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to thy seed all this land. 13. And in thy seed shall be blessed all the nations of the earth, because thy father hearkened unto my voice and observed my words and my commandments and my law and my ordinances and my covenant; and now hear my voice and dwell in this land.” 14. And he dwelt at Gerar three weeks of years. 15. And Abimelech commanded on his account and on account of all that was his, saying: “Every man that touches him or any thing that is his, shall surely die.” 16. And Isaac increased in Philistia, and he secured many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and asses and many possessions. 17. And he sowed in the land of Philistia and he raised a hundred-fold, and Isaac became exceedingly great, and the Philistines were jealous of him, and all the wells which the young men of Abraham had dug during the life of

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