ing, dost thou not know and under- Lord has commanded that will I do, stand the Lord is God in heaven and and I will not depart from the_comin earth, and there is no other beside mands of the Lord my God, I will him? keep all that he commanded me; and 23. And it was he who took me Abraham blessed his son Isaac, and from my father's house, and from also his children; and Abraham my birth-place, and gave me all the taught Jacob the instruction of the delights upon earth; who delivered Lord and his ways. me from the counsel of the wicked, for in him did I trust.

29. And it was at that time that Abraham died, in the fifteenth year of the life of Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac, and all the days of Abraham were one hundred and se

24. And he brought me to this place, and he delivered me from Ur Casdim; and he said unto me, to thy seed will I give all these lands, venty-five years, and he died and and they shall inherit them when they keep my commandments, my statutes and my judgments that I have commanded thee, and which I shall command them.

25. Now therefore my son, hearken to my voice, and keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I commanded thee, do not turn from the right way either to the right or to the left, in order that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee forever.

26. And remember the wonderful works of the Lord, and his kindness that he has shown toward us, in having delivered us from the hands of our enemies, and the Lord our God caused them to fall into our hands; and now therefore keep all that I have commanded thee, and turn not away from the commandments of thy God, and serve none beside him, in order that it may be well with thee and thy seed after thee.

was gathered to his people in good old age, old and satisfied with days, and Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him.

30. And when the inhabitants of Canaan heard that Abraham was dead, they all came with their kings and princes and all their men to bury Abraham.

31. And all the inhabitants of the land of Haran, and all the families of the house of Abraham, and all the princes and grandees, and the sons of Abraham by the concubines, all came when they heard of Abraham's death, and they requited Abraham's kindness, and comforted Isaac his son, and they buried Abraham in the cave which he bought from Ephron the Hittite and his children, for the possession of a burial place.

32. And all the inhabitants of Canaan, and all those who had known Abraham, wept for Abraham a whole year, and men and women mourned over him.

27. And teach thou thy children and thy seed the instructions of the 33. And all the little children, and Lord and his commandments, and all the inhabitants of the land wept teach them the upright way in which on account of Abraham, for Abraham they should go, in order that it may had been good to them all, and because he had been upright with God and men.

be well with them forever.

28. And Isaac answered his father and said unto him, that which my

34. And there arose not a man

who feared God like unto Abraham, for he had feared his God from his youth, and had served the Lord, and had gone in all his ways during his life, from his childhood to the day of his death.

35. And the Lord was with him and delivered him from the counsel of Nimrod and his people, and when he made war with the four kings of Elam he conquered them.

3. And Nimrod was observing Esau all the days, for a jealousy was formed in the heart of Nimrod against Esau all the days.

4. And on a certain day Esau went in the field to hunt, and he found Nimrod walking in the wilderness with his two men.

5. And all his mighty men and his people were with him in the wilderness, but they removed at a distance 36. And he brought all the chil- from him, and they went from him dren of the earth to the service of in different directions to hunt, and God, and he taught them the ways Esau concealed himself for Nimrod, of the Lord, and caused them to and he lurked for him in the wilderknow the Lord.

ness.

37. And he formed a grove and he 6. And Nimrod and his men that planted a vineyard therein, and he were with him did not know him, had always prepared in his tent meat and Nimrod and his men frequently and drink to those that passed through walked about in the field at the cool the land, that they might satisfy of the day, and to know where his themselves in his house. men were hunting in the field.

38. And the Lord God delivered the whole earth on account of Abraham.

7. And Nimrod and two of his men that were with him came to the place where they were, when Esau started suddenly from his lurking place, and drew his sword, and hastened and ran to Nimrod and cut off his head.

8. And Esau fought a desperate

39. And it was after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac and his children, and the Lord was with Isaac as he had been with his father Abraham, for Isaac kept all the commandments of the Lord fight with the two men that were as Abraham his father had commanded him; he did not turn to the right or to the left from the right path which his father had commanded him.

CHAPTER XXVII.

1. And Esau at that time, after the death of Abraham, frequently went in the field to hunt.

with Nimrod, and when they called out to him, Esau turned to them and smote them to death with his sword.

9. And all the mighty men of Nimrod, who had left him to go to the wilderness, heard the cry at a distance, and they knew the voices of those two men, and they ran to know the cause of it, when they found their king and the two men that were with him lying dead in the wilderness.

2. And Nimrod king of Babel, the 10. And when Esau saw the same was Amraphel, also frequently mighty men of Nimrod coming at a went with his mighty men to hunt distance, he fled, and thereby escapin the field, and to walk about with ed; and Esau took the valuable garhis men in the cool of the day. ments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's

father had bequeathed to Nimrod, that Nimrod reigned over were reand with which Nimrod prevailed stored to the respective kings of the over the whole land, and he ran and land, who recovered them after the concealed them in his house.

death of Nimrod, and all the people of the house of Nimrod were for a long time enslaved to all the other kings of the land.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

11. And Esau took those garments and ran into the city on account of Nimrod's men, and he came unto his father's house wearied and exhausted from fight, and he was ready to die through grief when he approached his brother Jacob and sat before him. 1. And in those days, after the 12. And he said unto his brother death of Abraham, in that year the Jacob, behold I shall die this day, Lord brought a heavy famine in the and wherefore then do I want the land, and whilst the famine was rabirthright? And Jacob acted wisely ging in the land of Canaan, Isaac with Esau in this matter, and Esau rose up to go down to Egypt on acsold his birthright to Jacob, for it was count of the famine, as his father so brought about by the Lord. Abraham had done.

13. And Esau's portion in the 2. And the Lord appeared that cave of the field of Machpelah, which night to Isaac and he said to him, do Abraham had bought from the chil- not go down to Egypt but rise and dren of Heth for the possession of a go to Gerar, to Abimelech king of burial ground, Esau also sold to Ja- the Philistines, and remain there till cob, and Jacob bought all this from his brother Esau for value given.

14. And Jacob wrote the whole of this in a book, and he testified the same with witnesses, and he sealed it, and the book remained in the hands of Jacob.

the famine shall cease.

3. And Isaac rose up and went to Gerar, as the Lord commanded him, and he remained there a full year.

4. And when Isaac came to Gerar, the people of the land saw that Rebecca his wife was of a beautiful appearance, and the people of Gerar asked Isaac concerning his wife, and he said, she is my sister, for he was afraid to say she was his wife lest the people of the land should slay

15. And when Nimrod the son of Cush died, his men lifted him up and brought him in consternation, and buried him in his city, and all the days that Nimrod lived were two hundred and fifteen years and he him on account of her. died.

16. And the days that Nimrod reigned upon the people of the land were, one hundred and eighty-five years; and Nimrod died by the sword of Esau in shame and contempt, and the seed of Abraham caused his death as he had seen in his dream.

5. And the princes of Abimelech went and praised the woman to the king, but he answered them not, neither did he attend to their words.

6. But he heard them say that Isaac declared her to be his sister, so the king reserved this within himself.

17. And at the death of Nimrod 7. And when Isaac had remained his kingdom became divided into three months in the land, Abimelech many divisions, and all those parts looked out at the window, and he

saw, and behold Isaac was sporting and the best part of the land of Ge rar, to sow and reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days of the famine should have passed by.

with Rebecca his wife, for Isaac dwelt in the outer house belonging to the king, so that the house of Isaac was opposite the house of the king.

14. And Isaac sowed in that land, and received a hundred-fold in the same year, and the Lord blessed him.

15. And the man waxed great, and he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants.

8. And the king said unto Isaac, what is this thou hast done to us in saying of thy wife, she is my sister? how easily might one of the great men of the people have lain with her, and thou wouldst then have brought 16. And when the days of the faguilt upon us. mine had passed away the Lord ap

9. And Isaac said unto Abime-peared to Isaac and said unto him, lech, because I was afraid lest I die rise up, go forth from this place and on account of my wife, therefore I return to thy land, to the land of said, she is my sister. Canaan; and Isaac rose up and re10. At that time Abimelech gave turned to Hebron which is in the orders to all his princes and great land of Canaan, he and all belonging men, and they took Isaac and Re- to him as the Lord commanded him. becca his wife and brought them before the king.

11. And the king commanded that they should dress them in princely garments, and make them ride through the streets of the city, and proclaim before them throughout the land, saying, this is the man and this is his wife; whoever toucheth this man or his wife shall surely die. And Isaac returned with his wife to the king's house, and the Lord was with Isaac and he continued to wax great and lacked nothing.

12. And the Lord caused Isaac to find favor in the sight of Abimelech, and in the sight of all his subjects, and Abimelech acted well with Isaac, for Abimelech remembered the oath and the covenant that existed between his father and Abraham.

17. And after this Shelach the son of Arpachshad died in that year, which is the eighteenth year of the lives of Jacob and Esau; and all the days that Shelach lived were four hundred and thirty-three years and he died.

18. At that time Isaac sent his younger son Jacob to the house of Shem and Eber, and he learned the instructions of the Lord, and Jacob remained in the house of Shem and Eber for thirty-two years, and Esau his brother did not go, for he was not willing to go, and he remained in his father's house in the land of Canaan.

19. And Esau was continually hunting in the fields to bring home what he could get, so did Esau all the days.

13. And Abimelech said unto 20. And Esau was a designing Isaac, behold the whole earth is be- and deceitful man, one who hunted fore thee; dwell wherever it may after the hearts of men and *inveiseem good in thy sight until thou shalt return to thy land; and Abime-stole their minds," a beautiful figure in the orilech gave Isaac fields and vineyards ginal to express deceit, falsehood and fraud.

*The literal meaning of the Hebrew is, "he

gled them, and Esau was a valiant told these things to Rebecca, and man in the field, and in the course Rebecca rejoiced greatly that the of time went as usual to hunt; and Lord had visited her brother and he came as far as the field of Seir, that he had the same is Edom.

22. And Esau there saw in the became old and advanced in days, land of Seir the daughter of a man and his eyes became heavy through of Canaan, and her name was Jehu- age; they were dim and could not dith, the daughter of Beeri, son of see. Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Canaan.

5. Rise up and go, I pray thee, to the flock and fetch me two fine kids of the goats, and I will get the sa28. And the Lord afterward re-vory meat for thy father, and thou membered Adinah the wife of Laban, shalt bring the savory meat that he and she conceived and bare twin daughters, and Laban called the names of his daughters, the name of the elder Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel.