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Day 90
This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, through
Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant.
Here is a list by their names and clans of Ishmael's descendants.
The oldest was nabe, followed by Keter Abiel.
Miam Ishma Duma Maa.
Hey dad.
Tema Jeter, NA, fish and Kema.
These 12 sons of Ishmael became the founders of 12 tribes named
after them listed according to the places they settled and camped.
Ishmael lived for 137 years.
Then he breathed his last and joined his ancestors in death.
Ishmael's descendants occupied the region from Avila to shore, which is
east of Egypt in the direction of Asher.
There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.
This is the account of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebecca, the daughter of
Beth Yule, the Aian from Patton Arum, and the sister of Labin, the Aian.
Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife because she
was unable to have children.
The Lord answered Isaac's prayer and Rebecca became pregnant with
twins, but the two children struggled with each other in her womb, so
she went to ask the Lord about it.
Why is this happening to me?
She asked.
And the Lord told her, the sons and your womb will become two nations.
From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals.
One nation will be stronger than the other, and your older son
will serve your younger son.
And when the time came to give birth, Rebecca discovered that
she did indeed have twins.
The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat.
So they named him Esau.
Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau's
heel, so they named him Jacob.
Isaac was 60 years old when the twins were born.
As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter.
He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament,
preferring to stay at home.
Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game.
Esau brought home, but Rebecca loved Jacob.
One day when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau arrived home from the
wilderness, exhausted and hungry.
Esau said to Jacob, I'm starved.
Give me some of that red stew.
This is how Esau got his other name, Edam, which means red.
All right.
Jacob replied, but trade me your rights as the firstborn son.
Look, I'm dying of starvation.
Said he saw.
What good is my birthright to me now?
But Jacob said, first you must swear that your birthright is mine.
So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the
firstborn to his brother Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew.
Esau ate the meal, then got up and left.
He showed contempt for his rights as the firstborn.
A severe famine now struck the land as that happened before in Abraham's time.
So Isaac moved Piggy Ra, where Emek King of the Philistines lived.
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, do not go down to Egypt, but do as I tell
you, live here as a foreigner in this land and I will be with you and bless you.
I hereby confirm that I will give all these lands to you and your
descendants just as I solemnly promised Abraham your father.
I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky,
and I will give them all these lands.
And through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements,
commands to decrees and instructions.
So Isaac stayed in Gira when the men who lived there asked Isaac about his
wife, Rebecca, he said, She's my sister.
He was afraid to say she's my wife.
He thought they will kill me to get her because she is so beautiful.
But sometime later, AB Bialek, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and
saw Isaac caressing Rebecca immediately.
Ab Bialek called for Isaac and exclaimed.
She is obviously your wife.
Why did you say she is my sister?
Because I was afraid someone would kill me to get her from me.
Isaac replied.
How could you do this to us?
Ab Bialek exclaimed one of my people, might easily have taken your
wife and slept with her, and you would've made us guilty of great sin.
Then.
AB Bialek issued a public proclamation.
Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death.
When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more
grain than he planted for the Lord.
Blessed him.
He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow.
He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle and servants that
the Philistines became jealous of him.
So the Philistines filled up all of Isaac's wells with dirt.
These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father.
Abraham.
Finally, AB beek ordered Isaac to leave the country go somewhere else.
He said, for you have become too powerful for us.
So Isaac moved away to the Gira Valley where he set up
their tents and settled down.
He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled
in After Abraham's death, Isaac also restored the names Abraham had given them
i's servants also dug in the Gira Valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
But then the shepherds from Gira came and claimed the spring.
This is our water, they said, and they argued over it with Isaac's herdsman.
So Isaac named the Well isec, which means argument.
Isaac's span, then dug another well, but again, there was a
dispute over it, so Isaac named it Cigna, which means hostility.
Abandoning that one.
Isaac moved on and dug another well.
This time there was no dispute over it.
So Isaac named the place Rehoboth, which means open space for he said
at last, the Lord has created enough space for us to prosper in this land.
From there, Isaac moved to Beersheba where the Lord appeared to him
on the night of his arrival.
I am the God of your father, Abraham, he said.
Do not be afraid for.
I am with you and will bless you.
I will multiply your descendants and they will become a great nation.
I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant.
Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord.
He set up his camp at that place and his servants dug another.
Well, one day.
King AB came from Gira with his advisor, aha, and also feal his army commander.
Why have you come here?
Isaac asked.
You obviously hate me since you kicked me off your land.
They replied, we can plainly see that the Lord is with you.
So we want to enter into a sworn treaty with you.
Let's make a covenant swear that you will not harm us.
Just as we have never troubled you.
We have always treated you well and we sent you away from us in peace.
And now look how the Lord has blessed you.
So Isaac prepared a covenant feast to celebrate the treaty, and they ate and
drank together early the next morning.
They each took a solemn oath not to interfere with each other.
Then Isaac sent them home again and they left him in peace.
That very day, Isaac's servants came and told him about a new, well they had dug.
We found water.
They exclaimed.
So Isaac named the Well Shiba, which means oath.
And to this day, the town that grew up there is called a bi Shiba, which
means well of the oath at the age of 40.
Esau married two Hitite wives, Judith, the daughter of Bii and
Bassima, the daughter of Elon.
But Esau's wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebecca.
One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older
son, and said, my son, yes, father Esau replied, I am an old man now, Isaac
said, and I don't know when I may die.
Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows and go out into the open
country to hunt some wild game for me.
Prepare my favorite dish and bring it here for me to eat.
And then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you,
my firstborn son before I die.
But Rebecca overheard what Isaac had said to his son, Esau.
So when Esau left the hunt for the wild game, she said to her son, Jacob,
listen, I overheard your father say to Esau, bring me some wild game and me a
delicious meal, then I will bless you in the Lord's presence before I die.
Now my son listen to me do exactly as I tell you.
Go out to the flocks and bring me two fine young goats.
I'll use them to prepare your father's favorite dish.
Then take the food to your father so he can eat it and bless you before he dies.
But look, Jacob replied to Rebecca.
My brother Esau is a hairy man and my skin is smooth.
What if my father touches me?
He'll see that I'm trying to trick him and then he'll curse
me instead of blessing me.
But his mother replied, then let the curse fall on me.
My son, just do what I tell you.
Go out and get the goats for me.
So Jacob went out and got the young goats for his mother.
Rebecca took them and prepared a delicious meal just the way I liked it.
Then she took Esau's favorite clothes, which were there in the house and
gave them to her younger son Jacob.
She covered his arms and the smooth part of his neck with
the skin of the young goats.
Then she gave Jacob the delicious meal, including freshly baked bread.
So Jacob took the food to his father, my father, he said, yes, my
son Isaac, answered, who are you?
Esau or Jacob?
Jacob replied, it's Esau, your firstborn son.
I've done, as you told me, here is the wild game now sit up and eat it
so you can give me your blessing.
Isaac asked, how did you find it so quickly?
My son, the Lord your God.
Put it in my path.
Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, come closer so I can touch you and make
sure that you really are Esau.
So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him.
The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's.
Isaac said, but he did not recognize Jacob because Jacob's
hands felt hairy, just like Esau's.
So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob, but are you really my son, Esau?
He asked, yes, I am.
Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said, now my son, bring me the wild game.
Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing.
So Jacob took the food to his father and Isaac, eat it.
He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, please come a little closer and kiss me, my son.
So Jacob went over and kissed him.
And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally
convinced and he blessed his son.
He said, ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors,
which the Lord has blessed.
From the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, may God
always give you abundant harvests of grain and bountiful new wine.
May many nations become your servants and may they bow down to you.
May you be the master over your brothers and may your mother's
sons bow down to you all who curse.
You will be cursed and all who bless you will be blessed.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and almost before Jacob had left
his father, Esau returned from his hunt.
Esau prepared a delicious meal and brought it to his father.
Then he said, sit up my father and eat my wild game, so you
can give me your blessing.
But Isaac asked him, who are you?
Esau replied, it's your son, your firstborn son, Esau.
Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably and said, Then who just served me wild game?
I have already eaten it.
And I blessed him just before you came.
And yes, that blessing must stand when he saw, heard his father's
words, he let out aloud and bitter cry, oh my father, what about me?
Bless me too.
He begged.
But Isaac said, your brother was here and he tricked me.
He has taken away your blessing.
Esau Exclaimed.
No wonder his name is Jacob.
For now, he has cheated me twice.
First, he took my rights as the firstborn, and now he has stolen my blessing.
Oh, haven't you saved even one blessing for me?
Isaac said to Esau.
I have made Jacob your master and have declared that all his
brothers will be his servants.
I have guaranteed him an abundance of grain and wine.
What is left for me to give you my son?
He saw pleaded, but do you have only one blessing?
Oh, my father bless me too.
Then he saw, broke down and wept.
Finally, his father, Isaac said to him, you will live away from
the richness of the earth and away from the dew of the heaven.
Above you will live by your sword and you will serve your brother, but
when you decide to break free, you will shake his yoke from your neck.
From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob
the blessing, and Esau began to scheme.
I will soon be mourning my father's death, then I will kill my brother Jacob.
But Rebecca heard about Esau's plans, so she sent for Jacob and
told him, listen, Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
So listen carefully, my son.
Get ready and flee to my brother Labin in Heron.
Stay there with him until your brother cools off.
When he calms down and forgets what you have done to him.
I will send for you to come back.
Why should I lose both of you in one day?
Then Rebecca said to Isaac, I'm sick and tired of these local hitite women.
I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.
So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him and said, You must not marry
any of these Canaanite women.
Instead go at once to pattern arum to the house of your grandfather Beth Yuel and
marry one of your Uncle Laban's daughters.
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children.
Then may your descendants multiply and become many nations.
May God pass on to you and your descendants, the blessings
he promised to Abraham.
May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner for
God gave this land to Abraham.
So Isaac sent Jacob away and he went to Patton Arum to stay with his
Uncle Labin, his mother's brother, the son of Beth Huell, the Aramean.
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