Toldot - Generations

25:19 This is the account of Avraham's son Yitzchak. Avraham became the father of Yitzchak,
20 and Yitzchak was forty years old when he married Rivkah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Yitzchak prayed to Yahuwah on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. Yahuwah answered his prayer, and his wife Rivkah became pregnant.
22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of Yahuwah.
23 Yahuwah said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Ya'acov. Yitzchak was sixty years old when Rivkah gave birth to them.

Esau Sells His Birthright to Ya'acov

27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Ya'acov was a quiet man, staying among the tents.
28 Yitzchak, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rivkah loved Ya'acov.
29 Once when Ya'acov was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
30 He said to Ya'acov, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 Ya'acov replied, "First sell me your birthright."
32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"
33 But Ya'acov said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Ya'acov.
34 Then Ya'acov gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.

Yitzchak and Abimelech

26:1 Now there was a famine in the land-- besides the earlier famine of Avraham's time-- and Yitzchak went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 Yahuwah appeared to Yitzchak and said, "Do not go down to Mitzrayim; live in the land where I tell you to live.
3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Avraham.
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
5 because Avraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."
6 So Yitzchak stayed in Gerar.
7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rivkah, because she is beautiful."
8 When Yitzchak had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Yitzchak caressing his wife Rivkah.
9 So Abimelech summoned Yitzchak and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Yitzchak answered him, "Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her."
10 Then Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
11 So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: "Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
12 Yitzchak planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because Yahuwah blessed him.
13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
15 So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Avraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
16 Then Abimelech said to Yitzchak, "Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us."
17 So Yitzchak moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18 Yitzchak reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Avraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Avraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.
19 Yitzchak's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.
20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Yitzchak's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.
21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, "Now Yahuwah has given us room and we will flourish in the land."
23 From there he went up to Beersheba.
24 That night Yahuwah appeared to him and said, "I am the Elohim of your father Avraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Avraham."
25 Yitzchak built an altar there and called on the name of Yahuwah. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
26 Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.
27 Yitzchak asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"
28 They answered, "We saw clearly that Yahuwah was with you; so we said, 'There ought to be a sworn agreement between us'-- between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you
29 that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. And now you are blessed by Yahuwah."
30 Yitzchak then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Yitzchak sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
32 That day Yitzchak's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!"
33 He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.

Esau's Wives

34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Yudith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
35 They were a source of grief to Yitzchak and Rivkah.

Yitzchak Blesses Ya'acov

27:1 When Yitzchak was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.
2 Yitzchak said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.
3 Now then, get your weapons-- your quiver and bow-- and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
5 Now Rivkah was listening as Yitzchak spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
6 Rivkah said to her son Ya'acov, "Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
7 'Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of Yahuwah before I die.'
8 Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.
10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."
11 Ya'acov said to Rivkah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.
12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."
13 His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."
14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
15 Then Rivkah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Ya'acov.
16 She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
17 Then she handed to her son Ya'acov the tasty food and the bread she had made.
18 He went to his father and said, "My father." "Yes, my son," he answered. "Who is it?"
19 Ya'acov said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."
20 Yitzchak asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" "Yahuwah your Elohim gave me success," he replied.
21 Then Yitzchak said to Ya'acov, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not."
22 Ya'acov went close to his father Yitzchak, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Ya'acov, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
23 He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
24 "Are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "I am," he replied.
25 Then he said, "My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing." Ya'acov brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
26 Then his father Yitzchak said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me."
27 So he went to him and kissed him. When Yitzchak caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahuwah has blessed.
28 May Elohim give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness-- an abundance of grain and new wine.
29 May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be Yahuwah over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."

Esau's Leftovers

30 After Yitzchak finished blessing him and Ya'acov had scarcely left his father's presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31 He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."
32 His father Yitzchak asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."
33 Yitzchak trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him-- and indeed he will be blessed!"
34 When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me-- me too, my father!"
35 But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing."
36 Esau said, "Isn't he rightly named Ya'acov? He has deceived me these two times: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!" Then he asked, "Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?"
37 Yitzchak answered Esau, "I have made him Yahuwah over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?"
38 Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.
39 His father Yitzchak answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
40 You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."
41 Esau held a grudge against Ya'acov because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Ya'acov."
42 When Rivkah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Ya'acov and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
43 Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
44 Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
45 When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"
46 Then Rivkah said to Yitzchak, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Ya'acov takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."

Ya'acov Sent to Paddan Aram

28:1 So Yitzchak called for Ya'acov and blessed him and commanded him: "Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
2 Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
3 May Elohim Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Avraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land Elohim gave to Avraham."
5 Then Yitzchak sent Ya'acov on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rivkah, who was the mother of Ya'acov and Esau.

Esau's Insolence

6 Now Esau learned that Yitzchak had blessed Ya'acov and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, "Do not marry a Canaanite woman,"
7 and that Ya'acov had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Yitzchak;
9 so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Avraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

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