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Re: THE BOOK OF JASHER
By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:23 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 19
1 And the cities of Sodom had four judges to four cities, and
these were their names, Serak in the city of Sodom, Sharkad in
Gomorrah, Zabnac in Admah, and Menon in Zeboyim.
2 And Eliezer Abraham's servant applied to them different names,
and he converted Serak to Shakra, Sharkad to Shakrura, Zebnac to
Kezobim, and Menon to Matzlodin.
3 And by desire of their four judges the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah had beds erected in the streets of the cities, and if a
man came to these places they laid hold of him and brought him
to one of their beds, and by force made him to lie in them.
4 And as he lay down, three men would stand at his head and
three at his feet, and measure him by the length of the bed, and
if the man was less than the bed these six men would stretch him
at each end, and when he cried out to them they would not answer
him.
5 And if he was longer than the bed they would draw together the
two sides of the bed at each end, until the man had reached the
gates of death.
6 And if he continued to cry out to them, they would answer him,
saying, Thus shall it be done to a man that cometh into our
land.
7 And when men heard all these things that the people of the
cities of Sodom did, they refrained from coming there.
8 And when a poor man came to their land they would give him
silver and gold, and cause a proclamation in the whole city not
to give him a morsel of bread to eat, and if the stranger should
remain there some days, and die from hunger, not having been
able to obtain a morsel of bread, then at his death all the
people of the city would come and take their silver and gold
which they had given to him.
9 And those that could recognize the silver or gold which they
had given him took it back, and at his death they also stripped
him of his garments, and they would fight about them, and he
that prevailed over his neighbor took them.
10 They would after that carry him and bury him under some of
the shrubs in the deserts; so they did all the days to any one
that came to them and died in their land.
11 And in the course of time Sarah sent Eliezer to Sodom, to see
Lot and inquire after his welfare.
12 And Eliezer went to Sodom, and he met a man of Sodom fighting
with a stranger, and the man of Sodom stripped the poor man of
all his clothes and went away.
13 And this poor man cried to Eliezer and supplicated his favor
on account of what the man of Sodom had done to him.
14 And he said to him, Why dost thou act thus to the poor man
who came to thy land?
15 And the man of Sodom answered Eliezer, saying, Is this man
thy brother, or have the people of Sodom made thee a judge this
day, that thou speakest about this man?
16 And Eliezer strove with the man of Sodom on account of the
poor man, and when Eliezer approached to recover the poor man's
clothes from the man of Sodom, he hastened and with a stone
smote Eliezer in the forehead.
17 And the blood flowed copiously from Eliezer's forehead, and
when the man saw the blood he caught hold of Eliezer, saying,
Give me my hire for having rid thee of this bad blood that was
in thy forehead, for such is the custom and the law in our land.
18 And Eliezer said to him, Thou hast wounded me and requirest
me to pay thee thy hire; and Eliezer would not hearken to the
words of the man of Sodom.
19 And the man laid hold of Eliezer and brought him to Shakra
the judge of Sodom for judgment.
20 And the man spoke to the judge, saying, I beseech thee my
lord, thus has this man done, for I smote him with a stone that
the blood flowed from his forehead, and he is unwilling to give
me my hire.
21 And the judge said to Eliezer, This man speaketh truth to
thee, give him his hire, for this is the custom in our land; and
Eliezer heard the words of the judge, and he lifted up a stone
and smote the judge, and the stone struck on his forehead, and
the blood flowed copiously from the forehead of the judge, and
Eliezer said, If this then is the custom in your land give thou
unto this man what I should have given him, for this has been
thy decision, thou didst decree it.
22 And Eliezer left the man of Sodom with the judge, and he went
away.
23 And when the kings of Elam had made war with the kings of
Sodom, the kings of Elam captured all the property of Sodom, and
they took Lot captive, with his property, and when it was told
to Abraham he went and made war with the kings of Elam, and he
recovered from their hands all the property of Lot as well as
the property of Sodom.
24 At that time the wife of Lot bare him a daughter, and he
called her name Paltith, saying, Because God had delivered him
and his whole household from the kings of Elam; and Paltith
daughter of Lot grew up, and one of the men of Sodom took her
for a wife.
25 And a poor man came into the city to seek a maintenance, and
he remained in the city some days, and all the people of Sodom
caused a proclamation of their custom not to give this man a
morsel of bread to eat, until he dropped dead upon the earth,
and they did so.
26 And Paltith the daughter of Lot saw this man lying in the
streets starved with hunger, and no one would give him any thing
to keep him alive, and he was just upon the point of death.
27 And her soul was filled with pity on account of the man, and
she fed him secretly with bread for many days, and the soul of
this man was revived.
28 For when she went forth to fetch water she would put the
bread in the water pitcher, and when she came to the place where
the poor man was, she took the bread from the pitcher and gave
it him to eat; so she did many days.
29 And all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah wondered how this
man could bear starvation for so many days.
30 And they said to each other, This can only be that he eats
and drinks, for no man can bear starvation for so many days or
live as this man has, without even his countenance changing; and
three men concealed themselves in a place where the poor man was
stationed, to know who it was that brought him bread to eat.
31 And Paltith daughter of Lot went forth that day to fetch
water, and she put bread into her pitcher of water, and she went
to draw water by the poor man's place, and she took out the
bread from the pitcher and gave it to the poor man and he ate
it.
32 And the three men saw what Paltith did to the poor man, and
they said to her, It is thou then who hast supported him, and
therefore has he not starved, nor changed in appearance nor died
like the rest.
33 And the three men went out of the place in which they were
concealed, and they seized Paltith and the bread which was in
the poor man's hand.
34 And they took Paltith and brought her before their judges,
and they said to them, Thus did she do, and it is she who
supplied the poor man with bread, therefore did he not die all
this time; now therefore declare to us the punishment due to
this woman for having transgressed our law.
35 And the people of Sodom and Gomorrah assembled and kindled a
fire in the street of the city, and they took the woman and cast
her into the fire and she was burned to ashes.
36 And in the city of Admah there was a woman to whom they did
the like.
37 For a traveler came into the city of Admah to abide there all
night, with the intention of going home in the morning, and he
sat opposite the door of the house of the young woman's father,
to remain there, as the sun had set when be had reached that
place; and the young woman saw him sitting by the door of the
house.
38 And he asked her for a drink of water and she said to him,
Who art thou? and he said to her, I was this day going on the
road, and reached here when the sun set, so I will abide here
all night, and in the morning I will arise early and continue my
journey.
39 And the young woman went into the house and fetched the man
bread and water to eat and drink.
40 And this affair became known to the people of Admah, and they
assembled and brought the young woman before the judges, that
they should judge her for this act.
41 And the judge said, The judgment of death must pass upon this
woman because she transgressed our law, and this therefore is
the decision concerning her.
42 And the people of those cities assembled and brought out the
young woman, and anointed her with honey from head to foot, as
the judge had decreed, and they placed her before a swarm of
bees which were then in their hives, and the bees flew upon her
and stung her that her whole body was swelled.
43 And the young woman cried out on account of the bees, but no
one took notice of her or pitied her, and her cries ascended to
heaven.
44 And the Lord was provoked at this and at all the works of the
cities of Sodom, for they had abundance of food, and had
tranquility amongst them, and still would not sustain the poor
and the needy, and in those days their evil doings and sins
became great before the Lord.
45 And the Lord sent for two of the angels that had come to
Abraham's house, to destroy Sodom and its cities.
46 And the angels rose up from the door of Abraham's tent, after
they had eaten and drunk, and they reached Sodom in the evening,
and Lot was then sitting in the gate of Sodom, and when he saw
them he rose to meet them, and he bowed down to the ground.
47 And he pressed them greatly and brought them into his house,
and he gave them victuals which they ate, and they abode all
night in his house.
48 And the angels said to Lot, Arise, go forth from this place,
thou and all belonging to thee, lest thou be consumed in the
iniquity of this city, for the Lord will destroy this place.
49 And the angels laid hold upon the hand of Lot and upon the
hand of his wife, and upon the hands of his children, and all
belonging to him, and they brought him forth and set him without
the cities.
50 And they said to Lot, Escape for thy life, and he fled and
all belonging to him.
51 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah and upon
all these cities brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
52 And he overthrew these cities, all the plain and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground;
and Ado the wife of Lot looked back to see the destruction of
the cities, for her compassion was moved on account of her
daughters who remained in Sodom, for they did not go with her.
53 And when she looked back she became a pillar of salt, and it
is yet in that place unto this day.
54 And the oxen which stood in that place daily licked up the
salt to the extremities of their feet, and in the morning it
would spring forth afresh, and they again licked it up unto this
day.
55 And Lot and two of his daughters that remained with him fled
and escaped to the cave of Adullam, and they remained there for
some time.
56 And Abraham rose up early in the morning to see what had been
done to the cities of Sodom; and he looked and beheld the smoke
of the cities going up like the smoke of a furnace.
57 And Lot and his two daughters remained in the cave, and they
made their father drink wine, and they lay with him, for they
said there was no man upon earth that could raise up seed from
them, for they thought that the whole earth was destroyed.
58 And they both lay with their father, and they conceived and
bare sons, and the first born called the name of her son Moab,
saying, From my father did I conceive him; he is the father of
the Moabites unto this day.
59 And the younger also called her son Benami; he is the father
of the children of Ammon unto this day.
60 And after this Lot and his two daughters went away from
there, and he dwelt on the other side of the Jordan with his two
daughters and their sons, and the sons of Lot grew up, and they
went and took themselves wives from the land of Canaan, and they
begat children and they were fruitful and multiplied.
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Re: THE BOOK OF JASHER
By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:25 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 20
1 And at that time Abraham journeyed from the plain of Mamre,
and he went to the land of the Philistines, and he dwelt in
Gerar; it was in the twenty-fifth year of Abraham's being in the
land of Canaan, and the hundredth year of the life of Abraham,
that he came to Gerar in the land of the Philistines.
2 And when they entered the land he said to Sarah his wife, Say
thou art my sister, to any one that shall ask thee, in order
that we may escape the evil of the inhabitants of the land.
3 And as Abraham was dwelling in the land of the Philistines,
the servants of Abimelech, king of the Philistines, saw that
Sarah was exceedingly beautiful, and they asked Abraham
concerning her, and he said, She is my sister.
4 And the servants of Abimelech went to Abimelech, saying, A man
from the land of Canaan is come to dwell in the land, and he has
a sister that is exceeding fair.
5 And Abimelech heard the words of his servants who praised
Sarah to him, and Abimelech sent his officers, and they brought
Sarah to the king.
6 And Sarah came to the house of Abimelech, and the king saw
that Sarah was beautiful, and she pleased him exceedingly.
7 And he approached her and said to her, What is that man to
thee with whom thou didst come to our land? and Sarah answered
and said He is my brother, and we came from the land of Canaan
to dwell wherever we could find a place.
8 And Abimelech said to Sarah, Behold my land is before thee,
place thy brother in any part of this land that pleases thee,
and it will be our duty to exalt and elevate him above all the
people of the land since he is thy brother.
9 And Abimelech sent for Abraham, and Abraham came to Abimelech.
10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold I have given orders
that thou shalt be honored as thou desirest on account of thy
sister Sarah.
11 And Abraham went forth from the king, and the king's present
followed him.
12 As at evening time, before men lie down to rest, the king was
sitting upon his throne, and a deep sleep fell upon him, and he
lay upon the throne and slept till morning.
13 And he dreamed that an angel of the Lord came to him with a
drawn sword in his hand, and the angel stood over Abimelech, and
wished to slay him with the sword, and the king was terrified in
his dream, and said to the angel, In what have I sinned against
thee that thou comest to slay me with thy sword?
52
14 And the angel answered and said to Abimelech, Behold thou
diest on account of the woman which thou didst yesternight bring
to thy house, for she is a married woman, the wife of Abraham
who came to thy house; now therefore return that man his wife,
for she is his wife; and shouldst thou not return her, know that
thou wilt surely die, thou and all belonging to thee.
15 And on that night there was a great outcry in the land of the
Philistines, and the inhabitants of the land saw the figure of a
man standing with a drawn sword in his hand, and he smote the
inhabitants of the land with the sword, yea he continued to
smite them.
16 And the angel of the Lord smote the whole land of the
Philistines on that night, and there was a great confusion on
that night and on the following morning.
17 And every womb was closed, and all their issues, and the hand
of the Lord was upon them on account of Sarah, wife of Abraham,
whom Abimelech had taken.
18 And in the morning Abimelech rose with terror and confusion
and with a great dread, and he sent and had his servants called
in, and he related his dream to them, and the people were
greatly afraid.
19 And one man standing amongst the servants of the king
answered the king, saying, O sovereign king, restore this woman
to her husband, for he is her husband, for the like happened to
the king of Egypt when this man came to Egypt.
20 And he said concerning his wife, She is my sister, for such
is his manner of doing when he cometh to dwell in the land in
which he is a stranger.
21 And Pharaoh sent and took this woman for a wife and the Lord
brought upon him grievous plagues until he returned the woman to
her husband.
22 Now therefore, O sovereign king, know what happened
yesternight to the whole land, for there was a very great
consternation and great pain and lamentation, and we know that
it was on account of the woman which thou didst take.
23 Now, therefore, restore this woman to her husband, lest it
should befall us as it did to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his
subjects, and that we may not die; and Abimelech hastened and
called and had Sarah called for, and she came before him, and he
had Abraham called for, and he came before him.
24 And Abimelech said to them, What is this work you have been
doing in saying you are brother and sister, and I took this
woman for a wife?
25 And Abraham said, Because I thought I should suffer death on
account of my wife; and Abimelech took flocks and herds, and men
servants and maid servants, and a thousand pieces of silver, and
he gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah to him.
26 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold the whole land is
before thee, dwell in it wherever thou shalt choose.
27 And Abraham and Sarah, his wife, went forth from the king's
presence with honor and respect, and they dwelt in the land,
even in Gerar.
28 And all the inhabitants of the land of the Philistines and
the king's servants were still in pain, through the plague which
the angel had inflicted upon them the whole night on account of
Sarah.
29 And Abimelech sent for Abraham, saying, Pray now for thy
servants to the Lord thy God, that he may put away this
mortality from amongst us.
30 And Abraham prayed on account of Abimelech and his subjects,
and the Lord heard the prayer of Abraham, and he healed
Abimelech and all his subjects.
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Re: THE BOOK OF JASHER
By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:25 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 21
1 And it was at that time at the end of a year and four months
of Abraham's dwelling in the land of the Philistines in Gerar,
that God visited Sarah, and the Lord remembered her, and she
conceived and bare a son to Abraham.
2 And Abraham called the name of the son which was born to him,
which Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
3 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac at eight days old, as
God had commanded Abraham to do unto his seed after him; and
Abraham was one hundred, and Sarah ninety years old, when Isaac
was born to them.
4 And the child grew up and he was weaned, and Abraham made a
great feast upon the day that Isaac was weaned.
5 And Shem and Eber and all the great people of the land, and
Abimelech king of the Philistines, and his servants, and Phicol,
the captain of his host, came to eat and drink and rejoice at
the feast which Abraham made upon the day of his son Isaac's
being weaned.
6 Also Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor his brother, came
from Haran, they and all belonging to them, for they greatly
rejoiced on hearing that a son had been born to Sarah.
7 And they came to Abraham, and they ate and drank at the feast
which Abraham made upon the day of Isaac's being weaned.
8 And Terah and Nahor rejoiced with Abraham, and they remained
with him many days in the land of the Philistines.
9 At that time Serug the son of Reu died, in the first year of
the birth of Isaac son of Abraham.
10 And all the days of Serug were two hundred and thirty-nine
years, and he died.
11 And Ishmael the son of Abraham was grown up in those days; he
was fourteen years old when Sarah bare Isaac to Abraham.
12 And God was with Ishmael the son of Abraham, and he grew up,
and he learned to use the bow and became an archer.
13 And when Isaac was five years old he was sitting with Ishmael
at the door of the tent.
14 And Ishmael came to Isaac and seated himself opposite to him,
and he took the bow and drew it and put the arrow in it, and
intended to slay Isaac.
15 And Sarah saw the act which Ishmael desired to do to her son
Isaac, and it grieved her exceedingly on account of her son, and
she sent for Abraham, and said to him, Cast out this bondwoman
and her son, for her son shall not be heir with my son, for thus
did he seek to do unto him this day.
16 And Abraham hearkened to the voice of Sarah, and he rose up
early in the morning, and he took twelve loaves and a bottle of
water which he gave to Hagar, and sent her away with her son,
and Hagar went with her son to the wilderness, and they dwelt in
the wilderness of Paran with the inhabitants of the wilderness,
and Ishmael was an archer, and he dwelt in the wilderness a long
time.
17 And he and his mother afterward went to the land of Egypt,
and they dwelt there, and Hagar took a wife for her son from
Egypt, and her name was Meribah.
18 And the wife of Ishmael conceived and bare four sons and two
daughters, and Ishmael and his mother and his wife and children
afterward went and returned to the wilderness.
19 And they made themselves tents in the wilderness, in which
they dwelt, and they continued to travel and then to rest
monthly and yearly.
20 And God gave Ishmael flocks and herds and tents on account of
Abraham his father, and the man increased in cattle.
21 And Ishmael dwelt in deserts and in tents, traveling and
resting for a long time, and he did not see the face of his
father.
22 And in some time after, Abraham said to Sarah his wife, I
will go and see my son Ishmael, for I have a desire to see him,
for I have not seen him for a long time.
23 And Abraham rode upon one of his camels to the wilderness to
seek his son Ishmael, for he heard that he was dwelling in a
tent in the wilderness with all belonging to him.
24 And Abraham went to the wilderness, and he reached the tent
of Ishmael about noon, and he asked after Ishmael, and he found
the wife of Ishmael sitting in the tent with her children, and
Ishmael her husband and his mother were not with them.
25 And Abraham asked the wife of Ishmael, saying, Where has
Ishmael gone? and she said, He has gone to the field to hunt,
and Abraham was still mounted upon the camel, for he would not
get off to the ground as he had sworn to his wife Sarah that he
would not get off from the camel.
26 And Abraham said to Ishmael's wife, My daughter, give me a
little water that I may drink, for I am fatigued from the
journey.
27 And Ishmael's wife answered and said to Abraham, We have
neither water nor bread, and she continued sitting in the tent
and did not notice Abraham, neither did she ask him who he was.
28 But she was beating her children in the tent, and she was
cursing them, and she also cursed her husband Ishmael and
reproached him, and Abraham heard the words of Ishmael's wife to
her children, and he was very angry and displeased.
29 And Abraham called to the woman to come out to him from the
tent, and the woman came and stood opposite to Abraham, for
Abraham was still mounted upon the camel.
30 And Abraham said to Ishmael's wife, When thy husband Ishmael
returneth home say these words to him,
31 A very old man from the land of the Philistines came hither
to seek thee, and thus was his appearance and figure; I did not
ask him who he was, and seeing thou wast not here he spoke unto
me and said, When Ishmael thy husband returneth tell him thus
did this man say, When thou comest home put away this nail of
the tent which thou hast placed here, and place another nail in
its stead.
32 And Abraham finished his instructions to the woman, and he
turned and went off on the camel homeward.
33 And after that Ishmael came from the chase he and his mother,
and returned to the tent, and his wife spoke these words to him,
34 A very old man from the land of the Philistines came to seek
thee, and thus was his appearance and figure; I did not ask him
who he was, and seeing thou wast not at home he said to me, When
thy husband cometh home tell him, thus saith the old man, Put
away the nail of the tent which thou hast placed here and place
another nail in its stead.
35 And Ishmael heard the words of his wife, and he knew that it
was his father, and that his wife did not honor him.
36 And Ishmael understood his father's words that he had spoken
to his wife, and Ishmael hearkened to the voice of his father,
and Ishmael cast off that woman and she went away.
37 And Ishmael afterward went to the land of Canaan, and he took
another wife and he brought her to his tent to the place where
he then dwelt.
38 And at the end of three years Abraham said, I will go again
and see Ishmael my son, for I have not seen him for a long time.
39 And he rode upon his camel and went to the wilderness, and he
reached the tent of Ishmael about noon.
40 And he asked after Ishmael, and his wife came out of the tent
and she said, He is not here my lord, for he has gone to hunt in
the fields, and to feed the camels, and the woman said to
Abraham, Turn in my lord into the tent, and eat a morsel of
bread, for thy soul must be wearied on account of the journey.
41 And Abraham said to her, I will not stop for I am in haste to
continue my journey, but give me a little water to drink, for I
have thirst; and the woman hastened and ran into the tent and
she brought out water and bread to Abraham, which she placed
before him and she urged him to eat, and he ate and drank and
his heart was comforted and he blessed his son Ishmael.
42 And he finished his meal and he blessed the Lord, and he said
to Ishmael's wife, When Ishmael cometh home say these words to
him,
43 A very old man from the land of the Philistines came hither
and asked after thee, and thou wast not here; and I brought him
out bread and water and he ate and drank and his heart was
comforted.
44 And he spoke these words to me: When Ishmael thy husband
cometh home, say unto him, The nail of the tent which thou hast
is very good, do not put it away from the tent.
45 And Abraham finished commanding the woman, and he rode off to
his home to the land of the Philistines; and when Ishmael came
to his tent his wife went forth to meet him with joy and a
cheerful heart.
46 And she said to him, An old man came here from the land of
the Philistines and thus was his appearance, and he asked after
thee and thou wast not here, so I brought out bread and water,
and he ate and drank and his heart was comforted.
47 And he spoke these words to me, When Ishmael thy husband
cometh home say to him, The nail of the tent which thou hast is
very good, do not put it away from the tent.
48 And Ishmael knew that it was his father, and that his wife
had honored him, and the Lord blessed Ishmael.
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 22
1 And Ishmael then rose up and took his wife and his children
and his cattle and all belonging to him, and he journeyed from
there and he went to his father in the land of the Philistines.
2 And Abraham related to Ishmael his son the transaction with
the first wife that Ishmael took, according to what she did.
3 And Ishmael and his children dwelt with Abraham many days in
that land, and Abraham dwelt in the land of the Philistines a
long time.
4 And the days increased and reached twenty six years, and after
that Abraham with his servants and all belonging to him went
from the land of the Philistines and removed to a great
distance, and they came near to Hebron, and they remained there,
and the servants of Abraham dug wells of water, and Abraham and
all belonging to him dwelt by the water, and the servants of
Abimelech king of the Philistines heard the report that
Abraham's servants had dug wells of water in the borders of the
land.
5 And they came and quarreled with the servants of Abraham, and
they robbed them of the great well which they had dug.
6 And Abimelech king of the Philistines heard of this affair,
and he with Phicol the captain of his host and twenty of his men
came to Abraham, and Abimelech spoke to Abraham concerning his
servants, and Abraham rebuked Abimelech concerning the well of
which his servants had robbed him.
7 And Abimelech said to Abraham, As the Lord liveth who created
the whole earth, I did not hear of the act which my servants did
unto thy servants until this day.
8 And Abraham took seven ewe lambs and gave them to Abimelech,
saying, Take these, I pray thee, from my hands that it may be a
testimony for me that I dug this well.
9 And Abimelech took the seven ewe lambs which Abraham had given
to him, for he had also given him cattle and herds in abundance,
and Abimelech swore to Abraham concerning the well, therefore he
called that well Beersheba, for there they both swore concerning
it.
10 And they both made a covenant in Beersheba, and Abimelech
rose up with Phicol the captain of his host and all his men, and
they returned to the land of the Philistines, and Abraham and
all belonging to him dwelt in Beersheba and he was in that land
a long time.
11 And Abraham planted a large grove in Beersheba, and he made
to it four gates facing the four sides of the earth, and he
planted a vineyard in it, so that if a traveler came to Abraham
he entered any gate which was in his road, and remained there
and ate and drank and satisfied himself and then departed.
12 For the house of Abraham was always open to the sons of men
that passed and repassed, who came daily to eat and drink in the
house of Abraham.
13 And any man who had hunger and came to Abraham's house,
Abraham would give him bread that he might eat and drink and be
satisfied, and any one that came naked to his house he would
clothe with garments as he might choose, and give him silver and
gold and make known to him the Lord who had created him in the
earth; this did Abraham all his life.
14 And Abraham and his children and all belonging to him dwelt
in Beersheba, and he pitched his tent as far as Hebron.
15 And Abraham's brother Nahor and his father and all belonging
to them dwelt in Haran, for they did not come with Abraham to
the land of Canaan.
16 And children were born to Nahor which Milca the daughter of
Haran, and sister to Sarah, Abraham's wife, bare to him.
17 And these are the names of those that were born to him, Uz,
Buz, Kemuel, Kesed, Chazo, Pildash, Tidlaf, and Bethuel, being
eight sons, these are the children of Milca which she bare to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.
18 And Nahor had a concubine and her name was Reumah, and she
also bare to Nahor, Zebach, Gachash, Tachash and Maacha, being
four sons.
19 And the children that were born to Nahor were twelve sons
besides his daughters, and they also had children born to them
in Haran.
20 And the children of Uz the first born of Nahor were Abi,
Cheref, Gadin, Melus, and Deborah their sister.
21 And the sons of Buz were Berachel, Naamath, Sheva, and
Madonu.
22 And the sons of Kemuel were Aram and Rechob.
23 And the sons of Kesed were Anamlech, Meshai, Benon and Yifi;
and the sons of Chazo were Pildash, Mechi and Opher.
24 And the sons of Pildash were Arud, Chamum, Mered and Moloch.
25 And the sons of Tidlaf were Mushan, Cushan and Mutzi.
26 And the children of Bethuel were Sechar, Laban and their
sister Rebecca.
27 These are the families of the children of Nahor, that were
born to them in Haran; and Aram the son of Kemuel and Rechob his
brother went away from Haran, and they found a valley in the
land by the river Euphrates.
28 And they built a city there, and they called the name of the
city after the name of Pethor the son of Aram, that is Aram
Naherayim unto this day.
29 And the children of Kesed also went to dwell where they could
find a place, and they went and they found a valley opposite to
the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
30 And they there built themselves a city, and they called the
name at the city Kesed after the name of their father, that is
the land Kasdim unto this day, and the Kasdim dwelt in that land
and they were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.
31 And Terah, father of Nahor and Abraham, went and took another
wife in his old age, and her name was Pelilah, and she conceived
and bare him a son and he called his name Zoba.
32 And Terah lived twenty-five years after he begat Zoba.
33 And Terah died in that year, that is in the thirty-fifth year
of the birth of Isaac son of Abraham.
34 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and he
was buried in Haran.
35 And Zoba the son of Terah lived thirty years and he begat
Aram, Achlis and Merik.
36 And Aram son of Zoba son of Terah, had three wives and he
begat twelve sons and three daughters; and the Lord gave to Aram
the son of Zoba, riches and possessions, and abundance of
cattle, and flocks and herds, and the man increased greatly.
37 And Aram the son of Zoba and his brother and all his
household journeyed from Haran, and they went to dwell where
they should find a place, for their property was too great to
remain in Haran; for they could not stop in Haran together with
their brethren the children of Nahor.
38 And Aram the son of Zoba went with his brethren, and they
found a valley at a distance toward the eastern country and they
dwelt there.
39 And they also built a city there, and they called the name
thereof Aram, after the name of their eldest brother; that is
Aram Zoba to this day.
40 And Isaac the son of Abraham was growing up in those days,
and Abraham his father taught him the way of the Lord to know
the Lord, and the Lord was with him.
41 And when Isaac was thirty-seven years old, Ishmael his
brother was going about with him in the tent.
42 And Ishmael boasted of himself to Isaac, saying, I was
thirteen years old when the Lord spoke to my father to
circumcise us, and I did according to the word of the Lord which
he spoke to my father, and I gave my soul unto the Lord, and I
did not transgress his word which he commanded my father.
43 And Isaac answered Ishmael, saying, Why dost thou boast to me
about this, about a little bit of thy flesh which thou didst
take from thy body, concerning which the Lord commanded thee?
44 As the Lord liveth, the God of my father Abraham, if the Lord
should say unto my father, Take now thy son Isaac and bring him
up an offering before me, I would not refrain but I would
joyfully accede to it.
45 And the Lord heard the word that Isaac spoke to Ishmael, and
it seemed good in the sight of the Lord, and he thought to try
Abraham in this matter.
46 And the day arrived when the sons of God came and placed
themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with the sons of
God before the Lord.
47 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? and Satan
answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
48 And the Lord said to Satan, What is thy word to me concerning
all the children of the earth? and Satan answered the Lord and
said, I have seen all the children of the earth who serve thee
and remember thee when they require anything from thee.
49 And when thou givest them the thing which they require from
thee, they sit at their ease, and forsake thee and they remember
thee no more.
50 Hast thou seen Abraham the son of Terah, who at first had no
children, and he served thee and erected altars to thee wherever
he came, and he brought up offerings upon them, and he
proclaimed thy name continually to all the children of the
earth.
51 And now that his son Isaac is born to him, he has forsaken
thee, he has made a great feast for all the inhabitants of the
land, and the Lord he has forgotten.
52 For amidst all that he has done he brought thee no offering;
neither burnt offering nor peace offering, neither ox, lamb nor
goat of all that he killed on the day that his son was weaned.
53 Even from the time of his son's birth till now, being
thirty-seven years, he built no altar before thee, nor brought
any offering to thee, for he saw that thou didst give what he
requested before thee, and he therefore forsook thee.
54 And the Lord said to Satan, Hast thou thus considered my
servant Abraham? for there is none like him upon earth, a
perfect and an upright man before me, one that feareth God and
avoideth evil; as I live, were I to say unto him, Bring up Isaac
thy son before me, he would not withhold him from me, much more
if I told him to bring up a burnt offering before me from his
flock or herds.
55 And Satan answered the Lord and said, Speak then now unto
Abraham as thou hast said, and thou wilt see whether he will not
this day transgress and cast aside thy words.
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 23
1 At that time the word of the Lord came to Abraham, and he said
unto him, Abraham, and he said, Here I am.
2 And he said to him, Take now thy son, thine only son whom thou
lovest, even Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him
there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which shall
be shown to thee, for there wilt thou see a cloud and the glory
of the Lord.
3 And Abraham said within himself, How shall I separate my son
Isaac from Sarah his mother, in order to bring him up for a
burnt offering before the Lord?
4 And Abraham came into the tent, and he sat before Sarah his
wife, and he spoke these words to her,
5 My son Isaac is grown up and he has not for some time studied
the service of his God, now tomorrow I will go and bring him to
Shem, and Eber his son, and there he will learn the ways of the
Lord, for they will teach him to know the Lord as well as to
know that when he prayeth continually before the Lord, he will
answer him, therefore there he will know the way of serving the
Lord his God.
6 And Sarah said, Thou hast spoken well, go my lord and do unto
him as thou hast said, but remove him not at a great distance
from me, neither let him remain there too long, for my soul is
bound within his soul.
7 And Abraham said unto Sarah, My daughter, let us pray to the
Lord our God that he may do good with us.
8 And Sarah took her son Isaac and he abode all that night with
her, and she kissed and embraced him, and gave him instructions
till morning.
9 And she said to him, O my son, how can my soul separate itself
from thee? And she still kissed him and embraced him, and she
gave Abraham instructions concerning him.
10 And Sarah said to Abraham, O my lord, I pray thee take heed
of thy son, and place thine eyes over him, for I have no other
son nor daughter but him.
11 O forsake him not. If he be hungry give him bread, and if he
be thirsty give him water to drink; do not let him go on foot,
neither let him sit in the sun.
12 Neither let him go by himself in the road, neither force him
from whatever he may desire, but do unto him as he may say to
thee.
13 And Sarah wept bitterly the whole night on account of Isaac,
and she gave him instructions till morning.
14 And in the morning Sarah selected a very fine and beautiful
garment from those garments which she had in the house, that
Abimelech had given to her.
15 And she dressed Isaac her son therewith, and she put a turban
upon his head, and she enclosed a precious stone in the top of
the turban, and she gave them provision for the road, and they
went forth, and Isaac went with his father Abraham, and some of
their servants accompanied them to see them off the road.
16 And Sarah went out with them, and she accompanied them upon
the road to see them off, and they said to her, Return to the
tent.
17 And when Sarah heard the words of her son Isaac she wept
bitterly, and Abraham her husband wept with her, and their son
wept with them a great weeping; also those who went with them
wept greatly.
18 And Sarah caught hold of her son Isaac, and she held him in
her arms, and she embraced him and continued to weep with him,
and Sarah said, Who knoweth if after this day I shall ever see
thee again?
19 And they still wept together, Abraham, Sarah and Isaac, and
all those that accompanied them on the road wept with them, and
Sarah afterward turned away from her son, weeping bitterly, and
all her men servants and maid servants returned with her to the
tent.
20 And Abraham went with Isaac his son to bring him up as an
offering before the Lord, as He had commanded him.
21 And Abraham took two of his young men with him, Ishmael the
son of Hagar and Eliezer his servant, and they went together
with them, and whilst they were walking in the road the young
men spoke these words to themselves,
22 And Ishmael said to Eliezer, Now my father Abraham is going
with Isaac to bring him up for a burnt offering to the Lord, as
He commanded him.
23 Now when he returneth he will give unto me all that he
possesses, to inherit after him, for I am his first born.
24 And Eliezer answered Ishmael and said, Surely Abraham did
cast thee away with thy mother, and swear that thou shouldst not
inherit any thing of all he possesses, and to whom will he give
all that he has, with all his treasures, but unto me his
servant, who has been faithful in his house, who has served him
night and day, and has done all that he desired me? to me will
he bequeath at his death all that he possesses.
25 And whilst Abraham was proceeding with his son Isaac along
the road, Satan came and appeared to Abraham in the figure of a
very aged man, humble and of contrite spirit, and he approached
Abraham and said to him, Art thou silly or brutish, that thou
goest to do this thing this day to thine only son?
26 For God gave thee a son in thy latter days, in thy old age,
and wilt thou go and slaughter him this day because he committed
no violence, and wilt thou cause the soul of thine only son to
perish from the earth?
27 Dost thou not know and understand that this thing cannot be
from the Lord? for the Lord cannot do unto man such evil upon
earth to say to him, Go slaughter thy child.
28 And Abraham heard this and knew that it was the word of Satan
who endeavored to draw him aside from the way of the Lord, but
Abraham would not hearken to the voice of Satan, and Abraham
rebuked him so that he went away.
29 And Satan returned and came to Isaac; and he appeared unto
Isaac in the figure of a young man comely and well favored.
30 And he approached Isaac and said unto him, Dost thou not know
and understand that thy old silly father bringeth thee to the
slaughter this day for naught?
31 Now therefore, my son, do not listen nor attend to him, for
he is a silly old man, and let not thy precious soul and
beautiful figure be lost from the earth.
32 And Isaac heard this, and said unto Abraham, Hast thou heard,
my father, that which this man has spoken? even thus has he
spoken.
33 And Abraham answered his son Isaac and said to him, Take heed
of him and do not listen to his words, nor attend to him, for he
is Satan, endeavoring to draw us aside this day from the
commands of God.
34 And Abraham still rebuked Satan, and Satan went from them,
and seeing he could not prevail over them he hid himself from
them, and he went and passed before them in the road; and he
transformed himself to a large brook of water in the road, and
Abraham and Isaac and his two young men reached that place, and
they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters.
35 And they entered the brook and passed through it, and the
waters at first reached their legs.
36 And they went deeper in the brook and the waters reached up
to their necks, and they were all terrified on account of the
water; and whilst they were going over the brook Abraham
recognized that place, and he knew that there was no water there
before.
37 And Abraham said to his son Isaac, I know this place in which
there was no brook nor water, now therefore it is this Satan who
does all this to us, to draw us aside this day from the commands
of God.
38 And Abraham rebuked him and said unto him, The Lord rebuke
thee, O Satan, begone from us for we go by the commands of God.
39 And Satan was terrified at the voice of Abraham, and he went
away from them, and the place again became dry land as it was at
first.
40 And Abraham went with Isaac toward the place that God had
told him.
41 And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the
place at a distance which God had told him of.
42 And a pillar of fire appeared to him that reached from the
earth to heaven, and a cloud of glory upon the mountain, and the
glory of the Lord was seen in the cloud.
43 And Abraham said to Isaac, My son, dost thou see in that
mountain, which we perceive at a distance, that which I see upon
it?
44 And Isaac answered and said unto his father, I see and lo a
pillar of fire and a cloud, and the glory of the Lord is seen
upon the cloud.
45 And Abraham knew that his son Isaac was accepted before the
Lord for a burnt offering.
46 And Abraham said unto Eliezer and unto Ishmael his son, Do
you also see that which we see upon the mountain which is at a
distance?
47 And they answered and said, We see nothing more than like the
other mountains of the earth. And Abraham knew that they were
not accepted before the Lord to go with them, and Abraham said
to them, Abide ye here with the ass whilst I and Isaac my son
will go to yonder mount and worship there before the Lord and
then return to you.
48 And Eliezer and Ishmael remained in that place, as Abraham
had commanded.
49 And Abraham took wood for a burnt offering and placed it upon
his son Isaac, and he took the fire and the knife, and they both
went to that place.
50 And when they were going along Isaac said to his father,
Behold, I see here the fire and wood, and where then is the lamb
that is to be the burnt offering before the Lord?
51 And Abraham answered his son Isaac, saying, The Lord has made
choice of thee my son, to be a perfect burnt offering instead of
the lamb.
52 And Isaac said unto his father, I will do all that the Lord
spoke to thee with joy and cheerfulness of heart.
53 And Abraham again said unto Isaac his son, Is there in thy
heart any thought or counsel concerning this, which is not
proper? tell me my son, I pray thee, O my son conceal it not
from me.
54 And Isaac answered his father Abraham and said unto him, O my
father, as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is
nothing in my heart to cause me to deviate either to the right
or to the left from the word that he has spoken to thee.
55 Neither limb nor muscle has moved or stirred at this, nor is
there in my heart any thought or evil counsel concerning this.
56 But I am of joyful and cheerful heart in this matter, and I
say, Blessed is the Lord who has this day chosen me to be a
burnt offering before Him.
57 And Abraham greatly rejoiced at the words of Isaac, and they
went on and came together to that place that the Lord had spoken
of.
58 And Abraham approached to build the altar in that place, and
Abraham was weeping, and Isaac took stones and mortar until they
had finished building the altar.
59 And Abraham took the wood and placed it in order upon the
altar which he had built.
60 And he took his son Isaac and bound him in order to place him
upon the wood which was upon the altar, to slay him for a burnt
offering before the Lord.
61 And Isaac said to his father, Bind me securely and then place
me upon the altar lest I should turn and move, and break loose
from the force of the knife upon my flesh and thereof profane
the burnt offering; and Abraham did so.
62 And Isaac still said to his father, O my father, when thou
shalt have slain me and burnt me for an offering, take with thee
that which shall remain of my ashes to bring to Sarah my mother,
and say to her, This is the sweet smelling savor of Isaac; but
do not tell her this if she should sit near a well or upon any
high place, lest she should cast her soul after me and die.
63 And Abraham heard the words of Isaac, and he lifted up his
voice and wept when Isaac spake these words; and Abraham's tears
gushed down upon Isaac his son, and Isaac wept bitterly, and he
said to his father, Hasten thou, O my father, and do with me the
will of the Lord our God as He has commanded thee.
64 And the hearts of Abraham and Isaac rejoiced at this thing
which the Lord had commanded them; but the eye wept bitterly
whilst the heart rejoiced.
65 And Abraham bound his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar
upon the wood, and Isaac stretched forth his neck upon the altar
before his father, and Abraham stretched forth his hand to take
the knife to slay his son as a burnt offering before the Lord.
66 At that time the angels of mercy came before the Lord and
spake to him concerning Isaac, saying,
67 0 Lord, thou art a merciful and compassionate King over all
that thou hast created in heaven and in earth, and thou
supportest them all; give therefore ransom and redemption
instead of thy servant Isaac, and pity and have compassion upon
Abraham and Isaac his son, who are this day performing thy
commands.
68 Hast thou seen, O Lord, how Isaac the son of Abraham thy
servant is bound down to the slaughter like an animal? now
therefore let thy pity be roused for them, O Lord.
69 At that time the Lord appeared unto Abraham, and called to
him, from heaven, and said unto him, Lay not thine hand upon the
lad, neither do thou any thing unto him, for now I know that
thou fearest God in performing this act, and in not withholding
thy son, thine only son, from me.
70 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a ram was
caught in a thicket by his horns; that was the ram which the
Lord God had created in the earth in the day that he made earth
and heaven.
71 For the Lord had prepared this ram from that day, to be a
burnt offering instead of Isaac.
72 And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught hold
of him and entangled his horns in the thicket, that he might not
advance to Abraham, in order that Abraham might slay his son.
73 And Abraham, seeing the ram advancing to him and Satan
withholding him, fetched him and brought him before the altar,
and he loosened his son Isaac from his binding, and he put the
ram in his stead, and Abraham killed the ram upon the altar, and
brought it up as an offering in the place of his son Isaac.
74 And Abraham sprinkled some of the blood of the ram upon the
altar, and he exclaimed and said, This is in the place of my
son, and may this be considered this day as the blood of my son
before the Lord.
75 And all that Abraham did on this occasion by the altar, he
would exclaim and say, This is in the room of my son, and may it
this day be considered before the Lord in the place of my son;
and Abraham finished the whole of the service by the altar, and
the service was accepted before the Lord, and was accounted as
if it had been Isaac; and the Lord blessed Abraham and his seed
on that day.
76 And Satan went to Sarah, and he appeared to her in the figure
of an old man very humble and meek, and Abraham was yet engaged
in the burnt offering before the Lord.
77 And he said unto her, Dost thou not know all the work that
Abraham has made with thine only son this day? for he took Isaac
and built an altar, and killed him, and brought him up as a
sacrifice upon the altar, and Isaac cried and wept before his
father, but he looked not at him, neither did he have compassion
over him.
78 And Satan repeated these words, and he went away from her,
and Sarah heard all the words of Satan, and she imagined him to
be an old man from amongst the sons of men who had been with her
son, and had come and told her these things.
79 And Sarah lifted up her voice and wept and cried out bitterly
on account of her son; and she threw herself upon the ground and
she cast dust upon her head, and she said, O my son, Isaac my
son, O that I had this day died instead of thee. And she
continued to weep and said, It grieves me for thee, O my son, my
son Isaac, O that I had died this day in thy stead.
80 And she still continued to weep, and said, It grieves me for
thee after that I have reared thee and have brought thee up; now
my joy is turned into mourning over thee, I that had a longing
for thee, and cried and prayed to God till I bare thee at ninety
years old; and now hast thou served this day for the knife and
the fire, to be made an offering.
81 But I console myself with thee, my son, in its being the word
of the Lord, for thou didst perform the command of thy God; for
who can transgress the word of our God, in whose hands is the
soul of every living creature?
82 Thou art just, O Lord our God, for all thy works are good and
righteous; for I also am rejoiced with thy word which thou didst
command, and whilst mine eye weepeth bitterly my heart
rejoiceth.
83 And Sarah laid her head upon the bosom of one of her
handmaids, and she became as still as a stone.
84 She afterward rose up and went about making inquiries till
she came to Hebron, and she inquired of all those whom she met
walking in the road, and no one could tell her what had happened
to her son.
85 And she came with her maid servants and men servants to
Kireath-arba, which is Hebron, and she asked concerning her Son,
and she remained there while she sent some of her servants to
seek where Abraham had gone with Isaac; they went to seek him in
the house of Shem and Eber, and they could not find him, and
they sought throughout the land and he was not there.
86 And behold, Satan came to Sarah in the shape of an old man,
and he came and stood before her, and he said unto her, I spoke
falsely unto thee, for Abraham did not kill his son and he is
not dead; and when she heard the word her joy was so exceedingly
violent on account of her son, that her soul went out through
joy; she died and was gathered to her people.
87 And when Abraham had finished his service he returned with
his son Isaac to his young men, and they rose up and went
together to Beersheba, and they came home.
88 And Abraham sought for Sarah, and could not find her, and he
made inquiries concerning her, and they said unto him, She went
as far as Hebron to seek you both where you had gone, for thus
was she informed.
89 And Abraham and Isaac went to her to Hebron, and when they
found that she was dead they lifted up their voices and wept
bitterly over her; and Isaac fell upon his mother's face and
wept over her, and he said, O my mother, my mother, how hast
thou left me, and where hast thou gone? O how, how hast thou
left me!
90 And Abraham and Isaac wept greatly and all their servants
wept with them on account of Sarah, and they mourned over her a
great and heavy mourning.
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By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:28 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 24
1 And the life of Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years,
and Sarah died; and Abraham rose up from before his dead to seek
a burial place to bury his wife Sarah; and he went and spoke to
the children of Heth, the inhabitants of the land, saying,
2 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you in your land; give me
a possession of a burial place in your land, that I may bury my
dead from before me.
3 And the children of Heth said unto Abraham, behold the land is
before thee, in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead, for
no man shall withhold thee from burying thy dead.
4 And Abraham said unto them, If you are agreeable to this go
and entreat for me to Ephron, the son of Zochar, requesting that
he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is in the end of his
field, and I will purchase it of him for whatever he desire for
it.
5 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth, and they went and
called for him, and he came before Abraham, and Ephron said unto
Abraham, Behold all thou requirest thy servant will do; and
Abraham said, No, but I will buy the cave and the field which
thou hast for value, In order that it may be for a possession of
a burial place for ever.
6 And Ephron answered and said, Behold the field and the cave
are before thee, give whatever thou desirest; and Abraham said,
Only at full value will I buy it from thy hand, and from the
hands of those that go in at the gate of thy city, and from the
hand of thy seed for ever.
7 And Ephron and all his brethren heard this, and Abraham
weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver in the hands of
Ephron and in the hands of all his brethren; and Abraham wrote
this transaction, and he wrote it and testified it with four
witnesses.
8 And these are the names of the witnesses, Amigal son of
Abishna the Hittite, Adichorom son of Ashunach the Hivite, Abdon
son of Achiram the Gomerite, Bakdil the son of Abudish the
Zidonite.
9 And Abraham took the book of the purchase, and placed it in
his treasures, and these are the words that Abraham wrote in the
book, namely:
10 That the cave and the field Abraham bought from Ephron the
Hittite, and from his seed, and from those that go out of his
city, and from their seed for ever, are to be a purchase to
Abraham and to his seed and to those that go forth from his
loins, for a possession of a burial place for ever; and he put a
signet to it and testified it with witnesses.
11 And the field and the cave that was in it and all that place
were made sure unto Abraham and unto his seed after him, from
the children of Heth; behold it is before Mamre in Hebron, which
is in the land of Canaan.
12 And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah there, and that
place and all its boundary became to Abraham and unto his seed
for a possession of a burial place.
13 And Abraham buried Sarah with pomp as observed at the
interment of kings, and she was buried in very fine and
beautiful garments.
14 And at her bier was Shem, his sons Eber and Abimelech,
together with Anar, Ashcol and Mamre, and all the grandees of
the land followed her bier.
15 And the days of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years
and she died, and Abraham made a great and heavy mourning, and
he performed the rites of mourning for seven days.
16 And all the inhabitants of the land comforted Abraham and
Isaac his son on account of Sarah.
17 And when the days of their mourning passed by Abraham sent
away his son Isaac, and he went to the house of Shem and Eber,
to learn the ways of the Lord and his instructions, and Abraham
remained there three years.
18 At that time Abraham rose up with all his servants, and they
went and returned homeward to Beersheba, and Abraham and all his
servants remained in Beersheba.
19 And at the revolution of the year Abimelech king of the
Philistines died in that year; he was one hundred and
ninety-three years old at his death; and Abraham went with his
people to the land of the Philistines, and they comforted the
whole household and all his servants, and he then turned and
went home.
20 And it was after the death of Abimelech that the people of
Gerar took Benmalich his son, and he was only twelve years old,
and they made him lying in the place of his father.
21 And they called his name Abimelech after the name of his
father, for thus was it their custom to do in Gerar, and
Abimelech reigned instead of Abimelech his father, and he sat
upon his throne.
22 And Lot the son of Haran also died in those days, in the
thirty-ninth year of the life of Isaac, and all the days that
Lot lived were one hundred and forty years and he died.
23 And these are the children of Lot, that were born to him by
his daughters, the name of the first born was Moab, and the name
of the second was Benami.
24 And the two sons of Lot went and took themselves wives from
the land of Canaan, and they bare children to them, and the
children of Moab were Ed, Mayon, Tarsus, and Kanvil, four sons,
these are fathers to the children of Moab unto this day.
25 And all the families of the children of Lot went to dwell
wherever they should light upon, for they were fruitful and
increased abundantly.
26 And they went and built themselves cities in the land where
they dwelt, and they called the names of the cities which they
built after their own names.
27 And Nahor the son of Terah, brother to Abraham, died in those
days in the fortieth year of the life of Isaac, and all the days
of Nahor were one hundred and seventy-two years and he died and
was buried in Haran.
28 And when Abraham heard that his brother was dead he grieved
sadly, and he mourned over his brother many days.
29 And Abraham called for Eliezer his head servant, to give him
orders concerning his house, and he came and stood before him.
30 And Abraham said to him, Behold I am old, I do not know the
day of my death; for I am advanced in days; now therefore rise
up, go forth and do not take a wife for my son from this place
and from this land, from the daughters of the Canaanites amongst
whom we dwell.
31 But go to my land and to my birthplace, and take from thence
a wife for my son, and the Lord God of Heaven and earth who took
me from my father's house and brought me to this place, and said
unto me, To thy seed will I give this land for an inheritance
for ever, he will send his angel before thee and prosper thy
way, that thou mayest obtain a wife for my son from my family
and from my father's house.
32 And the servant answered his master Abraham and said, Behold
I go to thy birthplace and to thy father's house, and take a
wife for thy son from there; but if the woman be not willing to
follow me to this land, shall I take thy son back to the land of
thy birthplace?
33 And Abraham said unto him, Take heed that thou bring not my
son hither again, for the Lord before whom I have walked he will
send his angel before thee and prosper thy way.
34 And Eliezer did as Abraham ordered him, and Eliezer swore
unto Abraham his master upon this matter; and Eliezer rose up
and took ten camels of the camels of his master, and ten men
from his master's servants with him, and they rose up and went
to Haran, the city of Abraham and Nahor, in order to fetch a
wife for Isaac the son of Abraham; and whilst they were gone
Abraham sent to the house of Shem and Eber, and they brought
from thence his son Isaac.
35 And Isaac came home to his father's house to Beersheba,
whilst Eliezer and his men came to Haran; and they stopped in
the city by the watering place, and he made his camels to kneel
down by the water and they remained there.
36 And Eliezer, Abraham's servant, prayed and said, O God of
Abraham my master; send me I pray thee good speed this day and
show kindness unto my master, that thou shalt appoint this day a
wife for my master's son from his family.
37 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Eliezer, for the sake
of his servant Abraham, and he happened to meet with the
daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor,
brother to Abraham, and Eliezer came to her house.
38 And Eliezer related to them all his concerns, and that he was
Abraham's servant, and they greatly rejoiced at him.
39 And they all blessed the Lord who brought this thing about,
and they gave him Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel, for a wife
for Isaac.
40 And the young woman was of very comely appearance, she was a
virgin, and Rebecca was ten years old in those days.
41 And Bethuel and Laban and his children made a feast on that
night, and Eliezer and his men came and ate and drank and
rejoiced there on that night.
42 And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were
with him, and he called to the whole household of Bethuel,
saying, Send me away that I may go to my master; and they rose
up and sent away Rebecca and her nurse Deborah, the daughter of
Uz, and they gave her silver and gold, men servants and maid
servants, and they blessed her.
43 And they sent Eliezer away with his men; and the servants
took Rebecca, and he went and returned to his master to the land
of Canaan.
44 And Isaac took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he
brought her into the tent.
45 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca, the
daughter of his uncle Bethuel, for a wife.
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 25
1 And it was at that time that Abraham again took a wife in his
old age, and her name was Keturah, from the land of Canaan.
2 And she bare unto him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak
and Shuach, being six sons. And the children of Zimran were
Abihen, Molich and Narim.
3 And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan, and the sons of
Medan were Amida, Joab, Gochi, Elisha and Nothach; and the sons
of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and Eldaah.
4 And the sons of Ishbak were Makiro, Beyodua and Tator.
5 And the sons of Shuach were Bildad, Mamdad, Munan and Meban;
all these are the families of the children of Keturah the
Canaanitish woman which she bare unto Abraham the Hebrew.
6 And Abraham sent all these away, and he gave them gifts, and
they went away from his son Isaac to dwell wherever they should
find a place.
7 And all these went to the mountain at the east, and they built
themselves six cities in which they dwelt unto this day.
8 But the children of Sheba and Dedan, children of Jokshan, with
their children, did not dwell with their brethren in their
cities, and they journeyed and encamped in the countries and
wildernesses unto this day.
9 And the children of Midian, son of Abraham, went to the east
of the land of Cush, and they there found a large valley in the
eastern country, and they remained there and built a city, and
they dwelt therein, that is the land of Midian unto this day.
10 And Midian dwelt in the city which he built, he and his five
sons and all belonging to him.
11 And these are the names of the sons of Midian according to
their names in their cities, Ephah, Epher, Chanoch, Abida and
Eldaah.
12 And the sons of Ephah were Methach, Meshar, Avi and Tzanua,
and the sons of Epher were Ephron, Zur, Alirun and Medin, and
the sons of Chanoch were Reuel, Rekem, Azi, Alyoshub and Alad.
13 And the sons of Abida were Chur, Melud, Kerury, Molchi; and
the sons of Eldaah were Miker, and Reba, and Malchiyah and
Gabol; these are the names of the Midianites according to their
families; and afterward the families of Midian spread throughout
the land of Midian.
14 And these are the generations of Ishmael the son Abraham,
whom Hagar, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham.
15 And Ishmael took a wife from the land of Egypt, and her name
was Ribah, the same is Meribah.
16 And Ribah bare unto Ishmael Nebayoth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam
and their sister Bosmath.
17 And Ishmael cast away his wife Ribah, and she went from him
and returned to Egypt to the house of her father, and she dwelt
there, for she had been very bad in the sight of Ishmael, and in
the sight of his father Abraham.
18 And Ishmael afterward took a wife from the land of Canaan,
and her name was Malchuth, and she bare unto him Nishma, Dumah,
Masa, Chadad, Tema, Yetur, Naphish and Kedma.
19 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names,
being twelve princes according to their nations; and the
families of Ishmael afterward spread forth, and Ishmael took his
children and all the property that he had gained, together with
the souls of his household and all belonging to him, and they
went to dwell where they should find a place.
20 And they went and dwelt near the wilderness of Paran, and
their dwelling was from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt
as thou comest toward Assyria.
21 And Ishmael and his sons dwelt in the land, and they had
children born to them, and they were fruitful and increased
abundantly.
22 And these are the names of the sons of Nebayoth the first
born of Ishmael; Mend, Send, Mayon; and the sons of Kedar were
Alyon, Kezem, Chamad and Eli.
23 And the sons of Adbeel were Chamad and Jabin; and the sons of
Mibsam were Obadiah, Ebedmelech and Yeush; these are the
families of the children of Ribah the wife of Ishmael.
24 And the sons of Mishma the son of Ishmael were Shamua,
Zecaryon and Obed; and the sons of Dumah were Kezed, Eli,
Machmad and Amed.
25 And the sons of Masa were Melon, Mula and Ebidadon; and the
sons of Chadad were Azur, Minzar and Ebedmelech; and the sons of
Tema were Seir, Sadon and Yakol.
26 And the sons of Yetur were Merith, Yaish, Alyo, and Pachoth;
and the sons of Naphish were Ebed-Tamed, Abiyasaph and Mir; and
the sons of Kedma were Calip, Tachti, and Omir; these were the
children of Malchuth the wife of Ishmael according to their
families.
27 All these are the families of Ishmael according to their
generations, and they dwelt in those lands wherein they had
built themselves cities unto this day.
28 And Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel, the wife of Abraham's
son Isaac, was barren in those days, she had no offspring; and
Isaac dwelt with his father in the land of Canaan; and the Lord
was with Isaac; and Arpachshad the son of Shem the son of Noah
died in those days, in the forty-eighth year of the life of
Isaac, and all the days that Arpachshad lived were four hundred
and thirty-eight years, and he died.
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By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:30 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 26
1 And in the fifty-ninth year of the life of Isaac the son of
Abraham, Rebecca his wife was still barren in those days.
2 And Rebecca said unto Isaac, Truly I have heard, my lord, that
thy mother Sarah was barren in her days until my Lord Abraham,
thy father, prayed for her and she conceived by him.
3 Now therefore stand up, pray thou also to God and he will hear
thy prayer and remember us through his mercies.
4 And Isaac answered his wife Rebecca, saying, Abraham has
already prayed for me to God to multiply his seed, now therefore
this barrenness must proceed to us from thee.
5 And Rebecca said unto him, But arise now thou also and pray,
that the Lord may hear thy prayer and grant me children, and
Isaac hearkened to the words of his wife, and Isaac and his wife
rose up and went to the land of Moriah to pray there and to seek
the Lord, and when they had reached that place Isaac stood up
and prayed to the Lord on account of his wife because she was
barren.
6 And Isaac said, O Lord God of heaven and earth, whose goodness
and mercies fill the earth, thou who didst take my father from
his father's house and from his birthplace, and didst bring him
unto this land, and didst say unto him, To thy seed will I give
the land, and thou didst promise him and didst declare unto him,
I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand
of the sea, now may thy words be verified which thou didst speak
unto my father.
7 For thou art the Lord our God, our eyes are toward thee to
give us seed of men, as thou didst promise us, for thou art the
Lord our God and our eyes are directed toward thee only.
8 And the Lord heard the prayer of Isaac the son of Abraham, and
the Lord was entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived.
9 And in about seven months after the children struggled
together within her, and it pained her greatly that she was
wearied on account of them, and she said to all the women who
were then in the land, Did such a thing happen to you as it has
to me? and they said unto her, No.
10 And she said unto them, Why am I alone in this amongst all
the women that were upon earth? and she went to the land of
Moriah to seek the Lord on account of this; and she went to Shem
and Eber his son to make inquiries of them in this matter, and
that they should seek the Lord in this thing respecting her.
11 And she also asked Abraham to seek and inquire of the Lord
about all that had befallen her.
12 And they all inquired of the Lord concerning this matter, and
they brought her word from the Lord and told her, Two children
are in thy womb, and two nations shall rise from them; and one
nation shall be stronger than the other, and the greater shall
serve the younger.
13 And when her days to be delivered were completed, she knelt
down, and behold there were twins in her womb, as the Lord had
spoken to her.
14 And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment, and
all the people of the land called his name Esau, saying, That
this one was made complete from the womb.
15 And after that came his brother, and his hand took hold of
Esau's heel, therefore they called his name Jacob.
16 And Isaac, the son of Abraham, was sixty years old when he
begat them.
17 And the boys grew up to their fifteenth year, and they came
amongst the society of men. Esau was a designing and deceitful
man, and an expert hunter in the field, and Jacob was a man
perfect and wise, dwelling in tents, feeding flocks and learning
the instructions of the Lord and the commands of his father and
mother.
18 And Isaac and the children of his household dwelt with his
father Abraham in the land of Canaan, as God had commanded them.
19 And Ishmael the son of Abraham went with his children and all
belonging to them, and they returned there to the land of
Havilah, and they dwelt there.
20 And all the children of Abraham's concubines went to dwell in
the land of the east, for Abraham had sent them away from his
son, and had given them presents, and they went away.
21 And Abraham gave all that he had to his son Isaac, and he
also gave him all his treasures.
22 And he commanded him saying, Dost thou not know and
understand the Lord is God in heaven and in earth, and there is
no other beside him?
23 And it was he who took me from my father's house, and from my
birth place, and gave me all the delights upon earth; who
delivered me from the counsel of the wicked, for in him did I
trust.
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, 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.
27 And teach thou thy children and thy seed the instructions of
the Lord and his commandments, and teach them the upright way in
which they should go, in order that it may be well with them
forever.
28 And Isaac answered his father and said unto him, That which
my Lord has commanded that will I do, and I will not depart from
the commands of the Lord my God, I will keep all that he
commanded me; and Abraham blessed his son Isaac, and also his
children; and Abraham taught Jacob the instruction of the Lord
and his ways.
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 seventy-five years, and
he died and 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.
33 And all the little children, and all the inhabitants of the
land wept on account of Abraham, for Abraham had been good to
them all, and because he had been upright with God and men.
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.
36 And he brought all the children of the earth to the service
of God, and he taught them the ways of the Lord, and caused them
to know the Lord.
37 And he formed a grove and he planted a vineyard therein, and
he had always prepared in his tent meat and drink to those that
passed through the land, that they might satisfy themselves in
his house.
38 And the Lord God delivered the whole earth on account of
Abraham.
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 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.
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By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:37 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 27
1 And Esau at that time, after the death of Abraham, frequently
went in the field to hunt.
2 And Nimrod king of Babel, the same was Amraphel, also
frequently went with his mighty men to hunt in the field, and to
walk about with his men in the cool of the day.
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 from him, and they
went from him in different directions to hunt, and Esau
concealed himself for Nimrod, and he lurked for him in the
wilderness.
6 And Nimrod and his men that were with him did not know him,
and Nimrod and his men frequently walked about in the field at
the cool of the day, and to know where his men were hunting in
the field.
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 fight with the two men that were
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.
10 And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a
distance, he fled, and thereby escaped; and Esau took the
valuable garments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's father had
bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod prevailed over the
whole land, and he ran and concealed them in his house.
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.
12 And he said unto his brother Jacob, Behold I shall die this
day, and wherefore then do I want the birthright? And Jacob
acted wisely with Esau in this matter, and Esau sold his
birthright to Jacob, for it was so brought about by the Lord.
13 And Esau's portion in the cave of the field of Machpelah,
which Abraham had bought from the children of Heth for the
possession of a burial ground, Esau also sold to Jacob, 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.
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 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.
17 And at the death of Nimrod his kingdom became divided into
many divisions, and all those parts that Nimrod reigned over
were restored to the respective kings of the land, who recovered
them after the 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.
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By: patrick jane Date: August 13, 2020, 6:38 am
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Book of Jasher, Chapter 28
1 And in those days, after the death of Abraham, in that year
the Lord brought a heavy famine in the land, and whilst the
famine was raging in the land of Canaan, Isaac rose up to go
down to Egypt on account of the famine, as his father Abraham
had done.
2 And the Lord appeared that night to Isaac and he said to him,
Do not go down to Egypt but rise and go to Gerar, to Abimelech
king of the Philistines, and remain there till 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 him on account of her.
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.
7 And when Isaac had remained three months in the land,
Abimelech looked out at the window, and he saw, and behold Isaac
was sporting 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.
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 guilt upon us.
9 And Isaac said unto Abimelech, Because I was afraid lest I die
on account of my wife, therefore I said, She is my sister.
10 At that time Abimelech gave orders to all his princes and
great men, and they took Isaac and Rebecca 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.
13 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Behold the whole earth is
before thee; dwell wherever it may seem good in thy sight until
thou shalt return to thy land; and Abimelech gave Isaac fields
and vineyards and the best part of the land of Gerar, to sow and
reap and eat the fruits of the ground until the days of the
famine should have passed by.
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.
16 And when the days of the famine had passed away the Lord
appeared to Isaac and said unto him, Rise up, go forth from this
place and return to thy land, to the land of Canaan; and Isaac
rose up and returned to Hebron which is in the land of Canaan,
he and all belonging to him as the Lord commanded him.
17 And after this Shelach the son at 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.
20 And Esau was a designing and deceitful man, one who hunted
after the hearts of men and inveigled them, and Esau was a
valiant man in the field, and in the course of time went as
usual to hunt; and he came as far as the field of Seir, the same
is Edom.
21 And he remained in the land of Seir hunting in the field a
year and four months.
22 And Esau there saw in the land of Seir the daughter of a man
of Canaan, and her name was Jehudith, the daughter of Beeri, son
of Epher, from the families of Heth the son of Canaan.
23 And Esau took her for a wife, and he came unto her; forty
years old was Esau when he took her, and he brought her to
Hebron, the land of his father's dwelling place, and he dwelt
there.
24 And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth
year of the life of Isaac, that is in the fiftieth year of the
life of Jacob, in that year died Shem the son of Noah; Shem was
six hundred years old at his death.
25 And when Shem died Jacob returned to his father to Hebron
which is in the land of Canaan.
26 And in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Jacob, people came
from Haran, and Rebecca was told concerning her brother Laban
the son of Bethuel.
27 For the wife of Laban was barren in those days, and bare no
children, and also all his handmaids bare none to him.
28 And the Lord afterward remembered Adinah the wife of Laban,
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.
29 And those people came and told these things to Rebecca, and
Rebecca rejoiced greatly that the Lord had visited her brother
and that he had got children.
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