Daily
Feast
(Nineth
Day)
Genesis 25:30 – 27:46
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
25
30 Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with some
of that red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
31 Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
32 Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What
good is the birthright to me?”
33 Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
He
swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate
and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
26
1 There was a famine in the land, in addition
to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech
king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2
Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the
land I will tell you about. 3 Live in
this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you,
and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I
swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will
multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands
to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be
blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed my
voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
6 Isaac lived in Gerar. 7 The men of the place asked him about his wife.
He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he
thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is
beautiful to look at.” 8 When he had
been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. 9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold,
surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ ”
Isaac
said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’ ”
10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done
to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would
have brought guilt on us!”
11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying,
“He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the
same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. 13 The man grew great, and grew more and more
until he became very great. 14 He had
possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The
Philistines envied him. 15 Now all the
wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father,
the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us,
for you are much mightier than we.”
17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the
valley of Gerar, and lived there.
18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which
they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped
them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which
his father had called them. 19 Isaac’s
servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. 20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s
herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him. 21 They
dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name
Sitnah. 22 He left that place, and dug
another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He
said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the
land.”
23 He went up from there to Beersheba. 24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and
said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you,
and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
25 He built an altar there, and called on
Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with
Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me,
since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
28 They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was
with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and
you, and let’s make a covenant with you, 29
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have
done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the
blessed of Yahweh.”
30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31 They rose up some time in the
morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they
departed from him in peace. 32 The same
day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug,
and said to him, “We have found water.” 33
He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to
this day.
34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as
wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon
the Hittite. 35 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
27
1 When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?”
He
said to him, “Here I am.”
2 He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the
day of my death. 3 Now therefore, please
take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get
me venison. 4 Make me savory food, such
as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you
before I die.”
5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his
son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold,
I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 7 ‘Bring me venison,
and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my
death.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my
voice according to that which I command you. 9
Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will
make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. 10 You shall bring it to your father, that he
may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold,
Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to
him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”
13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on
me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”
14 He went, and got them, and brought them to
his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her
elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger
son. 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of
his neck. 17 She gave the savory food
and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
18 He came to his father, and said, “My father?”
He
said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”
19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your
firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my
venison, that your soul may bless me.”
20 Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you
have found it so quickly, my son?”
He
said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”
21 Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that
I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt
him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau.” 23 He didn’t recognize him,
because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.
24 He said, “Are you really my son
Esau?”
He
said, “I am.”
25 He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat
of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.”
He
brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. 26 His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now,
and kiss me, my son.” 27 He came near,
and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and
said,
“Behold,
the smell of my son
is
as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
28 God give you of the dew of the sky,
of
the fatness of the earth,
and
plenty of grain and new wine.
29
Let peoples serve you,
and
nations bow down to you.
Be
lord over your brothers.
Let
your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed
be everyone who curses you.
Blessed
be everyone who blesses you.”
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob,
and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his
brother came in from his hunting. 31 He
also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father,
“Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless
me.”
32 Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?”
He
said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then,
is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all
before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he
cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless
me, even me also, my father.”
35 He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and
has taken away your blessing.”
36 He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For
he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he
has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him
your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have
sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have just
one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
39 Isaac his father answered him,
“Behold,
your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth,
and
of the dew of the sky from above.
40 You will live by your sword, and you will
serve your brother.
It
will happen, when you will break loose,
that
you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with
which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for
my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told
to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold,
your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise,
flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. 44
Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away— 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from
you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you
from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”
46 Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of
Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do
me?”
Eighth Day <--> Tenth Day
 Genesis 25:30 – 27:46){kind=link}