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Book of Jasher 26



Book of Jasher 26

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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