Jubilees

1And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that the Lord blessed Isaac his son, and he arose from Hebron and went

2and dwelt at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week of this jubilee, seven years.

3And in the first year of the fourth week a famine began in the land, besides the first famine, which had been in the days of Abraham.

4And Jacob sod lentil pottage, and Esau came from the field hungry.

5And he said to Jacob his brother: "Give me of this red pottage." And Jacob said to him: "Sell to me thy [primogeniture, this] birthright and I will give thee bread, and also some of this lentil pottage."

6And Esau said in his heart: "I shall die; of what profit to me is this birthright?"

7And he said to Jacob: "I give it to thee." And Jacob said "Swear to me, this day," and he sware unto him.

8And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and pottage, and he ate till he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright;

9for this reason was Esau's name called Edom, on account of the red pottage which Jacob gave him for his birthright.

10And Jacob became the elder, and Esau was brought down from his dignity.

11And the famine was over the land, and Isaac departed to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week,

12and went to the king of the Philistines to Gerar, unto Abimelech.

13And the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him: "Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of,

14and sojourn in this land, and I shall be with thee and bless thee. For to thee and to thy seed shall I give all this land, and I shall establish My oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father,

15and I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and shall give unto thy seed all this land. And in thy seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

16because thy father obeyed My voice, and kept My charge and My commandments, and My laws, and My ordinances, and My covenant;

17and now obey My voice and dwell in this land."

18And he dwelt in Gerar three weeks of years.

19And Abimelech charged concerning him, and concerning all that was his, saying: "Any man that shall touch him or aught that is his shall surely die."

20And Isaac waxed strong among the Philistines, and he got many possessions, oxen and sheep and camels and asses and a great household.

21And he sowed in the land of the Philistines and brought in a hundred-fold, and Isaac became exceedingly great,

22and the Philistines envied him. Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and filled them with earth.

23And Abimelech said unto Isaac: "Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we";

24and Isaac departed thence in the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar.

25And they digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham, his father, had digged, and which the Philistines had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called their names as Abraham his father had named them.

26And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley, and found living water,

27and the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying: "The water is ours "; and Isaac called the name of the well "Perversity," because they had been perverse with us.

28And they dug a second well, and they strove for that also, and he called its name "Enmity."

29And he arose from thence and they digged another well, and for that they strove not, and he called the name of it "Room," and Isaac said: "Now the Lord hath made room for us, and we have increased in the land."

30And he went up from thence to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee.

31And the Lord appeared to him that night, on the new moon of the first month, and said unto him: "I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and shall bless thee and shall surely multiply thy seed as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham my servant."

32And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father.

33And they digged a well and they found living water.

34And the servants of Isaac digged another well and did not find water,

35and they went and told Isaac that they had not found water, and Isaac said: "I have sworn this day to the Philistines and this thing hath been announced to us."

36And he called the name of that place the "Well of the Oath"; for there he had sworn to Abimelech and Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the prefect of his host.

37And Isaac knew that day that under constraint he had sworn to them to make peace with them.

38And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said: "Cursed be the Philistines unto the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations;

39may God make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners the Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.

40And whoever escapeth the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under heaven;

41for they will be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth. And no remnant will be left to them, Nor one that will be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment;

42For for destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is the whole seed of the Philistines (reserved), And there will no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.

43For though he ascend unto heaven, Thence will he be brought down, And though he make himself strong on earth, Thence will he be dragged forth,

44And though he hide himself amongst the nations, Even from thence will he be rooted out; And though he descend into Sheol, There also will his condemnation be great, And there also he will have no peace.

45And if he go into captivity, By the hands of those that seek his life will they slay him on the way,

46And neither name nor seed will be left to him on all the earth; For into eternal malediction will he depart."

47And thus is it written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tables, to do unto him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth.