Jacob, Joseph & Egypt

To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,

Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.

And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place.

And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

And his father said to him, Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.

Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go abroad; and when thou hast taken something by hunting,

Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and my soul may bless thee, before I die.

And when Rebecca had heard this, and he was gone into the field to fulfil his father's commandment,

She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to him:

Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the Lord, before I die.

Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:

And go thy way to the flock, bring me two kids of the best, that I may make of them meat for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.

Which when thou hast brought in, and he hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

And he answered her: Thou knowest that Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am smooth:

If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said.

He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.

And she put on him very good garments of Esau, which she had at home with her: