1 After nine years my son Yitsḥaq brought to me his wife Riḇqah for she was yet barren.
2 And she said to me, My father, surely I know that my mother Sarah was barren for many years before she bare Yitsḥaq to you.
3 Wherefore, pray for me, that I, like Sarah, may conceive.
4 Therefore, I prayed over my daughter Riḇqah, and I said to Yitsḥaq, Your mother Sarah bare you after she received a beraḵah from my brother Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar.
5 Aḇimeleḵ, son of Aḇimeleḵ, reign now in the place of his father in Gerar, and he, too, is a mighty man of Elohim.
6 Go you in unto him that he may baraḵ Riḇqah and she shall conceive and bear to you two sons and the younger shall rule over the elder, but in the elder shall the Word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 also be fulfilled for through him shall I slay wicked Nimroḏ even as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 foretold at my birth.
7 So Yitsḥaq took Riḇqah and went to Gerar, to Aḇimeleḵ, son of Aḇimeleḵ, who baraḵ her after the Order of the Ancients, and she conceived and bare to Yitsḥaq two sons, even as I had said.
8 And on the eighth day, Yitsḥaq brought the last to me to be named and the elder I called Ĕsaw, for he was covered with hair and I said, Surely he shall be a mighty hunter before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
9 But the second I called Ya’aqoḇ, for I said, Surely the elder shall serve the younger.
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