Scriptures

1 After Sarah’s death, I sent my son Yitsḥaq unto Shĕm and Ĕḇer to learn more perfectly the ways of the ancients and he remained there three years before returning to my camp.

1 In the one hundred thirty-eighth year of my life, my brother Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of Gerar, died being one hundred and ninety-three years of age. 2 Wherefore, I took my people and journeyed to Gerar where we mourned over Aḇimeleḵ for he was a good and qodesh man who walked Read more

1 The following year Lot, my brother’s son, died being one hundred and forty years old. 2 He, too, was a just man and accepted of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, although he did not walk in all the ways of the ancients, for he had coveted his own property and separated from the Read more

1 Now, when my son Yitsḥaq was about to return to me from the city of Shalom, the Word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came to me saying, Behold, in the city of Ḥaran dwells Bethu’ĕl the son of your brother Naḥor who is dead. 2 Unto Bethu’ĕl has been born Riḇqah, who Read more

1 So I called to me Eli’ezer, my trusted companion who had been with me since we had come out of the city of Shalom, and I said to him, Put now your hand under my thigh and swear to me before the Most High Elohim that you shall go Read more

1 This same year I took to wife Qeturah, the daughter of my old friend Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar who was dead. 2 Qeturah bare me six sons so that in all I received of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 eight sons and three hundred and twenty-eight daughters, being in all three hundred and Read more

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 Read more

1 When my youngest son Shuwaḥ, whom Qeturah had borne me – for she bare Zimran, Yoqshan, Miḏyan, Meḏan, Yishbaq and Shuwaḥ – was fifteen years of age, I called all of my sons unto me and instructed them in the Ways of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and baraḵ them and gave unto Read more

1 Behold, I am Yitsḥaq, the son of Aḇraham, and I finish my father’s record. 2 For when the end of my father’s sojourn among men had come, he called me to him and said, My son, according to the Commandment of Elohim to you, I have appointed you to Read more

1 Then I covenanted with my father to do all things as he had said and to walk always in his ways. 2 And my father baraḵ me and my house and he took my son Ya’aqoḇ into his tent, he being fifteen years old at this time, and instructed Read more