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The Book of Genesis, With Intr. and Notes by M. Dods
The Book of Genesis With Intr and Notes by M Dods Author:Marcus Dods General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XXV. tg-L. 26. -- History Of Isaac And His Descendants. 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son : 20 Abraham begat Isaac : and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of 21 Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren : and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife con- 22 ceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus ? And she went to enquire 23 of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than 24 the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there 25 were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold Birth And Character Of Jacob And Esau. -- 19-28. Padan-Aram, the plain, or flat-land, or lowlands of Aram ; cp. chap. xlviii. 7; and Hos. xii. 12. Isaac entreated. . . barren. Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel were all tried in this way. Livingstone (Mission. Travels, 132) tells us it was "heartrending to hear the earnest entreaty" of women who had come more than two hundred miles to him with Rebekah's petition : " I am getting old," they would say ; " you see grey hairs here and there on my head, and I have no child. You know how Bechuana husbands cast their old wives away ; what can I do ...« less