משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”

עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”

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THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19-35:29).

And Abimelech charged all his people. In denouncing capital punishment against anyone who should do injury to this stranger, we may suppos…

And Abimelech charged all [his] people All his subjects throughout his kingdom, and particularly the inhabitants of Gerar…

There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his fat…