משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”

עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”

שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…

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

And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven ,
&c.] Meaning in the line of Jacob especially, if not …

Isaac had been trained in a believing dependence on the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in …