משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”

עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”

שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…

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

Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out at a window. Truly admirable is the kind forbearance of God, in not only condescending to p…

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time
Perhaps some years: for though it is in the original, "when …

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…