סכת (sûkkôth) refers to Sukkoth, meaning “booths,” which consisted of poles forming a roof covered with branches, leaves, or gras…

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

THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.

Abraham beg…

Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themse…

What meanest thou by all this drove? He does not inquire as if he were altogether ignorant, since he had heard from the servants that oxen…

And he said, what do you mean by all this drove which I met ? &c.] Not as being ignorant of the design of it; for no doub…

Jacob, having by prayer committed his case to God, went on his way. Come what will, nothing can come amiss to him whose heart is fixed, trusting in…