Jubilees

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that the Lord blessed his son Isaac, and he went out of Hebron and went and dwelt at the Well of Vision in the first year of the third week of this jubilee for seven years.

And in the first year of the fourth week a famine began in the land, besides the first famine that happened in the days of Abraham.

And Jacob cooked a stew of lentils, and Esau came from the fields hungry. And he said to Jacob his brother: "Give me of that red stew." And Jacob said to him: "Sell me your birthright and I will give you three loaves, and also some of that lentil stew."

And Esau said in his heart: "I will die, of what use will that birthright be to me?" And he said to Jacob: "I will give it to you."

And Jacob said: "Swear to me today," and he swore to him.

And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and lentils, and he ate until he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright; for this reason Esau's name was called Edom, because of the red stew that Jacob gave him for his birthright.

And Jacob became the elder, and Esau fell from his dignity.

And the famine was upon the land, and Isaac went out to go down to Egypt in the second year of this week, and went to the king of the Philistines, to Gerar, to Abimelech.

And the Lord appeared and said to him: "Do not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land that I tell you, and sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you.

For to you and your descendants I will give all this land, and I will establish my oath which I swore to Abraham your father, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, I will give to your descendants all this land.

And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because your father obeyed my voice, and kept my charge and my commandments, and my laws, and my ordinances, and my covenant. Now obey my voice and dwell in this land."

And he dwelt in Gerar three weeks of years.

And Abimelech commanded concerning him and concerning all that was his, saying: "Any man who touches him or what is his shall surely die."

And Isaac became strong among the Philistines, and he had many possessions: Bullocks, sheep, camels, donkeys, and a great number of servants.

And he sowed in the land of the Philistines and reaped a hundredfold, and Isaac became very great, and the Philistines envied him.

Now all the wells that the servants of Abraham had dug during Abraham's life, the Philistines had closed after Abraham's death, and filled them with earth.

And Abimelech said to Isaac: "Depart from us, for you are much more powerful than we," and Isaac departed from there in the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar.

And they dug again the wells of water that the servants of Abraham, his father, had dug and the Philistines had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called their names by the names that Abraham his father had named them.

And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley, and found running water, but the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with the shepherds of Isaac saying: "The water is ours." And Isaac called the name of the well 'Perversity', because they were perverse with us.

And they dug a second well, and they quarreled over this also, and he called it by the name of 'Enmity'. And he departed from there and they dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this, and he called it by the name of 'Lar', and Isaac said: "Now the Lord has prepared a home for us, and we have increased in the land."

And he went from there to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week of the forty-fourth jubilee.

And the Lord appeared to him that night, on the new moon of the first month, and said to him: "I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you and multiply your descendants as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham, my servant."

And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father.

And they dug a well and found running water.

And the servants of Isaac dug a new well, but did not find water, and they went and told Isaac that they had not found water, and Isaac said: "I swore, this day, to the Philistines that all this was given to us."

And he called that place by the name of the Well of the Oath; because there he had sworn to Abimelech and Ahuzzath, his companions, and to Phicol, the commander of the army.

And Isaac knew that on that day under constraint he had sworn to keep peace with them.

And Isaac that day cursed the Philistines and said: "Cursed be the Philistines on the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations; may God make them a scorn and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinners, the Gentiles, and in the hands of Kittim.

And whoever escapes the sword of Kittim, may the nation of the righteous exterminate them in judgment from under heaven; because they will be the enemies and adversaries of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.

And no remnant shall be left to them, none shall be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment; Because for the destruction and extermination and expulsion from the land and all the descendants of the Philistines, and there shall not be left for these Caphtorians a name nor a descendant upon the earth.

For though he ascend to heaven, from there he shall be cast down. And though he make himself great upon the earth, from there he shall be uprooted. And though he hide himself among the nations, even from there he shall be exterminated. And though he go down to Hell, there also his condemnation shall be great, and there also he shall have no peace.

And if he be taken prisoner by the hands of those who seek his life, let him be killed on the way, and neither name nor descendants be left to him in all the earth, because by eternal curse he shall be expelled.

And thus it is written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, that it be done to him on the day of judgment, so that he be exterminated from the earth.