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†. Gen 25:26c . . Isaac was sixty years old when they were born. Isaac married Rebecca at forty (Gen 25:20). If Becky was 18 at her wedding, she would have been 38. Imagine waiting twenty years to have your first child? Quite a few modern marriages end long before then. †. Gen 25:27a . .When...

†. Gen 25:23b . . One people shall be mightier than the other, and the older shall serve the younger. Esau will come out first; hence he's the "older". However, the right of primogeniture was taken from him and given to Jacob. That was God's sovereign prerogative as the paterfamilias of Yhvh's...

†. Gen 25:22a . . But the children struggled in her womb, The word for "struggled" is from ratsats (raw-tsats') which means: to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively Haw-Haw-Haw-Haw-Haw. Those little tiny babies were trying to bust each other's skulls in there! The word ratsats is used...

†. Gen 25:19 . .This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. The word for "son" is ben (bane) and is used like American's use a middle name. Isaac's whole name is: Isaac ben Abraham. It's a common idiom in the Old Testament, and found in the New Testament too. †. John 6:42...

†. Gen 25:11a . . After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. With the death of Abraham, the covenant torch is passed on to the next patriarch. The promises now shift into Isaac's possession and it becomes his responsibility to take over as the family priest too. †. Gen 25:11b . ...

†. Gen 25:8c . . and he was gathered to his kin. "gathered to his kin" isn't recorded only of special people; not when Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron, and Moses are all recorded to have been gathered to their kin too. An analysis of the contexts in which the phrase is found reveals that it is to...

†. Gen 25:7 . .This was the total span of Abraham's life: one hundred and seventy-five years. Abraham resided in Canaan for 100 years; and outlived Sarah by 48. That's not the way it usually happens here in modern America. Wives typically outlive their husbands; and if you don't think that's...

I know this little guy, he stands, oh so, about knee high. He’s got the cutest dimples on his cheery face, Got a smile that lights up the whole place. He’s got the knack for chatter, he invites himself if you won’t : “I’ll have that muesli bar please cause my brother don’t.” Suppose to … Keep...

†. Gen 25:1 . . Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. According to 1Chrn 1:32, Ms. Keturah wasn't really a full fledged wife as Sarah had been, but was a wife of a different color altogether. She was a piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh) which means: a mistress or a paramour; viz: a...

†. Gen 24:64b . . She alighted from the camel Suspecting that the man up ahead just might be her future husband, Rebecca took no chances of getting off on the wrong foot with impropriety. She could always get back up on the camel if it turned out the man wasn't her Isaac; but just in case . . ...

†. Gen 24:61b . . So the servant took Rebecca and went his way. The 500 mile trip to Isaac's camp, which must have taken at least two weeks, was a great opportunity for Rebecca to become familiar with the manager of her spouse's goods. People bond well under hardship and under close knit...

†. Gen 24:54-55 . .Then he and the men with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. When they arose next morning, he said: Give me leave to go to my master. But her brother and her mother said: Let the maiden remain with us some ten days; then you may go. Their request was reasonable...

†. Gen 24:34 . . I am Abraham's servant: he began. I think it's commendable that this man, so far from home, didn't introduce himself by his own name but rather by the name of the one whom he represented. †. Gen 24:35 . .The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich: He has...

†. Gen 24:23-25 . . Pray tell me; he said: whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night? She replied: I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. And she went on: There is plenty of straw and feed at home, and also room to...

†. Gen 24:16d . . She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. The "spring" in this case was a small pool of water fed by an aquifer, which is different than an artesian well. Artesians gush, while aquifers seep. Some of the shafts of ancient man-made wells in the that part of the...

Sitting in you chair, Glasses on, studying the world, You’re the armchair expert. Let the fanfare and flags unfurl. - Yeah, you’re the expert, you sitting there, You know it all, the judge of everything, You been there, you’ve been everywhere. Tried everyone’s shoes, then thrown ‘em in the bin...

†. Gen 24:11 . . He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city, at evening time, the time when women come out to draw water. "evening time" is from an ambiguous word that indicates any time after high noon when the sun is descending towards sunset as opposed to "morning" which can...

You wanted the world, the fastest and the best. The largest, richest house and all the rest. You wanted the crowds and their butter lips. One premiership is only the iceberg’s tip. Though our beauty tis only skin deep, We try our absolute hardest to keep. We forget the very reason we are here...

†. Gen 24:3c-4 . . that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac. The words "land of my birth" can also mean "to my country and to my relatives." That is exactly how the...