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asher553Isaac prospers in Be'er-Sheva. Esau marries two women, Judith and Basemath, who cause strife with Isaac and Rebecca.
Isaac, grown old and with his eyesight failing, sends Esau out to hunt him some game. Rebecca, overhearing, directs Jacob to bring Isaac a farm-to-table meal of two goat kids, so as to appropriate Isaac's blessing intended for Esau to himself. When Jacob protests that the ruse might be discovered (so that Jacob would incur "a curse instead of a blessing"), Rebecca further instructs him to disguise his arms with goat skins to make them rough and hairy to the touch.
At first Isaac is suspicious of how quickly the meal appears, but Jacob (invoking the Creator's name in his lie) asserts that "the L-rd your G-d arranged it." Isaac finishes the meal, drinks wine, and begins to bless Jacob, whose "fragrance is like the fragrance of a field that the L-rd has blessed" (27:27)
Name trivia: The name Judith [יְהוּדִית] appears only here in the Hebrew Bible; and although the name can be translated as "woman of Judah" or "Jewish woman", this Judith is Esau's wife, the daughter of Be'eri the Hittite. (There is also a Book of Judith, featuring a Jewish widow of that name, in the Septuagint, but this book does not appear in the Masoretic Hebrew Scriptures.) In fact, at the time of this episode, Judah - the son of Jacob and Leah for whom the tribe and the Kingdom of Judah, and eventually the Jewish people, would be named - is not even born yet. [257]
Isaac, grown old and with his eyesight failing, sends Esau out to hunt him some game. Rebecca, overhearing, directs Jacob to bring Isaac a farm-to-table meal of two goat kids, so as to appropriate Isaac's blessing intended for Esau to himself. When Jacob protests that the ruse might be discovered (so that Jacob would incur "a curse instead of a blessing"), Rebecca further instructs him to disguise his arms with goat skins to make them rough and hairy to the touch.
At first Isaac is suspicious of how quickly the meal appears, but Jacob (invoking the Creator's name in his lie) asserts that "the L-rd your G-d arranged it." Isaac finishes the meal, drinks wine, and begins to bless Jacob, whose "fragrance is like the fragrance of a field that the L-rd has blessed" (27:27)
Name trivia: The name Judith [יְהוּדִית] appears only here in the Hebrew Bible; and although the name can be translated as "woman of Judah" or "Jewish woman", this Judith is Esau's wife, the daughter of Be'eri the Hittite. (There is also a Book of Judith, featuring a Jewish widow of that name, in the Septuagint, but this book does not appear in the Masoretic Hebrew Scriptures.) In fact, at the time of this episode, Judah - the son of Jacob and Leah for whom the tribe and the Kingdom of Judah, and eventually the Jewish people, would be named - is not even born yet. [257]
