Jubilees 24:1-33

¹After the death of Abraham, the Lord blessed Isaac his son, and he arose from Hebron and went and dwelt at the Well of the Vision in the first year of the third week [2073 A.M.] of this jubilee, for seven years.

²And in the first year of the fourth week [2080 A.M.] a famine began in the land, besides the first famine which had been in the days of Abraham.

³And Jacob cooked lentil stew, and Esau came from the field hungry. And he said to Jacob his brother: 'Give me some of this red stew.'

⁴And Jacob said to him: 'Sell me your birthright, and I will give you bread, and also some of this lentil stew.' And Esau said in his heart: 'I shall die; of what profit to me is this birthright?'

⁵And he said to Jacob: 'I give it to you.' And Jacob said: 'Swear to me this day,' and he swore to him. And Jacob gave his brother Esau bread and stew, and he ate until he was satisfied, and Esau despised his birthright. For this reason Esau's name was called Edom, on account of the red stew which Jacob gave him for his birthright.

⁶And Jacob became the elder, and Esau was brought down from his dignity.

⁷And the famine was over the land, and Isaac departed to go down into Egypt in the second year of this week, and went to the king of the Philistines, to Gerar, to Abimelech.

⁸And the Lord appeared to him and said to him: 'Do not go down into Egypt; dwell in the land that I shall tell you of, and sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you.

⁹For to you and to your seed I will give all this land, and I will establish my oath which I swore to Abraham your father, and I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all this land.

¹⁰And in your seed 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; and now obey my voice and dwell in this land.'

¹¹And he dwelt in Gerar three weeks of years [2080–2101 A.M.].

¹²And Abimelech gave orders concerning him and concerning all that was his, saying: 'Any man who touches him or anything that is his shall surely die.'

¹³And Isaac grew strong among the Philistines, and he acquired many possessions: oxen and sheep and camels and donkeys and a great household.

¹⁴And he sowed in the land of the Philistines and brought in a hundredfold, and Isaac became exceedingly great, and the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and filled them with earth.

¹⁶And Abimelech said to Isaac: 'Go from us, for you are much mightier than we are.' And Isaac departed from there in the first year of the seventh week, and sojourned in the valleys of Gerar.

¹⁷And they dug again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had dug, and which the Philistines had closed after the death of Abraham his father, and he called them by the names that Abraham his father had given them.

¹⁸And the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley and found living water, and 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 had been perverse with us.

¹⁹And they dug a second well, and they quarreled over that one also, and he called its name 'Enmity.' And he arose from there and they dug another well, and over that one they did not quarrel, and he called the name of it 'Room,' and Isaac said: 'Now the Lord has made room for us, and we have increased in the land.'

²⁰And he went up from there to the Well of the Oath in the first year of the first week in the forty-fourth jubilee [2108 A.M.].

²¹And 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; do not fear, for I am with you, and I shall bless you and shall surely multiply your seed as the sand of the earth, for the sake of Abraham my servant.'

²²And 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.

²³And they dug a well and they found living water.

²⁴And the servants of Isaac dug another well and did not find water, and they went and told Isaac that they had not found water, and Isaac said: 'I have sworn this day to the Philistines, and this thing has been announced to us.'

²⁵And he called the name of that place the Well of the Oath; for there he had sworn to Abimelech and Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the prefect of his host.

²⁶And Isaac knew that day that under constraint he had sworn to them to make peace with them.

²⁷And Isaac on that day cursed the Philistines and said: 'Cursed be the Philistines until the day of wrath and indignation from the midst of all nations; may God make them a derision and a curse and an object of wrath and indignation in the hands of the sinful Gentiles and in the hands of the Kittim.

²⁸And whoever escapes the sword of the enemy and the Kittim, may the righteous nation root out in judgment from under heaven; for they shall be the enemies and foes of my children throughout their generations upon the earth.

²⁹And no remnant shall be left to them, nor one that shall be saved on the day of the wrath of judgment; for destruction and rooting out and expulsion from the earth is reserved for the whole seed of the Philistines, and there shall no longer be left for these Caphtorim a name or a seed on the earth.

³⁰For though he ascend to heaven, from there he shall be brought down, and though he make himself strong on earth, from there he shall be dragged forth, and though he hide himself among the nations, even from there he shall be rooted out; and though he descend into Sheol, there also shall his condemnation be great, and there also he shall have no peace.

³¹And if he goes into captivity, by the hands of those who seek his life they shall slay him on the way, and neither name nor seed shall be left to him on all the earth; for into eternal malediction he shall depart.'

³²And thus it is written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, to do to him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth.

³³And thus it is written and engraved concerning him on the heavenly tablets, to do to him on the day of judgment, so that he may be rooted out of the earth.