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Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 25-27
nan Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison; and Rebekah loved Jacob.,And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begot Isaac.,these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.,And Jacob said: ‘Swear to me first’; and he swore unto him; and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.,And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.,And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Asshur: over against all his brethren he did settle.,Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore unto Abraham.,And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.,And the LORD said unto her: Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger.,And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.,And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.,And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,,And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.,And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.,And the children struggled together within her; and she said: ‘If it be so, wherefore do I live?’ And she went to inquire of the LORD.,And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.,And Esau said to Jacob: ‘Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.’ Therefore was his name called Edom.,and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;,And Jacob said: ‘Sell me first thy birth right.’,the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.,And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was threescore years old when she bore them.,And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;,But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.,And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau.,And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.,And Esau said: ‘Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?’,And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.,And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.,And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.,Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem;,And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.,And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.,And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.,And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his people.
nan And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.,Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.,And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.,Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;,And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said: ‘I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham’s sake.’,And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: ‘He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.’,And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah.,And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.,And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.,Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.,And they digged another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah.,And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.,And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.,And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.,And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: ‘Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?’ And Isaac said unto him: ‘Because I said: Lest I die because of her.’,And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.,And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.,And the LORD appeared unto him, and said: ‘Go not down unto Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of.,And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.,And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said: ‘For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.’,And the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdmen, saying: ‘The water is ours.’ And he called the name of the well Esek; because they contended with him.,And they said: ‘We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;,because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.’,And Abimelech said unto Isaac: ‘Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.’,And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.,And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: ‘We have found water.’,And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.,And Isaac said unto them: ‘Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?’,and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves;,And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.,And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.,And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold; and the LORD blessed him.,And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said: ‘She is my sister’; for he feared to say: ‘My wife’; ‘lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.’,And Abimelech said: ‘What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.’,that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace; thou art now the blessed of the LORD.’
nan Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;,And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.,Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee. Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.,And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.,And Isaac said unto his son: ‘How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?’ And he said: ‘Because the LORD thy God sent me good speed.’,And Isaac his father said unto him: ‘Who art thou?’ And he said: ‘I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.’,And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved.,And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said: See, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed.,And he said: ‘Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.’,And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above;,And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.,And his father Isaac said unto him: ‘Come near now, and kiss me, my son.’,And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said: ‘Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.’,And he said: ‘Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing.’ And he said: ‘Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?’,And he also made savoury food, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father: ‘Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.’,and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.’,When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father: ‘Bless me, even me also, O my father.’,until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?’,My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.’,And he came unto his father, and said: ‘My father’; and he said: ‘Here am I; who art thou, my son?’,And Jacob said unto his father: ‘I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.’,And he said: ‘Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee.’ And he brought it near to him, and he did eat; and he brought him wine, and he drank.,And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.,And Esau said unto his father: ‘Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.’ And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.,And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: ‘The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.’,And Isaac said unto Jacob: ‘Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.’,And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: ‘Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.,and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.’,And by thy sword shalt thou live, And thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.,Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice according to that which I command thee.,And he said: ‘Art thou my very son Esau?’ And he said: ‘I am.’,Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison;,And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.,and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;,And his mother said unto him: ‘Upon me be thy curse, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go fetch me them.’,And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: ‘Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.,And he said: ‘Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.,And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.,And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him: ‘My son’; and he said unto him: ‘Here am I.’,And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart: ‘Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.’,And Isaac answered and said unto Esau: ‘Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what then shall I do for thee, my son?’,So God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fat places of the earth, And plenty of corn and wine.,Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.,And Rebekah said to Isaac: ‘I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?’,Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury food for thy father, such as he loveth;,And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying: ‘Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying:

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1. Septuagint, Tobit, 4.12 (10th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 4.12. Beware, my son, of all immorality. First of all take a wife from among the descendants of your fathers and do not marry a foreign woman, who is not of your fathers tribe; for we are the sons of the prophets. Remember, my son, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old, all took wives from among their brethren. They were blessed in their children, and their posterity will inherit the land.
2. Hebrew Bible, Esther, 2.7, 8.17 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 2.7. וַיְהִי אֹמֵן אֶת־הֲדַסָּה הִיא אֶסְתֵּר בַּת־דֹּדוֹ כִּי אֵין לָהּ אָב וָאֵם וְהַנַּעֲרָה יְפַת־תֹּאַר וְטוֹבַת מַרְאֶה וּבְמוֹת אָבִיהָ וְאִמָּהּ לְקָחָהּ מָרְדֳּכַי לוֹ לְבַת׃ 8.17. וּבְכָל־מְדִינָה וּמְדִינָה וּבְכָל־עִיר וָעִיר מְקוֹם אֲשֶׁר דְּבַר־הַמֶּלֶךְ וְדָתוֹ מַגִּיעַ שִׂמְחָה וְשָׂשׂוֹן לַיְּהוּדִים מִשְׁתֶּה וְיוֹם טוֹב וְרַבִּים מֵעַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ מִתְיַהֲדִים כִּי־נָפַל פַּחַד־הַיְּהוּדִים עֲלֵיהֶם׃ 2.7. And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter." 8.17. And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them."
3. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 21.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 21.1. וַיהוָה פָּקַד אֶת־שָׂרָה כַּאֲשֶׁר אָמָר וַיַּעַשׂ יְהוָה לְשָׂרָה כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֵּר׃ 21.1. וַתֹּאמֶר לְאַבְרָהָם גָּרֵשׁ הָאָמָה הַזֹּאת וְאֶת־בְּנָהּ כִּי לֹא יִירַשׁ בֶּן־הָאָמָה הַזֹּאת עִם־בְּנִי עִם־יִצְחָק׃ 21.1. And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken."
4. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 11.12, 24.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 11.12. הֶאָנֹכִי הָרִיתִי אֵת כָּל־הָעָם הַזֶּה אִם־אָנֹכִי יְלִדְתִּיהוּ כִּי־תֹאמַר אֵלַי שָׂאֵהוּ בְחֵיקֶךָ כַּאֲשֶׁר יִשָּׂא הָאֹמֵן אֶת־הַיֹּנֵק עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לַאֲבֹתָיו׃ 24.7. יִזַּל־מַיִם מִדָּלְיָו וְזַרְעוֹ בְּמַיִם רַבִּים וְיָרֹם מֵאֲגַג מַלְכּוֹ וְתִנַּשֵּׂא מַלְכֻתוֹ׃ 11.12. Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers?" 24.7. Water shall flow from his branches, And his seed shall be in many waters; And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted."
5. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 2.7-2.8, 89.27-89.30 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 2.7. אֲסַפְּרָה אֶל חֹק יְהוָה אָמַר אֵלַי בְּנִי אַתָּה אֲנִי הַיּוֹם יְלִדְתִּיךָ׃ 2.8. שְׁאַל מִמֶּנִּי וְאֶתְּנָה גוֹיִם נַחֲלָתֶךָ וַאֲחֻזָּתְךָ אַפְסֵי־אָרֶץ׃ 89.27. הוּא יִקְרָאֵנִי אָבִי אָתָּה אֵלִי וְצוּר יְשׁוּעָתִי׃ 89.28. אַף־אָנִי בְּכוֹר אֶתְּנֵהוּ עֶלְיוֹן לְמַלְכֵי־אָרֶץ׃ 89.29. לְעוֹלָם אשמור־[אֶשְׁמָר־] לוֹ חַסְדִּי וּבְרִיתִי נֶאֱמֶנֶת לוֹ׃ 2.7. I will tell of the decree: The LORD said unto me: 'Thou art My son, this day have I begotten thee." 2.8. Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession." 89.27. He shall call unto Me: Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. ." 89.28. I also will appoint him first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth." 89.29. For ever will I keep for him My mercy, And My covet shall stand fast with him." 89.30. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven."
6. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 49.23 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 49.23. וְהָיוּ מְלָכִים אֹמְנַיִךְ וְשָׂרוֹתֵיהֶם מֵינִיקֹתַיִךְ אַפַּיִם אֶרֶץ יִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לָךְ וַעֲפַר רַגְלַיִךְ יְלַחֵכוּ וְיָדַעַתְּ כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יֵבֹשׁוּ קוָֹי׃ 49.23. And kings shall be thy foster-fathers, And their queens thy nursing mothers; They shall bow down to thee with their face to the earth, And lick the dust of thy feet; And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me."
7. Hebrew Bible, Joshua, 7.13, 7.19, 10.1, 22.10-22.11 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 7.13. קֻם קַדֵּשׁ אֶת־הָעָם וְאָמַרְתָּ הִתְקַדְּשׁוּ לְמָחָר כִּי כֹה אָמַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֵרֶם בְּקִרְבְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא תוּכַל לָקוּם לִפְנֵי אֹיְבֶיךָ עַד־הֲסִירְכֶם הַחֵרֶם מִקִּרְבְּכֶם׃ 7.19. וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אֶל־עָכָן בְּנִי שִׂים־נָא כָבוֹד לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְתֶן־לוֹ תוֹדָה וְהַגֶּד־נָא לִי מֶה עָשִׂיתָ אַל־תְּכַחֵד מִמֶּנִּי׃ 7.13. Up, sanctify the people, and say: Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: There is a curse in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you." 7.19. And Joshua said unto Achan: ‘My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession unto Him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide nothing from me.’"
8. Hebrew Bible, Judges, 1.13, 4.8, 5.24-5.27, 13.7, 16.15 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.13. וַיִּלְכְּדָהּ עָתְנִיאֵל בֶּן־קְנַז אֲחִי כָלֵב הַקָּטֹן מִמֶּנּוּ וַיִּתֶּן־לוֹ אֶת־עַכְסָה בִתּוֹ לְאִשָּׁה׃ 4.8. וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלֶיהָ בָּרָק אִם־תֵּלְכִי עִמִּי וְהָלָכְתִּי וְאִם־לֹא תֵלְכִי עִמִּי לֹא אֵלֵךְ׃ 5.24. תְּבֹרַךְ מִנָּשִׁים יָעֵל אֵשֶׁת חֶבֶר הַקֵּינִי מִנָּשִׁים בָּאֹהֶל תְּבֹרָךְ׃ 5.25. מַיִם שָׁאַל חָלָב נָתָנָה בְּסֵפֶל אַדִּירִים הִקְרִיבָה חֶמְאָה׃ 5.26. יָדָהּ לַיָּתֵד תִּשְׁלַחְנָה וִימִינָהּ לְהַלְמוּת עֲמֵלִים וְהָלְמָה סִיסְרָא מָחֲקָה רֹאשׁוֹ וּמָחֲצָה וְחָלְפָה רַקָּתוֹ׃ 5.27. בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ כָּרַע נָפַל שָׁכָב בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ כָּרַע נָפָל בַּאֲשֶׁר כָּרַע שָׁם נָפַל שָׁדוּד׃ 13.7. וַיֹּאמֶר לִי הִנָּךְ הָרָה וְיֹלַדְתְּ בֵּן וְעַתָּה אַל־תִּשְׁתִּי יַיִן וְשֵׁכָר וְאַל־תֹּאכְלִי כָּל־טֻמְאָה כִּי־נְזִיר אֱלֹהִים יִהְיֶה הַנַּעַר מִן־הַבֶּטֶן עַד־יוֹם מוֹתוֹ׃ 16.15. וַתֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אֵיךְ תֹּאמַר אֲהַבְתִּיךְ וְלִבְּךָ אֵין אִתִּי זֶה שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים הֵתַלְתָּ בִּי וְלֹא־הִגַּדְתָּ לִּי בַּמֶּה כֹּחֲךָ גָדוֹל׃ 1.13. And ῾Otni᾽el the son of Qenaz, Kalev’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him ῾Akhsa his daughter to wife." 4.8. And Baraq said to her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go." 5.24. Blessed above women is Ya᾽el the wife of Ĥever the Qenite, blessed is she more than women in the tent." 5.25. He asked water, but she gave him milk; she brought forth cream in a lordly dish." 5.26. She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and she hammered Sisera, she smote through his head; she crushed and pierced his temple." 5.27. At her feet he bent, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bent, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down, bereft of life." 13.7. but he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazir to God from the womb to the day of his death." 16.15. And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me in what thy great strength lies."
9. Hebrew Bible, Zechariah, 12.10 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 12.10. And I will pour upon the house of David, And upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, The spirit of grace and of supplication; And they shall look unto Me because athey have thrust him through; And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, And shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born."
10. Septuagint, Tobit, 4.12 (4th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 4.12. Beware, my son, of all immorality. First of all take a wife from among the descendants of your fathers and do not marry a foreign woman, who is not of your fathers tribe; for we are the sons of the prophets. Remember, my son, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old, all took wives from among their brethren. They were blessed in their children, and their posterity will inherit the land.
11. Septuagint, Esther, 8.17 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
12. Philo of Alexandria, On The Cherubim, 47, 8, 40 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 40. And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain; and she said I have gotten a man by means of the Lord; and he caused her also to bring forth Abel his Brother." These men, to whose virtue the Jewish legislation bears testimony, he does not represent as knowing their wives, such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and if there are any others of like zeal with them; 40. A third view of the question is, that no king or tyrant may ever despise an obscure private individual, from being full of insolence and haughty pride; but that such an one, coming as a pupil to the school of the sacred laws, may relax his eyebrows, unlearning his self-opinionativeness, and yielding rather to true reason.
13. Philo of Alexandria, On The Preliminary Studies, 112-113, 34-38, 111 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 111. And the son of the man who was devoted to learning, learnt a very beautiful doctrine when he went on that admirable embassy, asking in marriage for the self-taught wise man that most appropriate sister, namely, perseverance. For he takes ten camels, a reminder of the number ten, that is to say, of right instruction, from among many and, indeed, infinite memorials of the Lord.
14. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 40, 42-52, 25 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 25. But she says, when you see the bad man coming in with great impetuosity, against virtue, and making great account of those things which it is more proper to disregard, such as wealth, glory, and pleasure, and praising the performance of actions of injustice, as being the cause of all the advantages before mentioned: for we see that those who act unjustly, are, for the most part, men possessed of much silver, and of much gold, and of high reputation. Do not then, turn away to the opposite road, and devote yourself to a life of penury, and abasement, and austerity, and solitude; for, by doing so, you will irritate your adversary, and arm a more bitter enemy against yourself.
15. Philo of Alexandria, On The Migration of Abraham, 209-211, 208 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 208. I very much admire Rebecca, who is patience, because she, at that time, recommends the man who is perfect in his soul, and who has destroyed the roughnesses of the passions and vices, to flee and return to Charran; for she says, "Now, therefore, my child, hear my voice, and rise up and depart, and flee away to Laban, my brother, to Charran, and dwell with him certain days, until the anger and rage of thy brother is turned from being against thee, and till he forgets what thou hast done to Him.
16. Philo of Alexandria, On The Posterity of Cain, 135, 142-145, 148-149, 153, 77, 134 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 134. Now of the four virtues, some are always virgins, and some from having been women become changed into virgins, as Sarah did; "For it had ceased to be with her after the manner of Women," when she began to conceive her happy offspring Isaac. But that which is always a virgin, is that of which Moses says, "And no man whatever knows her." For in truth, it is not permitted to any mortal to pollute incorruptible nature, nor even clearly to comprehend what it is. If indeed he were able by any means to become acquainted with it, he would not cease to hate and regret it;
17. Philo of Alexandria, On The Sacrifices of Cain And Abel, 4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 4. And this will be more evidently shown by the oracle which was given to Perseverance, that is to Rebecca; for she also, having conceived the two inconsistent natures of good and evil, and having considered each of them very deeply according to the injunctions of prudence, beholding them both exulting, and making a sort of skirmish as a prelude to the war which was to exist between them; she, I say, besought God to explain to her what this calamity meant, and what was the remedy for it. And he answered her inquiry, and told her, "Two nations are in thy womb." This calamity is the birth of good and evil. "But two peoples shall be divided in thy bowels." And the remedy is, for these two to be parted and separated from one another, and no longer to abide in the same place.
18. Philo of Alexandria, On Dreams, 1.46 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 1.46. therefore his mother, perseverance, that is Rebecca, says to him, "Rise up and flee to Laban, my brother, to Charran, and dwell with him certain Days." Do you not perceive then that the practiser of virtue will not endure to live permanently in the country of the outward senses, but only to remain there a few days and a short time, on account of the necessities of the body to which he is bound? But a longer time and an entire life is allotted to him in the city which is appreciable only by the intellect. IX.
19. Philo of Alexandria, On The Virtues, 208 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 208. Again, to the one who was approved of as the heir, there were born two sons, twins, resembling one another in no particular except in the hands, and even in them only by some especially providence of God, inasmuch as they were alike neither in their bodies nor in their minds, for the younger one was obedient to both his parents, and was really amiable and pleasing, so that he obtained the praises even of God; while the elder was disobedient, being intemperate in respect of the pleasures of the belly and of the parts beneath the belly, by a regard for which he was induced even to part with his birth-right, as far as he himself was concerned, though he repented immediately afterwards of the conditions on which he had forfeited it, and sought to slay his brother, and, in fact, to do everything imaginable by which he could be likely to pain his parents;
20. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.88 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
21. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 45, 30 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 30. And the clearest possible proof of this is, that no one who conversed with Isaac was a mere mortal. Rebecca, that is perseverance, asks her servant, seeing but one person, and having no conception but of one only, "Who is this man who is coming to meet us?" For the soul which perseveres in what is good, is able to comprehend all self-taught wisdom, which is named Isaac, but is not yet able to see God, who is the guide of wisdom.
22. New Testament, 1 Peter, 3.1-3.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 3.1. In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; 3.2. seeing your pure behavior in fear. 3.3. Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 3.4. but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious. 3.5. For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 3.6. as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
23. Anon., Genesis Rabba, 44 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abraham	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110; Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 113; Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
abraham\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
adult-centric bias	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
akedah	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
allegory	Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
angels of the divine presence, in tobit	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of hebrew bible, rewritten scriptures	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of hebrew bible	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
aristobulus i	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
babel, tower of babel	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
barak	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
barren, barrenness	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
binyan	Lorberbaum, In God's Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism (2015) 238
book of biblical antiquities (liber antiquitatum biblicarum or lab, pseudo-philo)	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
burial of death, tobit	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
canaan, canaanites	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
child sacrifice	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
childist criticism	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
children, as subject to violence	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
children, as valuable	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
children, as vulnerable	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
circumcision	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
claudius	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
death, tobit	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
deborah	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
diaspora, eastern	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
dispersion\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
divine sonship	Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183
egyptian literature	Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183
epictetus	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
esau	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110; Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
esther, book of	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
etiology\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
eusebius	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
food, eating and drinking	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
gaius caligula	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
galen	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
genealogy	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
genesis, book of	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
genesis\u2002	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
god (of judeo-christian tradition)	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
herod\u2002, primeval history	Luther Hartog and Wilde, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE (2024) 15
hyrcanus i	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
idumea, idumeans	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
inheritance	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
isaac	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 113
ishmael, ishmaelites	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 113
itureans	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
jacob	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110; Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183; Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
jerome	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
jetur	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
judith, book of	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
julius gaius alexander	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
lab (liber antiquitatum biblicarum or book of biblical antiquities, pseudo-philo)	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
liber antiquitatum biblicarum or lab (book of biblical antiquities, pseudo-philo)	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
marriage, marrying	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
marriage	Lorberbaum, In God's Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism (2015) 238
mesopotamian literature	Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183
messiah, son of god and	Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183
mothers/motherhood	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
niditch, s	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
nuptial blessings (birkat hatanim)	Lorberbaum, In God's Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism (2015) 238
parents	Vargas, Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time (2021) 218
pharisees	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
philo of alexandria, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
philo of alexandria	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
philodemus	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
plotinus	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
prayer, supplication, tobit	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
procreation, and intensifying god	Lorberbaum, In God's Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism (2015) 238
pseudo-philo, book of biblical antiquities (liber antiquitatum biblicarum or lab)	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
qumran, fragments of tobit ix	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
rebecca	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110; Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
revelation of baruch, rewritten scriptures	Carleton Paget and Schaper, The New Cambridge History of the Bible (2013) 173
samson	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
sarah	Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
sex, sexuality	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
son of god, messiah and	Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 183
tavnit	Lorberbaum, In God's Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism (2015) 238
therapeutae/therapeutrides	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
tiberius julius alexander'	Levine Allison and Crossan, The Historical Jesus in Context (2006) 297
torah	Toloni, The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis (2022) 200
translation of biblical books	Eckhardt, Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals (2011) 110
virginity	Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
womanhood	Sly, Philo's Perception of Women (1990) 154
women	Kunin, We Think What We Eat : Structuralist Analysis of Israelite Food Rules and Other Mythological and Cultural Domains(2004) 200
worship	Bay, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (2022) 330