The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 167
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The use of
“sister” as
a term of
endearment
(to a wife)
may be
illustrated
from Tobit
5:20, 7:16;
Canticles
4:9, etc., but
appears to
be unknown
to Rabbinic
literature
likely
because they
represent
a different
religion. Its
use here
may be
designed to
justify Isaac’s
having called
Rebecca
his sister at
Abimelech’s
court.
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Jacob away, and he went to
Mesopotamia, to Laban the
son of Bethuel the Syrian, the
brother of Rebecca, Jacob’s
mother. 13 And it came to pass
after Jacob had arisen to go to
Mesopotamia that the spirit
of Rebecca was grieved after
her son, and she wept. 14 And
Isaac said to Rebecca: “My
sister, weep not on account of
Jacob, my son; for he goeth
in peace, and in peace will he
return. 15 The Most High
Elohim will preserve him from
all evil, and will be with him;
for He will not forsake him all
his days; 16 For I know that
his ways will be prospered in
all things wherever he goeth,
until he return in peace to us,
and we see him in peace.
17 Fear not on his account my
sister, for he is on the upright
path and he is a perfect man:
and he is faithful and will not
perish. Weep not.” 18 And
Isaac comforted Rebecca on
account of her son Jacob, and
blessed him. 19 And Jacob
went from the Well of the
Oath to go to Haran on the
first year of the second week
in the forty-fourth Jubilee,
and he came to Luz on the
mountains, that is, Bethel,
on the new moon of the first
month of this week, and he
came to the place at even and
L E A V E S
turned from the way to the
west of the road that night:
and he slept there; for the sun
had set. 20 And he took one
of the stones of that place and
laid it (at his head) under the
tree, and he was journeying
alone, and he slept. 21 And he
dreamt that night, and behold
a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached
to heaven, and behold, the
angels of Yahuah ascended
and descended on it: and
behold, Yahuah stood upon it.
22 And He spake to Jacob and
said: “I am Yahuah Elohim
of Abraham, thy father, and
the Elohim of Isaac; the land
whereon thou art sleeping, to
thee shall I give it, and to thyseed after thee. 23 And thy
seed will be as the dust of the
earth, and thou wilt increase
to the west and to the east, to
the north and the south, and
in thee and in thy seed will
all the families of the nations
be blessed. 24 And behold, I
shall be with thee, and shall
keep thee whithersoever thou
goest, and I shall bring thee
again into this land in peace;
for I shall not leave thee until I
do everything that I told thee
of.” 25 And Jacob awoke from
his sleep, and said, “Truly this
place is the house of Yahuah,
and I knew it not.”
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? which
marked a
shrine.
