t Eſau's wives, who were Hittites, Gen: 26: 34. f Therefore let us, after the Example of Abraham, ſend him to fetch a Wife from his own Kindred. This indeed was one reaſon, but the other ſhe conceals from J1ſazc ; thus prudently alledging ſeveral reatons, one to Jacob, and another, as it is probible, to Eja, and each moſt fu- : . table to the Perſon ro whom the ſpeaks. :
| CHAP. XXVIIL
Waac calls Jacob ; charges him not to marry a Canaanite, but one of his kindred in Padan-Aram, 1, 2. Confirms the bleſſmg to him; 3, 4- Jacob obeys his father, and goes to Laban, 5. Eſau perceiving this, marries one of his kindred, but of iſhmaels family, 6---19. Jacob journeys rowaras Haran ; in his way takes of th2 ſtones of the place for pillow;, 11. ina dream fees a ladder reaching from earth ta hexven, angels aſcending and deſcending on it, 12. , The Lord landing above it, renews his covenant concerning, Canaan, and the promiſed ſeed, &*«c. I J<=-15, Jacob amaicued,, acknow':/ges God's. prejeuce there, and is afraid, 16, 17, Sets up the ones jor a pillar, pours oz] on it, 18.
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Chap. XXV s Confirm'd his former Blefling, being now thoroughly ſenſible both of God's Purpoſe, and of his own Duty, wiſhing him allo a proſperous and ſucceſsful Journey ; as the word is uſed, 7of. 22. 7. 2 Azile, go to Padan- Aram, to the houſe of Bethuel T, thy mothers father; and take thee. a wife from + He
thence of the daughters of * Labanthy mothers brother. x2. + See Gen. 22. 22, 23. and 25, 20. * Cha
3 And God Almighty bleſs thee, 24- 26 fruicful, and multiply + Heb
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4 And give thee * the bleſſing of Abraham, to thee, Char and to thy leed with thee ; that thou mayeſt inkerit the land Þ wherein thou art a ſtranger, which God gave . unto 4braham.
5 And Iſaac ſent away Jacob, and he went to Padan- Aram unto Laban, fon of Bethuel the Syrian b, the brocher of Rebekah, Jacobs and Efaus mother, ©
b 0bj. He was no Syrian, but a Meſopo:amian. Anfſ. Syria is ſome- times largely taken, and fo it comprehends Meſopotamia, or Chaldea, yea, and 4ſjria, as appears from loiah 36. I1. Dan. 2. 4.
6 4 When Eſau ſaw that Iſaac had bleſied Jacob, and ſent him awzy to Padan-Aram, to take him a wife from thence ; and that as he blefled him, he gave him a charge, ſaying,Thou ſhalt not take a wife of the daugh- ters of Canaan ;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram ; |
8 And Eſau ſecing that the daughters of Canaan + + Het pleaſed not Iſaac his fathec : Were s
9 Then went Eſau unto Iſhmael -, and took unto ooo. the wives which he had, Mahalath / ce daughter of **© Iſhmael Abrahams fon, the ſiſter of Nebajoth e, to be his wite.
c Either tohis Perſon ; or rather to his Pamily, called Iſhmael by their Father's Name, as David is ſometimes put for David's Poſteri- ty ; for 1bmael ſeems to have been dead before this, from Gen. 25. 17. tho that may poſlibly be a Prolepſis, and then this may be Jjbmasl himſelf. 4 called allo Baſbemarh, Ger. 36. 3. He thought by this means to ingratiat himſelf with his Father, and fo to ger ano- ther anda betrer Bleſſing ; bur he takes no care to reconcile himſelf to God,nor obſerves his hand in the buſineſs. Beſides, he mends one fault by commitring another, and raking a third Wife when ke had one too many Lefore, and her roo he unwiſely fetcheth our of that Stock which was begotten to Pond+ge, and was utterly unca-» pable of the Inheritance. e 1bmae!'s eideit Son, Gen. 25. 13. who alone is here mentioned, either in the name of all the reſt, whoſe Siſter ſhe is by conſequence ſuppoled ro be ; or becauſe peradven- ture ſhe and Nebsjoth were Iſbmael's Children by the ſame Mother, _
and the reſt by another. | | ; fra 10 4 And Jacob went f X out from Beerſkeba, and : Hel