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Genesis 25

    ²Who bore to him Zamran, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.

    ³Jecsan also begot Saba and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomin.

    ⁴But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children of Cetura.

    ⁵And Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac.

    ⁶And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

    ⁷And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

    ⁸And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

    ⁹And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre;

    ¹⁰Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.

    ¹¹And after his death, God blessed Isaac his son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living and seeing.

    ¹²These are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him:

    ¹³And these are the names of his children according to their calling and generations. The firstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mabsam.

    ¹⁴And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

    ¹⁵Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

    ¹⁶These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

    ¹⁷And the years of Ismael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and was gathered unto his people.

    ¹⁸And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

    ¹⁹These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

    ²⁰Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

    ²¹And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

    ²²But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

    ²³And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

    ²⁴And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

    ²⁵He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

    ²⁶Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

    ²⁷And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.

    ²⁸Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

    ²⁹And Jacob boiled Pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field,

    ³⁰Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. For which reason his name was called Edom.

    ³¹And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy first birthright.

    ³²He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me.

    ³³Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau swore to him, and sold his first birthright.

    ³⁴And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

Genesis 26

    ²And the Lord appeared to him and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

    ³And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.

    ⁴And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

    ⁵Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

    ⁶So Isaac abode in Gerara.

    ⁷And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would like him because of her beauty.

    ⁸And when very many days were passed, and he abode there, Abimelech king of the Palestines looking out through a window, saw him playing with Rebecca his wife.

    ⁹And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake.

    ¹⁰And Abimelech said: Why hadst thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying:

    ¹¹He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.

    ¹²And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

    ¹³And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:

    ¹⁴And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

    ¹⁵Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:

    ¹⁶Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

    ¹⁷So he departed and came to the torrent of Gerara, to dwell there:

    ¹⁸And he digged again other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged, and which, after his death, the Palestines had of old stopped up: and he called them by the same names by which his father before had called them.

    ¹⁹And they digged in the torrent, and found living water.

    ²⁰But there also the herdsmen of Gerara strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is our water. Wherefore he called the name of the well, on occasion of that which had happened, Calumny.

    ²¹And they digged also another; and for that they quarreled likewise, and he called the name of it, Enmity.

    ²²Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not: therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

    ²³And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

    ²⁴Where the Lord appeared to him that same might, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father; do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

    ²⁵And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and commanded his servants to dig a well.

    ²⁶To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers came from Gerara,

    ²⁷Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

    ²⁸And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

    ²⁹That thou do us no harm, as we on our part have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any thing to hurt thee: but with peace have sent thee away increased with the blessing of the Lord.

    ³⁰And he made them a feast, and after they had eaten and drunk:

    ³¹Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

    ³²And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

    ³³Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

    ³⁴And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon of the same place.

    ³⁵And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

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Matthew 8

    ²And behold a leper came and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

    ³And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

    ⁴And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.

    ⁵And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,

    ⁶And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented.

    ⁷And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him.

    ⁸And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.

    ⁹For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

    ¹⁰And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel.

    ¹¹And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven:

    ¹²But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    ¹³And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour.

    ¹⁴And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever:

    ¹⁵And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered to them.

    ¹⁶And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and all that were sick he healed:

    ¹⁷That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.