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Isaac gives directions to his sons as to his burial: exhorts them to love
one another and makes them imprecate destruction on him who injures his brother,
1-11. Divides his possessions, giving the larger portion to Jacob, and dies,
12-18. Leah dies: Jacob's sons come to comfort him, 21-4.
[Chapter 36]
- And in the sixth year of this week [2162 A.M.] Isaac called his two sons Esau
and Jacob, and they came to him, and he said unto them: 'My sons, I am going the
way of my fathers, to the eternal house where my fathers are.
- Wherefore bury me near Abraham my father, in the double cave in the field of
Ephron the Hittite, where Abraham purchased a sepulchre to bury in; in the
sepulchre which I digged for myself, there bury me.
- And this I command you, my sons, that ye practise righteousness and uprightness
on the earth, so that the Lord may bring upon you all that the Lord said that he
would do to Abraham and to his seed.
- And love one another, my sons, your brothers as a man who loves his own soul,
and let each seek in what he may benefit his brother, and act together on the
earth; and let them love each other as their own souls.
- And concerning the question of idols, I command and admonish you to reject them
and hate them, and love them not, for they are full of deception for those that
worship them and for those that bow down to them.
- Remember ye, my sons, the Lord God of Abraham your father, and how I too
worshipped Him and served Him in righteousness and in joy, that He might
multiply you and increase your seed as the stars of heaven in multitude, and
establish you on the earth as the plant of righteousness which will not be
rooted out unto all the generations for ever.
- And now I shall make you swear a great oath -for there is no oath which is
greater than it by the name glorious and honoured and great and splendid and
wonderful and mighty, which created the heavens and the earth and all things
together- that ye will fear Him and worship Him.
- And that each will love his brother with affection and righteousness, and that
neither will desire evil against his brother from henceforth for ever all the
days of your life so that ye may prosper in all your deeds and not be destroyed.
- And if either of you devises evil against his brother, know that from henceforth
everyone that devises evil against his brother shall fall into his hand, and
shall be rooted out of the land of the living, and his seed shall be destroyed
from under heaven.
- But on the day of turbulence and execration and indignation and anger, with
flaming devouring fire as He burnt Sodom, so likewise will He burn his land and
his city and all that is his, and he shall be blotted out of the book of the
discipline of the children of men, and not be recorded in the book of life, but
in that which is appointed to destruction, and he shall depart into eternal
execration; so that their condemnation may be always renewed in hate and in
execration and in wrath and in torment and in indignation and in plagues and in
disease for ever.
- I say and testify to you, my sons, according to the judgment which shall come
upon the man who wishes to injure his brother.
- And he divided all his possessions between the two on that day and he gave the
larger portion to him that was the first-born, and the tower and all that was
about it, and all that Abraham possessed at the Well of the Oath.
- And he said: 'This larger portion I will give to the firstborn.'
- And Esau said, 'I have sold to Jacob and given my birthright to Jacob; to him
let it be given, and I have not a single word to say regarding it, for it is
his.'
- And Isaac said, May a blessing rest upon you, my sons, and upon your seed this
day, for ye have given me rest, and my heart is not pained concerning the
birthright, lest thou shouldest work wickedness on account of it.
- May the Most High God bless the man that worketh righteousness, him and his seed
for ever.'
- And he ended commanding them and blessing them, and they eat and drank together
before him, and he rejoiced because there was one mind between them, and they
went forth from him and rested that day and slept.
- And Isaac slept on his bed that day rejoicing; and he slept the eternal sleep,
and died one hundred and eighty years old. He completed twenty-five weeks and
five years; and his two sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- And Esau went to the land of Edom, to the mountains of Seir, and dwelt there.
- And Jacob dwelt in the mountains of Hebron, in the tower of the land of the
sojournings of his father Abraham, and he worshipped the Lord with all his heart
and according to the visible commands according as He had divided the days of
his generations.
- And Leah his wife died in the fourth year of the second week of the forty-fifth
jubilee, [2167 A.M.] and he buried her in the double cave near Rebecca his
mother to the left of the grave of Sarah, his father's mother
- and all her sons and his sons came to mourn over Leah his wife with him and to
comfort him regarding her, for he was lamenting her for he loved her exceedingly
after Rachel her sister died;
- for she was perfect and upright in all her ways and honoured Jacob,and all the
days that she lived with him he did not hear from her mouth a harsh word, for
she was gentle and peaceable and upright and honourable.
- And he remembered all her deeds which she had done during her life and he
lamented her exceedingly; for he loved her with all his heart and with all his
soul.