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Welcome to Sephor commentaries. Today we continue with Bereshit
chapter 25. And again Abraham took a woman,
and her name was Katura, and shebore him Zimran and Yolkshan and
Maidan and Midian and Yeshbach and Shuach and Yolkshan fathered
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Sheva and Didan. And the sons of Didan were
Ashurim, the Led to Sheem and the Leumim, and the sons of
Midian Ephah and Ether and Hanokand Avida and eldah.
These were the children of Keturah.
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And Abraham gave all that he hadto Yezhak.
All right, Now let's begin with our commentary at this point.
First of all, we see that the Midianites appeared to be of the
children of Abraham through Keturah.
We're not told exactly who Keturah was.
Was she Hebrew? Was she Egyptian?
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We don't know. Was she actually the stranger
Hagar? We don't know that either.
But we do know that these six sons were born to her, and from
this son Midian, we would see anadditional five sons creating
tribes that are apparently relevant as to what we're going
to see happen later in the book Shamode, where a Midianite
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becomes the father-in-law of Moshe and in verse 5.
And Abraham gave all that he hadto Yitshak.
Now this is a very interesting disposition because again, the
Torah of Moshe is going to spellout later on that the
distribution of the estate of the patriarch is to be
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distributed equally among all ofthe children, with a double
portion being given to the firstborn.
But we're not going to see that actually happen in effect until
we get to Yaakov. Abraham does just the opposite.
He gives all of the estate to Yitzhak.
However, he does give gifts. You would call these Intravibos,
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gifts that were given to the children of the concubines.
And you might recall that here we see the word to the sons of
the concubines which Abraham had.
That would be plural. Abraham gave gifts and sent them
away from Yitzhak his son, whileyet he lived eastward into the E
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country. OK, quite interesting, because
of course this indicates that Coutura was not Gemer or Hagar,
rather the stranger, but rather was a different woman, because
there were two concubines, the mother of Ishmael and the mother
of these six sons, all of whom received intervivals, gifts, but
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not the estate. The estate went singularly to
Yitzhak, who was not the first born of Abraham, but was the
first born of the marriage of Abraham and Sarah.
Interesting. All right, let's continue.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which
he lived 175 years. Then Abraham gave up his breath
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and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and
was gathered to his people and his sons.
Yitschak and Ishmael buried him in The Cave of Machpelah in the
field of Ephron, the son of Zokar the Hitti, which is before
Mamray, the field which Abraham purchased.
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Of the sons of Het, there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his
woman. Now again, here we have a very
interesting situation because apparently this tomb, Malatma
Kapila, was actually in the landof the Hittites, or you might
even call them the Hittites because they were the sons of
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Het, the Hittites. And there's been a lot of
speculation as to about the capital of the Hetite Empire,
which is supposedly Khattusa, which was found outside the
outskirts of Ankara in central Turkey.
Well, that would put Mara Machpelah somewhere up in
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central Turkey and not somewhereelse.
Very interesting situation. How far did this Hittite empire
go? Now, there's reason to believe
that there may have been two incarnations of the Hittites.
That is to say, we have the earlier Hittites and then the
latter Hittites. All of it, of course, is
predicated upon the letter. All right.
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At any rate, it does create a mystery as to where is Maratma
Kapila was. You know, today we have a
discussion in modernity that Marat Macapilla is a tomb that
exists in the two in the city identified as Hebron in, you
know, the, the, the state of Palestine or the nation state of
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Israel, depending on how you look at it.
Actually, it's not the nation state of Israel because
technically it's in the West Bank, the Judean part of the
West Bank. And this is Hebron and also
spelled in the text as Chevron. You might see it as Chevron, but
it's pronounced Kevron. Kevron.
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And there's this claim that thisis the Marat Machbila, the tomb
of Abraham and Sarah, right there in the middle of Kevron.
Is it? Is it even possible?
Did is there ever a claim anywhere in Scripture that the
Hittites held the Holy Land? So we've got one of two
conditions. Either one that is the site of
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Abraham's condition, in which case that's not the Holy Land
because it was the land of the Hittites, or that's not
Abraham's tomb location because Abraham's tomb is located in the
land of the Hittites. OK, very interesting situation.
And it happened after the death of Abraham that Elaine blessed
his son Yitshak, and Yitshak dwelt by the well, the air Lahai
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Roy E. Lahai Roy E.
Now we talked about this. This is the life of the
shepherd. And again, these wells were
named after oaths. They were named after oaths.
You might recall that Abraham had a very difficult time
digging out a well because he would dig it out and then the
Palestine would come in and buryit.
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I can't imagine burying a freshwater well.
You know, you have to be nuts todo something like that.
If you have fresh water, why wouldn't you allow the water to
perk? And but they did.
And so Abraham would dig well after well after well until
finally some of the wells were retained.
And this was one of those wells.You know, there's also of the
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well of Yaakov that was up in Shiloh or Shiloh.
And there's the well at Bear Shaima, Bear Shaima, the place
of seven oaths, the well of seven oaths.
So, and when we see these wells,these were hand dug.
So this wasn't, you know, a lot of people think, Oh yeah, you
just dig this narrow little round thing down and then, you
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know, then everything's good. It doesn't work that way.
When you start digging down likethat, you're going to find
yourself buried alive if you're not very, very careful.
And so typically they would dig much bigger holes to that, and
they would dig down until they got to water.
So quite a ways to dig. I mean, I know my well is 240
something feet deep, a long way to dig.
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OK. Now these are the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the stranger from
Mitzrahim, Sarah's handmaid board to Abraham.
And these are the names of the sons of Yeshmael by their names
according to their generations. Now here again, when we see this
idea of the Tolbot that is givento us here in this word
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generations, this is talking about a genetic seed line.
A genetic seed line that you might call it a tribe is another
good word for it. But this is a genetic seed line.
And remembered that when people say, oh, Ishmael, he was kicked
out and cursed. No, he was not.
He was actually blessed, as werehis twelve sons blessed.
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But remember, his mother was from Mitzrayim, and when she was
expelled from Abraham, she undoubtedly returned to
Mitzrayim. Yet in this narrative here we
see Yaakov and and, or excuse me, Yitshak and Ishmael coming
together to bury Abraham. All right, these are the
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generations, and these are the names of the sons of Yeshmael.
By their names, according to their generations, the first
born of Yeshmael, that would be the Primo janitor who would
receive the double portion. This is Nebiot, Nebiot.
Now Nebiot, of course, that namehas a meaning in Hebrew.
It means the prophets, the prophets Nebiot and Kedar and AD
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Bail. That is to say, he who testifies
and Mivzam and Mishma and Duma and Massa and Hadar and Tema and
Yatur, Nafish and Kedema. Now these are going to become
tribal leaders. Have you ever heard of these
tribes? Do you see any history
concerning these tribes in the rest of Scripture?
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You don't. But they were undoubtedly tribes
inside of Mitzrayim that prospered.
So when you see that the House of Abraham and the House of
Yaakov, 2 generations later are going to come down to Mitzrayim
in order to be fed, they're walking into a land that is in
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part populated by these 12 tribes.
That's who they're dealing with,right?
So they're dealing with cousins in Mitzrayim.
So these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their
names by their towns and by their castles or fortresses. 12
Princess according to their nations.
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OK, very important. Again, when we talk about the
generation, the generation and the nation, these are all kind
of very similar words. They're all talking about a
genetic expansion of a singular tribe, a specific DNA pattern,
if you will, that emerges from one of these 12 fathers to
create their own separate ethnicidentity.
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The word for nation is typicallygoy nations, goyim, goyim.
This particular branch of goyim is going to be branded after
these one of these 12 patriarchs.
And it says here these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are
their names by their towns, by their castles, 12 Princess,
according to their nations or tribes.
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And these are the years of the life of Israel, 137 years.
And he gave up his breath and died, and was gathered to his
people, and they dwelt from Havilah to sure, that is before
mitzvahim Mitzrayim, as you go towards Ashura.
And he died in the presence of all his brethren.
OK, so the land of Havilah is where one of the rivers in
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Genesis is talked about running,and the land of Habibah is where
Ishmael would live. He would live in the land of
Habibah, which is close to shore, which is just alongside
Mitzrayim as you go towards Ashura.
Well, let's see, that would be very interesting.
If you assume that Ashura is going to be the Assyrian Empire,
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that would be in northern Iraq in the modern understanding,
Mitzrayim being Egypt in the modern understanding.
Therefore, the land of shore hadto be somewhere what we would
now call Palestine or Jordan, and the land of Havilah would be
somewhere there. But that's interesting because
there's no major river running through any of that area.
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So again, we have a geographic description that is, for lack of
a better word, suspect. OK.
And these are the generations ofYitzhak, Abraham's son.
OK, Now we're going to begin to enter into the explosive
material, and it becomes extremely explosive in this
chapter. From here, Abraham fathered
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Yitzhak. And Yitzhak was 40 years old
when he took Rifka to be his woman, the daughter of Bethuel,
the arami of Padam Aram. And you know, you might recall
that this is understood in the modern world as basically Syria,
the sister to Lavon, the Arami. And you might recall that Lavon
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was the one that Yitzhak was presented to, to be approved.
And Yitzhak entreated Yahwah forhis woman because she was barren
once again, as Sarai was barren for many, many years.
Now we see Yitzhak has married Rivka and she is barren.
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And Yahwah was sought by him andRivka his woman conceived, and
the children struggled together within her.
And she said, if it is so, why am I like this?
And she went to inquire of Yahwah, and Yahwah said to her,
Two nations are in your womb, 2 nations are in your womb.
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Well, now that is a very interesting statement because of
course when you say 2 nations are in your womb, as we have
seen in talking about this so far, that when we talk about a
nation or a generation, you're talking about a particular
genetic disposition, a genetic disposition, and this genetic
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disposition. To say that two nations are in
your womb is to say that there are two, there are two different
two different genes, two different genetics.
Right. All right.
Now let's see. So, yeah.
And again, the passage here, theway it reads in Genesis 2523 in
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the Eve read, is it It's going to specify here.
Yeah. La Meliawa le sheni goem le
sheni goem 2 nations goem 2 nations are in your room.
And so when we see this idea of two nations, we're talking about
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two genetic dispositions, 2 different genetic dispositions
and and, and she and he said twonations are in your womb and two
manners of people shall be separated from your generation 2
manners of people. So they're distinctly different.
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Now, when you look at this idea of twins, you know, you have you
have most people assume that there are two kinds of twins,
right? You have what's called identical
twins, which are really quite a miracle when you see them.
And I think they're a thing of beauty really in yaws world.
And then you have fraternal twins, which are, you know,
twins born on the same day, occupying the same womb at the
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same time during the same nine months of of pregnancy.
But they're born and they're 2 completely different people.
They're fraternal twins. Sometimes they can be male and
female even. And then you have this thing
called the Super infect condation, which is where you
have two children by two different fathers that are in
the womb at the same time and born as twins.
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Now is this the case here? Yes, you're going to see that
the Scripture is going to say isgoing to refer to them as two
nations initially, but secondarily as twins.
So it's not like, Gee, there's two, there's two nations in your
womb. One was born here and then
another was was born in the sameyear.
No, that's not the case. Yahwah said to her, two nations
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are in your womb and two mannersof people shall be separated
from your generation. The one people shall be stronger
than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger well.
Once again, you have this idea of the Primo janitor not being
the Yakid. The first born Adam, not the
Yakid. The first born Cain, not the
Yakid, the first born Ishmael, not the Yakid, the first born to
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Yezhak a SU, not the Yakid. The first born to Yakov Reuben,
not the Yakid. The first born to Judah Zarak,
not the Yakid. So it's a very interesting
anomaly in Scripture that we seethis over and over again that it
is the second born that the, youknow, for instance, how about
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your fry them in Menasha. When your fry them in Menasha
are presented to Yakov, he places Joseph puts Menasha on
his right leg and he puts your fry them on his left leg and he
says bless them. And Yaakov crosses his hands and
Joseph says don't do that. Menasha is the first born here
on your right and Ephraim is thesecond born.
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He crosses his hand under less and he says the elder will serve
the younger. The second will be a great
company of nations. The elder will be a great
nation, but the the younger willbe a great company of nations
and the elder shall serve the younger.
He didn't say that exactly, but that's what happens.
All right, and when her days to be delivered but fulfilled.
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This is verse 24. Behold, there were twins in her
womb. So now we're going to see that
this is described as the birth of twins.
Even though the descriptive forest two nations and the first
came out red all over like a hairy garment and they called
his name a Sioux. Now a lot of people say, oh,
it's Esau. Well, it really is not Esau.
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It's a Sioux and this is this isEIN seen Bob, not Sheen, but EIN
seen Bob. It's a conspicuous inversion of
the last three letters of Yahoo Shah, Yahoo Shah Yod.
Hey, Bob Shinayan, if you flip that, you not only have to flip
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it to EIN Shin Bob, but it has to be EIN seen Bob, because the
dot signifying it is shin or seen also flips.
So it is no longer Usha, but rather a SU, a SU, OK.
And after that, after that, his brother came out and his hand
took hold on a SU's heel, and his name was called Yakov.
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And Yitzhak was three score years old when she bore them.
OK, So Yitzhak is 60. They've been married for 20
years. And this is when she bores them.
And the boys grew. And a SU was a cunning hunter, a
man of the field. And Yaakov was an upright man
dwelling in tents. OK, so we're no longer talking
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about boys here, OK? They're men now.
And Yitzhak loved a SU because he did eat in his venison.
It shocked like the idea of the macho a SU.
This kids pretty tough. He's a great hunter.
He's a great Fisher. He brings some great meat.
Yeah, this guy and I, we get along.
But Rivka loved Yakov and Yakov sowed the pottage.
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And a SU came from the field andhe was faint.
And a SU said to El Yakov, feed me, I pray with that same red
pottage, for I am faint. Therefore, his name was called
Edom. Now this is something that is
critical for the listener to understand in terms of how this
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kind of plays out because remember we have this difficulty
and this is the best illustration of this difficulty.
We have a difficulty in Hebrew, which is that the language has
died some 7 times and when it was rebirthed, it was rebirthed
by the mass rights of in the 7thor 8th century AD.
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And these Maz writes, when they rebirth the language, they did
so by giving a pronunciation guide called the Nikudo or the
cookie crumbs. Now these cookie crumbs include
lines and dots that are sometimes featured under the
letters, most of the time under the letters, but sometimes, you
know, halfway up in the letters and sometimes even above the
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letters. And so these these dots and
lines are going to be illustrative of how you
pronounce the word. OK, so we've got this very
interesting word. And the interesting word is
Adam. So Adam in the Hebrew is Aleph
Dalit mem safi. Now the sofit means the final
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letter, final men, final name, Aleph Dalit mem safi.
Well when you're dealing with the color red, red is the word
adom. But how is it spelled Aleph,
Dalit, mem, Sufi and Edom is this language of G He was called
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Edom, how is that spelled Aleph,Dalit, Mem, Sufi?
So you have 3 words that are spelled exactly the same.
The only difference is is the mazzarites are going to
distinguish for you how these are to be pronounced.
Now, if you were to ignore this outline outright, suppose you
said that Edom. No, it's Al Abdallah, Mem.
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It's just Adam, for I am Faith. Therefore his name was called
Adam, not Edom. Right?
Adam, but not Edom. Well, or also possible to say
his name was called a Dome. Why a Dome?
Because a Dome means red, right?So Yakov sewed the pottage.
A soup came from the field, and he was faint.
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And he comes in, you know, like a lot of young people do.
Hey, I'm starving, You're not starving.
You had breakfast this morning. Well you know, it's been 4
hours. I feel a little bit hungry.
I'm starving. What do you got to eat?
You know that kind of an attitude.
Now the Book of Jasher of coursetells us a lot more about this
particular event and why a Sue was so hungry.
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He wasn't just a little bit hungry, he was very, very
hungry. But nonetheless he comes in and
he says feed me. I pray with that same red
pottage for I am faint. Well, what do you think was
that? What do you think that red
pottage was? Well obviously it was borscht.
You know, put in some beets there, maybe a few onions and
you know, away you go borscht. And so anyway he took of the red
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pottage being a red haired guy covered with red hair and then
he was called Edom. Why?
Because he was eating red pottage, red haired man eating
red pottage. His name was called Edom.
And Yakov said, Sell me this dayyour birthright.
And a SU said, Behold, I'm at the point to die, what profit
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shall this birthright do for me?And Yaakov said, Well swear 7
oaths to me this day, and he swore to him, and he sold his
birthright to Yaakov. Then Yaakov gave a SU bread and
pottage of lentils, and he did ink, eat and drink, and he rose
up and went his way. Thus, a Sioux despised his
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birthright. Now, the important point of this
is not that Yaco bought his birthright, but that in Ya's
eyes, a Sioux despised his birthright.
What do I care about the birthright?
I'm hungry. He sold his birthright for bread
and soup. Now we see this quite often.
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You can see this, you know, traditionally, for instance, in
the music industry or in the acting industry, where these
people, these starving artists, they want to succeed in the
industry and they're willing to sell their soul to obtain
whatever. Now I've seen some of these
people who'd be willing to sell their soul for a McDonald's
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hamburger. I mean, I'm not kidding you.
Some people have, some people are so low priced, they'll sell
their soul for anything. And having no recognition that
you only get to do it once. Right.
Well, I'd sell my soul for that.Too late.
You already sold it. What?
Yeah, you sold it for a McDonald's hamburger.
Wait a minute. I want to get that back.
And so I can sell it to you so Ican get a, you know, a film
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contract. Nope, too late.
Your soul's already gone. You already sold it.
But the idea of selling your soul is not that you've sold
your soul to Satan, but that youhave despised the value of your
soul. You've despised the value of
your soul. And as a result, you're going
that Yahwah is going to take this very seriously.
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Now, I want to make it clear here at this point, we're not
talking about boys that are doing this, OK?
These guys are now men. They're well into adulthood.
They're not boys. These guys are men.
And you're going to see that when we get into the blessing
that's about to take place when we get into the blessing that
you're going to find also that they're, you know, when you're
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talking about Yitzhak being on his deathbed, how old do you
think Yaakov and and a Sue were?I mean, if, if Yitzhak is 120 or
I don't know how old he is when he died, but if he's that age,
those boys were 60. They were 60 years old when it
came to the blessing. And so to think that Yaakov did
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not know what he was doing is no, it's not, it's not good.
OK, now, OK, now there's something else I wanted to make
up here and talk about this. The, the idea that there is this
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relationship that takes place between Yitzhak and ABI Malek.
And and so this kind of a situation that took place
between Yitzhak and Abhi Malek, where Yitzhak goes to Abhi Malek
and represents to Abhi Malek. Oh yeah, this is my sister.
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This is my sister Rivka. She wasn't his sister.
Now Avraham did the same thing when he represented Sarai as his
sister, but she was his half sister.
But Yitzhak tells Abhi Malek, yes, she's my sister.
Well, she wasn't his sister and furthermore, he wasn't a
Mitzrayim. And furthermore, there is no
dream given to ABI Malek concerning the relationship
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between Rivka and Yitzhak. So we don't know how long this
goes on, but at some point ABI Malek sees Yitzhak with Rivka
out in the garden, and they're clearly husband and wife.
And so he goes to Yitzhak and says, hey, what's this, you
guys? This isn't your sister.
This is obviously your wife. So what is this phony baloney?
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You need to pack your stuff and and hit the road.
Move out. We don't know how long it was
that they were there. And we do not know whether or
not it's possible that Avi Malekactually was the one who
fathered a Sioux. In other words, there was a
joint conception that took place.
Avi Malek, the father of a Sioux, and Yitzhak, the father
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of Yaakov. It's possible.
Scientifically, this is possible.
It can happen, and it does happen.
And if that's the case, that would be some way that you might
be able to understand this phrase where it says 2 nations
are in your womb, 2 nations are in your womb.
And it also explains a great deal about what is going to
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later happen. And remember that this is not as
wild and as crazy as a lot of people get offended and go, oh,
that's not possible. You're calling Rivka, you know,
a harlot. You know, first of all, you
know, take off the blinders, right?
This is the Old Testament. You know, as I mentioned to you
yesterday when we were talking about Chapter 24, there's no
marriage ceremony between, between Yitshak and Rivka.
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There is a courting ceremony that's quite elaborate and
consent and all the rest of thisstuff.
And then basically, yeah, she's my wife.
There isn't any Hoopa or giving vows or, you know, you know,
toasting or having brides, grooms or bride.
None of that stuff existed. So to think that these kinds of
things didn't happen would be ludicrous, especially when you
read in the gospel that says a man came in to sow a field and
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he planted wheat. And while he was away, another
one came in and planted tares, and the tares grew up alongside
the wheat. You see, that's a very
interesting parable that's givento us in the Gospels that may be
describing this pregnancy of Rivka, where two nations are in
the womb because the wheat was planted, but somebody came in
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unawares and planted the tares at the same time.
Very important part to understand in this chapter 25
because it explains a lot of thehistory that's going to follow.
OK, that concludes our reading of Bearish Sheath Genesis
chapter 25.
Welcome to Sephor commentaries. Today we continue with Bereshit
chapter 25. And again Abraham took a woman,
and her name was Katura, and shebore him Zimran and Yolkshan and
Maidan and Midian and Yeshbach and Shuach and Yolkshan fathered
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Sheva and Didan. And the sons of Didan were
Ashurim, the Led to Sheem and the Leumim, and the sons of
Midian Ephah and Ether and Hanokand Avida and eldah.
These were the children of Keturah.
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And Abraham gave all that he hadto Yezhak.
All right, Now let's begin with our commentary at this point.
First of all, we see that the Midianites appeared to be of the
children of Abraham through Keturah.
We're not told exactly who Keturah was.
Was she Hebrew? Was she Egyptian?
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We don't know. Was she actually the stranger
Hagar? We don't know that either.
But we do know that these six sons were born to her, and from
this son Midian, we would see anadditional five sons creating
tribes that are apparently relevant as to what we're going
to see happen later in the book Shamode, where a Midianite
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becomes the father-in-law of Moshe and in verse 5.
And Abraham gave all that he hadto Yitshak.
Now this is a very interesting disposition because again, the
Torah of Moshe is going to spellout later on that the
distribution of the estate of the patriarch is to be
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distributed equally among all ofthe children, with a double
portion being given to the firstborn.
But we're not going to see that actually happen in effect until
we get to Yaakov. Abraham does just the opposite.
He gives all of the estate to Yitzhak.
However, he does give gifts. You would call these Intravibos,
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gifts that were given to the children of the concubines.
And you might recall that here we see the word to the sons of
the concubines which Abraham had.
That would be plural. Abraham gave gifts and sent them
away from Yitzhak his son, whileyet he lived eastward into the E
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country. OK, quite interesting, because
of course this indicates that Coutura was not Gemer or Hagar,
rather the stranger, but rather was a different woman, because
there were two concubines, the mother of Ishmael and the mother
of these six sons, all of whom received intervivals, gifts, but
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not the estate. The estate went singularly to
Yitzhak, who was not the first born of Abraham, but was the
first born of the marriage of Abraham and Sarah.
Interesting. All right, let's continue.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which
he lived 175 years. Then Abraham gave up his breath
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and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and
was gathered to his people and his sons.
Yitschak and Ishmael buried him in The Cave of Machpelah in the
field of Ephron, the son of Zokar the Hitti, which is before
Mamray, the field which Abraham purchased.
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Of the sons of Het, there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his
woman. Now again, here we have a very
interesting situation because apparently this tomb, Malatma
Kapila, was actually in the landof the Hittites, or you might
even call them the Hittites because they were the sons of
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Het, the Hittites. And there's been a lot of
speculation as to about the capital of the Hetite Empire,
which is supposedly Khattusa, which was found outside the
outskirts of Ankara in central Turkey.
Well, that would put Mara Machpelah somewhere up in
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central Turkey and not somewhereelse.
Very interesting situation. How far did this Hittite empire
go? Now, there's reason to believe
that there may have been two incarnations of the Hittites.
That is to say, we have the earlier Hittites and then the
latter Hittites. All of it, of course, is
predicated upon the letter. All right.
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At any rate, it does create a mystery as to where is Maratma
Kapila was. You know, today we have a
discussion in modernity that Marat Macapilla is a tomb that
exists in the two in the city identified as Hebron in, you
know, the, the, the state of Palestine or the nation state of
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Israel, depending on how you look at it.
Actually, it's not the nation state of Israel because
technically it's in the West Bank, the Judean part of the
West Bank. And this is Hebron and also
spelled in the text as Chevron. You might see it as Chevron, but
it's pronounced Kevron. Kevron.
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And there's this claim that thisis the Marat Machbila, the tomb
of Abraham and Sarah, right there in the middle of Kevron.
Is it? Is it even possible?
Did is there ever a claim anywhere in Scripture that the
Hittites held the Holy Land? So we've got one of two
conditions. Either one that is the site of
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Abraham's condition, in which case that's not the Holy Land
because it was the land of the Hittites, or that's not
Abraham's tomb location because Abraham's tomb is located in the
land of the Hittites. OK, very interesting situation.
And it happened after the death of Abraham that Elaine blessed
his son Yitshak, and Yitshak dwelt by the well, the air Lahai
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Roy E. Lahai Roy E.
Now we talked about this. This is the life of the
shepherd. And again, these wells were
named after oaths. They were named after oaths.
You might recall that Abraham had a very difficult time
digging out a well because he would dig it out and then the
Palestine would come in and buryit.
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I can't imagine burying a freshwater well.
You know, you have to be nuts todo something like that.
If you have fresh water, why wouldn't you allow the water to
perk? And but they did.
And so Abraham would dig well after well after well until
finally some of the wells were retained.
And this was one of those wells.You know, there's also of the
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well of Yaakov that was up in Shiloh or Shiloh.
And there's the well at Bear Shaima, Bear Shaima, the place
of seven oaths, the well of seven oaths.
So, and when we see these wells,these were hand dug.
So this wasn't, you know, a lot of people think, Oh yeah, you
just dig this narrow little round thing down and then, you
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know, then everything's good. It doesn't work that way.
When you start digging down likethat, you're going to find
yourself buried alive if you're not very, very careful.
And so typically they would dig much bigger holes to that, and
they would dig down until they got to water.
So quite a ways to dig. I mean, I know my well is 240
something feet deep, a long way to dig.
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OK. Now these are the generations of
Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the stranger from
Mitzrahim, Sarah's handmaid board to Abraham.
And these are the names of the sons of Yeshmael by their names
according to their generations. Now here again, when we see this
idea of the Tolbot that is givento us here in this word
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generations, this is talking about a genetic seed line.
A genetic seed line that you might call it a tribe is another
good word for it. But this is a genetic seed line.
And remembered that when people say, oh, Ishmael, he was kicked
out and cursed. No, he was not.
He was actually blessed, as werehis twelve sons blessed.
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But remember, his mother was from Mitzrayim, and when she was
expelled from Abraham, she undoubtedly returned to
Mitzrayim. Yet in this narrative here we
see Yaakov and and, or excuse me, Yitshak and Ishmael coming
together to bury Abraham. All right, these are the
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generations, and these are the names of the sons of Yeshmael.
By their names, according to their generations, the first
born of Yeshmael, that would be the Primo janitor who would
receive the double portion. This is Nebiot, Nebiot.
Now Nebiot, of course, that namehas a meaning in Hebrew.
It means the prophets, the prophets Nebiot and Kedar and AD
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Bail. That is to say, he who testifies
and Mivzam and Mishma and Duma and Massa and Hadar and Tema and
Yatur, Nafish and Kedema. Now these are going to become
tribal leaders. Have you ever heard of these
tribes? Do you see any history
concerning these tribes in the rest of Scripture?
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You don't. But they were undoubtedly tribes
inside of Mitzrayim that prospered.
So when you see that the House of Abraham and the House of
Yaakov, 2 generations later are going to come down to Mitzrayim
in order to be fed, they're walking into a land that is in
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part populated by these 12 tribes.
That's who they're dealing with,right?
So they're dealing with cousins in Mitzrayim.
So these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their
names by their towns and by their castles or fortresses. 12
Princess according to their nations.
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OK, very important. Again, when we talk about the
generation, the generation and the nation, these are all kind
of very similar words. They're all talking about a
genetic expansion of a singular tribe, a specific DNA pattern,
if you will, that emerges from one of these 12 fathers to
create their own separate ethnicidentity.
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The word for nation is typicallygoy nations, goyim, goyim.
This particular branch of goyim is going to be branded after
these one of these 12 patriarchs.
And it says here these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are
their names by their towns, by their castles, 12 Princess,
according to their nations or tribes.
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And these are the years of the life of Israel, 137 years.
And he gave up his breath and died, and was gathered to his
people, and they dwelt from Havilah to sure, that is before
mitzvahim Mitzrayim, as you go towards Ashura.
And he died in the presence of all his brethren.
OK, so the land of Havilah is where one of the rivers in
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Genesis is talked about running,and the land of Habibah is where
Ishmael would live. He would live in the land of
Habibah, which is close to shore, which is just alongside
Mitzrayim as you go towards Ashura.
Well, let's see, that would be very interesting.
If you assume that Ashura is going to be the Assyrian Empire,
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that would be in northern Iraq in the modern understanding,
Mitzrayim being Egypt in the modern understanding.
Therefore, the land of shore hadto be somewhere what we would
now call Palestine or Jordan, and the land of Havilah would be
somewhere there. But that's interesting because
there's no major river running through any of that area.
(12:12):
So again, we have a geographic description that is, for lack of
a better word, suspect. OK.
And these are the generations ofYitzhak, Abraham's son.
OK, Now we're going to begin to enter into the explosive
material, and it becomes extremely explosive in this
chapter. From here, Abraham fathered
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Yitzhak. And Yitzhak was 40 years old
when he took Rifka to be his woman, the daughter of Bethuel,
the arami of Padam Aram. And you know, you might recall
that this is understood in the modern world as basically Syria,
the sister to Lavon, the Arami. And you might recall that Lavon
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was the one that Yitzhak was presented to, to be approved.
And Yitzhak entreated Yahwah forhis woman because she was barren
once again, as Sarai was barren for many, many years.
Now we see Yitzhak has married Rivka and she is barren.
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And Yahwah was sought by him andRivka his woman conceived, and
the children struggled together within her.
And she said, if it is so, why am I like this?
And she went to inquire of Yahwah, and Yahwah said to her,
Two nations are in your womb, 2 nations are in your womb.
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Well, now that is a very interesting statement because of
course when you say 2 nations are in your womb, as we have
seen in talking about this so far, that when we talk about a
nation or a generation, you're talking about a particular
genetic disposition, a genetic disposition, and this genetic
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disposition. To say that two nations are in
your womb is to say that there are two, there are two different
two different genes, two different genetics.
Right. All right.
Now let's see. So, yeah.
And again, the passage here, theway it reads in Genesis 2523 in
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the Eve read, is it It's going to specify here.
Yeah. La Meliawa le sheni goem le
sheni goem 2 nations goem 2 nations are in your room.
And so when we see this idea of two nations, we're talking about
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two genetic dispositions, 2 different genetic dispositions
and and, and she and he said twonations are in your womb and two
manners of people shall be separated from your generation 2
manners of people. So they're distinctly different.
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Now, when you look at this idea of twins, you know, you have you
have most people assume that there are two kinds of twins,
right? You have what's called identical
twins, which are really quite a miracle when you see them.
And I think they're a thing of beauty really in yaws world.
And then you have fraternal twins, which are, you know,
twins born on the same day, occupying the same womb at the
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same time during the same nine months of of pregnancy.
But they're born and they're 2 completely different people.
They're fraternal twins. Sometimes they can be male and
female even. And then you have this thing
called the Super infect condation, which is where you
have two children by two different fathers that are in
the womb at the same time and born as twins.
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Now is this the case here? Yes, you're going to see that
the Scripture is going to say isgoing to refer to them as two
nations initially, but secondarily as twins.
So it's not like, Gee, there's two, there's two nations in your
womb. One was born here and then
another was was born in the sameyear.
No, that's not the case. Yahwah said to her, two nations
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are in your womb and two mannersof people shall be separated
from your generation. The one people shall be stronger
than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger well.
Once again, you have this idea of the Primo janitor not being
the Yakid. The first born Adam, not the
Yakid. The first born Cain, not the
Yakid, the first born Ishmael, not the Yakid, the first born to
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Yezhak a SU, not the Yakid. The first born to Yakov Reuben,
not the Yakid. The first born to Judah Zarak,
not the Yakid. So it's a very interesting
anomaly in Scripture that we seethis over and over again that it
is the second born that the, youknow, for instance, how about
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your fry them in Menasha. When your fry them in Menasha
are presented to Yakov, he places Joseph puts Menasha on
his right leg and he puts your fry them on his left leg and he
says bless them. And Yaakov crosses his hands and
Joseph says don't do that. Menasha is the first born here
on your right and Ephraim is thesecond born.
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He crosses his hand under less and he says the elder will serve
the younger. The second will be a great
company of nations. The elder will be a great
nation, but the the younger willbe a great company of nations
and the elder shall serve the younger.
He didn't say that exactly, but that's what happens.
All right, and when her days to be delivered but fulfilled.
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This is verse 24. Behold, there were twins in her
womb. So now we're going to see that
this is described as the birth of twins.
Even though the descriptive forest two nations and the first
came out red all over like a hairy garment and they called
his name a Sioux. Now a lot of people say, oh,
it's Esau. Well, it really is not Esau.
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It's a Sioux and this is this isEIN seen Bob, not Sheen, but EIN
seen Bob. It's a conspicuous inversion of
the last three letters of Yahoo Shah, Yahoo Shah Yod.
Hey, Bob Shinayan, if you flip that, you not only have to flip
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it to EIN Shin Bob, but it has to be EIN seen Bob, because the
dot signifying it is shin or seen also flips.
So it is no longer Usha, but rather a SU, a SU, OK.
And after that, after that, his brother came out and his hand
took hold on a SU's heel, and his name was called Yakov.
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And Yitzhak was three score years old when she bore them.
OK, So Yitzhak is 60. They've been married for 20
years. And this is when she bores them.
And the boys grew. And a SU was a cunning hunter, a
man of the field. And Yaakov was an upright man
dwelling in tents. OK, so we're no longer talking
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about boys here, OK? They're men now.
And Yitzhak loved a SU because he did eat in his venison.
It shocked like the idea of the macho a SU.
This kids pretty tough. He's a great hunter.
He's a great Fisher. He brings some great meat.
Yeah, this guy and I, we get along.
But Rivka loved Yakov and Yakov sowed the pottage.
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And a SU came from the field andhe was faint.
And a SU said to El Yakov, feed me, I pray with that same red
pottage, for I am faint. Therefore, his name was called
Edom. Now this is something that is
critical for the listener to understand in terms of how this
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kind of plays out because remember we have this difficulty
and this is the best illustration of this difficulty.
We have a difficulty in Hebrew, which is that the language has
died some 7 times and when it was rebirthed, it was rebirthed
by the mass rights of in the 7thor 8th century AD.
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And these Maz writes, when they rebirth the language, they did
so by giving a pronunciation guide called the Nikudo or the
cookie crumbs. Now these cookie crumbs include
lines and dots that are sometimes featured under the
letters, most of the time under the letters, but sometimes, you
know, halfway up in the letters and sometimes even above the
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letters. And so these these dots and
lines are going to be illustrative of how you
pronounce the word. OK, so we've got this very
interesting word. And the interesting word is
Adam. So Adam in the Hebrew is Aleph
Dalit mem safi. Now the sofit means the final
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letter, final men, final name, Aleph Dalit mem safi.
Well when you're dealing with the color red, red is the word
adom. But how is it spelled Aleph,
Dalit, mem, Sufi and Edom is this language of G He was called
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Edom, how is that spelled Aleph,Dalit, Mem, Sufi?
So you have 3 words that are spelled exactly the same.
The only difference is is the mazzarites are going to
distinguish for you how these are to be pronounced.
Now, if you were to ignore this outline outright, suppose you
said that Edom. No, it's Al Abdallah, Mem.
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It's just Adam, for I am Faith. Therefore his name was called
Adam, not Edom. Right?
Adam, but not Edom. Well, or also possible to say
his name was called a Dome. Why a Dome?
Because a Dome means red, right?So Yakov sewed the pottage.
A soup came from the field, and he was faint.
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And he comes in, you know, like a lot of young people do.
Hey, I'm starving, You're not starving.
You had breakfast this morning. Well you know, it's been 4
hours. I feel a little bit hungry.
I'm starving. What do you got to eat?
You know that kind of an attitude.
Now the Book of Jasher of coursetells us a lot more about this
particular event and why a Sue was so hungry.
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He wasn't just a little bit hungry, he was very, very
hungry. But nonetheless he comes in and
he says feed me. I pray with that same red
pottage for I am faint. Well, what do you think was
that? What do you think that red
pottage was? Well obviously it was borscht.
You know, put in some beets there, maybe a few onions and
you know, away you go borscht. And so anyway he took of the red
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pottage being a red haired guy covered with red hair and then
he was called Edom. Why?
Because he was eating red pottage, red haired man eating
red pottage. His name was called Edom.
And Yakov said, Sell me this dayyour birthright.
And a SU said, Behold, I'm at the point to die, what profit
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shall this birthright do for me?And Yaakov said, Well swear 7
oaths to me this day, and he swore to him, and he sold his
birthright to Yaakov. Then Yaakov gave a SU bread and
pottage of lentils, and he did ink, eat and drink, and he rose
up and went his way. Thus, a Sioux despised his
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birthright. Now, the important point of this
is not that Yaco bought his birthright, but that in Ya's
eyes, a Sioux despised his birthright.
What do I care about the birthright?
I'm hungry. He sold his birthright for bread
and soup. Now we see this quite often.
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You can see this, you know, traditionally, for instance, in
the music industry or in the acting industry, where these
people, these starving artists, they want to succeed in the
industry and they're willing to sell their soul to obtain
whatever. Now I've seen some of these
people who'd be willing to sell their soul for a McDonald's
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hamburger. I mean, I'm not kidding you.
Some people have, some people are so low priced, they'll sell
their soul for anything. And having no recognition that
you only get to do it once. Right.
Well, I'd sell my soul for that.Too late.
You already sold it. What?
Yeah, you sold it for a McDonald's hamburger.
Wait a minute. I want to get that back.
And so I can sell it to you so Ican get a, you know, a film
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contract. Nope, too late.
Your soul's already gone. You already sold it.
But the idea of selling your soul is not that you've sold
your soul to Satan, but that youhave despised the value of your
soul. You've despised the value of
your soul. And as a result, you're going
that Yahwah is going to take this very seriously.
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Now, I want to make it clear here at this point, we're not
talking about boys that are doing this, OK?
These guys are now men. They're well into adulthood.
They're not boys. These guys are men.
And you're going to see that when we get into the blessing
that's about to take place when we get into the blessing that
you're going to find also that they're, you know, when you're
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talking about Yitzhak being on his deathbed, how old do you
think Yaakov and and a Sue were?I mean, if, if Yitzhak is 120 or
I don't know how old he is when he died, but if he's that age,
those boys were 60. They were 60 years old when it
came to the blessing. And so to think that Yaakov did
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not know what he was doing is no, it's not, it's not good.
OK, now, OK, now there's something else I wanted to make
up here and talk about this. The, the idea that there is this
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relationship that takes place between Yitzhak and ABI Malek.
And and so this kind of a situation that took place
between Yitzhak and Abhi Malek, where Yitzhak goes to Abhi Malek
and represents to Abhi Malek. Oh yeah, this is my sister.
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This is my sister Rivka. She wasn't his sister.
Now Avraham did the same thing when he represented Sarai as his
sister, but she was his half sister.
But Yitzhak tells Abhi Malek, yes, she's my sister.
Well, she wasn't his sister and furthermore, he wasn't a
Mitzrayim. And furthermore, there is no
dream given to ABI Malek concerning the relationship
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between Rivka and Yitzhak. So we don't know how long this
goes on, but at some point ABI Malek sees Yitzhak with Rivka
out in the garden, and they're clearly husband and wife.
And so he goes to Yitzhak and says, hey, what's this, you
guys? This isn't your sister.
This is obviously your wife. So what is this phony baloney?
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You need to pack your stuff and and hit the road.
Move out. We don't know how long it was
that they were there. And we do not know whether or
not it's possible that Avi Malekactually was the one who
fathered a Sioux. In other words, there was a
joint conception that took place.
Avi Malek, the father of a Sioux, and Yitzhak, the father
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of Yaakov. It's possible.
Scientifically, this is possible.
It can happen, and it does happen.
And if that's the case, that would be some way that you might
be able to understand this phrase where it says 2 nations
are in your womb, 2 nations are in your womb.
And it also explains a great deal about what is going to
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later happen. And remember that this is not as
wild and as crazy as a lot of people get offended and go, oh,
that's not possible. You're calling Rivka, you know,
a harlot. You know, first of all, you
know, take off the blinders, right?
This is the Old Testament. You know, as I mentioned to you
yesterday when we were talking about Chapter 24, there's no
marriage ceremony between, between Yitshak and Rivka.
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There is a courting ceremony that's quite elaborate and
consent and all the rest of thisstuff.
And then basically, yeah, she's my wife.
There isn't any Hoopa or giving vows or, you know, you know,
toasting or having brides, grooms or bride.
None of that stuff existed. So to think that these kinds of
things didn't happen would be ludicrous, especially when you
read in the gospel that says a man came in to sow a field and
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he planted wheat. And while he was away, another
one came in and planted tares, and the tares grew up alongside
the wheat. You see, that's a very
interesting parable that's givento us in the Gospels that may be
describing this pregnancy of Rivka, where two nations are in
the womb because the wheat was planted, but somebody came in
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unawares and planted the tares at the same time.
Very important part to understand in this chapter 25
because it explains a lot of thehistory that's going to follow.
OK, that concludes our reading of Bearish Sheath Genesis
chapter 25.
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