Identifier: sweetstoriesofgo00poll (find matches)
Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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RE-BEK-AH JOUR-NEY-ING TO I SAAC 66 History of the Old Testament The next day Re-bek-ah and her maids wentwith A-bra-hams head man. And they came to theland of Ca-naan. At the close of the day I-saac went to walk in thefields, and as he raised his eyes he saw the cam-elson their way home, and he went out to meet them. Re-bek-ah said to the man with whom she rode,What man is this that comes through the field tomeet us? And the man told her that it was A-bra-hamsson, I-saac Then the maid drew her veil round her so as tohide her face, and came down from the cam-el. AndI-saac took her to his house and made her his wife.And A-bra-ham gave all that he had to I-saac; andwhen he died he was laid by the side of Sa-rah, hiswife, in the tomb he had bought at Mach-pe-lah. And to this day no one has had such faith ortrust in God as did A-bra-ham. CHAPTER IV. JA-COB AND E-SAU. I-saac and Re-bek-ah had two sons. Theirnames were Ja-cob and E-sau. E-sau was the first-
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msasmmsmimmmmamm*mamm THE MEET-ING OF I-SAAC AND RE-BEK-AH. (67) 68 History of the Old Testament born, and in those days the first-born son had whatwas called the birth-right. This made him chief ofall the rest, and heir to the most of his sires wealth. When the boys grew up to be men, E-sau tookto the fields and to out-door sports, while Ja-cobwas a plain man and dwelt in tents. And I-saacwas fond of E-sau, who killed the deer, and broughthim the meat to eat. But Re-bek-ah was more fondof Ja-cob. One day Ja-cob had made some food called pot-tage, and E-sau came in from the field and said,Feed me, I pray thee, with that pot-tage, for I amfaint. And Ja-cob said, Sell me thy birth-right. And E-sau said, I am at the point of death, sowhat good will a birth-right do me ? So he sold his birth-right to Ja-cob—which wasa wrong thing for him to do—and took the breadand meat, and ate and drank, and then went on hisway. Now there came a time when I-saac was an oldman, and his eyes were dim,

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