fies enmity.

3. It was now that Isaac's affairs increased, and in a flourishing
condition; and this his great riches. But Abimelech, thinking in
opposition to him, while their living made them suspicious of each
other, and retiring showing a secret enmity also, he afraid that his
former friendship with Isaac would not secure him, if Isaac should
endeavor the injuries he had formerly offered him; he therefore renewed
his friendship with him, Philoc, one of his generals. And when he had
obtained every thing he desired, by reason of Isaac's good nature, who
preferred the earlier friendship Abimelech had shown to himself and his
father to his later wrath against him, he returned home.

4. Now when Esau, one of the sons of Isaac, whom the father principally
loved, was now come to the age of forty years, he married Adah, the
daughter of Helon, and Aholibamah, the daughter of Esebeon; which Helon
and Esebeon were great lords among the Canaanites: thereby taking upon
himself the authority, and pretending to have dominion over his own
marriages, without so much as asking the advice of his father; for had
Isaac been the arbitrator, he had not given him leave to marry thus, for
he was not pleased with contracting any alliance with the people of that
country; but not caring to be uneasy to his son by commanding him to put
away these wives, he resolved to be silent.

5. But when he was old, and could not see at all, he called Esau to him,
and told him, that besides his blindness, and the disorder of his eyes,
his very old age hindered him from his worship of God [by sacrifice];
he bid him therefore to go out a hunting, and when he had caught as much
venison as he could, to prepare him a supper [32] that after this he
might make supplication to God, to be to him a supporter and an assister
during the whole time of his life; saying, that it was uncertain when
he should die, and that he was desirous, by prayers for him, to procure,
beforehand, God to be merciful to him.

6. Accordingly, Esau went out a hunting. But Rebeka [33] thinking it
proper to have the supplication made for obtaining the favor of God to
Jacob, and that without the consent of Isaac, bid him kill kids of the
goats, and prepare a supper. So Jacob obeyed his mother, according
to all her instructions. Now when the supper was got ready, he took
a goat's skin, and put it about his arm, that by reason of its hairy
roughness, he might by his father be believed to be Es