THE WORD OF ELOHIM

GENESIS

GENESIS

Chapter 25

Genesis, Notes for Chapter 25

First Paragraph:

Within the Hebrew and Islamic traditions, it is believed that Qeturah is actually Hagar.  It is believed that she was a daughter of Paroh (Pharaoh) and after Sarah passed away that Abraham took her back.  However, in my heart, I question this.  

First:  Because no mention is made of Hagar, in the Word of Elohim, after Genesis, chapter 21. Sarah was 90 years old when she gave birth to Yischaq and 127 years old when she passed away.

In the first paragraph, in Genesis, chapter 21, it states:  The child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Yischaq was weaned.  Assume that Sarah nursed Yischaq and he was weaned at the age of 3.  This would have meant that approximately 34 years had passed away since Hagar and Yishmael, left the presence of Abraham.

It would have been dangerous for Abraham, for the sake of Yischaq, to form a relationship with Hagar, and bear other children.  There would have been nothing to stop Hagar and/or Yishmael to convince the remaining children to rise up against Yischaq and capture all that he possessed, after Abraham passed away.  – This didn’t happen.

Abraham had another wife and “other concubines,” and he gave the children gifts and sent them away to the East.  

It is also interesting to note that the children of Israel believe that the “Jewishness” of a child is traced through the mother; however, this is wrong too:  Because in the Word of Elohim, rarely is a woman’s name mentioned, in genealogy and it is always the name of the father who is mentioned.

Paragraph 2:

Yischaq and Yishmael came together and buried their father respectively, in peace.

Final Paragraph:

It has also been taught that the reason Ya’akov was in the kitchen cooking, was because Yischaq and Rivqah were mourning the death of Abraham, who had just passed away and Ya’akov resented the fact that Esav was careless and not performing his responsibilities to their parents, as the eldest child.  

“And Esav said, “I am at the point of death, so of what use is my birthright to me? “  

A tradition has been handed down through the children of Israel that when Esav was outdoors hunting; he saw a band of hunters and shot the leader, who may have been the king of Babylon, and the hunting party was in pursuit of Esav.

The son’s of Yischaq were 15 years old at the time of Abraham’s death.