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When Melchizedek returned to the oasis at Beersheba, Yishak brought Rebekah into his late mother Sarah's tent and took her as his wife, and he loved her. So was Yishak comforted after his mother's death. Melchizedek, in a sense, had provided Yishak with a replacement mother.

Rebekah sensed this and felt perhaps a twinge of regret, but she was an honorable woman who had assented to the marriage sight unseen.Then Melchizedek received word that his father Melchiyahu had died in his sleep, making him the king of Salem by right of succession.

So Melchizedek bid farewell to Abraham. He passed out of all knowledge of those who dwell on Earth, and he came there not again. The task laid upon him by his father to set aside a holy people for Elyon had been fulfilled. In the three and thirtieth year of the Covenant Abraham died and his son Yishak became High Priest of Bat-El. Yishak begat twin sons and named them Esau and Yakob.

Esau became a cunning hunter, a extroverted man of the field, while Yakob was an introverted man dwelling in tents. Esau derived his life, and life more abundantly from the earthly goods which he was able to obtain by his own efforts.

Yakob, as the more interior man, could not compete on those terms, but he took thought obtain more abundant life another way. The first step was to claim the Birthright, which entitled Yishak's son to a double share of Abraham's estate.

On only one occasion did Esau's prowess fail him. He came in from the field famished and begged Yakob for some food. Yakob provided bread and lentil soup, but the price was Yishak's Birthright that was Esau's by dint of being born just moments before Yakob.

Esau was more than willing to trade his Birthright away, so close to death was he. Esau just needed a little help that one time. So he left with a full stomach and almost convinced himself the Birthright was nothing much anyway.

But as time went on the injustice of the incident weighed on the mind of Esau and the bad blood grew until Yakob began to fear for his life.

Already the servants of Yishak had become divided into two camps, one favoring Esau and the other Yakob, and at times they came to blows.