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ASV-baseline phrasing."},{"refId":"GEN-26:2","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 183"],"reasoning":"*Al-tered Mitsraymah* (*do not go down to Mitsrayim*) is rendered directly; the Yitzchaq-specific prohibition framing is supported by Sarna's land-confinement reading."},{"refId":"GEN-26:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Gur ba-aretz ha-zot* / *eheyeh imkha* / land-and-oath promise — standard patriarchal-promise vocabulary; ASV-baseline accurate."},{"refId":"GEN-26:4","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 424-425"],"reasoning":"*K-kokhvei ha-shamayim* / seed-and-land / *hitbarakhu b-zar'akha kol goyei ha-aretz* — standard formulae; rendering matches Westermann and Sarna."},{"refId":"GEN-26:5","status":"approve","citations":["Wellhausen *Prolegomena* 1885","Westermann 1985 pp. 425-426","Sarna 1989 pp. 184-185","Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987","Wenham *WBC* 1994 pp. 189-190"],"reasoning":"*Eqev asher shama Avraham b-qoli* / fourfold *mishmarti mitzvotai chuqotai v-torotai* preserved in ASV-baseline four-noun form so the source-critical anomaly remains visible to readers. The Sinaitic-retrojection framing in commentary is mainstream-critical-consensus."},{"refId":"GEN-26:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-yeshev Yitzchaq bi-Gerar* — single-clause; literal."},{"refId":"GEN-26:7","status":"approve","citations":["Alter 1981 ch. 3 on type-scene transmission"],"reasoning":"*Achoti hi* / *yare lemor ishti* / *tovat mar'eh* — the wife-sister verbal-cluster recycled from Gen 12 / Gen 20; ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-26:8","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 185","Alter 2004 p. 134","Westermann 1985 p. 425"],"reasoning":"*M-tzacheq et Rivkah ishto* — the direct-object disambiguates conjugal sense, as confirmed by Sarna and Alter. *Sporting* retains the wordplay with Yitzchaq's name; modern explicit renderings (*fondling/caressing*) would sharpen the sense at the cost of the paronomasia. Defensible compromise."},{"refId":"GEN-26:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Hineh ishtekha hi / akh / pen-amut aleha* — standard recognition-and-explanation exchange; rendering matches the Gen 12 and Gen 20 parallels structurally."},{"refId":"GEN-26:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Mah-zot asita lanu* / *kim'at shakhav* / *asham* — guilt-language rendered conventionally. NJPS and NRSV concur."},{"refId":"GEN-26:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Ha-nogea ba-ish ha-zeh u-v-ishto mot yumat* — death-penalty edict; ASV-baseline accurate."},{"refId":"GEN-26:12","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 184"],"reasoning":"*Me'ah she'arim* rendered *a hundredfold* — the idealized-superabundant numeric idiom; Sarna's hinge-reading on the agricultural-prosperity / Philistine-envy pivot is well-supported."},{"refId":"GEN-26:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-yigdal ha-ish va-yelekh halokh v-gadel ad ki-gadal me'od* — the three-fold intensification rendered idiomatically; ASV phrasing preserves the progression."},{"refId":"GEN-26:14","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 184"],"reasoning":"*Miqneh-tzon u-miqneh baqar va-avudah rabbah* — Yitzchaq's compound pastoral-agricultural wealth correctly noted as distinct from Avraham's pure-pastoral wealth at Gen 13:2 and Ya'aqov's at Gen 30:43."},{"refId":"GEN-26:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Wells-stopped-with-earth — verbal forms straightforward; rendering accurate."},{"refId":"GEN-26:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Lekh me-imanu ki-atzamta mimenu me'od* — expulsion-utterance; ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-26:17","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. nachal"],"reasoning":"*Va-yichan b-nachal Gerar* — *encamped in the wadi of Gerar*; *nachal* as *wadi* is the standard ANE-geographically-accurate rendering."},{"refId":"GEN-26:18","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 423-424"],"reasoning":"*Va-yashav Yitzchaq va-yachpor* / re-naming pattern — the paternal-continuation signature is editorially defensible per Westermann's reading of the Yitzchaq-cycle as Avraham-cycle-replayed."},{"refId":"GEN-26:19","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. chai II"],"reasoning":"*Be'er mayim chayyim* — *well of living water*; standard."},{"refId":"GEN-26:20","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. esek","Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 186"],"reasoning":"*Esek* (עֵשֶׂק) / *ki hit'as'qu imo* — etymology in-text; root *a-s-q* near-hapax. Rendering preserves both transliteration and etiology."},{"refId":"GEN-26:21","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 186","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 p. 426"],"reasoning":"*Sitnah* (שִׂטְנָה) / *va-yarivu gam aleha* — root *s-t-n* connection to *ha-satan* correctly flagged-but-not-conflated per Sarna and Westermann."},{"refId":"GEN-26:22","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 186"],"reasoning":"*Rechovot* / *hirchiv YHWH lanu u-farinu va-aretz* — the *p-r-h* (fruitful) echo of Gen 1:28 / 9:1 / 17:6 / 35:11 correctly noted; three-fold progression *contention → opposition → room* coherent."},{"refId":"GEN-26:23","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-ya'al mi-sham Be'er Sheva* — *and he went up from there to Be'er Sheva*; literal."},{"refId":"GEN-26:24","status":"approve","citations":["Alt 1929 *Der Gott der Väter*","Cross 1973 *CMHE* ch. 1","Conrad 1985 *Fear Not Warrior* (BJS 75)","Nissinen 2003 *Prophets and Prophecy in the ANE* (SBL WAW 12)","Smith 1990/2002 *Early History of God*"],"reasoning":"Four-formula compound theophany rendered transparently. *Anokhi Elohei Avraham avikha* preserves *Elohim* in transliteration per glossary; *al-tira ki-itkha anokhi* / blessing-multiplication / Avraham-merit grounds-clause all directly from MT. The Alt 1929 ancestral-god framing in commentary is mainstream-critical with appropriate refinement notes."},{"refId":"GEN-26:25","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann 1985 pp. 423-424"],"reasoning":"*Va-yiven sham mizbeach va-yiqra b-shem YHWH* / pitching tent / well-digging — the patriarchal-altar formula recurrence; paternal-continuation reading is sound."},{"refId":"GEN-26:26","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 343, 428","Friedman *Bible with Sources Revealed* 2003"],"reasoning":"Avimelekh + Achuzzat + Phicol delegation — the doublet relationship to Gen 21:22-32 is correctly noted; the Pichol name-recurrence across two nominally-distinct generations is editorially-flagged-not-resolved."},{"refId":"GEN-26:27","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Maduua batem elai v-atem snetem oti* — the grievance-question; rendering accurate."},{"refId":"GEN-26:28","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 343, 428","Friedman 2003"],"reasoning":"*Ra'o ra'inu ki-hayah YHWH imakh* — the YHWH/Elohim divine-name shift from Gen 21:22 (Elohim) to Gen 26:28 (YHWH) is correctly flagged as a possible J/E documentary-source signal per Westermann and Friedman."},{"refId":"GEN-26:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Im-ta'aseh imanu ra'ah / nashlachakha b-shalom / atah atah barukh YHWH* — covenant-stipulation language; rendering accurate."},{"refId":"GEN-26:30","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-ya'as lahem mishteh va-yokhlu va-yishtu* — feast-meal; literal."},{"refId":"GEN-26:31","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-yashkimu va-yishav'u ish l-achiv* — niphal-reciprocal swearing; the *yishav'u* verb-form is the key for the v 33 Be'er Sheva etymology."},{"refId":"GEN-26:32","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Matza'nu mayim* — water-discovery announcement; literal."},{"refId":"GEN-26:33","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 343, 428"],"reasoning":"*Shiv'ah* (the oath-sense alone) — single-sense doublet of the layered Gen 21:31 double-etymology. The partial-vs-layered framing is supported by the wider doublet pattern; appliesTo expansion of `be-er-sheva-folk-etymology` is correct."},{"refId":"GEN-26:34","status":"approve","citations":["Skinner *ICC Genesis* 1910 pp. 425-426","Westermann 1985 pp. 558-560","Friedman 2003"],"reasoning":"Esav at 40 / two Chitti wives (Yehudit bat-Be'eri, Basemat bat-Elon) — wife-list rendered transparently. The wife-list inconsistency across Gen 26:34 / 28:9 / 36:2-3 is correctly flagged in commentary with both rabbinic-harmonizing and modern-source-critical readings."},{"refId":"GEN-26:35","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. m-r-r","HALOT s.v. morah"],"reasoning":"*Va-tihyeinah morat ruach l-Yitzchaq u-l-Rivkah* — the *morat ruach* construct (near-hapax) preserved in fixed-phrase rendering; the Gen 27 narrative-setup function is correctly identified."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"mishmeret-mitzvot-chuqim-torot-fourfold-covenant","status":"approve","citations":["Wellhausen *Prolegomena* 1885","von Rad *Genesis* 1956 OTL","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 425-426","Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 184-185","Wenham *WBC* 1994 pp. 189-190","Hamilton *NICOT Genesis* 1995 pp. 195-196","Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987","Skinner *ICC Genesis* 1910 pp. 363-364"],"reasoning":"The Sinaitic-retrojection / P-or-late-D layer reading is mainstream modern-critical-consensus and is properly cited. The four lexemes' Pentateuchal distributions (mishmeret as Priestly cultic-duty; mitzvot as Sinaitic-Mosaic commandments; chuqot as engraved-decree-statute; torot as the rare-plural teachings) are accurate to BDB / HALOT. The grounds-clause-structure parallel to Deut 7:8 / 9:5 is correctly identified. Rabbinic-traditional reading (m. Qidd. 4:14; b. Yoma 28b; Gen Rab 64:4; Rashi) flagged-not-preempted. claim_type=direct is defensible: the lexical-distributional facts are documentary and the source-critical reading is consensus, not synthesis."},{"glossary_id":"metzacheq-conjugal-vs-contested-disambiguation","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. tz-ch-q (piel)","HALOT s.v. tz-ch-q (piel)","Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 185 on Gen 26:8 and p. 146 on Gen 21:9","Alter 2004 *The Five Books of Moses* p. 134","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 p. 425"],"reasoning":"The piel polysemy across Gen 17:17 / 18:12-15 / 19:14 / 21:6 / 21:9 / 26:8 / Exod 32:6 / Judg 16:25 is lexically-documented in BDB and HALOT and the disambiguation-by-grammatical-context (direct object at Gen 26:8 vs absent at Gen 21:9) is the standard scholarly move. The conjugal sense at Gen 26:8 is modern-critical-consensus (Sarna, Alter, Westermann, NJPS, NRSV, NIV-2011, CSB). claim_type=direct stands: the framework is derivable from lexica + commentaries, not project-original synthesis. (The arguable case for `inferred` would rest on the named-register organization being editorial; the Editor's call is defensible and I see no need to downgrade.)"},{"glossary_id":"esek-sitnah-rechovot-well-name-triad","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. esek; s.v. sitnah; s.v. r-ch-v","BDB s.v. a-s-q; s.v. s-t-n; s.v. r-ch-v","Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 186","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 p. 426"],"reasoning":"Three in-text etiologies; root analyses (a-s-q near-hapax; s-t-n widely-attested; r-ch-v) match BDB / HALOT. The *s-t-n* root cross-reference to *ha-satan* (Job 1-2, Zech 3:1-2, 1 Chr 21:1) is flagged-but-not-conflated per Sarna p. 186 — the two attestations share root but inhabit distinct semantic registers (place-name in territorial-legal-contention register; *ha-satan* in divine-council-prosecutor register). The not-conflated treatment is the right call and the forward-reference for the future Job 1-2 / Zech 3 entries is helpful, not confusing."},{"glossary_id":"al-tira-fear-not-divine-encouragement-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Conrad 1985 *Fear Not Warrior* (Brown Judaic Studies 75)","Nissinen 2003 *Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East* (SBL Writings from the Ancient World 12)","BDB s.v. y-r-' I","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 p. 427"],"reasoning":"Cross-corpus inventory verified by spot-check: Gen 15:1, 21:17, 46:3; Exod 14:13, 20:20; Num 21:34; Deut 1:21, 3:2; Josh 1:9, 8:1, 10:8, 11:6; Judg 6:23; 1 Sam 23:17; 2 Kgs 6:16; Isa 7:4, 35:4, 41:10, 41:13-14, 43:1, 43:5, 44:2; Jer 1:8; Lam 3:57; Dan 10:12, 10:19; Hag 2:5; Zech 8:13, 8:15 — all attested. Conrad's distinction between warrior-encouragement form (Mari, Neo-Assyrian Esarhaddon-prophecies) and patriarchal-encouragement form is faithfully represented. Nissinen's broader ANE genre-collection contextualization is right-sized — neither under- nor over-claiming. claim_type=direct is defensible: distributional facts plus genre-comparative scholarship are documentary, not interpretive."},{"glossary_id":"anokhi-elohei-X-avikha-ancestral-god-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Alt 1929 *Der Gott der Väter*","Cross 1973 *Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic* ch. 1","Van Seters 1975 *Abraham in History and Tradition*","Thompson 1974 *The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives*","Miller 2000 *The Religion of Ancient Israel*","Smith 1990/2002 *The Early History of God*","de Pury 1992 entry in ABD on Patriarchal Religion"],"reasoning":"The Alt 1929 reconstruction is presented as foundational while the historicity-contested status is properly flagged via Van Seters / Thompson. The subsequent-refinement framing via Cross (Ugaritic-El identification), Miller, and Smith is right. The Exod 3:6 *Anokhi Elohei avikha Elohei Avraham Elohei Yitzchaq v-Elohei Ya'aqov* keystone cross-corpus link is correctly identified as the integrative deployment. Cross-corpus reach (Gen 28:13, 31:5, 31:42, 31:53, 32:10, 46:3; Exod 3:6, 3:15-16, 4:5, 6:3) verified. claim_type=direct stands: Alt's reconstruction is a documented scholarly position, not a project-original synthesis, and the project does not commit to its 2nd-millennium historicity."},{"glossary_id":"morat-ruach-bitterness-of-spirit-esau-hittite-wives","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. m-r-r; s.v. morah","HALOT s.v. morah; s.v. ruach","Skinner *ICC Genesis* 1910 pp. 425-426","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 558-560","Friedman *Bible with Sources Revealed* 2003 on the Esav wife-lists"],"reasoning":"*Morat ruach* near-hapax verified; the *ruach* (dispositional-temperament) vs *nefesh* (life-force) register-distinction is standard BDB / HALOT. The wife-list inconsistency across Gen 26:34 / 28:9 / 36:2-3 is correctly framed with both rabbinic-harmonizing (Gen Rab 65:2; Rashi at Gen 36:2) and modern source-critical (Skinner, Westermann, Friedman) readings. The bundling decision (one entry covering morat-ruach + Hittite-identification + wife-list-inconsistency + Gen 27-setup) is defensible given the four issues' interdependence as the Gen 27-prep cluster. Non-application of `bnei-het-hittites-canaanite-anatolian-question` here is the right call: the Gen 23 Hebron-trading context and the Gen 26:34 Negev-marriage context are separable attestations of the broader Chittim question."},{"glossary_id":"be-er-sheva-folk-etymology","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 147, 186","Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 343, 428"],"reasoning":"appliesTo expansion to GEN-WOH-26:23, GEN-WOH-26:33 is additive and correct. The Gen 26:33 *Shiv'ah* etiology activates only the oath-sense (via *yishav'u* at v 31), making it the single-sense partial doublet of the layered double-etymology at Gen 21:31. The entry's own rationale anticipates this expansion."},{"glossary_id":"elohim-imkha-divine-presence-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 343, 428","Friedman *Bible with Sources Revealed* 2003"],"reasoning":"appliesTo expansion to GEN-WOH-26:28 is additive and correct. The divine-name shift from Elohim (Gen 21:22) to YHWH (Gen 26:28) is itself a documentary-source signal (possible J/E parallel-tradition pair) and is correctly noted in the v 28 commentary."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:1", "text": "And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. And Yitzchaq went to Avimelekh king of the Philistines, to Gerar." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:2", "text": "And YHWH appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Mitsrayim; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:3", "text": "Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Avraham your father." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:4", "text": "And I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your seed all these lands; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:5", "text": "Because Avraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:6", "text": "And Yitzchaq dwelt in Gerar." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:7", "text": "And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me on account of Rivkah, because she was a woman beautiful of appearance." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:8", "text": "And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Avimelekh king of the Philistines looked out through the window, and saw, and behold, Yitzchaq was sporting with Rivkah his wife." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:9", "text": "And Avimelekh called Yitzchaq, and said, Behold, of a surety she is your wife; and how did you say, She is my sister? And Yitzchaq said to him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:10", "text": "And Avimelekh said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:11", "text": "And Avimelekh commanded all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:12", "text": "And Yitzchaq sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and YHWH blessed him." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:13", "text": "And the man grew great, and went on growing greater, until he became very great." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:14", "text": "And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:15", "text": "Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Avraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:16", "text": "And Avimelekh said to Yitzchaq, Go from us, for you are much mightier than we." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:17", "text": "And Yitzchaq departed from there, and encamped in the wadi of Gerar, and dwelt there." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:18", "text": "And Yitzchaq dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Avraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:19", "text": "And Yitzchaq's servants dug in the wadi, and found there a well of living water." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:20", "text": "And the herdsmen of Gerar contended with Yitzchaq's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:21", "text": "And they dug another well, and they contended for that also; and he called its name Sitnah." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:22", "text": "And he removed from there, and dug another well; and they did not contend for it. And he called its name Rechovot; and he said, For now YHWH has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:23", "text": "And he went up from there to Be'er Sheva." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:24", "text": "And YHWH appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the Elohim of Avraham your father; do not fear, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Avraham's sake." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:25", "text": "And he built an altar there, and called on the name of YHWH, and pitched his tent there; and there Yitzchaq's servants dug a well." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:26", "text": "Then Avimelekh went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzat his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:27", "text": "And Yitzchaq said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:28", "text": "And they said, We saw plainly that YHWH was with you; and we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you," },{ "n": 29, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:29", "text": "That you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of YHWH." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:30", "text": "And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:31", "text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Yitzchaq sent them away, and they departed from him in peace." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:32", "text": "And it came to pass the same day, that Yitzchaq's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:33", "text": "And he called it Shiv'ah; therefore the name of the city is Be'er Sheva to this day." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:34", "text": "And when Esav was forty years old, he took to wife Yehudit the daughter of Be'eri the Chitti, and Basemat the daughter of Elon the Chitti." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "GEN-WOH-26:35", "text": "And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitzchaq and to Rivkah." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/26", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }