the inheritance of Jacob, thy father. Not as it was promised to Abraham, ( Arise and walk through the land to its length and breadth. Not as it was promised to Isaac, ( I will give thee all that this land contains; but as it was promised to Jacob, ( And thou shalt spread abroad, to the West, and to the Bast, to the North, and to the South. > Rabbi Jehudah said that if the Israelites had strictlyobserved the first Sabbath, after the command to sanctify the seventh day had been given, they would have been spared captivity; as it is written, " And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather (the Mannah), but they found nothing. And in the next chapter we find, Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim."