Ten Donkeys of Wine and Ten of Bread — Joseph's Gift to Jacob

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisAbram at Seventy-Five — The Age of Beginning AgainThe verse is almost administrative. Abram leaves Haran at seventy-five. Lot goes with him. The Targum in (Genesis 12:4) does not embroider. And that restraint i

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisAbraham Sends His Other Sons East With GiftsThe Torah's bookkeeping of Abraham's later life is precise. He had taken another wife after Sarah, Keturah, and by her and his concubines there were sons. The i

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisWhy Abraham Refused to Bless Isaac DirectlyThis is one of the Targum's most surprising explanations. Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 25:11) asks the question the Torah leaves hanging: why, in all the final c

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisLaban's Sons Whisper That Jakob Has Taken Their InheritanceThe house turned cold long before anyone said a word out loud. Jakob heard the words of the sons of Laban, not spoken to him, but about him (Genesis 31:1). Targ

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisLaban Claims Even Jakob's Children as His OwnCornered, Laban made the last argument of a man who cannot let go. The children whom thou hast received of thy wives are my children, and the children whom they

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisFour Hundred Men and Jacob's Three CampsJacob lifted his eyes and saw what he had feared for twenty years: Esau, and with him four hundred men of war (Genesis 33:1). Targum Pseudo-Jonathan does not so

Ten Donkeys of Wine and Ten of Bread — Joseph's Gift to Jacob

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