Now these are the stories of Mary, daughter of Eucharia, and
Yeshua, son of Moshe. Moshe fathered Yeshua. Yeshua was
twenty-seven years old when he married Mary, daughter of Eucharia and Syrus,
the Chief Priest of Capernaum. Mary was the sister of Lazarus and
Martha. Yeshua pleaded with YHVH concerning his wife, because she was
barren; and YHVH responded to his plea, and his wife Mary conceived.
But the children struggled in her
womb, and she said, "If so, why do I exist?"
She went to inquire of YHVH, and
YHVH answered her,
"Two nations are in your womb,
Two
separate peoples shall issue from your body;
One
people shall not be mightier than the other,
And
the older shall serve the younger."
When her time to give birth was at
hand, there were twins in her womb. The first one emerged strong, with a
hairy mantle all over; so they named him August. Then his brother
emerged, holding on to the foot of August; so they named him
Khamed. Yeshua was forty-one years old when they were born.
When the boys grew up, August
became a skillful hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Khamed was a mild
man who stayed in camp. Yeshua favored August because of the boy's
strength; but Mary favored Khamed. Once when Khamed was cooking a
stew, August came in from the open, famished.
And August said to Khamed,
"Give me some of that heap to gulp down, for I am famished" – which is
why August was named Rome.
Khamed said, "First sell me
your birthright."
And August said, "I am at the
point of death, so of what use is my birthright to me?"
But Khamed said, "Swear to me
first."
So August swore to Khamed, and thereby
sold his birthright to his brother.
Khamed then gave August bread and
lentil stew; he ate, drank, rose and went away. Thus did August
spurn the birthright.
They went up from there to Springs,
Gauteng. YHVH appeared to them that night and said, "I am the One of
Tsiporah and Moshe, your parents. Fear not, for I am with you. I
will bless you and I will increase your descendants because of my servants
Tsiporah and Moshe. Mary and Yeshua built there a conference center,
calling upon the essence of YHVH, and they built their houses; and their
employees began digging a well.
Imamelekha went to them from Muratpasa
with a group of counselors and the commander of the military. Mary and
Yeshua said to them, "Why have you come to us? You hate us and drove
us away from you!"
And they replied, "We have seen
repeatedly that YHVH has been with you, so we said, 'Let there be now a solemn
pact between ourselves, between us and you.' And let us make a binding
contract with you: 'If you break this contract .... just as we have
not touched you. We have only acted favorably toward you. And we
sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed one of YHVH."
Mary and Yeshua made for their guests a
feast and they ate and drank.
The celebrants awoke early in the
morning and they signed the oath, each individual as a sibling of the other;
then Mary and Yeshua bade farewell and the Palestinians departed in
peace.
And it was on that very day that Mary
and Yeshua's employees came and told them all about the well that they had dug,
saying to them, "We have found water!" And they called it an
Oath; therefore the name of the city is Oath Springs to this very day.
When August was 27 years old, he took to
wife Clodia daughter of Fulvia the Roman, and Scribonia daughter of Cornelia
the Roman. And the daughters were rebellious spirits in their
relationship to Mary and Yeshua.
“May QIYA
give you
Of the dew
of heaven and the fat of the earth,
Abundance of
new grain and wine.
Let peoples
serve with you,
And nations
bow with you;
Be master
for your siblings,
And let your
Mother’s offspring bow with you.
Cursed be
they who curse you,
Blessed they
who bless you.”
No sooner had
Khamed left the presence of his father Yeshua – after Yeshua had finished
blessing Khamed – than his brother August came back from his hunt. He too prepared a dish and brought it to his
father. And he said to his father, “Let
my father sit up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may give me your innermost
blessing.”
His father Yeshua
said to him, “Who are you?”
And he replied,
“I am your son, August, your first-born!”
Yeshua was seized
with very violent trembling. “Who was it
then,” he demanded, “that hunted game and brought it to me? Moreover, I ate of it before you came, and I
blessed him; now he must remain
blessed!”
When August heard
his father’s words, he burst into wild and bitter sobbing, and said to his
father, “Bless me too, Father!”
But Yeshua
answered, “Your brother came with guile and took away your blessing.”
August said, “Was
he, then, named Khamed that he might supplant me these two times? First he took away by birthright and now he
has taken away my blessing!” And he
added, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Yeshua answered,
saying to August, “Yes, I have made him master to you: I have given him all his siblings to serve
with, and sustained him with grain and wine.
What, then, can I still do for you, my son?”
And August said
to his father, “Have you but one blessing, Father? Bless me too, Father!” And August wept aloud.
And Yeshua
answered, saying to him,
“See, your
abode shall enjoy the fat of the earth
And the dew
of heaven above.
Yet by your
sword you may die,
And you
shall serve with your siblings;
But when you
grow restive,
You shall
break any yoke from your neck.”
Now August
harbored no grudge against Khamed because of the blessing that his father had
given him and August said to himself, “Let but the mourning period of my father
come, and I will love my brother Khamed.”
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