And he said : Lord, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go ' For - cf. Gen. xiv. -24. hence childless, and the son of Mas^q, the son of my handmaid, is the Dammasek Eliezer : he will be my heir, and to me thou hast given no seed."

He (knowing that his father had promised to give up all that he possessed, and therefore his son also) said to his father: 'Dear father, to whom wilt...