A. M. 2240.

When he was a hundred and thirty-seven years of age, and his sight had so failed him that he could not distinguish one of his sons from the other, Jacob craftily obtained from him the ble ing of primogeniture. Yet Isaac survived many years after this, to him, distre ing occurrence. He sent Jacob into Me so pot am i a, there to take a wife of his own family, Genesis xxviii, 1, 2, and to prevent his marrying among the Can a a nites as his brother Esau had done. And when Jacob returned, after a lapse of twenty years, Isaac was still living, and continued to live twenty-three years longer. He then died at the age of a hundred and eighty years, and was buried with Abraham by his sons Esau and Jacob, Gen. xxxv, 29. Gen. xxxv, 29. See Esau and Jacob .