the being who made the promise other promises likewise arc made hb are to possess tho territory of ten distinct tribes or nations � all the land from tho to it when the miraculous child is born god commands the to the born son but the offering is prevented the sou grows up to manhood a wife must be found for him but she must not be a woman of ordinary descent coming from the nations of his own neighbourhood she must come from the classic and distant land whence himself had must be of the same as her husband so the daughter of a and conspicuous man is foimd and becomes the wife of u special care of tho son not loss than of the bears two sons � and jacob one of these jacob is tlie of hebrew race lie is the younger of the two but for a trifle the � ts of the first m hfe the ss from his elder brother and gains in i a blessing firom his father which for ever upon mm and his posterity all the that had promised to upon the children of jacob is thus represented as bom of most illustrious having a and august and is heir of the promises formerly made by god when he also grows up to manhood a wife must bo sought for him but not among the women of tho neighbourhood to keen the race pure and he must return to the native land of his and take a partner from the celebrated family which had already given to the world an a and a watches over jacob with the same of affection he had formerly bestowed on and lie visits jacob by night gives counsel by day � him in the art of over reaching his wives father and that father against interfering to jacob are bom twelve sons and two daughters the family are the special objects of s care in this way a b made out which no ancient herald would find fault with the arc the noblest of ihe noble descended from the prime nobility of the earth it is true the character of jacob is base and treacherous when measured by the christian standard of times but in the estimation of the author of the narrative the characteristic vices of the were doubtless virtues and seem to be related as if in themselves praise had it otherwise to he probably would have represented as to punish jacob or to prevent the from descending to his posterity now as if this illustrious descent were not enough to the hebrew nation withal a corresponding and parallel effort is made to cast a cloud over the origin of the other races most immediately in contact with them many of them it is said are descended from ham tho second son of a person held in high veneration by many of the oriental races but it is said that ham committed an offence which demanded the on the part of hia father curses tho youngest son of ham the were the special objects of hatred to the in the early part of their history the latter conquered and gradually absorbed the territory of the former the inhabitants or thorn to bondage so the author of after relating the m march y march the crime of ham twice in a single paragraph the fact that is the son of hum the for his father s and the is repeated three times in a single paragraph thus according to the of one third of the human race are disgraced by the act of their ham his descendants are the numerous nations of descent in the south and west of asia and the north of africa � the j and the but though the disgrace must bo shared equally by the children of ham yet the curse falls specially upon hia posterity � taking the names from the common version of the old testament � are the the the the the and the many others these are the with whom tie arc so often at war and who were unworthy to furnish wives for and jacob in language manners and institutions some of uie tribes were more closely allied to the than tlie aa it appears this fact must be for in the hebrew history and accordingly they are derived from hut they also are in their origin they arc not allowed to be descended from the honorable and bom wife of the but from a secondary wife or and also a slave in s family whom once drove out of doors on account of her in addition to this reproach is herself an egyptian woman and therefore disgraced by her descent from the infamous family of ham however after her from s household she returns bears a son called i and remains there until after the birth of till has nearly attained the age of as it appears then at the of the slave mother is turned out of doors and her son with her himself of the must not be a joint heir with nor inherit the land or tlie promises still as he also is s son he must have a blessing and become a nation but when posterity arc pains are taken to add that he was the son of a female slave and she an egyptian a therefore of the race of ham other kindred nations are also said to have been descended from but having for their mother only an obscure the woman whom author of the seeks to still more calling her by a bad name � while he the origin of a hostile neighbour the or had likewise a strong national resemblance to tlie in many respects they therefore must be referred to the same they are descended from the t brother of jacob but had shown himself unworthy of his privilege of and had sold the 