8. Loo nto ithetha ukuthi asingabo bonke abantwana abazeleyo uAbraham abangabantwana bakaThixo. Hayi, ngabantwana besithembiso kuphela ababalelwa ekubeni bayinzala ncam.
9. Kaloku isithembiso sênziwa nguThixo ngala mazwi athi: “Ngexesha elifanelekileyo ndiya kukuvelela, waye ke uSara uya kuzala unyana.”
10. Ukuqhubela phambili mandithi: Uyise wamawele kaRabheka wayemnye, inguIsake ubawo wethu.
11-12. Kwathi abantwana bengekazalwa, bengekenzi nto, nokuba yelungileyo, nokuba yembi, uThixo wathi kuRabheka: “Omdala uya kuba ngumkhonzi womncinci.” Kaloku unyulo lukaThixo lusekelwe kubizo lwakhe, kungekuko nakuyiphi na into eyenziwa ngumntu;
13. njengoko *iziBhalo zitshoyo ukuthi: “Ndamthanda uYakobi, ndamthiya yena uEsawu.”
14. Síthini ke ngoko? Ngaba sinokuthi uThixo akanabulungisa? Nakanye!
15. Kaloku wathi kuMosis: “Ndiya kuba nenceba kulowo ndinenceba kuye, ndibe netarhu kulowo ndinetarhu kuye.”
16. Ke ukunyulwa komntu akuxhomekekanga ekuzithandeleni komntu, okanye ekwenzeni kwakhe, koko kuxhomekeke kwinceba kaThixo.
17. Kaloku iziBhalo zithi kukumkani waseJiputa: “Ndakuphakamisa ukuze ndiwabonakalise ngawe amandla am, ize negama lam lidume, linwenwe kulo lonke ihlabathi.”
18. Ngoko ke uThixo unenceba kulowo athanda ukumenzela inceba, aze ayenze lukhuni intliziyo yalowo athanda ukuyenza lukhuni.
19. Omnye kuni usenokuthi kum: “Ukuba ke kunjalo angathini na uThixo ukumsola umntu; kungekho bani nje unokumelana nentando kaThixo?”
20. Mntundini, kuxa ungubani wena ukuba ungade uphendulane noThixo? Into ebunjiweyo ingátsho njani kumbumbi wayo ukuthi: “Yini na ukuba undenjenje ukundibumba?”