6. However, it is not as though the word of Elohim has failed. For they are not all Yisra’ĕl who are of Yisra’ĕl,
7. neither are they all children because they are the seed of Aḇraham, but, “In Yitsḥaq your seed shall be called.”
8. That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of Elohim, but the children of the promise are reckoned as the seed.
9. For this is the word of promise, “At this time I shall come and Sarah shall have a son.”
10. And not only so, but Riḇqah having conceived by one, our father Yitsḥaq.
11. Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –
12. it was said to her, “The greater shall serve the lesser,”
13. as it has been written, “Ya‛aqoḇ I have loved, but Ěsaw I have hated.”
14. What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim? Let it not be!
15. For He says to Mosheh, “I shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
16. So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.
17. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this same purpose I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in all the earth.”
18. So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
19. Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”
20. But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”