All language subtitles for The.Faithful.S01E03.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH_track3_[eng]

-I failed you.
-No.

Your bloodline ends with me.

[Abram] God spoke to me.

"Go forth," He said,
"from your native land

into a land
that I will show you."

He's going to give
us children, Sarai.

Abram's god did not
bring you out of Harran

to not give you a child.

[Sarai] We did what
you asked, and nothing!

My womb stays closed!

Hagar, I want you to have
Abram's child on my behalf.

-Your son.
-Ishmael.

Sarah will have a son.

I am too old.
This is madness.

-You feel this?
-You're with child.

[Abraham] His name
will be Isaac.

God will make
His covenant with him.

Ishmael is your eldest.

It's God's will.

I'll never bow to him.
Never!

Cast them both out.

We have to protect Isaac
and the covenant.

Ishmael, please,
come back!

[Rebekah] I was chosen
to lead by God.

And it tested me
at every turn.

Pitted me against my family,
my husband...

and my sons.

Those that I loved.

If it meant
I had to deceive,

that was my burden
and my destiny.

I stand here now
with blood on my hands.

[blade rings out]

-[lamb bleating]
-Father, don't!

It's sick.
It won't survive on its own.

Then I'll care for it.

Rebekah.

Please.

[lamb bleating]

I trust you.

[bleating]

-[bleating]
-Yeah, look at me, yeah.

-Zephyr, be nice.
-Careful.

That one horn is like
a blade from my shears.

[thunder rumbling]

A storm is coming.
You better tie him up.

Stay there.

I'll come check on you.

[wind whooshing]

[thunder rumbling]

[horses neighing]

[dramatic music]

A storm.

He'll be scared.

As you should be.

Come back inside.

[Rebekah] Zephyr?

[rooster crowing in distance]

I tied him right here.

Must have broken free
and run off.

Zephyr!
Zephyr?

It's not fair.

Why would the gods
take him away?

Did I do something wrong?

No, no, no.

Maybe... maybe he
was needed elsewhere.

I don't understand.

We all have a purpose, love.

One day, yours will
reveal itself too.

[upbeat music]

[children laughing]

[indistinct background chatter]

Rebekah!

Keep an eye on your
grandmother for a moment.

We need some new shears.

Hmm, he thinks
I need a nursemaid.

[both chuckling]

-Look at this color.
-Hmm.

Matches your eyes.

What's the matter?

Nothing.
I...

I was lost in a memory.

Your great-aunt Sarah,

she wore a veil like this
on her wedding day.

You've mentioned her before.

-Mm-hmm.
-She's the one who left Harran.

When she was your age.

Why did she go?

Her husband, Abraham.

His god promised them
a new life.

The adventures
they must have had.

I've always wondered what lies
beyond the mountains of Harran.

To leave home.

I could never.
I'd miss it here too much.

Maybe it's your destiny
as it was my sister Sarah's.

And what will you miss
if you stay?

You have an audience.

None interest you?

I've known them
all my life.

Your father's
receiving offers.

He may ask you to choose.

Mmm, I won't settle
out of fear of being alone.

Certainly not
for three goats and a mule.

[both chuckling]

I'd never forgive you
if you did.

[soft dramatic music]

[sheep bleating]

[Eliezer] Please.

May I have
a drink of water?

You may, sir.

You may call me Eliezer.

I apologize
if I startled you.

It's been a long journey.

Please, drink your fill.

[ethereal tone,
indistinct whispers echoing]

Who is that
with your camels?

[camels grunting]

I see no one.

Poor things.

I'll draw water
for them as well.

Tell me whose
daughter you are.

I'm the daughter of Bethuel,

son of Milcah and Nahor.

Ah, blessed be the Lord,

who has led me straight
to my master's kinsmen.

Who is your master?

-Abraham?
-Can you believe?

Did we not just speak of him
the other day?

What brings his
servant to Harran?

He was sent
with an offering.

Well, then I should
see to him.

Show him our hospitality.

Eliezer,
did my sister Sarah

ever have the child
she yearned for?

She did.

In fact, her son is
the reason of my errand.

Abraham asked
that I return

to the land of his father
and find his kin.

He said an angel
would accompany me.

An angel?

When I arrived,
I prayed that,

if a maiden offered to draw
water for me and my camels,

she'd be the one
I was meant to find.

For what purpose?

To take her to Canaan,

so that she might become wife
to my master's son.

What do you know
of their god?

I know that Abraham spoke to Him
and I believe it.

He was a changed man
after that.

What are you
not telling me?

-I saw him.
-Who?

The angel
the servant spoke of.

I saw him
even as he did not.

My whole life,
I've been waiting.

For what,
I don't know.

What if this is it?

If it is and I don't go,
I'll regret it.

But if it's not and I do,
I'll regret that too.

What does your heart tell you?

I assume the animals you
traveled with are included?

Save for the colts needed
for the journey to Canaan.

No need to rush
a decision, sister.

We've negotiated more time
for deliberations.

In ten days,
we'll decide--

I don't need ten days.

I'll go with him.

Are you sure?

You once told me that I would
know my purpose when it comes.

[soft dramatic music]

May you be the mother
to thousands,

and tens of thousands.

I'll miss you.

And I you.

[breathing deeply]

May your descendants inherit
the gate of their enemies.

[rousing music]

[gentle music]

Deborah, I so appreciate
you coming.

It'll be nice to have
a face from home beside me.

Not since the day you were born
have I left your side.

I may need to lean on you...

as I adjust to this
new... everything.

You'll have your husband
to lean on as well.

[horse chuffs]

It's a good name.
Isaac.

It means "laughter."

He could be funny.

Funny looking.

[both chuckle]

[music continues]

[horse neighs]

[Eliezer] This is
your betrothed,

Isaac, son of Abraham.

Come.
I'll announce you.

Who's this?

Your father sent me
to Harran to find a wife.

A wife?

I assumed he sent word.

No, he didn't.

This is exactly like him.

He's meddling again, and he
thinks of no one but himself.

Sorry, forgive me.

I don't know who you are
or what you've been told,

but you've been misled.

We can arrange travel
back to...

wherever she came from.

It's nearly night.

Fine, in the morning then.

[rooster crowing]

Did you see the look
on his face,

as though he was
the one inconvenienced?

I did.

Now I'm to return home
with the stain of rejection.

No one will believe
what really transpired.

Oh, what was I thinking
coming here?

Excuse me, um, sorry,
I didn't get your name.

And now he invades
my privacy.

What do you want?

[Isaac] I have word
of your travel.

[Rebekah] Spit it out then.

Well, there's been a delay.

A delay?
Where's Eliezer?

Why does he not
return us to Harran?

[stammering]
Uh, yeah, he left.

Left?

Yes, this morning,
first light.

He went to Be'er Sheva,
my father's house.

How long will it take then?

Several days, maybe more.

Of course.

Why stem the embarrassment

when we can linger in it
a little longer?

It was never
my intention to offend.

I just, I--

I wasn't expecting you.

You have my apologies.

I don't need your pity.

The indignity itself
is enough, thank you.

My anger wasn't
directed at you.

My father...

He was doing
what's best for you.

I assure you he has no idea
what that would mean.

[sighs]
You hungry?

We have food.
I could bring food--

It's unusual you live
so far from him.

You're estranged,
I take it?

Which of you offended
the other?

Given my recent experience,

I have a guess
as to the culprit.

You're speaking of things
you know nothing about.

Your father is a respected
and righteous man.

What could he possibly
have done?

He held a knife to my throat
and he was going to kill me.

Uh... forgive me.

It's not your burden.

How can it be true?

By your grandmother's
own account,

Abraham is the finest of men.

He has no reason to lie,
not about something like that.

[sheep bleating,
dogs barking]

I accept.

You accept?

It's clear I've landed
in the midst

of whatever war rages
between you and your father.

Perhaps it was unfair
of me to blame you.

So I accept your apology.

Well, seems I needn't have
bothered then.

With what?

This.

It's a bauble, really.

It's a peace offering.

Thank you.

Oh, here.

[gentle music]

It's beautiful.

I find threading the beads
strangely calming.

And that's something
I learned from my father.

Glad to know things between you
weren't all bad.

Well, thank you, again.

Pleasure.

[gentle music]

[Isaac] The beast was twice
the size of any man,

with its eyes gouged out.

But it didn't need
its eyes to find me.

It could use its nose.
[sniffs]

And its ears.

And its... claws!

[children exclaim]

[Isaac laughs]
Got you.

I saw your face.
You were very scared.

And you, you were
the most scared...

-I wasn't!
-Out of everyone.

They say our escort
arrives tomorrow.

[sighs]

So we'll be home soon.

If that's what you want.

[blows out candle]

[gentle music]

Can't sleep either?

When I was little,
I used to try and count them.

May I ask you a question?

Mm, of course.

Were you unhappy in Harran?

No.

Why leave your home to marry
a man you'd never met?

I thought my purpose
was elsewhere,

as ridiculous
as that now sounds.

I don't think
it's ridiculous.

All the stars in the sky.

So shall my descendants be.

Too numerous to count.

God Himself promised so.

Promised who?

Well, not me.

God doesn't speak to me,
only my father.

I'm sorry.

I was the test.

My father's god commanded him
to make a sacrifice.

A burnt offering.

So he and I traveled for
three days to Mount Moriah.

And it didn't occur to me to ask
until we were halfway up

where the lamb was.

He said, "Don't worry."

Once we reached
the highest point,

he built a pyre of wood.

And then he turned to me.

I've never seen
a look like it.

It was so much sorrow.

And that's when I realized...

I was the sacrifice.

The way he looked at me.

He was prepared to do it,
to kill me.

Who could do such a thing?

My father could.

He believed God
gave him a son,

and if God wanted
the son back, then...

it was not his to withhold.

I don't know how
I can love him and hate him.

It's...

You're stronger than
you know, Isaac.

To understand why he did it,

and the fear
he must have felt...

not everyone can do that.

I sometimes dream
about the ram

that was the sacrifice
in my place.

It seemed so calm,

as if it was exactly where
it was supposed to be.

[thunder rumbling]

What was most striking
about it though was its eyes.

One blue, one brown,

alongside an
unusual-shaped horn.

I thought your father
brought no-- no offering.

It is as if it appeared
from nowhere.

Like it dropped
out of the sky.

Which was-- that was
so strange that day.

The clouds were roiling
in a way

I've never seen before,
nor since.

How long ago did
all of this happen?

Many years.

Why do you ask?

It's nothing.
I just--

When I was a girl,
I raised a lamb.

He had one blue eye
and one brown,

alongside an
unusual-shaped horn.

And one night,
he disappeared in a storm,

just like the one
you described.

Could you wait here
a moment?

My father gave me this
when I came of age,

so I would remember that day.

Zephyr.

My lamb.

Are you certain?

Yes.

I don't know
what this means.

That I don't have
to keep looking anymore.

My purpose, it's here.

You'll stay?

And be my wife?

[soft dramatic music]

[mule braying]

[Deborah] Isaac should know
the truth.

I don't want to worry him.

I have never seen a child
toss and turn like this.

Something's distressing him.

What if the midwife
missed something,

or it's beyond
her understanding?

Only God may know.

Then I'll inquire
of Him myself.

[music continues]

I beseech you, Lord.

Tell me why my womb
fights with itself.

What troubles
my unborn child?

What is its fate?

I beg you, my Lord.

[music continues]

[voice echoing]
I beg you, my Lord.

[God]
Rebekah.

[thunder rumbling]

Thank you.

-Two for today.
-[thunder rumbling]

Sounds like a storm
is brewing.

[thunder rumbling]

Rebekah?

Rebekah?

[thunder rumbling]

[thunderclap]

[ominous music]

Rebekah!

[thunderclaps]

Rebekah!

Rebekah!

Rebekah!
Rebekah!

Rebekah, are you all right?

Are you all right?
You're not hurt?

I'm fine.
I'm fine.

All right, we need
to get you inside.

Isaac, Isaac,
He spoke to me.

He spoke to me.

Uh-huh, come.

-He spoke to me.
-Come on.

I asked Him
to bless our son

and to ensure
his good health,

and I-- I never thought
He'd answer.

I'm not unwell, my love.

I did hear Him.

I-- I swear it.

I still feel His words
in my bones.

My father's god?

Yes.

What did He say?

That we're
to have two sons.

Twins?

A blessing to be sure,

and the reason
it's not been easy.

They strive against
one another.

He also said that one
will be stronger.

And that the elder
would serve the younger.

[stammering]

The younger would be heir?

As with you and Ishmael.

[Rebekah straining]

There are two,
just as you thought.

They both strive to be first.

Forgive me, mistress.
I must settle the question

of which it'll be,
or we risk harming all of you.

It is time.

[Rebekah wincing]

[gasping]

[straining]

My gods!

He clings on tight
to his brother.

[baby crying]

[uplifting music]

The second one
announces himself.

Push, mistress!

[wincing and straining]

[music continues]

He'll need extra attention,
this one.

Thank you.

[Rebekah sighs]

Oh...

Hello.

Hello.

Look at his hair too.

Esau.

Surely his name
has to be Esau.

Which is firstborn?

The one you hold.

[Rebekah] And this
shall be Jacob.

My little lamb.

Look, look, look,
look, look, look!

Look at you, Esau.
So strong.

Look at you.
Look at you.

Going to be a hunter
like no other, I know it.

[Rebekah] I know.

[man] I'll take
Jacob for you.

There we are.

-Thank you.
-Come here, little man.

It's all--
it's all right.

[man] Let's go
to the tree.

Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom.

Bup-bup.

There's something we've
not discussed in some time.

What's that, my love?

Something we need to revisit.

What awaits them,
as God has divined.

Oh, no.

We don't need to talk
about that now.

Then when?

-Well--
-[horse neighing]

Eliezer.

What's all this?
The horses?

An offering
from your father.

He follows behind.

Abraham is coming?

To celebrate the birth
of his grandsons.

We are to ready a feast
for the occasion.

He's here but a few days.

Of course we are.

Do not worry, my love.

I will be with you
every step of the way.

But for now,
there is much to do.

The matter
we discussed earlier.

I ask that we keep it
to ourselves.

You don't want
your father to know?

No.

Or the boys.

Let them grow up and become
who they're meant to be,

and then we'll revisit.

[excited chatter]

[soft drumming]

I have seen brothers strive,
but not before they had names.

It must've been
difficult on you.

Worth every moment.

[Abraham grunts]

His spirit is strong.

You wouldn't think
they're the same age.

Esau was firstborn.

Yes, I can tell.

It's good you have
broad shoulders, child.

A great weight
will be on them in time.

And this one.

Jacob's clever,
you can tell.

Always thinking.

He's destined
for great things, I think.

Time will tell.

The Angel of God
blesses them both.

[dramatic music]

It'll allow you to pull
the water to the surface

in half the time.

Jacob may be
the brightest among us.

And if your hand slips...

If you spent more time with him,
you'd see for yourself.

[Jacob] It'll catch
on this latch here.

You think I don't see him?

I think you're
easily distracted.

[men]
Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!

[horses approaching]

-[man laughing]
-Hyah!

Brother!

We shall feast on your
favorite stew tonight.

Make sure to draw enough
for every pot in camp.

-I see him.
-Mm-hmm.

He is hard to miss.

[music continues]

Is that all that's left?

Have you not eaten?

Kills do not cut themselves.

I've been at it since
returning from the hunt.

Shame.
It's quite good.

Give it to me.

You're not the only one
who's hungry.

You wouldn't have any
if it weren't for me.

-Buy it from me.
-[scoffs]

Don't be a child.

What do you want for it?

Sell me your birthright.

[Esau laughs]

Have you been drinking
Father's wine?

Fine.
I don't want it anyway.

The stew or your birthright?

Boys being boys.

You deceive yourself.

You refuse to see
what's right in front of you.

And you refuse to listen.

Rebekah, I will not revisit
this conversation.

Esau is the firstborn.

By choice of the midwives
delivering him, nothing more.

You favor Jacob.
Fine.

But you cannot usurp
what is Esau's by birthright.

So says the second-born heir.

Ishmael is your elder
by years,

Esau by only moments,
and yet, somehow,

God's will has bearing in
one instance and not the other.

God's will.

Is that what this is about?

Because He spoke to me
and not you?

Be careful.

Believe me, my love, I'd much
rather He'd spoken to you.

Every day, I'm forced
to look at our boys

knowing God values one
more than the other.

Do you think I want this?

It is a burden,
and one I desperately wish

I wasn't alone in carrying.

I love Esau dearly.

He provides like no other,
but he is reckless.

Do you know
that two nights ago,

I saw a servant leave
his tent, barely dressed.

He will get himself
in trouble in short order.

You make all these leaps
to support your argument.

No, Isaac!
Esau's headstrong and decisive.

We mustn't mistake confidence
for competence.

The future of your nation
is at stake.

Look, how do I make you
understand, all right?

I've lived this.
I've lived the result.

If we go against
the natural order of things,

we will lose them both.

Please, swear to me.

Swear to me you will never
mention this to either of them.

You said there
would come a time.

Rebekah!

Forgive me.
I come with word.

Eliezer?
What is it?

Your father,
there's not much time.

He's dying.

[dramatic music]

[Rebekah] A great man
lies dying.

Would that he will
give me the courage.

The courage to follow
God's will.

Welcome.

He is weak, but he will be
gladdened to see you.

Thank you.

What happens next?

The blessing carries the weight

of your grandfather's
covenant with God.

They are not merely words.

You understand?

I never understood.

In truth, neither did I.

But I loved you so.

I'm proud of you
and the man you've become.

Isaac.

Unite our households.

Look after my people...

as if they were your own.

I shall.

Son...

May your descendants be as
numerous as the stars and sand.

All the nations of the earth

shall be blessed by them

when you obey His command.

My covenant with God
passes to you.

[somber music]

God bless
and keep you, Father.

Fear and doubt plague Esau.

God has told me...

it is Jacob
who must lead nations.

You must see to it.

[soft dramatic music]

[dog barks]