Another interpretation (of Is. 41:4): WHO HAS WROUGHT AND PRODUCED. The Holy One also told Rebekah what he was going to do, as stated (in Gen. 25:22f.): SO SHE WENT TO INQUIRE OF THE LORD; AND THE LORD SAID TO HER: TWO NATIONS ARE IN YOUR WOMB. Then he said to her: Esau I hate, and Jacob I love,⁹¹ as stated (at the end of vs. 23): AND THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER. The Holy One made known to her everything about them before they were born. He said to her: You are like a field that is sown and thrives, so that the storehouses are full of grain and the stables⁹². full of straw. He said: {She shall be the} [You shall be blessed like that] field which fills the barns with grain, and the stables⁹³ with straw. The Holy One said to Rebekah: Let there be prosperity in this belly, since it is going to fill up the Garden of Eden with righteous offspring and Gehinnom with wicked offspring , as stated (in Gen. 25:22): TWO NATIONS ARE IN YOUR WOMB. It is therefore stated (in Is. 41:4): WHO HAS WROUGHT AND PRODUCED.⁹⁴

footnotes: ⁹¹ See Mal. 1:2f.; Romans 9:13; Gen. R. 63:7. ⁹² Lat.: stabula ⁹³ Ibid. ⁹⁴ The two verbs are understood as referring to Jacob and Esau respectively.