Genesis 11.27-50.26

25. and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26. And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27. Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30. And Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. 12:1. Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee: 12:2. and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing: 12:3. and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 12:4. So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 12:5. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 12:6. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 12:7. And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him. 12:8. And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah. 12:9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. 12:10. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. 12:11. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12:12. and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 12:13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee. 12:14. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 12:15. And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 12:16. And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. 12:17. And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 12:18. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 12:19. why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 12:20. And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had. 13:1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 13:2. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 13:3. And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai, 13:4. unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah. 13:5. And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 13:6. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 13:7. And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 13:8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren. 13:9. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left. 13:10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar. 13:11. So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 13:12. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13:13. Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly. 13:14. And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward: 13:15. for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 13:16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered. 13:17. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it. 13:18. And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah. 14:1. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 14:2. that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar). 14:3. All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea). 14:4. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 14:6. and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 14:7. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar. 14:8. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim; 14:9. against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five. 14:10. Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. 14:11. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 14:12. And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 14:13. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram. 14:14. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15. And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 14:16. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale). 14:18. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. 14:19. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20. and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all. 14:21. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 14:22. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23. that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 14:24. save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. 15:1. After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 15:2. And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 15:3. And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 15:4. And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 15:6. And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. 15:7. And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 15:8. And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 15:9. And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 15:10. And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not. 15:11. And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 15:12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 15:13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 15:14. and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15:15. But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 15:16. And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 15:17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 15:18. In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19. the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 15:20. and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 15:21. and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. 16:1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 16:2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 16:4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 16:5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee. 16:6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face. 16:7. And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 16:8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. 16:9. And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 16:10. And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 16:11. And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction. 16:12. And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren. 16:13. And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me? 16:14. Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 16:15. And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16:16. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. 17:1. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 17:2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 17:3. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 17:4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations. 17:5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. 17:6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 17:7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 17:8. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 17:9. And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. 17:10. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. 17:11. And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you. 17:12. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed. 17:13. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 17:14. And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 17:15. And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 17:16. And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her. 17:17. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 17:18. And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee! 17:19. And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. 17:20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 17:21. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 17:22. And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 17:23. And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 17:24. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:25. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:26. In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 17:27. And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him. 18:1. And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 18:2. and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 18:3. and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 18:4. let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 18:5. and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. 18:6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. 18:7. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hasted to dress it. 18:8. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 18:9. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 18:10. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 18:11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 18:12. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 18:13. And Jehovah said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old? 18:14. Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son. 18:15. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 18:16. And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 18:17. And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do; 18:18. seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 18:19. For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 18:20. And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 18:21. I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 18:22. And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah. 18:23. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? 18:24. Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 18:25. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 18:26. And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. 18:27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes: 18:28. peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. 18:29. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. 18:30. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 18:31. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. 18:32. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. 18:33. And Jehovah went his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. 19:1. And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth; 19:2. and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 19:3. And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 19:4. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; 19:5. and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 19:6. And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. 19:7. And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 19:8. Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof. 19:9. And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. 19:10. But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 19:11. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 19:12. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the place: 19:13. for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it. 19:14. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked. 19:15. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 19:16. But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 19:17. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 19:18. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord: 19:19. behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die: 19:20. behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live. 19:21. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. 19:22. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 19:24. Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 19:25. and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 19:27. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah: 19:28. and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. 19:29. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. 19:30. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 19:31. And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 19:32. come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 19:33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 19:34. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 19:35. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 19:36. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 19:37. And the first-born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 19:38. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. 20:1. And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. 20:2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 20:3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 20:4. Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? 20:5. Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. 20:6. And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou has done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 20:7. Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. 20:8. And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. 20:9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. 20:10. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 20:11. And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 20:12. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: 20:13. and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. 20:14. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. 20:15. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. 20:16. And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and in respect of all thou art righted. 20:17. And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children. 20:18. For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. 21:1. And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 21:2. And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 21:3. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 21:4. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 21:5. And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 21:6. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me. 21:7. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age. 21:8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 21:9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. 21:10. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son: for the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 21:11. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. 21:12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 21:13. And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. 21:14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 21:15. And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 21:17. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 21:18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation. 21:19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 21:20. And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. 21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 21:22. And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 21:23. now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 21:24. And Abraham said, I will swear. 21:25. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 21:26. And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day. 21:27. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant. 21:28. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 21:30. And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. 21:31. Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. 21:32. So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 21:33. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. 21:34. And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. 22:1. And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. 22:2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 22:3. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 22:4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 22:5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come again to you. 22:6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together. 22:7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering? 22:8. And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son: so they went both of them together. 22:9. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 22:10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 22:11. And the angel of Jehovah called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here I am. 22:12. And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. 22:13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 22:14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided. 22:15. And the angel of Jehovah called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven, 22:16. and said, By myself have I sworn, saith Jehovah, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, 22:17. that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 22:18. and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 22:19. So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. 22:20. And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor: 22:21. Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22. and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 22:23. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 22:24. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah. 23:1. And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 23:2. And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 23:3. And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake unto the children of Heth, saying, 23:4. I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 23:5. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:6. Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 23:7. And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 23:8. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9. that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place. 23:10. Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 23:11. Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the children of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. 23:12. And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. 23:13. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 23:14. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:15. My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 23:16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 23:17. So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure 23:18. unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 23:19. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 23:20. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth. 24:1. And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. 24:2. And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 24:3. and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 24:4. but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. 24:5. And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 24:6. And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. 24:7. Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence. 24:8. And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son thither again. 24:9. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning this matter. 24:10. And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. 24:11. And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 24:12. And he said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham. 24:13. Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water: 24:14. and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master. 24:15. And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 24:16. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 24:17. And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher. 24:18. And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 24:19. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 24:20. And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 24:21. And the man looked stedfastly on her, holding his peace, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22. And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 24:23. and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? 24:24. And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bare unto Nahor. 24:25. She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 24:26. And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Jehovah. 24:27. And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master: as for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren. 24:28. And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. 24:29. And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain. 24:30. And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain. 24:31. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. 24:32. And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him. 24:33. And there was set food before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. 24:34. And he said, I am Abraham's servant. 24:35. And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses. 24:36. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath. 24:37. And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: 24:38. but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. 24:39. And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 24:40. And he said unto me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house: 24:41. then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath. 24:42. And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: 24:43. behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink; 24:44. and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son. 24:45. And before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. 24:46. And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also. 24:47. And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. 24:48. And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. 24:49. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 24:50. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from Jehovah: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 24:51. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as Jehovah hath spoken. 24:52. And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth unto Jehovah. 24:53. And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. 24:54. And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. 24:55. And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. 24:56. And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master. 24:57. And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. 24:58. And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. 24:59. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. 24:60. And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them. 24:61. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 24:62. And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South. 24:63. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. 24:64. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. 24:65. And she said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master: and she took her veil, and covered herself. 24:66. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 24:67. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. 25:1. And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 25:2. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4. And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 25:5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 25:6. But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. 25:7. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years. 25:8. And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 25:9. And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; 25:10. the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 25:11. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son: and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi. 25:12. Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: 25:13. and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 25:14. and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 25:15. Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 25:16. these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations. 25:17. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered unto his people. 25:18. And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: he abode over against all his brethren. 25:19. And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 25:20. and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. 25:21. And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah. 25:23. And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels: And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger. 25:24. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25:25. And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 25:26. And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. 25:27. And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. 25:28. Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: and Rebekah loved Jacob. 25:29. And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint: 25:30. and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 25:31. And Jacob said, Sell me first thy birthright. 25:32. And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die: and what profit shall the birthright do to me? 25:33. And Jacob said, Swear to me first; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 25:34. And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: so Esau despised his birthright. 26:1. And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. 26:2. And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 26:3. sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 26:4. and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 26:5. because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 26:6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 26:7. and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. 26:8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 26:9. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her. 26:10. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 26:11. And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 26:12. And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him. 26:13. And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: 26:14. and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him. 26:15. Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 26:16. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. 26:17. And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 26:18. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 26:19. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 26:20. And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. 26:21. And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. 26:22. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. 26:23. And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 26:24. And Jehovah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 26:25. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. 26:26. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. 26:27. And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 26:28. And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee, 26:29. that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of Jehovah. 26:30. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 26:31. And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 26:32. And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. 26:33. And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. 26:34. And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 26:35. and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. 27:1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Here am I. 27:2. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. 27:3. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison; 27:4. and make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. 27:5. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 27:6. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 27:7. Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah before my death. 27:8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. 27:9. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loveth: 27:10. and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death. 27:11. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 27:12. My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 27:13. And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. 27:14. And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 27:15. And Rebekah took the goodly garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son; 27:16. and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: 27:17. and she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 27:18. And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? 27:19. And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. 27:20. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God sent me good speed. 27:21. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. 27:22. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 27:23. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. 27:24. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 27:25. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 27:26. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. 27:27. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed: 27:28. And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine: 27:29. Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee. 27:30. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 27:31. And he also made savory food, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 27:32. And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau. 27:33. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed. 27:34. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 27:35. And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing. 27:36. And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? 27:37. And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine have I sustained him: and what then shall I do for thee, my son? 27:38. And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 27:39. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above; 27:40. And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck. 27:41. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 27:42. And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. 27:43. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; 27:44. and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; 27:45. until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be bereaved of you both in one day? 27:46. And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? 28:1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 28:2. Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 28:3. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; 28:4. and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. 28:5. And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 28:6. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 28:7. and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram: 28:8. and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 28:9. and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. 28:10. And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12. And he dreamed; and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 28:13. And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14. and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 28:15. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. 28:16. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not. 28:17. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 28:18. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 28:19. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 28:20. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 28:21. so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Jehovah will be my God, 28:22. then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. 29:1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. 29:2. And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well's mouth was great. 29:3. And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place. 29:4. And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. 29:5. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. 29:6. And he said unto them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. 29:7. And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. 29:8. And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. 29:9. While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them. 29:10. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29:11. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 29:12. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father. 29:13. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. 29:14. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. 29:15. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? 29:16. And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 29:17. And Leah's eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. 29:18. And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 29:19. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. 29:20. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 29:21. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. 29:22. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 29:23. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. 29:24. And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid. 29:25. And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? 29:26. And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born. 29:27. Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 29:28. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife. 29:29. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. 29:30. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 29:31. And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. 29:32. And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me. 29:33. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. 29:34. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. 29:35. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, This time will I praise Jehovah: therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing. 30:1. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 30:2. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 30:3. And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her. 30:4. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 30:5. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 30:6. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. 30:7. And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 30:8. And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. 30:9. When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. 30:10. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a son. 30:11. And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad. 30:12. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son. 30:13. And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher. 30:14. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. 30:15. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes. 30:16. And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. 30:17. And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son. 30:18. And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. 30:19. And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob. 30:20. And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. 30:21. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. 30:22. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23. And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 30:24. and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son. 30:25. And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 30:26. Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee. 30:27. And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have divined that Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake. 30:28. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 30:29. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me. 30:30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 30:31. And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it. 30:32. I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. 30:33. So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen. 30:34. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 30:35. And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons; 30:36. and he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 30:37. And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 30:38. And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 30:39. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40. And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock. 30:41. And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 30:42. but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 30:43. And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses. 31:1. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 31:2. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. 31:3. And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 31:4. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 31:5. and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me. 31:6. And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 31:7. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 31:8. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked. 31:9. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 31:10. And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled. 31:11. And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. 31:12. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 31:13. I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity. 31:14. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 31:15. Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money. 31:16. For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. 31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; 31:18. and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. 31:19. Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. 31:20. And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. 31:21. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. 31:22. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 31:24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 31:25. And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 31:26. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword? 31:27. Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; 31:28. and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. 31:29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 31:30. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 31:31. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force. 31:32. With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 31:33. And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 31:34. Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. 31:35. And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim. 31:36. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? 31:37. Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two. 31:38. These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten. 31:39. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 31:40. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. 31:41. These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 31:42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 31:43. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children whom they have borne? 31:44. And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 31:45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 31:46. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap. 31:47. And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 31:48. And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: 31:49. and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 31:50. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 31:51. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee. 31:52. This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac. 31:54. And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain. 31:55. And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. 32:1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 32:2. And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 32:3. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 32:4. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now: 32:5. and I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight. 32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; 32:8. and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape. 32:9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good: 32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies. 32:11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children. 32:12. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 32:13. And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 32:14. two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 32:15. thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. 32:16. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 32:17. And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 32:18. then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us. 32:19. And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; 32:20. and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me. 32:21. So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company. 32:22. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. 32:23. And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. 32:24. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 32:25. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. 32:26. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 32:27. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 32:28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed. 32:29. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 32:30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 32:31. And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh. 32:32. Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip. 33:1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 33:2. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 33:3. And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 33:4. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 33:5. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant. 33:6. Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 33:7. And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 33:8. And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord. 33:9. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine. 33:10. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 33:11. Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. 33:12. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 33:13. And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 33:14. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. 33:15. And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord. 33:16. So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 33:17. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 33:18. And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city. 33:19. And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. 33:20. And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel. 34:1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 34:2. And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. 34:3. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. 34:4. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 34:5. Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came. 34:6. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 34:7. And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 34:8. And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you, give her unto him to wife. 34:9. And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 34:10. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. 34:11. And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 34:12. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. 34:13. And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 34:14. and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. 34:15. Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16. then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 34:17. But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 34:18. And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 34:19. And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father. 34:20. And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 34:21. These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 34:22. Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 34:23. Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 34:24. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 34:25. And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. 34:26. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth. 34:27. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 34:28. They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field; 34:29. and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. 34:30. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 34:31. And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot? 35:1. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 35:2. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments: 35:3. and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 35:4. And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 35:5. And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 35:6. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him. 35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 35:8. And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth. 35:9. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 35:10. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 35:11. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12. and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 35:13. And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him. 35:14. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. 35:15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. 35:16. And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. 35:17. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son. 35:18. And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. 35:19. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). 35:20. And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 35:21. And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 35:22. And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 35:23. the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 35:24. the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 35:25. and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali; 35:26. and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram. 35:27. And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 35:28. And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years. 35:29. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him. 36:1. Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom). 36:2. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 36:3. and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 36:4. And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare Reuel; 36:5. and Oholibamah bare Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, that were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 36:6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 36:7. For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle. 36:8. And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. 36:9. And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: 36:10. these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 36:11. And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 36:12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 36:13. And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 36:14. And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. 36:15. These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 36:16. chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 36:17. And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 36:18. And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 36:19. These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom. 36:20. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, 36:21. and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 36:22. And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan's sister was Timna. 36:23. And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. 36:24. And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. 36:25. And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. 36:26. And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. 36:27. These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan. 36:28. These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 36:29. These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 36:30. chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 36:31. And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. 36:32. And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 36:33. And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 36:34. And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 36:35. And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith. 36:36. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. 36:37. And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead. 36:38. And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. 36:39. And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. 36:40. And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41. chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42. chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43. chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites. 37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 37:2. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father. 37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors. 37:4. And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 37:5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 37:6. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 37:7. for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 37:8. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 37:9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. 37:10. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 37:11. And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind. 37:12. And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 37:13. And Israel said unto Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. 37:14. And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 37:15. And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? 37:16. And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock. 37:17. And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 37:18. And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 37:19. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 37:20. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. 37:21. And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. 37:22. And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. 37:23. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 37:24. and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 37:25. And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 37:26. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? 37:27. Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him. 37:28. And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. 37:29. And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. 37:30. And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? 37:31. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood; 37:32. and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not. 37:33. And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. 37:34. And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 37:35. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him. 37:36. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard. 38:1. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her. 38:3. And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. 38:4. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 38:5. And she yet again bare a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 38:6. And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. 38:7. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah slew him. 38:8. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother. 38:9. And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. 38:10. And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and he slew him also. 38:11. Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. 38:12. And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 38:13. And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep. 38:14. And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him to wife. 38:15. When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face. 38:16. And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee: for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 38:17. And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? 38:18. And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. 38:19. And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 38:20. And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 38:21. Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There hath been no prostitute here. 38:22. And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no prostitute here. 38:23. And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 38:24. And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 38:25. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff. 38:26. And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. 38:27. And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 38:28. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. 38:29. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? therefore his name was called Perez. 38:30. And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerah. 39:1. And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither. 39:2. And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 39:3. And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 39:4. And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered unto him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 39:5. And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field. 39:6. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught that was with him, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was comely, and well-favored. 39:7. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 39:8. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand: 39:9. he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 39:10. And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 39:11. And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house there within. 39:12. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 39:13. And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 39:14. that she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us: he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: 39:15. and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out. 39:16. And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. 39:17. And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: 39:18. and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled out. 39:19. And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. 39:20. And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. 39:21. But Jehovah was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 39:22. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 39:23. The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was under his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and that which he did, Jehovah made it to prosper. 40:1. And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. 40:2. And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. 40:3. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 40:4. And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto them: and they continued a season in ward. 40:5. And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 40:6. And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. 40:7. And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day? 40:8. And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you. 40:9. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 40:10. and in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and its blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 40:11. and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 40:12. And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days; 40:13. within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 40:14. But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 40:15. for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. 40:16. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head: 40:17. and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. 40:18. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days; 40:19. within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. 40:20. And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 40:21. And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 40:22. but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. 41:1. And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass. 41:3. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 41:4. And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 41:5. And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 41:6. And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 41:7. And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 41:8. And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. 41:9. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: 41:10. Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker: 41:11. and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 41:12. And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. 41:13. And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. 41:14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. 41:15. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it. 41:16. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 41:17. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river: 41:18. and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the reed-grass: 41:19. and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 41:20. and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 41:21. and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke. 41:22. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good: 41:23. and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: 41:24. and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me. 41:25. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh. 41:26. The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 41:27. And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine. 41:28. That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath showed unto Pharaoh. 41:29. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 41:30. and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 41:31. and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous. 41:32. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 41:33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 41:34. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 41:35. And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 41:36. And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. 41:37. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 41:38. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? 41:39. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou: 41:40. thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. 41:41. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 41:42. And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 41:43. and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt. 41:44. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. 41:45. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 41:46. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:47. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 41:48. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 41:49. And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number. 41:50. And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him. 41:51. And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. 41:52. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. 41:53. And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. 41:54. And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 41:55. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 41:56. And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt. 41:57. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth. 42:1. Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 42:2. And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 42:3. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt. 42:4. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him. 42:5. And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 42:6. And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth. 42:7. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 42:8. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 42:9. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 42:10. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. 42:11. We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. 42:12. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 42:13. And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. 42:14. And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: 42:15. hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 42:16. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. 42:17. And he put them all together into ward three days. 42:18. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: 42:19. if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses: 42:20. and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 42:21. And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 42:22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required. 42:23. And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 42:24. And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 42:25. Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them. 42:26. And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed thence. 42:27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 42:28. And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God hath done unto us? 42:29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying, 42:30. The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 42:31. And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 42:32. we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 42:33. And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way; 42:34. and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land. 42:35. And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 42:36. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 42:37. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. 42:38. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. 43:1. And the famine was sore in the land. 43:2. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 43:3. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 43:4. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 43:5. but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 43:6. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? 43:7. And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down? 43:8. And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. 43:9. I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: 43:10. for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time. 43:11. And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 43:12. and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: 43:13. take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 43:14. and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. 43:15. And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 43:16. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine with me at noon. 43:17. And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men to Joseph's house. 43:18. And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. 43:19. And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house, 43:20. and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: 43:21. and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. 43:22. And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we know not who put our money in our sacks. 43:23. And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. 43:24. And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. 43:25. And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. 43:26. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth. 43:27. And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 43:28. And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance. 43:29. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. 43:30. And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 43:31. And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. 43:32. And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 43:33. And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another. 43:34. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. 44:1. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 44:2. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 44:3. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. 44:4. And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 44:5. Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. 44:6. And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words. 44:7. And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing. 44:8. Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 44:9. With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 44:10. And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless. 44:11. Then they hasted, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 44:12. And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 44:13. Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 44:14. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. 44:15. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine? 44:16. And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found. 44:17. And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. 44:18. Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh. 44:19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 44:20. And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him. 44:21. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 44:22. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 44:23. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. 44:24. And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 44:25. And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. 44:26. And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. 44:27. And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 44:28. and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since: 44:29. and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. 44:30. Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; 44:31. it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. 44:32. For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. 44:33. Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 44:34. For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father. 45:1. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 45:2. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 45:3. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 45:4. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 45:5. And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 45:6. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. 45:7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 45:8. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 45:9. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not; 45:10. and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 45:11. and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast. 45:12. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 45:13. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. 45:14. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 45:15. And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. 45:16. And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 45:17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 45:18. and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 45:19. Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 45:20. Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 45:21. And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 45:22. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 45:23. And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. 45:24. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 45:25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. 45:26. And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. 45:27. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 45:28. and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. 46:1. And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 46:2. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 46:3. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 46:4. I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 46:5. And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 46:7. his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 46:8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born. 46:9. And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 46:10. And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 46:11. And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 46:12. And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13. And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron. 46:14. And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 46:15. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 46:16. And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 46:17. And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 46:18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 46:19. The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 46:20. And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him. 46:21. And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 46:23. And the sons of Dan: Hushim. 46:24. And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 46:25. These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. 46:26. All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; 46:27. and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 46:28. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 46:29. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 46:30. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive. 46:31. And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 46:32. and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 46:33. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? 46:34. that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 47:1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 47:2. And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 47:3. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. 47:4. And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 47:5. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 47:6. the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 47:7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 47:8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life? 47:9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 47:10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 47:11. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 47:12. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 47:13. And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 47:14. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 47:15. And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth. 47:16. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 47:17. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. 47:18. And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 47:19. wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate. 47:20. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's. 47:21. And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 47:22. Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. 47:23. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. 47:24. And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 47:25. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 47:26. And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. 47:27. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 47:28. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. 47:29. And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt; 47:30. but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 47:31. And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 48:1. And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 48:2. And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 48:3. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4. and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 48:5. And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. 48:6. And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 48:7. And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). 48:8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 48:9. And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 48:10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 48:11. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also. 48:12. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 48:13. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 48:14. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. 48:15. And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 48:16. the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 48:17. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 48:18. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head. 48:19. And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 48:20. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 48:21. And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 48:22. Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. 49:1. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. 49:2. Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father. 49:3. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. 49:4. Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 49:5. Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords. 49:6. O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox. 49:7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. 49:8. Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. 49:9. Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? 49:10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be. 49:11. Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He hath washed his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of grapes: 49:12. His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk. 49:13. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon. 49:14. Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds: 49:15. And he saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork. 49:16. Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. 49:17. Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward. 49:18. I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah. 49:19. Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel. 49:20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties. 49:21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words. 49:22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall. 49:23. The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him: 49:24. But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), 49:25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 49:26. The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 49:27. Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil. 49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 49:29. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 49:31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah, 49:32. the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth. 49:33. And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 50:1. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 50:2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 50:3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days. 50:4. And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5. My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 50:6. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 50:7. And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 50:8. and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 50:9. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 50:10. And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 50:11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 50:12. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 50:13. for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 50:15. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 50:16. And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 50:17. So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 50:18. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants. 50:19. And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 50:20. And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 50:21. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. 50:22. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 50:23. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 50:24. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 50:25. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 50:26. So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 11:25-50:26, ASV)

25. Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters. 26. Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27. Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28. Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29. Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah. 30. Sarai was barren. She had no child. 31. Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32. The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran. 12:1. Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. 12:2. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 12:3. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.” 12:4. So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 12:5. Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan. 12:6. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were in the land, then. 12:7. Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. 12:8. He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name. 12:9. Abram traveled, still going on toward the South. 12:10. There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. 12:11. When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. 12:12. It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive. 12:13. Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.” 12:14. When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15. The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 12:16. He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. 12:17. Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 12:18. Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.” 12:20. Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had. 13:1. Abram went up out of Egypt, he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 13:2. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 13:3. He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 13:4. to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name. 13:5. Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. 13:6. The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. 13:7. There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time. 13:8. Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives. 13:9. Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.” 13:10. Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. 13:11. So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other. 13:12. Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13:13. Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh. 13:14. Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 13:15. for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever. 13:16. I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted. 13:17. Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.” 13:18. Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh. 14:1. In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, 14:2. they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar). 14:3. All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea). 14:4. They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled. 14:5. In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6. and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness. 14:7. They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar. 14:8. The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; 14:9. against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five. 14:10. Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills. 14:11. They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. 14:12. They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 14:13. One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and they were allies of Abram. 14:14. When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15. He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 14:16. He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the other people. 14:17. The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 14:18. Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. 14:19. He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20. and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all. 14:21. The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.” 14:22. Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23. that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ 14:24. I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.” 15:1. After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” 15:2. Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 15:3. Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.” 15:4. Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.” 15:5. Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.” 15:6. He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness. 15:7. He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.” 15:8. He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?” 15:9. He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 15:10. He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds. 15:11. The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 15:12. When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. 15:13. He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. 15:14. I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth, 15:15. but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. 15:16. In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.” 15:17. It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 15:18. In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19. the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 15:20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 15:21. the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” 16:1. Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 16:2. Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 16:3. Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 16:4. He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 16:5. Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.” 16:6. But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. 16:7. Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. 16:8. He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.” 16:9. Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.” 16:10. Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.” 16:11. Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction. 16:12. He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.” 16:13. She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?” 16:14. Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 16:15. Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16:16. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. 17:1. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless. 17:2. I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” 17:3. Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying, 17:4. “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 17:5. Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 17:6. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. 17:7. I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you. 17:8. I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.” 17:9. God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 17:10. This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised. 17:11. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you. 17:12. He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring. 17:13. He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 17:14. The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.” 17:15. God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. 17:16. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.” 17:17. Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?” 17:18. Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” 17:19. God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. 17:20. As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 17:21. But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.” 17:22. When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. 17:23. Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. 17:24. Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:25. Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:26. In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. 17:27. All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. 18:1. Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 18:2. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, 18:3. and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant. 18:4. Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 18:5. I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.” 18:6. Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” 18:7. Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. 18:8. He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate. 18:9. They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.” 18:10. He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 18:11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 18:12. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” 18:13. Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’ 18:14. Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.” 18:15. Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.” 18:16. The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. 18:17. Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, 18:18. since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 18:19. For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.” 18:20. Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 18:21. I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.” 18:22. The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh. 18:23. Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? 18:24. What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? 18:25. Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?” 18:26. Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.” 18:27. Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes. 18:28. What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 18:29. He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.” 18:30. He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” 18:31. He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.” 18:32. He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.” 18:33. Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. 19:1. The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, 19:2. and he said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.” 19:3. He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 19:4. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 19:5. They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.” 19:6. Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. 19:7. He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. 19:8. See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.” 19:9. They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door. 19:10. But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. 19:11. They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 19:12. The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: 19:13. for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.” 19:14. Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 19:15. When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.” 19:16. But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. 19:17. It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!” 19:18. Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord. 19:19. See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. 19:20. See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.” 19:21. He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 19:22. Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 19:23. The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 19:24. Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. 19:25. He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 19:27. Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. 19:28. He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. 19:29. When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. 19:30. Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. 19:31. The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth. 19:32. Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.” 19:33. They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose. 19:34. It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line. ” 19:35. They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up. 19:36. Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father. 19:37. The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 19:38. The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. 20:1. Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. 20:2. Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 20:3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.” 20:4. Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation? 20:5. Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” 20:6. God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her. 20:7. Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.” 20:8. Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared. 20:9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!” 20:10. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?” 20:11. Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’ 20:12. Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 20:13. When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’” 20:14. Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. 20:15. Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.” 20:16. To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.” 20:17. Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children. 20:18. For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. 21:1. Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. 21:2. Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 21:3. Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 21:4. Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 21:5. Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him. 21:6. Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 21:7. She said, “Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” 21:8. The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 21:9. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 21:10. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.” 21:11. The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. 21:12. God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac. 21:13. I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.” 21:14. Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 21:15. The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16. She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 21:17. God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is. 21:18. Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.” 21:19. God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. 21:20. God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. 21:21. He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. 21:22. At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do. 21:23. Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.” 21:24. Abraham said, “I will swear.” 21:25. Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 21:26. Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.” 21:27. Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant. 21:28. Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29. Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?” 21:30. He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.” 21:31. Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there. 21:32. So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 21:33. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. 21:34. Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days. 22:1. After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.” 22:2. He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.” 22:3. Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. 22:4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. 22:5. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.” 22:6. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together. 22:7. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 22:8. Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together. 22:9. They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. 22:10. Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. 22:11. Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.” 22:12. He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 22:13. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14. Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.” 22:15. Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, 22:16. and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17. that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. 22:18. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.” 22:19. So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. 22:20. After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 22:21. Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22. Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 22:23. Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 22:24. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. 23:1. Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. 23:2. Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 23:3. Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 23:4. “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” 23:5. The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:6. “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.” 23:7. Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 23:8. He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9. that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.” 23:10. Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, 23:11. “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” 23:12. Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. 23:13. He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.” 23:14. Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15. “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.” 23:16. Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard. 23:17. So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded 23:18. to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. 23:19. After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 23:20. The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth. 24:1. Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. 24:2. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh. 24:3. I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 24:4. But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” 24:5. The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?” 24:6. Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. 24:7. Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. 24:8. If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.” 24:9. The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. 24:10. The servant took ten camels, of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. 24:11. He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 24:12. He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 24:13. Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 24:14. Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’, let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.” 24:15. Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. 24:16. The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. 24:17. The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.” 24:18. She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. 24:19. When she had done giving him drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking.” 24:20. She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 24:21. The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22. As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, 24:23. and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?” 24:24. She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.” 24:25. She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.” 24:26. The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh. 24:27. He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.” 24:28. The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. 24:29. Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. 24:30. When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. 24:31. He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.” 24:32. The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. 24:33. Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” He said, “Speak on.” 24:34. He said, “I am Abraham’s servant. 24:35. Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. 24:36. Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him. 24:37. My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, 24:38. but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ 24:39. I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’ 24:40. He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house. 24:41. Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’ 24:42. I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go, 24:43. behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,” 24:44. and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”, let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’ 24:45. Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ 24:46. She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink. 24:47. I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. 24:48. I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son. 24:49. Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.” 24:50. Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good. 24:51. Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.” 24:52. When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh. 24:53. The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother. 24:54. They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.” 24:55. Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.” 24:56. He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.” 24:57. They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.” 24:58. They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.” 24:59. They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men. 24:60. They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.” 24:61. Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 24:62. Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South. 24:63. Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. 24:64. Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel. 24:65. She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself. 24:66. The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 24:67. Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. 25:1. Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 25:2. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3. Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4. The sons of Midian were: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 25:5. Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, 25:6. but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country. 25:7. These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years. 25:8. Abraham gave up his spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 25:9. Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre, 25:10. the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. 25:11. After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. 25:12. Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham. 25:13. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 25:14. Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 25:15. Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 25:16. These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations. 25:17. These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up his spirit and died, and was gathered to his people. 25:18. They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives. 25:19. This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac. 25:20. Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife. 25:21. Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22. The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh. 25:23. Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.” 25:24. When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25:25. The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau. 25:26. After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 25:27. The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 25:28. Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob. 25:29. Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 25:30. Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom. 25:31. Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.” 25:32. Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?” 25:33. Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob. 25:34. Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. 26:1. There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 26:2. Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. 26:3. Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 26:4. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed, 26:5. because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” 26:6. Isaac lived in Gerar. 26:7. The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.” 26:8. When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. 26:9. Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 26:10. Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!” 26:11. Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” 26:12. Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. 26:13. The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 26:14. He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. 26:15. Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. 26:16. Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.” 26:17. Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 26:18. Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 26:19. Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 26:20. The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. 26:21. They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah. 26:22. He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.” 26:23. He went up from there to Beersheba. 26:24. Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” 26:25. He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26:26. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. 26:27. Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” 26:28. They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 26:29. that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.” 26:30. He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 26:31. They rose up some time in the morning, and swore to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 26:32. The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” 26:33. He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. 26:34. When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 26:35. They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits. 27:1. When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.” 27:2. He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death. 27:3. Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison. 27:4. Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.” 27:5. Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 27:6. Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 27:7. ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’ 27:8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you. 27:9. Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves. 27:10. You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.” 27:11. Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 27:12. What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.” 27:13. His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.” 27:14. He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 27:15. Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. 27:16. She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck. 27:17. She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 27:18. He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 27:19. Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.” 27:20. Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.” 27:21. Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.” 27:22. Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 27:23. He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. 27:24. He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.” 27:25. He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank. 27:26. His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.” 27:27. He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed. 27:28. God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine. 27:29. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.” 27:30. As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 27:31. He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.” 27:32. Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” 27:33. Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.” 27:34. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.” 27:35. He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.” 27:36. He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?” 27:37. Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?” 27:38. Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 27:39. Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. 27:40. By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.” 27:41. Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.” 27:42. The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 27:43. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. 27:44. Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away; 27:45. until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?” 27:46. Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?” 28:1. Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 28:2. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 28:3. May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 28:4. and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.” 28:5. Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. 28:6. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,” 28:7. and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. 28:8. Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father. 28:9. Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. 28:10. Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 28:11. He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12. He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 28:13. Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring. 28:14. Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed. 28:15. Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.” 28:16. Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.” 28:17. He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.” 28:18. Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top. 28:19. He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 28:20. Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, 28:21. so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, 28:22. then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.” 29:1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. 29:2. He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large. 29:3. There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place. 29:4. Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.” 29:5. He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.” 29:6. He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.” 29:7. He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.” 29:8. They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.” 29:9. While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. 29:10. When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. 29:11. Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 29:12. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. 29:13. When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. 29:14. Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month. 29:15. Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?” 29:16. Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 29:17. Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive. 29:18. Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.” 29:19. Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” 29:20. Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. 29:21. Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.” 29:22. Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 29:23. In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. 29:24. Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant. 29:25. In the morning, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?” 29:26. Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. 29:27. Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.” 29:28. Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife. 29:29. Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant. 29:30. He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 29:31. Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 29:32. Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.” 29:33. She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon. 29:34. She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, “Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi. 29:35. She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. 30:1. When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.” 30:2. Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” 30:3. She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.” 30:4. She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to her. 30:5. Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 30:6. Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan. 30:7. Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son. 30:8. Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali. 30:9. When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 30:10. Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son. 30:11. Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad. 30:12. Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son. 30:13. Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher. 30:14. Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 30:15. She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.” 30:16. Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night. 30:17. God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 30:18. Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar. 30:19. Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 30:20. Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun. 30:21. Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. 30:22. God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23. She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 30:24. She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.” 30:25. When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country. 30:26. Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.” 30:27. Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.” 30:28. He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.” 30:29. He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me. 30:30. For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?” 30:31. He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. 30:32. I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire. 30:33. So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.” 30:34. Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.” 30:35. That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 30:36. He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. 30:37. Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 30:38. He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink. 30:39. The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40. Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock. 30:41. Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; 30:42. but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 30:43. The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. 31:1. He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.” 31:2. Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. 31:3. Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.” 31:4. Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, 31:5. and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. 31:6. You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. 31:7. Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me. 31:8. If he said this, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked. 31:9. Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me. 31:10. During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. 31:11. The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ 31:12. He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you. 31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’” 31:14. Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house? 31:15. Aren’t we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money. 31:16. For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.” 31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, 31:18. and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. 31:19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s. 31:20. Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away. 31:21. So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. 31:22. Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. 31:23. He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. 31:24. God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.” 31:25. Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 31:26. Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? 31:27. Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp; 31:28. and didn’t allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly. 31:29. It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’ 31:30. Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?” 31:31. Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’ 31:32. Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them. 31:33. Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent. 31:34. Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them. 31:35. She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim. 31:36. Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 31:37. Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two. 31:38. “These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks. 31:39. That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 31:40. This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. 31:41. These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 31:42. Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.” 31:43. Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? 31:44. Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.” 31:45. Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 31:46. Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. 31:47. Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 31:48. Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed 31:49. and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 31:50. If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.” 31:51. Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 31:52. May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. 31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. 31:54. Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain. 31:55. Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place. 32:1. Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 32:2. When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim. 32:3. Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. 32:4. He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 32:5. I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’” 32:6. The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.” 32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; 32:8. and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.” 32:9. Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’ 32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. 32:11. Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children. 32:12. You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’” 32:13. He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother: 32:14. two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 32:15. thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals. 32:16. He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.” 32:17. He commanded the foremost, saying, “When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’ 32:18. Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’” 32:19. He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, “This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him. 32:20. You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.” 32:21. So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. 32:22. He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok. 32:23. He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. 32:24. Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. 32:25. When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled. 32:26. The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.” 32:27. He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”. 32:28. He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 32:29. Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there. 32:30. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 32:31. The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh. 32:32. Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip. 33:1. Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. 33:2. He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 33:3. He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 33:4. Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 33:5. He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 33:6. Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. 33:7. Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 33:8. Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.” 33:9. Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.” 33:10. Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 33:11. Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it. 33:12. Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.” 33:13. Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 33:14. Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.” 33:15. Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” 33:16. So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 33:17. Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 33:18. Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. 33:19. He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. 33:20. He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. 34:1. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 34:2. Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. 34:3. His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. 34:4. Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.” 34:5. Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came. 34:6. Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. 34:7. The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a thing ought not to be done. 34:8. Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 34:9. Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 34:10. You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.” 34:11. Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. 34:12. Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.” 34:13. The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 34:14. and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. 34:15. Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16. then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 34:17. But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.” 34:18. Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 34:19. The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father. 34:20. Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, 34:21. “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 34:22. Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised. 34:23. Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.” 34:24. All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city. 34:25. On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. 34:26. They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away. 34:27. Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 34:28. They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field, 34:29. and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house. 34:30. Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.” 34:31. They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?” 35:1. God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” 35:2. Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments. 35:3. Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.” 35:4. They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 35:5. They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. 35:6. So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 35:7. He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 35:8. Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. 35:9. God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. 35:10. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel. 35:11. God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. 35:12. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you will I give the land.” 35:13. God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. 35:14. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. 35:15. Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”. 35:16. They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. 35:17. When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.” 35:18. As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin. 35:19. Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem). 35:20. Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 35:21. Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 35:22. While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 35:23. The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 35:24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 35:25. The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali. 35:26. The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. 35:27. Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. 35:28. The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. 35:29. Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. 36:1. Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). 36:2. Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite; 36:3. and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 36:4. Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. 36:5. Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 36:6. Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 36:7. For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock. 36:8. Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. 36:9. This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: 36:10. these are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. 36:11. The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 36:12. Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. 36:13. These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. 36:14. These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 36:15. These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 36:16. chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 36:17. These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife. 36:18. These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife. 36:19. These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. 36:20. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 36:21. Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 36:22. The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna. 36:23. These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 36:24. These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father. 36:25. These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. 36:26. These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 36:27. These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 36:28. These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 36:29. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 36:30. chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 36:31. These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel. 36:32. Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his city was Dinhabah. 36:33. Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place. 36:34. Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 36:35. Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith. 36:36. Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 36:37. Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place. 36:38. Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 36:39. Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. 36:40. These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41. chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42. chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43. chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites. 37:1. Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. 37:2. This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father. 37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. 37:4. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him. 37:5. Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. 37:6. He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 37:7. for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.” 37:8. His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. 37:9. He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.” 37:10. He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?” 37:11. His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. 37:12. His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem. 37:13. Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.” 37:14. He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 37:15. A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?” 37:16. He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.” 37:17. The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. 37:18. They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. 37:19. They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes. 37:20. Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.” 37:21. Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.” 37:22. Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. 37:23. When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 37:24. and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. 37:25. They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 37:26. Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 37:27. Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him. 37:28. Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt. 37:29. Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes. 37:30. He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?” 37:31. They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. 37:32. They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.” 37:33. He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” 37:34. Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 37:35. All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him. 37:36. The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard. 38:1. At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2. Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. 38:3. She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. 38:4. She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. 38:5. She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. 38:6. Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 38:7. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. Yahweh killed him. 38:8. Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” 38:9. Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. 38:10. The thing which he did was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and he killed him also. 38:11. Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house. 38:12. After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. 38:13. Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” 38:14. She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife. 38:15. When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 38:16. He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 38:17. He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?” 38:18. He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. 38:19. She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 38:20. Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her. 38:21. Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.” 38:22. He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’” 38:23. Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.” 38:24. About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.” 38:25. When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.” 38:26. Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more. 38:27. In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb. 38:28. When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.” 38:29. As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez. 38:30. Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. 39:1. Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. 39:2. Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 39:3. His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand. 39:4. Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 39:5. From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field. 39:6. He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome. 39:7. After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” 39:8. But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. 39:9. No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” 39:10. As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 39:11. About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside. 39:12. She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. 39:13. When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, 39:14. she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 39:15. When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.” 39:16. She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. 39:17. She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, 39:18. and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.” 39:19. When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled. 39:20. Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody. 39:21. But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 39:22. The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it. 39:23. The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper. 40:1. After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. 40:2. Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker. 40:3. He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 40:4. The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days. 40:5. They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 40:6. Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. 40:7. He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?” 40:8. They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.” 40:9. The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, 40:10. and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes. 40:11. Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.” 40:12. Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. 40:13. Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer. 40:14. But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. 40:15. For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.” 40:16. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. 40:17. In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.” 40:18. Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days. 40:19. Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.” 40:20. On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 40:21. He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; 40:22. but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23. Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him. 41:1. At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river. 41:2. Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass. 41:3. Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river. 41:4. The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke. 41:5. He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. 41:6. Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 41:7. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. 41:8. In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh. 41:9. Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today. 41:10. Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. 41:11. We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 41:12. There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted. 41:13. As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.” 41:14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh. 41:15. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 41:16. Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” 41:17. Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river: 41:18. and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass, 41:19. and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. 41:20. The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, 41:21. and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke. 41:22. I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good: 41:23. and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 41:24. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.” 41:25. Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. 41:26. The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one. 41:27. The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. 41:28. That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh. 41:29. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:30. There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, 41:31. and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. 41:32. The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 41:33. “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 41:34. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years. 41:35. Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 41:36. The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.” 41:37. The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 41:38. Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?” 41:39. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you. 41:40. You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.” 41:41. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” 41:42. Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck, 41:43. and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt. 41:44. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.” 41:45. Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 41:46. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:47. In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly. 41:48. He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same. 41:49. Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. 41:50. To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. 41:51. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.” 41:52. The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” 41:53. The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end. 41:54. The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 41:55. When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.” 41:56. The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 41:57. All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth. 42:1. Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 42:2. He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.” 42:3. Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. 42:4. But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” 42:5. The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 42:6. Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. 42:7. Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.” 42:8. Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. 42:9. Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.” 42:10. They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 42:11. We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.” 42:12. He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!” 42:13. They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.” 42:14. Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ 42:15. By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. 42:16. Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.” 42:17. He put them all together into custody for three days. 42:18. Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God. 42:19. If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. 42:20. Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so. 42:21. They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.” 42:22. Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.” 42:23. They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 42:24. He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 42:25. Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. 42:26. They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. 42:27. As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 42:28. He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?” 42:29. They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, 42:30. “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 42:31. We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies. 42:32. We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 42:33. The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. 42:34. Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’” 42:35. As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 42:36. Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.” 42:37. Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.” 42:38. He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” 43:1. The famine was severe in the land. 43:2. When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.” 43:3. Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ 43:4. If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food, 43:5. but if you’ll not send him, we’ll not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’” 43:6. Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?” 43:7. They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’” 43:8. Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones. 43:9. I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever, 43:10. for if we hadn’t delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now.” 43:11. Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; 43:12. and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. 43:13. Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. 43:14. May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.” 43:15. The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 43:16. When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.” 43:17. The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house. 43:18. The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.” 43:19. They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house, 43:20. and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food. 43:21. When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. 43:22. We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don’t know who put our money in our sacks.” 43:23. He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them. 43:24. The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. 43:25. They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there. 43:26. When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth. 43:27. He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?” 43:28. They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly. 43:29. He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.” 43:30. Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. 43:31. He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.” 43:32. They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. 43:33. They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another. 43:34. He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him. 44:1. He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. 44:2. Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 44:3. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 44:4. When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? 44:5. Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’” 44:6. He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. 44:7. They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! 44:8. Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord’s house? 44:9. With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” 44:10. He said, “Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my slave; and you will be blameless.” 44:11. Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 44:12. He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 44:13. Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. 44:14. Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him. 44:15. Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?” 44:16. Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.” 44:17. He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.” 44:18. Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. 44:19. My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ 44:20. We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ 44:21. You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 44:22. We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 44:23. You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ 44:24. When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 44:25. Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’ 44:26. We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 44:27. Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons: 44:28. and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since. 44:29. If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’ 44:30. Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; 44:31. it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. 44:32. For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’ 44:33. Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers. 44:34. For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?, lest I see the evil that will come on my father.” 45:1. Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 45:2. He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 45:3. Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. 45:4. Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. “He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 45:5. Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 45:6. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest. 45:7. God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 45:8. So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 45:9. Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait. 45:10. You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children’s children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 45:11. There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’ 45:12. Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 45:13. You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.” 45:14. He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 45:15. He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him. 45:16. The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 45:17. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. 45:18. Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ 45:19. Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 45:20. Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.” 45:21. The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. 45:22. He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. 45:23. He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. 45:24. So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.” 45:25. They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. 45:26. They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them. 45:27. They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. 45:28. Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.” 46:1. Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 46:2. God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.” 46:3. He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 46:4. I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes.” 46:5. Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6. They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his offspring with him, 46:7. his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt. 46:8. These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. 46:9. The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 46:10. The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 46:11. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 46:12. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13. The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. 46:14. The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 46:15. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three. 46:16. The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 46:17. The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 46:18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. 46:19. The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 46:20. To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 46:21. The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 46:23. The son of Dan: Hushim. 46:24. The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 46:25. These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. 46:26. All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six. 46:27. The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy. 46:28. He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 46:29. Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 46:30. Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” 46:31. Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 46:32. These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’ 46:33. It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’ 46:34. that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” 47:1. Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.” 47:2. From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh. 47:3. Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.” 47:4. They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” 47:5. Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 47:6. The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.” 47:7. Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 47:8. Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 47:9. Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” 47:10. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 47:11. Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 47:12. Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families. 47:13. There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 47:14. Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 47:15. When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.” 47:16. Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.” 47:17. They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. 47:18. When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. 47:19. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.” 47:20. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s. 47:21. As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. 47:22. Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land. 47:23. Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 47:24. It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.” 47:25. They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.” 47:26. Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s. 47:27. Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 47:28. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years. 47:29. The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt, 47:30. but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.” 47:31. He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head. 48:1. After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 48:2. Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 48:3. Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4. and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ 48:5. Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. 48:6. Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 48:7. As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).” 48:8. Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?” 48:9. Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.” 48:10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 48:11. Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.” 48:12. Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 48:13. Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him. 48:14. Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 48:15. He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 48:16. the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.” 48:17. When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 48:18. Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.” 48:19. His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.” 48:20. He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh. 48:21. Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 48:22. Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.” 49:1. Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. 49:2. Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father. 49:3. “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. 49:4. Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch. 49:5. “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. 49:6. My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. 49:7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 49:8. “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you. 49:9. Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? 49:10. The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be. 49:11. Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 49:12. His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. 49:13. “Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. 49:14. “Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. 49:15. He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor. 49:16. “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 49:17. Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward. 49:18. I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. 49:19. “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. 49:20. “Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties. 49:21. “Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. 49:22. “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall. 49:23. The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him: 49:24. But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), 49:25. even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 49:26. The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. 49:27. “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.” 49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. 49:29. He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30. in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. 49:31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 49:32. the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.” 49:33. When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people. 50:1. Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. 50:2. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 50:3. Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days. 50:4. When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5. ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’” 50:6. Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.” 50:7. Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt, 50:8. All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 50:9. There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 50:10. They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. 50:11. When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. 50:12. His sons did to him just as he commanded them, 50:13. for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 50:14. Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 50:15. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.” 50:16. They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying, 50:17. ‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 50:18. His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 50:19. Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? 50:20. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive. 50:21. Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. 50:22. Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years. 50:23. Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees. 50:24. Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 50:25. Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 50:26. So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 11:25-50:26, WEB)

25. And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26. And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. 12:1. Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 12:2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 12:3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 12:4. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 12:5. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 12:6. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 12:7. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. 12:8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 12:9. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. ^{going: Heb. in going and journeying} 12:10. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 12:11. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12:12. Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 12:13. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. 12:14. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 12:15. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 12:16. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 12:17. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. 12:18. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 12:19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. 12:20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 13:1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 13:2. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 13:3. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; 13:4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. 13:5. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 13:6. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 13:7. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 13:8. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. ^{brethren: Heb. men brethren} 13:9. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 13:10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 13:11. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 13:12. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13:13. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. 13:14. And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 13:15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 13:16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 13:17. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 13:18. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD. ^{plain: Heb. plains} 14:1. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; 14:2. That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 14:3. All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 14:4. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, ^{Shaveh: or, The plain of Kiriathaim} 14:6. And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. ^{Elparan: or, The plain of Paran} 14:7. And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar. 14:8. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 14:9. With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. 14:10. And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. 14:11. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 14:12. And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. 14:13. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. 14:14. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. ^{armed: or, led forth trained: or, instructed} 14:15. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 14:16. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale. 14:18. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. 14:19. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 14:20. And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 14:21. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. ^{persons: Heb. souls} 14:22. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 14:23. That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 14:24. Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. 15:1. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. 15:2. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 15:3. And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 15:4. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 15:6. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 15:7. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 15:8. And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 15:9. And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 15:10. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 15:11. And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 15:12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 15:13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 15:14. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15:15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 15:16. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 15:17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. ^{a burning: Heb. a lamp of fire} 15:18. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 15:19. The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 15:20. And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 15:21. And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. 16:1. Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 16:2. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. ^{obtain: Heb. be built by her} 16:3. And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 16:4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 16:5. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee. 16:6. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. ^{as: Heb. that which is good in thine eyes dealt: Heb. afflicted her} 16:7. And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 16:8. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 16:9. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 16:10. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 16:11. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. ^{Ishmael: that is, God shall hear} 16:12. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. 16:13. And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? 16:14. Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. ^{Beerlahairoi: that is, The well of him that liveth and seeth me} 16:15. And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16:16. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. 17:1. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. ^{perfect: or, upright, or, sincere} 17:2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 17:3. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 17:4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. ^{many: Heb. multitude of nations} 17:5. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. ^{Abraham: that is, Father of a great multitude} 17:6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 17:7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 17:8. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. ^{wherein: Heb. of thy sojournings} 17:9. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 17:10. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 17:11. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 17:12. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. ^{he that is eight: Heb. a son of eight days} 17:13. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 17:14. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 17:15. And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. ^{Sarah: that is Princess} 17:16. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. ^{she: Heb. she shall become nations} 17:17. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 17:18. And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 17:19. And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 17:20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 17:21. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 17:22. And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 17:23. And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 17:24. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:25. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 17:26. In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 17:27. And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. 18:1. And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 18:2. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 18:3. And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 18:4. Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: 18:5. And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. ^{comfort: Heb. stay are: Heb. you have passed} 18:6. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. ^{Make ready: Heb. Hasten} 18:7. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. 18:8. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 18:9. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 18:10. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 18:11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 18:12. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 18:13. And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 18:14. Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 18:15. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 18:16. And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 18:17. And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18:18. Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 18:19. For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 18:20. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 18:21. I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 18:22. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. 18:23. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 18:24. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 18:25. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 18:26. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 18:27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: 18:28. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. 18:29. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 18:30. And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 18:31. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. 18:32. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 18:33. And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. 19:1. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 19:2. And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 19:3. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 19:4. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 19:5. And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 19:6. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, 19:7. And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 19:8. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 19:9. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 19:10. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 19:11. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 19:12. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: 19:13. For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. 19:14. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. 19:15. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. ^{are here: Heb. are found iniquity: or, punishment} 19:16. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 19:17. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 19:18. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: 19:19. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 19:20. Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. 19:21. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. ^{thee: Heb. thy face} 19:22. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. ^{Zoar: that is, Little} 19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. ^{risen: Heb. gone forth} 19:24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 19:25. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 19:26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 19:27. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: 19:28. And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 19:29. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. 19:30. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 19:31. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: 19:32. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 19:33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 19:34. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 19:35. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 19:36. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 19:37. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 19:38. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. 20:1. And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 20:2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. 20:3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. ^{a man's: Heb. married to an husband} 20:4. But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 20:5. Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. ^{integrity: or, simplicity, or, sincerity} 20:6. And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. 20:8. Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. 20:9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. 20:10. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 20:11. And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 20:12. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 20:13. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. 20:14. And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. 20:15. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. ^{where: Heb. as is good in thine eyes} 20:16. And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved. 20:17. So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children. 20:18. For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife. 21:1. And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 21:2. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 21:3. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 21:4. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 21:5. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 21:6. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. 21:7. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. 21:8. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 21:9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. 21:10. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. 21:11. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 21:12. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 21:13. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. 21:14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 21:15. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. 21:17. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 21:18. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. 21:19. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 21:20. And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21:21. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 21:22. And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 21:23. Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. ^{that thou: Heb. if thou shalt lie unto me} 21:24. And Abraham said, I will swear. 21:25. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 21:26. And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day. 21:27. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. 21:28. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 21:30. And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. 21:31. Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. ^{Beersheba: that is, The well of the oath} 21:32. Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. 21:33. And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. ^{grove: or, tree} 21:34. And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. 22:1. And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. ^{Behold: Heb. Behold me} 22:2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 22:3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 22:4. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 22:5. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. 22:6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 22:7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? ^{lamb: or, kid} 22:8. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 22:9. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 22:10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 22:11. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 22:12. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 22:13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 22:14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. ^{Jehovahjireh: that is, The Lord will see, or, provide} 22:15. And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 22:16. And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 22:17. That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; ^{shore: Heb. lip} 22:18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 22:19. So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. 22:20. And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; 22:21. Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22:22. And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 22:23. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. ^{Rebekah: Gr. Rebecca} 22:24. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. 23:1. And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 23:2. And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 23:3. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 23:4. I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 23:5. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:6. Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. ^{a mighty: Heb. a prince of God} 23:7. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. 23:8. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 23:9. That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. ^{as much: Heb. full money} 23:10. And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, ^{audience: Heb. ears} 23:11. Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. 23:12. And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. 23:13. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 23:14. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 23:15. My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. 23:16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 23:17. And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure 23:18. Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 23:19. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 23:20. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth. 24:1. And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. ^{well: Heb. gone into days} 24:2. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 24:3. And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 24:4. But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 24:5. And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 24:6. And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. 24:7. The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. 24:8. And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. 24:9. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. 24:10. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. ^{for: or, and} 24:11. And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. ^{that: Heb. that women who draw water go forth} 24:12. And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. 24:13. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: 24:14. And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. 24:15. And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 24:16. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. ^{very: Heb. good of countenance} 24:17. And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 24:18. And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 24:19. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 24:20. And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels. 24:21. And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. 24:22. And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; ^{earring: or, jewel for the forehead} 24:23. And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? 24:24. And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. 24:25. She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 24:26. And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD. 24:27. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren. 24:28. And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things. 24:29. And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. 24:30. And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well. 24:31. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. 24:32. And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him. 24:33. And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. 24:34. And he said, I am Abraham's servant. 24:35. And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. 24:36. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath. 24:37. And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: 24:38. But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. 24:39. And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 24:40. And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house: 24:41. Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath. 24:42. And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: 24:43. Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; 24:44. And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son. 24:45. And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. 24:46. And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also. 24:47. And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. 24:48. And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son. 24:49. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 24:50. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 24:51. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken. 24:52. And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth. 24:53. And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. ^{jewels: Heb. vessels} 24:54. And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. 24:55. And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. ^{a few: or, a full year, or ten months} 24:56. And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master. 24:57. And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. 24:58. And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. 24:59. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. 24:60. And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them. 24:61. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 24:62. And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country. 24:63. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. ^{to meditate: or, to pray} 24:64. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. 24:65. For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. 24:66. And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done. 24:67. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. 25:1. Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 25:2. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 25:4. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 25:5. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 25:6. But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. 25:7. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. 25:8. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. 25:9. And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; 25:10. The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 25:11. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi. 25:12. Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: 25:13. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 25:14. And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 25:15. Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: ^{Hadar: or, Hadad} 25:16. These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. 25:17. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. 25:18. And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren. ^{died: Heb. fell} 25:19. And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: 25:20. And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. 25:21. And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. 25:23. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 25:24. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25:25. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 25:26. And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. 25:27. And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. 25:28. And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. ^{he: Heb. venison was in his mouth} 25:29. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 25:30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. ^{with: Heb. with that red, with that red pottage Edom: that is Red} 25:31. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 25:32. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? ^{at: Heb. going to die} 25:33. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 25:34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. 26:1. And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 26:2. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 26:3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 26:4. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 26:5. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 26:6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 26:7. And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. 26:8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 26:9. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. 26:10. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 26:11. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 26:12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. ^{received: Heb. found} 26:13. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: ^{went: Heb. went going} 26:14. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. ^{servants: or, husbandry} 26:15. For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 26:16. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. 26:17. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 26:18. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 26:19. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. ^{springing: Heb. living} 26:20. And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. ^{Esek: that is, Contention} 26:21. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. ^{Sitnah: that is, Hatred} 26:22. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. ^{Rehoboth: that is Room} 26:23. And he went up from thence to Beersheba. 26:24. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 26:25. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. 26:26. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 26:27. And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 26:28. And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; ^{We saw: Heb. Seeing we saw} 26:29. That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD. ^{That: Heb. If thou shalt} 26:30. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 26:31. And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 26:32. And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. 26:33. And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. ^{Shebah: That is, an oath Beersheba: that is, the well of the oath} 26:34. And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 26:35. Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. ^{a grief: Heb. bitterness of spirit} 27:1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. 27:2. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: 27:3. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; ^{take: Heb. hunt} 27:4. And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. 27:5. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 27:6. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 27:7. Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. 27:8. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. 27:9. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: 27:10. And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. 27:11. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: 27:12. My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 27:13. And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. 27:14. And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. 27:15. And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: ^{goodly: Heb. desirable} 27:16. And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: 27:17. And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 27:18. And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? 27:19. And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. 27:20. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me. ^{to me: Heb. before me} 27:21. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. 27:22. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 27:23. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. 27:24. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 27:25. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. 27:26. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. 27:27. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: 27:28. Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: 27:29. Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. 27:30. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 27:31. And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 27:32. And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. 27:33. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed. ^{trembled: Heb. trembled with a great trembling greatly taken: Heb. hunted} 27:34. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 27:35. And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. 27:36. And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? ^{Jacob: that is, A supplanter} 27:37. And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? ^{sustained: or, supported} 27:38. And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 27:39. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; ^{the fatness: or, of the fatness} 27:40. And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. 27:41. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 27:42. And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. 27:43. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; 27:44. And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; 27:45. Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? 27:46. And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? 28:1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 28:2. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 28:3. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; ^{a multitude: Heb. an assembly of people} 28:4. And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. ^{wherein: Heb. of thy sojournings} 28:5. And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 28:6. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; 28:7. And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; 28:8. And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; ^{pleased: Heb. were evil in the eyes, etc} 28:9. Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. ^{Mahalath: or, Bashemath} 28:10. And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. ^{Haran: Gr. Charran} 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 28:13. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ^{spread: Heb. break forth} 28:15. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. 28:16. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 28:17. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 28:18. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 28:19. And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. ^{Bethel: that is, The house of God} 28:20. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 28:21. So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 28:22. And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. 29:1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. ^{went: Heb. lift up his feet people: Heb. children} 29:2. And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 29:3. And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 29:4. And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we. 29:5. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. 29:6. And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. ^{Is he: Heb. Is there peace to him?} 29:7. And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. ^{it is: Heb. yet the day is great} 29:8. And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. 29:9. And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 29:10. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29:11. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 29:12. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father. 29:13. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. ^{tidings: Heb. hearing} 29:14. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. ^{the space: Heb. a month of days} 29:15. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? 29:16. And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 29:17. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. 29:18. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. 29:19. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. 29:20. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 29:21. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. 29:22. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 29:23. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. 29:24. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. 29:25. And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? 29:26. And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. ^{country: Heb. place} 29:27. Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 29:28. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. 29:29. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. 29:30. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 29:31. And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. 29:32. And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. ^{Reuben: that is, See a son} 29:33. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. ^{Simeon: that is, Hearing} 29:34. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. ^{Levi: that is, Joined} 29:35. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. ^{Judah: that is, Praise left: Heb. stood from bearing} 30:1. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 30:2. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 30:3. And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. ^{have: Heb. be built by her} 30:4. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 30:5. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 30:6. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. ^{Dan: that is, Judging} 30:7. And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 30:8. And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. ^{great: Heb. wrestlings of God Naphtali: that is, My wrestling: Gr. Nephthalim} 30:9. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 30:10. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. 30:11. And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. ^{Gad: that is, A troop, or, company} 30:12. And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. 30:13. And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. ^{Happy: Heb. In my happiness Asher: that is, Happy} 30:14. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. 30:15. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. 30:16. And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. 30:17. And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. 30:18. And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. ^{Issachar: that is, An hire} 30:19. And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. 30:20. And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. ^{Zebulun: that is, Dwelling: Gr. Zabulon} 30:21. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. ^{Dinah: that is Judgment} 30:22. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 30:24. And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. ^{Joseph: that is, Adding} 30:25. And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 30:26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. 30:27. And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. 30:28. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 30:29. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 30:30. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? ^{increased: Heb. broken forth since: Heb. at my foot} 30:31. And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: 30:32. I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. 30:33. So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. ^{in time: Heb. to morrow} 30:34. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 30:35. And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 30:36. And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 30:37. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 30:38. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 30:39. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40. And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 30:41. And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 30:42. But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 30:43. And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. 31:1. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 31:2. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. ^{as before: Heb. as yesterday and the day before} 31:3. And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. 31:4. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, 31:5. And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. 31:6. And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. 31:7. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 31:8. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. 31:9. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 31:10. And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. ^{rams: or, he goats} 31:11. And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I. 31:12. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. 31:13. I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. 31:14. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? 31:15. Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 31:16. For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. 31:17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; 31:18. And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 31:19. And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's. ^{images: Heb. teraphim} 31:20. And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. ^{unawares: Heb. the heart of Laban} 31:21. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead. 31:22. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. 31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 31:24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. ^{either: Heb. from good to bad} 31:25. Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. 31:26. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword? 31:27. Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? ^{steal: Heb. hast stolen me} 31:28. And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 31:29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 31:30. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? 31:31. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. 31:32. With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. 31:33. And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. 31:34. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. ^{searched: Heb. felt} 31:35. And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. 31:36. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 31:37. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. ^{searched: Heb. felt} 31:38. This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 31:39. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 31:40. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 31:41. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. 31:42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 31:43. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 31:44. Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 31:45. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 31:46. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. 31:47. And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. ^{Jegarsahadutha: that is, The heap of witness, Chaldee Galeed: that is, The heap of witness, Heb.} 31:48. And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 31:49. And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. ^{Mizpah: that is, A beacon, or, watchtower} 31:50. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 31:51. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; 31:52. This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 31:53. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac. 31:54. Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. ^{offered: or, killed beasts} 31:55. And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. 32:1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 32:2. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. ^{Mahanaim: that is, Two hosts, or, camps} 32:3. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. ^{country: Heb. field} 32:4. And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: 32:5. And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. 32:6. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 32:7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; 32:8. And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. 32:9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 32:10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. ^{I am not: Heb. I am less than all} 32:11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. ^{with: Heb. upon} 32:12. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 32:13. And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 32:14. Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15. Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 32:16. And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 32:17. And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 32:18. Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us. 32:19. And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. 32:20. And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. ^{of me: Heb. my face} 32:21. So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. 32:22. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. 32:23. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. ^{sent them: Heb. caused to pass} 32:24. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. ^{breaking: Heb. ascending of the morning} 32:25. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 32:26. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 32:27. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 32:28. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. ^{Israel: that is, A prince of God} 32:29. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 32:30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. ^{Peniel: that is, The face of God} 32:31. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 32:32. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. 33:1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 33:2. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 33:3. And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 33:4. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 33:5. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. ^{with: Heb. to thee} 33:6. Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 33:7. And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 33:8. And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. ^{What: Heb. What is all this band to thee?} 33:9. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. ^{keep: Heb. be that to thee that is thine} 33:10. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 33:11. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. ^{enough: Heb. all things} 33:12. And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 33:13. And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 33:14. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. ^{according: Heb. according to the foot of the work, etc., and according to the foot of the children} 33:15. And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. ^{leave: Heb. set, or, place What: Heb. Wherefore is this?} 33:16. So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 33:17. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. ^{Succoth: that is, Booths} 33:18. And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. ^{Shechem: Gr. Sychem} 33:19. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money. ^{Hamor: Gr. Emmor pieces: or, lambs} 33:20. And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel. ^{Elelohe-Israel: that is God the God of Israel} 34:1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 34:2. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. ^{defiled: Heb. humbled her} 34:3. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. ^{kindly: Heb. to the heart of the damsel} 34:4. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. 34:5. And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. 34:6. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. 34:7. And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 34:8. And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. 34:9. And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 34:10. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. 34:11. And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 34:12. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. 34:13. And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: 34:14. And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us: 34:15. But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16. Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 34:17. But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 34:18. And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. 34:19. And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father. 34:20. And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, 34:21. These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 34:22. Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. 34:23. Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 34:24. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. 34:25. And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. 34:26. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. ^{edge: Heb. mouth} 34:27. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 34:28. They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, 34:29. And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. 34:30. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. 34:31. And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? 35:1. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 35:2. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 35:3. And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. 35:4. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. 35:5. And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 35:6. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 35:7. And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. ^{Elbethel: that is, The God of Bethel} 35:8. But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. ^{Allonbachuth: that is, The oak of weeping} 35:9. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. 35:10. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 35:11. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12. And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. 35:13. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. 35:14. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 35:15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. 35:16. And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. ^{a little: Heb. a little piece of ground} 35:17. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. 35:18. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. ^{Benoni: that is, The son of my sorrow Benjamin: that is, The son of the right hand} 35:19. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. 35:20. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 35:21. And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. 35:22. And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 35:23. The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 35:24. The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 35:25. And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 35:26. And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram. 35:27. And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. 35:28. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 35:29. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 36:1. Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. 36:2. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; 36:3. And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 36:4. And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 36:5. And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 36:6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. ^{persons: Heb. souls} 36:7. For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. 36:8. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. 36:9. And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: ^{the Edomites: Heb. Edom} 36:10. These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. 36:11. And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. ^{Zepho: or, Zephi} 36:12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife. 36:13. And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 36:14. And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. 36:15. These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, 36:16. Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. 36:17. And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. 36:18. And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 36:19. These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes. 36:20. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 36:21. And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. 36:22. And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. ^{Hemam: or, Homam} 36:23. And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. ^{Alvan: or, Alian Shepho: or, Shephi} 36:24. And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. 36:25. And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. 36:26. And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. ^{Hemdan: or, Amram} 36:27. The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. ^{Akan: or, Jakan} 36:28. The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran. 36:29. These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 36:30. Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. 36:31. And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. 36:32. And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 36:33. And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 36:34. And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. 36:35. And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith. 36:36. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. 36:37. And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. 36:38. And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. 36:39. And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. ^{Hadar, Pau: or, Hadad, Pai: after his death was an Aristocracy} 36:40. And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, ^{Alvah: or, Aliah} 36:41. Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, 36:42. Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 36:43. Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites. ^{the Edomites: Heb. Edom} 37:1. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. ^{wherein: Heb. of his father's sojournings} 37:2. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. 37:3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. ^{colours: or, pieces} 37:4. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 37:5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. 37:6. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 37:7. For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 37:8. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. 37:9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 37:10. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 37:11. And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. 37:12. And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 37:13. And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. 37:14. And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. ^{see: Heb. see the peace of thy brethren, etc.} 37:15. And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? 37:16. And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks. 37:17. And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 37:18. And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 37:19. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. ^{dreamer: Heb. master of dreams} 37:20. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. 37:21. And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. 37:22. And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. 37:23. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; ^{colours: or, pieces} 37:24. And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 37:25. And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 37:26. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27. Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. ^{were: Heb. hearkened} 37:28. Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. 37:29. And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. 37:30. And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? 37:31. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 37:32. And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. 37:33. And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. 37:34. And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 37:35. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. 37:36. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard. ^{officer: Heb. eunuch: but the word doth signify not only eunuchs, but also chamberlains, courtiers, and officers captain: or, chief marshal: Heb. chief of the slaughter men, or executioners} 38:1. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. 38:3. And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. 38:4. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 38:5. And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 38:6. And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. 38:7. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. 38:8. And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. 38:9. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 38:10. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also. ^{displeased: Heb. was evil in the eyes of the Lord} 38:11. Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. 38:12. And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ^{in process: Heb. the days were multiplied} 38:13. And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. 38:14. And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. ^{an open: Heb. the door of eyes, or, of Enajim} 38:15. When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face. 38:16. And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 38:17. And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? ^{a kid: Heb. a kid of the goats} 38:18. And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. 38:19. And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 38:20. And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 38:21. Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place. ^{openly: or, in Enajim} 38:22. And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place. 38:23. And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. ^{be shamed: Heb. become a contempt} 38:24. And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. 38:25. When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 38:26. And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. 38:27. And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 38:28. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. 38:29. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. ^{How hast: or, Wherefore hast thou made this breach against thee? Pharez: that is A breach} 38:30. And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah. 39:1. And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 39:2. And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 39:3. And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 39:4. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 39:5. And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. 39:6. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured. 39:7. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 39:8. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; 39:9. There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 39:10. And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 39:11. And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. 39:12. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 39:13. And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 39:14. That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: ^{loud: Heb. great} 39:15. And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out. 39:16. And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. 39:17. And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: 39:18. And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out. 39:19. And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. 39:20. And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. 39:21. But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. ^{shewed: Heb. extended kindness unto him} 39:22. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 39:23. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper. 40:1. And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. 40:2. And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. 40:3. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. 40:4. And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. 40:5. And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 40:6. And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 40:7. And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? ^{look: Heb. are your faces evil?} 40:8. And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you. 40:9. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 40:10. And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 40:11. And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 40:12. And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: 40:13. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. ^{lift: or, reckon} 40:14. But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: ^{think: Heb. remember me with thee} 40:15. For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. 40:16. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head: ^{white: or, full of holes} 40:17. And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. ^{bakemeats: Heb. meat of Pharaoh, the work of a baker, or, cook} 40:18. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: 40:19. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. ^{lift: or, reckon thee, and take thy office from thee} 40:20. And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. ^{lifted: or, reckoned} 40:21. And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: 40:22. But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. 40:23. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. 41:1. And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 41:2. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 41:3. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 41:4. And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 41:5. And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. ^{rank: Heb. fat} 41:6. And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. 41:7. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 41:8. And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. 41:9. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: 41:10. Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker: 41:11. And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 41:12. And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. 41:13. And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. 41:14. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. ^{brought: Heb. made him run} 41:15. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. ^{thou: or, when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it} 41:16. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 41:17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 41:18. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 41:19. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 41:20. And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 41:21. And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. ^{eaten: Heb. come to the inward parts of them} 41:22. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: 41:23. And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: ^{withered: or, small} 41:24. And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me. 41:25. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 41:26. The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 41:27. And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. 41:28. This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. 41:29. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: 41:30. And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 41:31. And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. ^{grievous: Heb. heavy} 41:32. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. ^{established: or, prepared of God} 41:33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 41:34. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. ^{officers: or, overseers} 41:35. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 41:36. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. ^{perish: Heb. be not cut off} 41:37. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 41:38. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? 41:39. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: 41:40. Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. ^{be ruled: Heb. be armed, or, kiss} 41:41. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 41:42. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; ^{fine: or, silk} 41:43. And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. ^{Bow: or, Tender father: Heb. Abrech} 41:44. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. 41:45. And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. ^{Zaphnathpaaneah: which in the Coptic signifies, A revealer of secrets, or, The man to whom secrets are revealed priest: or, prince} 41:46. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 41:47. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 41:48. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 41:49. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number. 41:50. And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him. ^{priest: or, prince} 41:51. And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. ^{Manasseh: that is, Forgetting} 41:52. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. ^{Ephraim: that is, Fruitful} 41:53. And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. 41:54. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 41:55. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 41:56. And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. ^{all the storehouses: Heb. all wherein was} 41:57. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. 42:1. Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 42:2. And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 42:3. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 42:4. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. 42:5. And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 42:6. And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth. 42:7. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. ^{roughly: Heb. hard things with them} 42:8. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 42:9. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 42:10. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. 42:11. We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. 42:12. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 42:13. And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. 42:14. And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: 42:15. Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 42:16. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. ^{kept: Heb. bound} 42:17. And he put them all together into ward three days. ^{put: Heb. gathered} 42:18. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: 42:19. If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: 42:20. But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 42:21. And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 42:22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required. 42:23. And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter. ^{he spake: Heb. an interpreter was between them} 42:24. And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. 42:25. Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them. 42:26. And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. 42:27. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth. 42:28. And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us? ^{failed: Heb. went forth} 42:29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, 42:30. The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. ^{roughly: Heb. with us hard things} 42:31. And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 42:32. We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 42:33. And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: 42:34. And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. 42:35. And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. 42:36. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. 42:37. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. 42:38. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 43:1. And the famine was sore in the land. 43:2. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 43:3. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. ^{did: Heb. protesting protested} 43:4. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 43:5. But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 43:6. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? 43:7. And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? ^{asked: Heb. asking asked us tenor: Heb. mouth could: Heb. knowing could we know} 43:8. And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. 43:9. I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: 43:10. For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. ^{this: or, twice by this} 43:11. And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 43:12. And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: 43:13. Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: 43:14. And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. ^{If: or, And I, as I have been, etc.} 43:15. And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 43:16. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon. ^{slay: Heb. kill a killing dine: Heb. eat} 43:17. And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. 43:18. And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. ^{seek: Heb. roll himself upon us} 43:19. And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house, 43:20. And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: ^{we: Heb. coming down we came down} 43:21. And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. 43:22. And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks. 43:23. And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. ^{I had: Heb. your money came to me} 43:24. And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. 43:25. And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. 43:26. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. 43:27. And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? ^{welfare: Heb. peace Is your: Heb. Is there peace to your father?} 43:28. And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. 43:29. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. 43:30. And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 43:31. And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. 43:32. And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 43:33. And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. 43:34. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. ^{were: Heb. drank largely} 44:1. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. ^{the steward: Heb. him that was over his house} 44:2. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 44:3. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. 44:4. And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 44:5. Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. ^{divineth: or, maketh trial?} 44:6. And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words. 44:7. And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: 44:8. Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 44:9. With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 44:10. And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. 44:11. Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 44:12. And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 44:13. Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 44:14. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. 44:15. And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? ^{divine: or, make trial?} 44:16. And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. 44:17. And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. 44:18. Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 44:19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 44:20. And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 44:21. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 44:22. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 44:23. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. 44:24. And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 44:25. And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food. 44:26. And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. 44:27. And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 44:28. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: 44:29. And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 44:30. Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; 44:31. It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 44:32. For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 44:33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 44:34. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. ^{come: Heb. find my father} 45:1. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 45:2. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. ^{wept: Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping} 45:3. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. ^{troubled: or, terrified} 45:4. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 45:5. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. ^{nor: Heb. neither let there be anger in your eyes} 45:6. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 45:7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. ^{to preserve: Heb. to put for you a remnant} 45:8. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 45:9. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: 45:10. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: 45:11. And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. 45:12. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 45:13. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. 45:14. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 45:15. Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. 45:16. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. ^{pleased: Heb. was good in the eyes of Pharaoh} 45:17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 45:18. And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 45:19. Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 45:20. Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. ^{regard: Heb. let not your eye spare, etc.} 45:21. And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. ^{commandment: Heb. mouth} 45:22. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 45:23. And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. ^{laden: Heb. carrying} 45:24. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. 45:25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, 45:26. And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. ^{Jacob's: Heb. his} 45:27. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: 45:28. And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. 46:1. And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 46:2. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 46:3. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 46:4. I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 46:5. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 46:6. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 46:7. His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 46:8. And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. 46:9. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 46:10. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. ^{Jemuel: or, Nemuel Jachin: or, Jarib Zohar: or, Zerah} 46:11. And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ^{Gershon: or, Gershom} 46:12. And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. 46:13. And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. ^{Phuvah, and Job: or, Puah, and Jashub} 46:14. And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 46:15. These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 46:16. And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. ^{Ziphion: or, Zephon Ezbon: or, Ozni Arodi: or, Arod} 46:17. And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 46:18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 46:19. The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 46:20. And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him. ^{priest: or, prince} 46:21. And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. ^{Ehi: or, Ahiram Muppim: or, Shupham or, Shuppim Huppim: or, Hupham} 46:22. These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. 46:23. And the sons of Dan; Hushim. ^{Hushim: or, Shuham} 46:24. And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 46:25. These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. 46:26. All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; ^{loins: Heb. thigh} 46:27. And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. 46:28. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 46:29. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 46:30. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. 46:31. And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; 46:32. And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. ^{their trade: Heb. they are men of cattle} 46:33. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? 46:34. That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 47:1. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 47:2. And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 47:3. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 47:4. They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 47:5. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: 47:6. The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. 47:7. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 47:8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? ^{How: Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life?} 47:9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 47:10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 47:11. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 47:12. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. ^{according: or, as a little child is nourished: Heb. according to the little ones} 47:13. And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 47:14. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 47:15. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. 47:16. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 47:17. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. ^{fed: Heb. led them} 47:18. When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 47:19. Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 47:20. And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 47:21. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 47:22. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. ^{priests: or, princes} 47:23. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. 47:24. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 47:25. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 47:26. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's. ^{priests: or, princes} 47:27. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. 47:28. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. ^{the whole: Heb. the days of the years of his life} 47:29. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 47:30. But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 47:31. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 48:1. And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 48:2. And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 48:3. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 48:4. And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 48:5. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 48:6. And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 48:7. And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem. 48:8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 48:9. And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 48:10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. ^{dim: Heb. heavy} 48:11. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. 48:12. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 48:13. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 48:14. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 48:15. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 48:16. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. ^{grow: Heb. as fishes do increase} 48:17. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. ^{displeased: was evil in his eyes} 48:18. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. 48:19. And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. ^{multitude: Heb. fulness} 48:20. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 48:21. And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. 48:22. Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. 49:1. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 49:2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. 49:3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 49:4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. ^{thou shalt: Heb. do not thou excel he went: or, my couch is gone} 49:5. Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. ^{instruments: or, their swords are weapons of violence} 49:6. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ^{digged: or, houghed oxen} 49:7. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 49:8. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 49:9. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 49:10. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 49:11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 49:12. His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 49:13. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon. 49:14. Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: 49:15. And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 49:16. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 49:17. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. ^{an adder: Heb. an arrow-snake} 49:18. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. 49:19. Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. 49:20. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 49:21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 49:22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: ^{branches: Heb. daughters} 49:23. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 49:24. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 49:25. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 49:26. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 49:27. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 49:28. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 49:29. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 49:30. In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. 49:31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 49:32. The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 49:33. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 50:1. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 50:2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 50:3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. ^{mourned: Heb. wept} 50:4. And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5. My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 50:6. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 50:7. And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 50:8. And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 50:9. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 50:10. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 50:11. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan. ^{Abelmizraim: that is, The mourning of the Egyptians} 50:12. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 50:13. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 50:14. And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 50:15. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 50:16. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, ^{sent: Heb. charged} 50:17. So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. 50:18. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants. 50:19. And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? 50:20. But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. 50:21. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. ^{kindly: Heb. to their hearts} 50:22. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. 50:23. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. ^{brought: Heb. born} 50:24. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 50:25. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 50:26. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 11:25-50:26, KJV)

25. And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 26. And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27. And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; 28. and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29. And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. 30. And Sarai is barren, she hath no child. 31. And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. 32. And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan. 12:1. And Jehovah saith unto Abram, 'Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee. 12:2. And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. 12:3. And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.' 12:4. And Abram goeth on, as Jehovah hath spoken unto him, and Lot goeth with him, and Abram [is] a son of five and seventy years in his going out from Charan. 12:5. And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan. 12:6. And Abram passeth over into the land, unto the place Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land. 12:7. And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith, 'To thy seed I give this land;' and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, who hath appeared unto him. 12:8. And he removeth from thence towards a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretcheth out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah. 12:9. And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south. 12:10. And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land; 12:11. and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt, that he saith unto Sarai his wife, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou [art] a woman of beautiful appearance; 12:12. and it hath come to pass that the Egyptians see thee, and they have said, 'This [is] his wife,' and they have slain me, and thee they keep alive: 12:13. say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister, so that it is well with me because of thee, and my soul hath lived for thy sake.' 12:14. And it cometh to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceeding fair; 12:15. and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh's house; 12:16. and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels. 12:17. And Jehovah plagueth Pharaoh and his house, great plagues, for the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife. 12:18. And Pharaoh calleth for Abram, and saith, 'What [is] this thou hast done to me? why hast thou not declared to me that she [is] thy wife? 12:19. Why hast thou said, She [is] my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.' 12:20. And Pharaoh chargeth men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, an all that he hath. 13:1. And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south; 13:2. and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 13:3. And he goeth on his journeyings from the south, even unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai 13:4. unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah. 13:5. And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents; 13:6. and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together; 13:7. and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land. 13:8. And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men, brethren. 13:9. Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.' 13:10. And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar, 13:11. and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted, a man from his companion; 13:12. Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom; 13:13. and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly. 13:14. And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, 'Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou [art], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; 13:15. for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed, to the age. 13:16. And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered; 13:17. rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.' 13:18. And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah. 14:1. And it cometh to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, 14:2. they have made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which [is] Zoar. 14:3. All these have been joined together unto the valley of Siddim, which [is] the Salt Sea; 14:4. twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled. 14:5. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who [are] with him, and they smite the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 14:6. and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-Paran, which [is] by the wilderness; 14:7. and they turn back and come in unto En-Mishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and smite the whole field of the Amalekite, and also the Amorite who is dwelling in Hazezon-Tamar. 14:8. And the king of Sodom goeth out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which [is] Zoar; and they set the battle in array with them in the valley of Siddim, 14:9. with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with the five. 14:10. And the valley of Siddim [is] full of bitumen-pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, and fall there, and those left have fled to the mountain. 14:11. And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away; 14:12. and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away. 14:13. And one who is escaping cometh and declareth to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they [are] Abram's allies. 14:14. And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan. 14:15. And he divideth himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smiteth them, and pursueth them unto Hobah, which [is] at the left of Damascus; 14:16. and he bringeth back the whole of the substance, and also Lot his brother and his substance hath he brought back, and also the women and the people. 14:17. And the king of Sodom goeth out to meet him (after his turning back from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who [are] with him), unto the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's valley. 14:18. And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he [is] priest of God Most High; 14:19. and he blesseth him, and saith, 'Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth; 14:20. and blessed [is] God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all. 14:21. And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, 'Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,' 14:22. and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, 'I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth 14:23. from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I, I have made Abram rich; 14:24. save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who have gone with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, they take their portion.' 15:1. After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram, I [am] a shield to thee, thy reward [is] exceeding great.' 15:2. And Abram saith, 'Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.' 15:3. And Abram saith, 'Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.' 15:4. And lo, the word of Jehovah [is] unto him, saying, 'This [one] doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;' 15:5. and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.' 15:6. And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him, righteousness. 15:7. And He saith unto him, 'I [am] Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;' 15:8. and he saith, 'Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?' 15:9. And He saith unto him, 'Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;' 15:10. and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided; 15:11. and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back. 15:12. And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him; 15:13. and He saith to Abram, 'knowing, know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years, 15:14. and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; 15:15. and thou, thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age; 15:16. and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.' 15:17. And it cometh to pass, the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been, and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces. 15:18. In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, 'To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat, 15:19. with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 15:20. and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 15:21. and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.' 16:1. And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar; 16:2. and Sarai saith unto Abram, 'Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai. 16:3. And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife, 16:4. and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes. 16:5. And Sarai saith unto Abram, 'My violence [is] for thee; I, I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.' 16:6. And Abram saith unto Sarai, 'Lo, thine handmaid [is] in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence. 16:7. And a messenger of Jehovah findeth her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way [to] Shur, 16:8. and he saith, 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence hast thou come, and whither dost thou go?' and she saith, 'From the presence of Sarai, my mistress, I am fleeing.' 16:9. And the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Turn back unto thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hands;' 16:10. and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;' 16:11. and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Behold thou [art] conceiving, and bearing a son, and hast called his name Ishmael, for Jehovah hath hearkened unto thine affliction; 16:12. and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him, and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.' 16:13. And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, 'Thou [art], O God, my beholder;' for she said, 'Even here have I looked behind my beholder?' 16:14. therefore hath one called the well, 'The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered. 16:15. And Hagar beareth to Abram a son; and Abram calleth the name of his son, whom Hagar hath borne, Ishmael; 16:16. and Abram [is] a son of eighty and six years in Hagar's bearing Ishmael to Abram. 17:1. And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, 'I [am] God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect; 17:2. and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.' 17:3. And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying, 17:4. 'I, lo, My covenant [is] with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations; 17:5. and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee; 17:6. and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee. 17:7. 'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; 17:8. and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.' 17:9. And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations; 17:10. this [is] My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you [is] to be circumcised; 17:11. and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you. 17:12. 'And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed; 17:13. he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during; 17:14. and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.' 17:15. And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife, thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name; 17:16. and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations, kings of peoples are from her.' 17:17. And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, 'To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah, daughter of ninety years, bear?' 17:18. And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;' 17:19. and God saith, 'Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him. 17:20. As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation; 17:21. and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;' 17:22. and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham. 17:23. And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him. 17:24. And Abraham [is] a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised; 17:25. and Ishmael his son [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised; 17:26. in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son; 17:27. and all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger, have been circumcised with him. 18:1. And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; 18:2. and he lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, three men standing by him, and he seeth, and runneth to meet them from the opening of the tent, and boweth himself towards the earth, 18:3. And he saith, 'My Lord, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, do not, I pray thee, pass on from thy servant; 18:4. let, I pray thee, a little water be accepted, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree; 18:5. and I bring a piece of bread, and support ye your heart; afterwards pass on, for therefore have ye passed over unto your servant;' and they say, 'So mayest thou do as thou has spoken.' 18:6. And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, 'Hasten three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;' 18:7. and Abraham ran unto the herd, and taketh a son of the herd, tender and good, and giveth unto the young man, and he hasteth to prepare it; 18:8. and he taketh butter and milk, and the son of the herd which he hath prepared, and setteth before them; and he is standing by them under the tree, and they do eat. 18:9. And they say unto him, 'Where [is] Sarah thy wife?' and he saith, 'Lo, in the tent;' 18:10. and he saith, 'returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.' 18:11. And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him; 18:12. and Abraham and Sarah [are] aged, entering into days, the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah; 18:13. and Sarah laugheth in her heart, saying, 'After I have waxed old I have had pleasure!, my lord also [is] old!' 18:14. And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, 'Why [is] this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really, I bear, and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.' 18:15. And Sarah denieth, saying, 'I did not laugh;' for she hath been afraid; and He saith, 'Nay, but thou didst laugh.' 18:16. And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away; 18:17. and Jehovah said, 'Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing, 18:18. and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth? 18:19. for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.' 18:20. And Jehovah saith, 'The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because great; and their sin, because exceeding grievous: 18:21. I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely, and if not, I know;' 18:22. and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah. 18:23. And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked? 18:24. peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty, the righteous who [are] in its midst? 18:25. Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been, as the righteous so the wicked, far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?' 18:26. And Jehovah saith, 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' 18:27. And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I, dust and ashes; 18:28. peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous, dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, 'I destroy [it] not, if I find there forty and five.' 18:29. And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, 'Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, 'I do [it] not, because of the forty.' 18:30. And he saith, 'Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, 'I do [it] not, if I find there thirty.' 18:31. And he saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy [it], because of the twenty.' 18:32. And he saith, 'Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, 'I do not destroy [it], because of the ten.' 18:33. And Jehovah goeth on, when He hath finished speaking unto Abraham, and Abraham hath turned back to his place. 19:1. And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself, face to the earth, 19:2. and he saith, 'Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet, then ye have risen early and gone on your way;' and they say, 'Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.' 19:3. And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat. 19:4. Before they lie down, the men of the city, men of Sodom, have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity; 19:5. and they call unto Lot and say to him, 'Where [are] the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.' 19:6. And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him, 19:7. and saith, 'Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil; 19:8. lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.' 19:9. And they say, 'Come nigh hither;' they say also, 'This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than [to] them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door. 19:10. And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door; 19:11. and the men who [are] at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening. 19:12. And the men say unto Lot, 'Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place; 19:13. for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great [before] the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.' 19:14. And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, 'Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 19:15. And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, 'Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' 19:16. And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city. 19:17. And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, 'Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.' 19:18. And Lot saith unto them, 'Not [so], I pray thee, my lord; 19:19. lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave [to] me, and I have died; 19:20. lo, I pray thee, this city [is] near to flee thither, and it [is] little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.' 19:21. And he saith unto him, 'Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which thou hast spoken; 19:22. haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar. 19:23. The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar, 19:24. and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; 19:25. and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground. 19:26. And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is, a pillar of salt! 19:27. And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood [before] the face of Jehovah; 19:28. and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace. 19:29. And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt. 19:30. And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters. 19:31. And the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Our father [is] old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as [is] the way of all the earth; 19:32. come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father, a seed.' 19:33. And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. 19:34. And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father, a seed.' 19:35. And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up. 19:36. And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father, 19:37. and the first-born beareth a son, and calleth his name Moab; he [is] father of Moab unto this day; 19:38. as to the younger, she also hath born a son, and calleth his name Ben-Ammi: he [is] father of the Beni-Ammon unto this day. 20:1. And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar; 20:2. and Abraham saith concerning Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister;' and Abimelech king of Gerar sendeth and taketh Sarah. 20:3. And God cometh in unto Abimelech in a dream of the night, and saith to him, 'Lo, thou [art] a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken, and she married to a husband.' 20:4. And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, 'Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay? 20:5. hath not he himself said to me, She [is] my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He [is] my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.' 20:6. And God saith unto him in the dream, 'Yea, I, I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her; 20:7. and now send back the man's wife, for he [is] inspired, and he doth pray for thee, and live thou; and if thou do not send back, know that dying thou dost die, thou, and all that thou hast.' 20:8. And Abimelech riseth early in the morning, and calleth for all his servants, and speaketh all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly; 20:9. and Abimelech calleth for Abraham, and saith to him, 'What hast thou done to us? and what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me, and upon my kingdom, a great sin? works which are not done thou hast done with me.' 20:10. Abimelech also saith unto Abraham, 'What hast thou seen that thou hast done this thing?' 20:11. And Abraham saith, 'Because I said, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife; 20:12. and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife; 20:13. and it cometh to pass, when God hath caused me to wander from my father's house, that I say to her, This [is] thy kindness which thou dost with me: at every place whither we come, say of me, He [is] my brother.' 20:14. And Abimelech taketh sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and giveth to Abraham, and sendeth back to him Sarah his wife; 20:15. and Abimelech saith, 'Lo, my land [is] before thee, where it is good in thine eyes, dwell;' 20:16. and to Sarah he hath said, 'Lo, I have given a thousand silverlings to thy brother; lo, it is to thee a covering of eyes, to all who are with thee;' and by all this she is reasoned with. 20:17. And Abraham prayeth unto God, and God healeth Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear: 20:18. for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. 21:1. And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken; 21:2. and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him; 21:3. and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him, Isaac; 21:4. and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, [being] a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him. 21:5. And Abraham [is] a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him, 21:6. and Sarah saith, 'God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.' 21:7. She saith also, 'Who hath said to Abraham, Sarah hath suckled sons, that I have born a son for his old age?' 21:8. And the lad groweth, and is weaned, and Abraham maketh a great banquet in the day of Isaac's being weaned; 21:9. and Sarah seeth the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she hath borne to Abraham, mocking, 21:10. and she saith to Abraham, 'Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son, with Isaac.' 21:11. And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son's sake; 21:12. and God saith unto Abraham, 'Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee. 21:13. As to the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] thy seed.' 21:14. And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing [it] on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba; 21:15. and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she placeth the lad under one of the shrubs. 21:16. And she goeth and sitteth by herself over-against, afar off, about a bow-shot, for she said, 'Let me not look on the death of the lad;' and she sitteth over-against, and lifteth up her voice, and weepeth. 21:17. And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, 'What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he [is]; 21:18. rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with thy hand, for for a great nation I set him.' 21:19. And God openeth her eyes, and she seeth a well of water, and she goeth and filleth the bottle [with] water, and causeth the youth to drink; 21:20. and God is with the youth, and he groweth, and dwelleth in the wilderness, and is an archer; 21:21. and he dwelleth in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother taketh for him a wife from the land of Egypt. 21:22. And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh, Phichol also, head of his host, unto Abraham, saying, 'God [is] with thee in all that thou art doing; 21:23. and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.' 21:24. And Abraham saith, 'I, I do swear.' 21:25. And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away, 21:26. and Abimelech saith, 'I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.' 21:27. And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant; 21:28. and Abraham setteth seven Lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29. And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, 'What [are] they, these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?' 21:30. And he saith, 'For, the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;' 21:31. therefore hath he called that place 'Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn. 21:32. And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth, Phichol also, head of his host, and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines; 21:33. and [Abraham] planteth a tamarisk in Beer-Sheba, and preacheth there in the name of Jehovah, God age-during; 21:34. and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days. 22:1. And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, 'Abraham;' and he saith, 'Here [am] I.' 22:2. And He saith, 'Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.' 22:3. And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and taketh two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and he cleaveth the wood of the burnt-offering, and riseth and goeth unto the place of which God hath spoken to him. 22:4. On the third day, Abraham lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the place from afar; 22:5. and Abraham saith unto his young men, 'Remain by yourselves here with the ass, and I and the youth go yonder and worship, and turn back unto you.' 22:6. And Abraham taketh the wood of the burnt-offering, and placeth on Isaac his son, and he taketh in his hand the fire, and the knife; and they go on both of them together. 22:7. And Isaac speaketh unto Abraham his father, and saith, 'My father,' and he saith, 'Here [am] I, my son.' And he saith, 'Lo, the fire and the wood, and where the lamb for a burnt-offering?' 22:8. and Abraham saith, 'God doth provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son;' and they go on both of them together. 22:9. And they come in unto the place of which God hath spoken to him, and there Abraham buildeth the altar, and arrangeth the wood, and bindeth Isaac his son, and placeth him upon the altar above the wood; 22:10. and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife, to slaughter his son. 22:11. And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto him from the heavens, and saith, 'Abraham, Abraham;' and he saith, 'Here [am] I;' 22:12. and He saith, 'Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.' 22:13. And Abraham lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goeth, and taketh the ram, and causeth it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son; 22:14. and Abraham calleth the name of that place 'Jehovah-Jireh,' because it is said this day in the mount, 'Jehovah doth provide.' 22:15. And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto Abraham a second time from the heavens, 22:16. and saith, 'By Myself I have sworn, the affirmation of Jehovah, that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one 22:17. that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies; 22:18. and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.' 22:19. And Abraham turneth back unto his young men, and they rise and go together unto Beer-Sheba; and Abraham dwelleth in Beer-Sheba. 22:20. And it cometh to pass after these things that it is declared to Abraham, saying, 'Lo, Milcah hath borne, even she, sons to Nahor thy brother: 22:21. Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother; and Kemuel father of Aram, 22:22. and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel; 22:23. and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah;' these eight hath Milcah borne to Nahor, Abraham's brother; 22:24. and his concubine, whose name [is] Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah. 23:1. And the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years, years of the life of Sarah; 23:2. and Sarah dieth in Kirjath-Arba, which [is] Hebron, in the land of Caanan, and Abraham goeth in to mourn for Sarah, and to bewail her. 23:3. And Abraham riseth up from the presence of his dead, and speaketh unto the sons of Heth, saying, 23:4. 'A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.' 23:5. And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him, 23:6. 'Hear us, my lord; a prince of God [art] thou in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury thy dead: none of us his burying-place doth withhold from thee, from burying thy dead.' 23:7. And Abraham riseth and boweth himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth, 23:8. and he speaketh with them, saying, 'If it is your desire to bury my dead from before me, hear me, and meet for me with Ephron, son of Zoar; 23:9. and he giveth to me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the extremity of his field; for full money doth he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.' 23:10. And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answereth Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying, 23:11. 'Nay, my lord, hear me: the field I have given to thee, and the cave that [is] in it, to thee I have given it; before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to thee, bury thy dead.' 23:12. And Abraham boweth himself before the people of the land, 23:13. and speaketh unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, 'Only, if thou wouldest hear me, I have given the money of the field, accept from me, and I bury my dead there.' 23:14. And Ephron answereth Abraham, saying to him, 23:15. 'My lord, hear me: the land, four hundred shekels of silver; between me and thee, what [is] it?, thy dead bury.' 23:16. And Abraham hearkeneth unto Ephron, and Abraham weigheth to Ephron the silver which he hath spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant. 23:17. And established are the field of Ephron, which [is] in Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, the field and the cave which [is] in it, and all the trees which [are] in the field, which [are] in all its border round about, 23:18. to Abraham by purchase, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, among all entering the gate of his city. 23:19. And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which [is] Hebron), in the land of Canaan; 23:20. and established are the field, and the cave which [is] in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth. 24:1. And Abraham [is] old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all [things]; 24:2. and Abraham saith unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he hath, 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, 24:3. and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling; 24:4. but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.' 24:5. And the servant saith unto him, 'It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?' 24:6. And Abraham saith unto him, 'Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause my son to turn back thither; 24:7. Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence; 24:8. and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.' 24:9. And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter. 24:10. And the servant taketh ten camels of the camels of his lord and goeth, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he riseth, and goeth unto Aram-Naharaim, unto the city of Nahor; 24:11. and he causeth the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at even-time, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water. 24:12. And he saith, 'Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, cause to meet, I pray Thee, before me this day, (and do kindness with my lord Abraham; 24:13. lo, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water; 24:14. and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels), her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.' 24:15. And it cometh to pass, before he hath finished speaking, that lo, Rebekah (who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham) is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder, 24:16. and the young person [is] of very good appearance, a virgin, and a man hath not known her; and she goeth down to the fountain, and filleth her pitcher, and cometh up. 24:17. And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;' 24:18. and she saith, 'Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink. 24:19. And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, 'Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;' 24:20. and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels. 24:21. And the man, wondering at her, remaineth silent, to know whether Jehovah hath made his way prosperous or not. 24:22. And it cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight [is] a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight [is] ten [bekahs] of gold), 24:23. and saith, 'Whose daughter [art] thou? declare to me, I pray thee, is the house of thy father a place for us to lodge in?' 24:24. And she saith unto him, 'I [am] daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she hath borne to Nahor.' 24:25. She saith also unto him, 'Both straw and provender [are] abundant with us, also a place to lodge in.' 24:26. And the man boweth, and doth obeisance to Jehovah, 24:27. and saith, 'Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord;, I [being] in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.' 24:28. And the young person runneth, and declareth to the house of her mother according to these words. 24:29. And Rebekah hath a brother, and his name [is] Laban, and Laban runneth unto the man who [is] without, unto the fountain; 24:30. yea, it cometh to pass, when he seeth the ring, and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heareth the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, 'Thus hath the man spoken unto me,' that he cometh in unto the man, and lo, he is standing by the camels by the fountain. 24:31. And he saith, 'Come in, O blessed one of Jehovah, why standest thou without, and I, I have prepared the house and place for the camels!' 24:32. And he bringeth in the man into the house, and looseth the camels, and giveth straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who [are] with him: 24:33. and setteth before him to eat; but he saith, 'I do not eat till I have spoken my word;' and he saith, 'Speak.' 24:34. And he saith, 'I [am] Abraham's servant; 24:35. and Jehovah hath blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He giveth to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses; 24:36. and Sarah, my lord's wife, beareth a son to my lord, after she hath been aged, and he giveth to him all that he hath. 24:37. 'And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling. 24:38. If not, unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son. 24:39. 'And I say unto my lord, It may be the woman doth not come after me; 24:40. and he saith unto me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked habitually, doth send His messenger with thee, and hath prospered thy way, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father; 24:41. then art thou acquitted from my oath, when thou comest unto my family, and if they give not [one] to thee; then thou hast been acquitted from my oath. 24:42. 'And I come to-day unto the fountain, and I say, Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, if Thou art, I pray Thee, making prosperous my way in which I am going 24:43. (lo, I am standing by the fountain of water), then the virgin who is coming out to draw, and I have said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher, 24:44. and she hath said unto me, Both drink thou, and also for thy camels I draw, she is the woman whom Jehovah hath decided for my lord's son. 24:45. 'Before I finish speaking unto my heart, then lo, Rebekah is coming out, and her pitcher on her shoulder, and she goeth down to the fountain, and draweth; and I say unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee, 24:46. and she hasteth and letteth down her pitcher from off her and saith, Drink, and thy camels also I water; and I drink, and the camels also she hath watered. 24:47. 'And I ask her, and say, Whose daughter [art] thou? and she saith, Daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah hath borne to him, and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands, 24:48. and I bow, and do obeisance before Jehovah, and I bless Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath led me in the true way to receive the daughter of my lord's brother for his son. 24:49. 'And now, if ye are dealing kindly and truly with my lord, declare to me; and if not, declare to me; and I turn unto the right or unto the left.' 24:50. And Laban answereth, Bethuel also, and they say, 'The thing hath gone out from Jehovah; we are not able to speak unto thee bad or good; 24:51. lo, Rebekah [is] before thee, take and go, and she is a wife to thy lord's son, as Jehovah hath spoken.' 24:52. And it cometh to pass, when the servant of Abraham hath heard their words, that he boweth himself towards the earth before Jehovah; 24:53. and the servant taketh out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and giveth to Rebekah; precious things also he hath given to her brother and to her mother. 24:54. And they eat and drink, he and the men who [are] with him, and lodge all night; and they rise in the morning, and he saith, 'Send me to my lord;' 24:55. and her brother saith, her mother also, 'Let the young person abide with us a week or ten days, afterwards doth she go.' 24:56. And he saith unto them, 'Do not delay me, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away, and I go to my lord;' 24:57. and they say, 'Let us call for the young person, and ask at her mouth;' 24:58. and they call for Rebekah, and say unto her, 'Dost thou go with this man?' and she saith, 'I go.' 24:59. And they send away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men; 24:60. and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, 'Thou [art] our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and thy seed doth possess the gate of those hating it.' 24:61. And Rebekah and her young women arise, and ride on the camels, and go after the man; and the servant taketh Rebekah and goeth. 24:62. And Isaac hath come in from the entrance of the Well of the Living One, my Beholder; and he is dwelling in the land of the south, 24:63. and Isaac goeth out to meditate in the field, at the turning of the evening, and he lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, camels are coming. 24:64. And Rebekah lifteth up her eyes, and seeth Isaac, and alighteth from off the camel; 24:65. and she saith unto the servant, 'Who [is] this man who is walking in the field to meet us?' and the servant saith, 'It [is] my lord;' and she taketh the veil, and covereth herself. 24:66. And the servant recounteth to Isaac all the things that he hath done, 24:67. and Isaac bringeth her in unto the tent of Sarah his mother, and he taketh Rebekah, and she becometh his wife, and he loveth her, and Isaac is comforted after [the death of] his mother. 25:1. And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name [is] Keturah; 25:2. and she beareth to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 25:3. And Jokshan hath begotten Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim; 25:4. and the sons of Midian [are] Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these [are] sons of Keturah. 25:5. And Abraham giveth all that he hath to Isaac; 25:6. and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country. 25:7. And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years; 25:8. and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people. 25:9. And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre 25:10. the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth, there hath Abraham been buried, and Sarah his wife. 25:11. And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder. 25:12. And these [are] births of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, hath borne to Abraham; 25:13. and these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their births: first-born of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 25:14. and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 25:15. Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 25:16. these are sons of Ishmael, and these their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples. 25:17. And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people; 25:18. and they tabernacle from Havilah unto Shur, which [is] before Egypt, in [thy] going towards Asshur; in the presence of all his brethren hath he fallen. 25:19. And these [are] births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac; 25:20. and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife. 25:21. And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she [is] barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth, 25:22. and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, 'If [it is] right, why [am] I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah. 25:23. And Jehovah saith to her, 'Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the [one] people than the [other] people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.' 25:24. And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins [are] in her womb; 25:25. and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau; 25:26. and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac [is] a son of sixty years in her bearing them. 25:27. And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted [with] hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob [is] a plain man, inhabiting tents; 25:28. and Isaac loveth Esau, for [his] hunting [is] in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob. 25:29. And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he [is] weary; 25:30. and Esau saith unto Jacob, 'Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I [am] weary;' therefore hath [one] called his name Edom [Red]; 25:31. and Jacob saith, 'Sell to-day thy birthright to me.' 25:32. And Esau saith, 'Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me, birthright?' 25:33. and Jacob saith, 'Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob; 25:34. and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright. 26:1. And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 26:2. And Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith, 'Go not down towards Egypt, tabernacle in the land concerning which I speak unto thee, 26:3. sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father; 26:4. and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth; 26:5. because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.' 26:6. And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar; 26:7. and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he saith, 'She [is] my sister:' for he hath been afraid to say, 'My wife, lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she [is] of good appearance.' 26:8. And it cometh to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looketh through the window, and seeth, and lo, Isaac is playing with Rebekah his wife. 26:9. And Abimelech calleth for Isaac, and saith, 'Lo, she [is] surely thy wife; and how hast thou said, She [is] my sister?' and Isaac saith unto him, 'Because I said, Lest I die for her.' 26:10. And Abimelech saith, 'What [is] this thou hast done to us? as a little thing one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us guilt;' 26:11. and Abimelech commandeth all the people, saying, 'He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.' 26:12. And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him; 26:13. and the man is great, and goeth on, going on and becoming great, till that he hath been very great, 26:14. and he hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him, 26:15. and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust. 26:16. And Abimelech saith unto Isaac, 'Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;' 26:17. and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there; 26:18. and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them. 26:19. And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water, 26:20. and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, 'The water [is] ours;' and he calleth the name of the well 'Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him; 26:21. and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name 'Hatred.' 26:22. And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, 'For, now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.' 26:23. And he goeth up from thence [to] Beer-Sheba, 26:24. and Jehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, 'I [am] the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I [am] with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;' 26:25. and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well. 26:26. And Abimelech hath gone unto him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host; 26:27. and Isaac saith unto them, 'Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?' 26:28. And they say, 'We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, 'Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; 26:29. do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou [art] now blessed of Jehovah.' 26:30. And he maketh for them a banquet, and they eat and drink, 26:31. and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace. 26:32. And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, 'We have found water;' 26:33. and he calleth it Shebah, [oath,] therefore the name of the city [is] Beer-Sheba, [well of the oath,] unto this day. 26:34. And Esau is a son of forty years, and he taketh a wife, Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite, 26:35. and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah. 27:1. And it cometh to pass that Isaac [is] aged, and his eyes are too dim for seeing, and he calleth Esau his elder son, and saith unto him, 'My son;' and he saith unto him, 'Here [am] I.' 27:2. And he saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death; 27:3. and now, take up, I pray thee, thy instruments, thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt for me provision, 27:4. and make for me tasteful things, [such] as I have loved, and bring in to me, and I do eat, so that my soul doth bless thee before I die.' 27:5. And Rebekah is hearkening while Isaac is speaking unto Esau his son; and Esau goeth to the field to hunt provision, to bring in; 27:6. and Rebekah hath spoken unto Jacob her son, saying, 'Lo, I have heard thy father speaking unto Esau thy brother, saying, 27:7. Bring for me provision, and make for me tasteful things, and I do eat, and bless thee before Jehovah before my death. 27:8. 'And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee: 27:9. Go, I pray thee, unto the flock, and take for me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I make them tasteful things for thy father, [such] as he hath loved; 27:10. and thou hast taken in to thy father, and he hath eaten, so that his soul doth bless thee before his death. 27:11. And Jacob saith unto Rebekah his mother, 'Lo, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I a smooth man, 27:12. it may be my father doth feel me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought upon me disesteem, and not a blessing;' 27:13. and his mother saith to him, 'On me thy disesteem, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go, take for me.' 27:14. And he goeth, and taketh, and bringeth to his mother, and his mother maketh tasteful things, [such] as his father hath loved; 27:15. and Rebekah taketh the desirable garments of Esau her elder son, which [are] with her in the house, and doth put on Jacob her younger son; 27:16. and the skins of the kids of the goats she hath put on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck, 27:17. and she giveth the tasteful things, and the bread which she hath made, into the hand of Jacob her son. 27:18. And he cometh in unto his father, and saith, 'My father;' and he saith, 'Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?' 27:19. And Jacob saith unto his father, 'I [am] Esau thy first-born; I have done as thou hast spoken unto me; rise, I pray thee, sit, and eat of my provision, so that thy soul doth bless me.' 27:20. And Isaac saith unto his son, 'What [is] this thou hast hasted to find, my son?' and he saith, 'That which Jehovah thy God hath caused to come before me.' 27:21. And Isaac saith unto Jacob, 'Come nigh, I pray thee, and I feel thee, my son, whether thou [art] he, my son Esau, or not.' 27:22. And Jacob cometh nigh unto Isaac his father, and he feeleth him, and saith, 'The voice [is] the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.' 27:23. And he hath not discerned him, for his hands have been hairy, as the hands of Esau his brother, and he blesseth him, 27:24. and saith, 'Thou art he, my son Esau?' and he saith, 'I [am].' 27:25. And he saith, 'Bring nigh to me, and I do eat of my son's provision, so that my soul doth bless thee;' and he bringeth nigh to him, and he eateth; and he bringeth to him wine, and he drinketh. 27:26. And Isaac his father saith to him, 'Come nigh, I pray thee, and kiss me, my son;' 27:27. and he cometh nigh, and kisseth him, and he smelleth the fragrance of his garments, and blesseth him, and saith, 'See, the fragrance of my son [is] as the fragrance of a field which Jehovah hath blessed; 27:28. and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine; 27:29. peoples serve thee, and nations bow themselves to thee, be thou mighty over thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother bow themselves to thee; those who curse thee [are] cursed, and those who bless thee [are] blessed.' 27:30. And it cometh to pass, as Isaac hath finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob is only just going out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother hath come in from his hunting; 27:31. and he also maketh tasteful things, and bringeth to his father, and saith to his father, 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's provision, so that thy soul doth bless me.' 27:32. And Isaac his father saith to him, 'Who [art] thou?' and he saith, 'I [am] thy son, thy first-born, Esau;' 27:33. and Isaac trembleth a very great trembling, and saith, 'Who, now, [is] he who hath provided provision, and bringeth in to me, and I eat of all before thou comest in, and I bless him?, yea, blessed is he.' 27:34. When Esau heareth the words of his father, then he crieth a very great and bitter cry, and saith to his father, 'Bless me, me also, O my father;' 27:35. and he saith, 'Thy brother hath come with subtilty, and taketh thy blessing.' 27:36. And he saith, 'Is it because [one] called his name Jacob that he doth take me by the heel these two times? my birthright he hath taken; and lo, now, he hath taken my blessing;' he saith also, 'Hast thou not kept back a blessing for me?' 27:37. And Isaac answereth and saith to Esau, 'Lo, a mighty one have I set him over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and [with] corn and wine have I sustained him; and for thee now, what shall I do, my son?' 27:38. And Esau saith unto his father, 'One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;' and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth. 27:39. And Isaac his father answereth and saith unto him, 'Lo, of the fatness of the earth is thy dwelling, and of the dew of the heavens from above; 27:40. and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.' 27:41. And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, 'The days of mourning [for] my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.' 27:42. And the words of Esau her elder son are declared to Rebekah, and she sendeth and calleth for Jacob her younger son, and saith unto him, 'Lo, Esau thy brother is comforting himself in regard to thee, to slay thee; 27:43. and now, my son, hearken to my voice, and rise, flee for thyself unto Laban my brother, to Haran, 27:44. and thou hast dwelt with him some days, till thy brother's fury turn back, 27:45. till thy brother's anger turn back from thee, and he hath forgotten that which thou hast done to him, and I have sent and taken thee from thence; why am I bereaved even of you both the same day?' 27:46. And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, 'I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, why do I live?' 28:1. And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan; 28:2. rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take for thyself from thence a wife, of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother; 28:3. and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples; 28:4. and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.' 28:5. And Isaac sendeth away Jacob, and he goeth to Padan-Aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau. 28:6. And Esau seeth that Isaac hath blessed Jacob, and hath sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from thence a wife, in his blessing him that he layeth a charge upon him, saying, Thou dost not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan 28:7. that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram 28:8. and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father, 28:9. and Esau goeth unto Ishmael, and taketh Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebajoth, unto his wives, to himself, for a wife. 28:10. And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran, 28:11. and he toucheth at a [certain] place, and lodgeth there, for the sun hath gone in, and he taketh of the stones of the place, and maketh [them] his pillows, and lieth down in that place. 28:12. And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it; 28:13. and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, 'I [am] Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed; 28:14. and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed. 28:15. 'And lo, I [am] with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.' 28:16. And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;' 28:17. and he feareth, and saith, 'How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.' 28:18. And Jacob riseth early in the morning, and taketh the stone which he hath made his pillows, and maketh it a standing pillar, and poureth oil upon its top, 28:19. and he calleth the name of that place Bethel, [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first. 28:20. And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, 'Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on 28:21. when I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father, and Jehovah hath become my God, 28:22. then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that Thou dost give to me, tithing I tithe to Thee.' 29:1. And Jacob lifteth up his feet, and goeth towards the land of the sons of the east; 29:2. and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone [is] on the mouth of the well. 29:3. (When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.) 29:4. And Jacob saith to them, 'My brethren, from whence [are] ye?' and they say, 'We [are] from Haran.' 29:5. And he saith to them, 'Have ye known Laban, son of Nahor?' and they say, 'We have known.' 29:6. And he saith to them, 'Hath he peace?' and they say, 'Peace; and lo, Rachel his daughter is coming with the flock.' 29:7. And he saith, 'Lo, the day [is] still great, [it is] not time for the cattle to be gathered; water ye the flock, and go, delight yourselves.' 29:8. And they say, 'We are not able, till that all the droves be gathered together, and they have rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and we have watered the flock.' 29:9. He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel hath come with the flock which her father hath, for she [is] shepherdess; 29:10. and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 29:11. And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth, 29:12. and Jacob declareth to Rachel that he [is] her father's brother, and that he [is] Rebekah's son, and she runneth and declareth to her father. 29:13. And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things, 29:14. and Laban saith to him, 'Only my bone and my flesh [art] thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days. 29:15. And Laban saith to Jacob, 'Is it because thou [art] my brother that thou hast served me for nought? declare to me what [is] thy hire.' 29:16. And Laban hath two daughters, the name of the elder [is] Leah, and the name of the younger Rachel, 29:17. and the eyes of Leah [are] tender, and Rachel hath been fair of form and fair of appearance. 29:18. And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:' 29:19. and Laban saith, 'It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man; dwell with me;' 29:20. and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her. 29:21. And Jacob saith unto Laban, 'Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;' 29:22. and Laban gathereth all the men of the place, and maketh a banquet. 29:23. And it cometh to pass in the evening, that he taketh Leah, his daughter, and bringeth her in unto him, and he goeth in unto her; 29:24. and Laban giveth to her Zilpah, his maid-servant, to Leah his daughter, a maid-servant. 29:25. And it cometh to pass in the morning, that lo, it [is] Leah; and he saith unto Laban, 'What [is] this thou hast done to me? for Rachel have I not served with thee? and why hast thou deceived me?' 29:26. And Laban saith, 'It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first-born; 29:27. fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.' 29:28. And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife; 29:29. and Laban giveth to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant, for a maid-servant to her. 29:30. And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years. 29:31. And Jehovah seeth that Leah [is] the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel [is] barren; 29:32. and Leah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Reuben, for she said, 'Because Jehovah hath looked on mine affliction; because now doth my husband love me.' 29:33. And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Because Jehovah hath heard that I [am] the hated one, He also giveth to me even this [one];' and she calleth his name Simeon. 29:34. And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Now [is] the time, my husband is joined unto me, because I have born to him three sons,' therefore hath [one] called his name Levi. 29:35. And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, 'I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing. 30:1. And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, 'Give me sons, and if there is none, I die.' 30:2. And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, 'Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?' 30:3. And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;' 30:4. and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her; 30:5. and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, 30:6. and Rachel saith, 'God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan. 30:7. And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob, 30:8. and Rachel saith, 'With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali. 30:9. And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife; 30:10. and Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son, 30:11. and Leah saith, 'A troop is coming;' and she calleth his name Gad. 30:12. And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob, 30:13. and Leah saith, 'Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me happy;' and she calleth his name Asher. 30:14. And Reuben goeth in the days of wheat-harvest, and findeth love-apples in the field, and bringeth them in unto Leah, his mother, and Rachel saith unto Leah, 'Give to me, I pray thee, of the love-apples of thy son.' 30:15. And she saith to her, 'Is thy taking my husband a little thing, that thou hast taken also the love-apples of my son?' and Rachel saith, 'Therefore doth he lie with thee to-night, for thy son's love-apples.' 30:16. And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, 'Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night. 30:17. And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth, 30:18. and Leah saith, 'God hath given my hire, because I have given my maid-servant to my husband;' and she calleth his name Issachar. 30:19. And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob, 30:20. and Leah saith, 'God hath endowed me, a good dowry; this time doth my husband dwell with me, for I have borne to him six sons;' and she calleth his name Zebulun; 30:21. and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah. 30:22. And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb, 30:23. and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and saith, 'God hath gathered up my reproach;' 30:24. and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, 'Jehovah is adding to me another son.' 30:25. And it cometh to pass, when Rachel hath borne Joseph, that Jacob saith unto Laban, 'Send me away, and I go unto my place, and to my land; 30:26. give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou, thou hast known my service which I have served thee.' 30:27. And Laban saith unto him, 'If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, I have observed diligently that Jehovah doth bless me for thy sake.' 30:28. He saith also, 'Define thy hire to me, and I give.' 30:29. And he saith unto him, 'Thou, thou hast known that which I have served thee [in], and that which thy substance was with me; 30:30. for [it is] little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?' 30:31. And he saith, 'What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, 'Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch; 30:32. I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats, and it hath been my hire; 30:33. and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face;, every one which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs, it is stolen with me.' 30:34. And Laban saith, 'Lo, O that it were according to thy word;' 30:35. and he turneth aside during that day the ring-streaked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that [hath] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons, 30:36. and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban. 30:37. And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods, 30:38. and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink; 30:39. and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-streaked, speckled, and spotted ones. 30:40. And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-streaked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock. 30:41. And it hath come to pass whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods, 30:42. and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's. 30:43. And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses. 31:1. And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;' 31:2. and Jacob seeth the face of Laban, and lo, it is not with him as heretofore. 31:3. And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, 'Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.' 31:4. And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock; 31:5. and saith to them, 'I am beholding your father's face, that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me, 31:6. and ye, ye have known that with all my power I have served your father, 31:7. and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me. 31:8. 'If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-streaked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-streaked; 31:9. and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me. 31:10. 'And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled; 31:11. and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here [am] I. 31:12. 'And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which are going up on the flock [are] ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee; 31:13. I [am] the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.' 31:14. And Rachel answereth, Leah also, and saith to him, 'Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father? 31:15. have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money; 31:16. for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it [is] ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee, do.' 31:17. And Jacob riseth, and lifteth up his sons and his wives on the camels, 31:18. and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. 31:19. And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath; 31:20. and Jacob deceiveth the heart of Laban the Aramaean, because he hath not declared to him that he is fleeing; 31:21. and he fleeth, he and all that he hath, and riseth, and passeth over the River, and setteth his face [toward] the mount of Gilead. 31:22. And it is told to Laban on the third day that Jacob hath fled, 31:23. and he taketh his brethren with him, and pursueth after him a journey of seven days, and overtaketh him in the mount of Gilead. 31:24. And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night, and saith to him, 'Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil.' 31:25. And Laban overtaketh Jacob; and Jacob hath fixed his tent in the mount; and Laban with his brethren have fixed [theirs] in the mount of Gilead. 31:26. And Laban saith to Jacob, 'What hast thou done that thou dost deceive my heart, and lead away my daughters as captives of the sword? 31:27. Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp, 31:28. and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?, now thou hast acted foolishly in doing [so]; 31:29. my hand is to God to do evil with you, but the God of your father yesternight hath spoken unto me, saying, Take heed to thyself from speaking with Jacob from good unto evil. 31:30. 'And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?' 31:31. And Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, 'Because I was afraid, for I said, Lest thou take violently away thy daughters from me; 31:32. with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he doth not live; before our brethren discern for thyself what [is] with me, and take to thyself:' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them. 31:33. And Laban goeth into the tent of Jacob, and into the tent of Leah, and into the tent of the two handmaidens, and hath not found; and he goeth out from the tent of Leah, and goeth into the tent of Rachel. 31:34. And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found; 31:35. and she saith unto her father, 'Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women [is] on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim. 31:36. And it is displeasing to Jacob, and he striveth with Laban; and Jacob answereth and saith to Laban, 'What [is] my transgression? what my sin, that thou hast burned after me? 31:37. for thou hast felt all my vessels: what hast thou found of all the vessels of thy house? set here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and they decide between us both. 31:38. 'These twenty years I [am] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not miscarried, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten; 31:39. the torn I have not brought in unto thee, I, I repay it, from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night; 31:40. I have been [thus]: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes. 31:41. 'This [is] to me twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou changest my hire ten times; 31:42. unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.' 31:43. And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, 'The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing [is] mine; and to my daughters, what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born? 31:44. and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.' 31:45. And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up [for] a standing pillar; 31:46. and Jacob saith to his brethren, 'Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap; 31:47. and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed. 31:48. And Laban saith, 'This heap [is] witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed; 31:49. Mizpah also, for he said, 'Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another; 31:50. if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters, there is no man with us, see, God [is] witness between me and thee.' 31:51. And Laban saith to Jacob, 'Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee; 31:52. this heap [is] witness, and the standing pillar [is] witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me, for evil; 31:53. the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us, the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac. 31:54. And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount; 31:55. and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place. 32:1. And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him; 32:2. and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, 'This [is] the camp of God;' and he calleth the name of that place 'Two Camps.' 32:3. And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother, towards the land of Seir, the field of Edom, 32:4. and commandeth them, saying, 'Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now; 32:5. and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.' 32:6. And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, 'We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him;' 32:7. and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who [are] with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps, 32:8. and saith, 'If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it, then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.' 32:9. And Jacob saith, 'God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee: 32:10. I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant, for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 32:11. 'Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me, mother beside sons; 32:12. and Thou, Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.' 32:13. And he lodgeth there during that night, and taketh from that which is coming into his hand, a present for Esau his brother: 32:14. she-goats two hundred, and he-goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty, 32:15. suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, she-asses twenty, and foals ten; 32:16. and he giveth into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and saith unto his servants, 'Pass over before me, and a space ye do put between drove and drove.' 32:17. And he commandeth the first, saying, 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and hath asked thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee? 32:18. then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob's: it [is] a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he also [is] behind us.' 32:19. And he commandeth also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying, 'According to this manner do ye speak unto Esau in your finding him, 32:20. and ye have said also, Lo, thy servant Jacob [is] behind us;' for he said, 'I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterwards I see his face; it may be he lifteth up my face;' 32:21. and the present passeth over before his face, and he hath lodged during that night in the camp. 32:22. And he riseth in that night, and taketh his two wives, and his two maid-servants, and his eleven children, and passeth over the passage of Jabbok; 32:23. and he taketh them, and causeth them to pass over the brook, and he causeth that which he hath to pass over. 32:24. And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; 32:25. and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; 32:26. and he saith, 'Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, 'I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.' 32:27. And he saith unto him, 'What [is] thy name?' and he saith, 'Jacob.' 32:28. And he saith, 'Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.' 32:29. And Jacob asketh, and saith, 'Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, 'Why [is] this, thou askest for My name?' and He blesseth him there. 32:30. And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;' 32:31. and the sun riseth on him when he hath passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh; 32:32. therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which [is] on the hollow of the thigh, unto this day, because He came against the hollow of Jacob's thigh, against the sinew which shrank. 33:1. And Jacob lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divideth the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maid-servants; 33:2. and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. 33:3. And he himself passed over before them, and boweth himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing nigh unto his brother, 33:4. and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep; 33:5. and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, 'What [are] these to thee?' And he saith, 'The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.' 33:6. And the maid-servants draw nigh, they and their children, and bow themselves; 33:7. and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves. 33:8. And he saith, 'What to thee [is] all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, 'To find grace in the eyes of my lord.' 33:9. And Esau saith, 'I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.' 33:10. And Jacob saith, 'Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me; 33:11. receive, I pray thee, my blessing, which is brought to thee, because God hath favoured me, and because I have all [things];' and he presseth on him, and he receiveth, 33:12. and saith, 'Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.' 33:13. And he saith unto him, 'My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died. 33:14. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I, I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which [is] before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.' 33:15. And Esau saith, 'Let me, I pray thee, place with thee some of the people who [are] with me;' and he said, 'Why [is] this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.' 33:16. And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir; 33:17. and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth. 33:18. And Jacob cometh in to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encampeth before the city, 33:19. and he buyeth the portion of the field where he hath stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitah; 33:20. and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God, the God of Israel. 34:1. And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land, 34:2. and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her; 34:3. and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person. 34:4. And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, 'Take for me this damsel for a wife.' 34:5. And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming. 34:6. And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him; 34:7. and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he hath done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob, and so it is not done. 34:8. And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, 'Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife, 34:9. and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves, 34:10. and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it.' 34:11. And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, 'Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give; 34:12. multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.' 34:13. And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister), 34:14. and say unto them, 'We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it [is] a reproach to us. 34:15. 'Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised, 34:16. then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people; 34:17. and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.' 34:18. And their words are good in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son; 34:19. and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father. 34:20. And Hamor cometh, Shechem his son also, unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying, 34:21. 'These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land, lo, [is] wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them. 34:22. 'Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised; 34:23. their cattle, and their substance, and all their beasts, are they not ours? only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.' 34:24. And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city. 34:25. And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male; 34:26. and Hamor, and Shechem his son, they have slain by the mouth of the sword, and they take Dinah out of Shechem's house, and go out. 34:27. Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister; 34:28. their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken; 34:29. and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that [is] in the house. 34:30. And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, 'Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.' 34:31. And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?' 35:1. And God saith unto Jacob, 'Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.' 35:2. And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; 35:3. and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.' 35:4. And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem; 35:5. and they journey, and the terror of God is on the cities which [are] round about them, and they have not pursued after the sons of Jacob. 35:6. And Jacob cometh in to Luz which [is] in the land of Canaan (it [is] Bethel), he and all the people who [are] with him, 35:7. and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother. 35:8. And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name 'Oak of weeping.' 35:9. And God appeareth unto Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesseth him; 35:10. and God saith to him, 'Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel. 35:11. And God saith to him, 'I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out; 35:12. and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac, to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.' 35:13. And God goeth up from him, in the place where He hath spoken with him. 35:14. And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil; 35:15. and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel. 35:16. And they journey from Bethel, and there is yet a kibrath of land before entering Ephratha, and Rachel beareth, and is sharply pained in her bearing; 35:17. and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, 'Fear not, for this also [is] a son for thee.' 35:18. And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin; 35:19. and Rachel dieth, and is buried in the way to Ephratha, which [is] Bethlehem, 35:20. and Jacob setteth up a standing pillar over her grave; which [is] the standing pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 35:21. And Israel journeyeth, and stretcheth out his tent beyond the tower of Edar; 35:22. and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth. 35:23. And the sons of Jacob are twelve. Sons of Leah: Jacob's first-born Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. 35:24. Sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 35:25. And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali. 35:26. And sons of Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant: Gad and Asher. These [are] sons of Jacob, who have been born to him in Padan-Aram. 35:27. And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which [is] Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned. 35:28. And the days of Isaac are a hundred and eighty years, 35:29. and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons. 36:1. And these [are] births of Esau, who [is] Edom. 36:2. Esau hath taken his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 36:3. and Bashemath daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebajoth. 36:4. And Adah beareth to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath hath born Reuel; 36:5. and Aholibamah hath born Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. These [are] sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 36:6. And Esau taketh his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he hath acquired in the land of Canaan, and goeth into the country from the face of Jacob his brother; 36:7. for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of their cattle; 36:8. and Esau dwelleth in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. 36:9. And these [are] births of Esau, father of Edom, in mount Seir. 36:10. These [are] the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz son of Adah, wife of Esau; Reuel son of Bashemath, wife of Esau. 36:11. And the sons of Eliphaz are Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz; 36:12. and Timnath hath been concubine to Eliphaz son of Esau, and she beareth to Eliphaz, Amalek; these [are] sons of Adah wife of Esau. 36:13. And these [are] sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah; these were sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. 36:14. And these have been the sons of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, wife of Esau; and she beareth to Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. 36:15. These [are] chiefs of the sons of Esau: sons of Eliphaz, first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 36:16. chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek; these [are] chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these [are] sons of Adah. 36:17. And these [are] sons of Reuel son of Esau: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah; these [are] chiefs of Reuel, in the land of Edom; these [are] sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. 36:18. And these [are] sons of Aholibamah wife of Esau: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these [are] chiefs of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, wife of Esau. 36:19. These [are] sons of Esau (who [is] Edom), and these their chiefs. 36:20. These [are] sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 36:21. and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan; these [are] chiefs of the Horites, sons of Seir, in the land of Edom. 36:22. And the sons of Lotan are Hori and Heman; and a sister of Lotan [is] Timna. 36:23. And these [are] sons of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. 36:24. And these [are] sons of Zibeon, both Ajah and Anah: it [is] Anah that hath found the Imim in the wilderness, in his feeding the asses of Zibeon his father. 36:25. And these [are] sons of Anah: Dishon, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah. 36:26. And these [are] sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. 36:27. These [are] sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. 36:28. These [are] sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 36:29. These [are] chiefs of the Horite: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 36:30. chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these [are] chiefs of the Horite in reference to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 36:31. And these [are] the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel. 36:32. And Bela son of Beor reigneth in Edom, and the name of his city [is] Dinhabah; 36:33. and Bela dieth, and reign in his stead doth Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah; 36:34. and Jobab dieth, and reign in his stead doth Husham from the land of the Temanite. 36:35. And Husham dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadad son of Bedad (who smiteth Midian in the field of Moab), and the name of his city [is] Avith; 36:36. and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah of Masrekah; 36:37. and Samlah dieth, and reign in his stead doth Saul from Rehoboth of the River; 36:38. and Saul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-hanan son of Achbor; 36:39. and Baal-hanan son of Achbor dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadar, and the name of his city [is] Pau; and his wife's name [is] Mehetabel daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-zahab. 36:40. And these [are] the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, according to their places, by their names: chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 36:41. chief Aholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 36:42. chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 36:43. chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these [are] chiefs of Edom, in reference to their dwellings, in the land of their possession; he [is] Esau father of Edom. 37:1. And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 37:2. These [are] births of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, hath been enjoying himself with his brethren among the flock, (and he [is] a youth,) with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph bringeth in an account of their evil unto their father. 37:3. And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he [is] a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat; 37:4. and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak [to] him peaceably. 37:5. And Joseph dreameth a dream, and declareth to his brethren, and they add still more to hate him. 37:6. And he saith unto them, 'Hear ye, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 37:7. that, lo, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and lo, my bundle hath arisen, and hath also stood up, and lo, your bundles are round about, and bow themselves to my bundle.' 37:8. And his brethren say to him, 'Dost thou certainly reign over us? dost thou certainly rule over us?' and they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words. 37:9. And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, 'Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.' 37:10. And he recounteth unto his father, and unto his brethren; and his father pusheth against him, and saith to him, 'What [is] this dream which thou hast dreamt? do we certainly come, I, and thy mother, and thy brethren, to bow ourselves to thee, to the earth?' 37:11. and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter. 37:12. And his brethren go to feed the flock of their father in Shechem, 37:13. and Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, 'Here [am] I;' 37:14. and he saith to him, 'Go, I pray thee, see the peace of thy brethren, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word;' and he sendeth him from the valley of Hebron, and he cometh to Shechem. 37:15. And a man findeth him, and lo, he is wandering in the field, and the man asketh him, saying, 'What seekest thou?' 37:16. and he saith, 'My brethren I am seeking, declare to me, I pray thee, where they are feeding?' 37:17. And the man saith, 'They have journeyed from this, for I have heard some saying, Let us go to Dothan,' and Joseph goeth after his brethren, and findeth them in Dothan. 37:18. And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. 37:19. And they say one unto another, 'Lo, this man of the dreams cometh; 37:20. and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.' 37:21. And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, 'Let us not smite the life;' 37:22. and Reuben saith unto them, 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit which [is] in the wilderness, and put not forth a hand upon him,', in order to deliver him out of their hand, to bring him back unto his father. 37:23. And it cometh to pass, when Joseph hath come unto his brethren, that they strip Joseph of his coat, the long coat which [is] upon him, 37:24. and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit [is] empty, there is no water in it. 37:25. And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take [them] down to Egypt. 37:26. And Judah saith unto his brethren, 'What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood? 37:27. Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he [is] our brother, our flesh;' and his brethren hearken. 37:28. And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings, and they bring Joseph into Egypt. 37:29. And Reuben returneth unto the pit, and lo, Joseph is not in the pit, and he rendeth his garments, 37:30. and he returneth unto his brethren, and saith, 'The lad is not, and I, whither am I going?' 37:31. And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood, 37:32. and send the long coat, and they bring [it] in unto their father, and say, 'This have we found; discern, we pray thee, whether it [is] thy son's coat or not?' 37:33. And he discerneth it, and saith, 'My son's coat! an evil beast hath devoured him; torn, torn is Joseph!' 37:34. And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days, 37:35. and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, 'For, I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him. 37:36. And the Medanites have sold him unto Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners. 38:1. And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Judah goeth down from his brethren, and turneth aside unto a man, an Adullamite, whose name [is] Hirah; 38:2. and Judah seeth there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name [is] Shuah, and taketh her, and goeth in unto her. 38:3. And she conceiveth, and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Er; 38:4. and she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Onan; 38:5. and she addeth again, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him. 38:6. And Judah taketh a wife for Er, his first-born, and her name [is] Tamar; 38:7. and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death. 38:8. And Judah saith to Onan, 'Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;' 38:9. and Onan knoweth that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother; 38:10. and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death. 38:11. And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 'Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, 'Lest he die, even he, like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house. 38:12. And the days are multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, dieth; and Judah is comforted, and goeth up unto his sheep-shearers, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath. 38:13. And it is declared to Tamar, saying, 'Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;' 38:14. and she turneth aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covereth herself with a vail, and wrappeth herself up, and sitteth in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she hath seen that Shelah hath grown up, and she hath not been given to him for a wife. 38:15. And Judah seeth her, and reckoneth her for a harlot, for she hath covered her face, 38:16. and he turneth aside unto her by the way, and saith, 'Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,' (for he hath not known that she [is] his daughter-in-law); and she saith, 'What dost thou give to me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' 38:17. and he saith, 'I, I send a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she saith, 'Dost thou give a pledge till thou send [it]?' 38:18. and he saith, 'What [is] the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, 'Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which [is] in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him; 38:19. and she riseth, and goeth, and turneth aside her vail from off her, and putteth on the garments of her widowhood. 38:20. And Judah sendeth the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman, and he hath not found her. 38:21. And he asketh the men of her place, saying, 'Where [is] the separated one, she in Enayim, by the way?' and they say, 'There hath not been in this [place] a separated one.' 38:22. And he turneth back unto Judah, and saith, 'I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There hath not been in this [place] a separated one,' 38:23. and Judah saith, 'Let her take to herself, lest we become despised; lo, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.' 38:24. And it cometh to pass about three months [after], that it is declared to Judah, saying, 'Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath committed fornication; and also, lo, she hath conceived by fornication:' and Judah saith, 'Bring her out, and she is burnt.' 38:25. She is brought out, and she hath sent unto her husband's father, saying, 'To a man whose these [are], I [am] pregnant;' and she saith, 'Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the seal, and the ribbons, and the staff.' 38:26. And Judah discerneth and saith, 'She hath been more righteous than I, because that I did not give her to Shelah my son;' and he hath not added to know her again. 38:27. And it cometh to pass in the time of her bearing, that lo, twins [are] in her womb; 38:28. and it cometh to pass in her bearing, that [one] giveth out a hand, and the midwife taketh and bindeth on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, 'This hath come out first.' 38:29. And it cometh to pass as he draweth back his hand, that lo, his brother hath come out, and she saith, 'What! thou hast broken forth, on thee [is] the breach;' and he calleth his name Pharez; 38:30. and afterwards hath his brother come out, on whose hand [is] the scarlet thread, and he calleth his name Zarah. 39:1. And Joseph hath been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners, an Egyptian man, buyeth him out of the hands of the Ishmaelites who have brought him thither. 39:2. And Jehovah is with Joseph, and he is a prosperous man, and he is in the house of his lord the Egyptian, 39:3. and his lord seeth that Jehovah is with him, and all that he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper in his hand, 39:4. and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand. 39:5. And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field; 39:6. and he leaveth all that he hath in the hand of Joseph, and he hath not known anything that he hath, except the bread which he is eating. And Joseph is of a fair form, and of a fair appearance. 39:7. And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, 'Lie with me;' 39:8. and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, 'Lo, my lord hath not known what [is] with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand; 39:9. none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou [art] his wife; and how shall I do this great evil?, then have I sinned against God.' 39:10. And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day [by] day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her; 39:11. and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house, 39:12. and she catcheth him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me;' and he leaveth his garment in her hand, and fleeth, and goeth without. 39:13. And it cometh to pass when she seeth that he hath left his garment in her hand, and fleeth without, 39:14. that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, 'See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice, 39:15. and it cometh to pass, when he heareth that I have lifted up my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth, and goeth without.' 39:16. And she placeth his garment near her, until the coming in of his lord unto his house. 39:17. And she speaketh unto him according to these words, saying, 'The Hebrew servant whom thou hast brought unto us, hath come in unto me to play with me; 39:18. and it cometh to pass, when I lift my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth without.' 39:19. And it cometh to pass when his lord heareth the words of his wife, which she hath spoken unto him, saying, 'According to these things hath thy servant done to me,' that his anger burneth; 39:20. and Joseph's lord taketh him, and putteth him unto the round-house, a place where the king's prisoners [are] bound; and he is there in the round-house. 39:21. And Jehovah is with Joseph, and stretcheth out kindness unto him, and putteth his grace in the eyes of the chief of the round-house; 39:22. and the chief of the round-house giveth into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who [are] in the round-house, and of all that they are doing there, he hath been doer; 39:23. the chief of the round-house seeth not anything under his hand, because Jehovah [is] with him, and that which he is doing Jehovah is causing to prosper. 40:1. And it cometh to pass, after these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and the baker have sinned against their lord, against the king of Egypt; 40:2. and Pharaoh is wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers, 40:3. and giveth them in charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, unto the round-house, the place where Joseph [is] a prisoner, 40:4. and the chief of the executioners chargeth Joseph with them, and he serveth them; and they are days in charge. 40:5. And they dream a dream both of them, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker whom the king of Egypt hath, who [are] prisoners in the round-house. 40:6. And Joseph cometh in unto them in the morning, and seeth them, and lo, they [are] morose; 40:7. and he asketh Pharaoh's eunuchs who [are] with him in charge in the house of his lord, saying, 'Wherefore [are] your faces sad to-day?' 40:8. And they say unto him, 'A dream we have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it;' and Joseph saith unto them, 'Are not interpretations with God? recount, I pray you, to me.' 40:9. And the chief of the butlers recounteth his dream to Joseph, and saith to him, 'In my dream, then lo, a vine [is] before me! 40:10. and in the vine [are] three branches, and it [is] as it were flourishing; gone up hath its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes; 40:11. and Pharaoh's cup [is] in my hand, and I take the grapes and press them into the cup of Pharaoh, and I give the cup into the hand of Pharaoh.' 40:12. And Joseph saith to him, 'This [is] its interpretation: the three branches are three days; 40:13. yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head, and hath put thee back on thy station, and thou hast given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler. 40:14. 'Surely if thou hast remembered me with thee, when it is well with thee, and hast done (I pray thee) kindness with me, and hast made mention of me unto Pharaoh, then hast thou brought me out from this house, 40:15. for I was really stolen from the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they have put me in the pit.' 40:16. And the chief of the bakers seeth that he hath interpreted good, and he saith unto Joseph, 'I also [am] in a dream, and lo, three baskets of white bread [are] on my head, 40:17. and in the uppermost basket [are] of all [kinds] of Pharaoh's food, work of a baker; and the birds are eating them out of the basket, from off my head.' 40:18. And Joseph answereth and saith, 'This [is] its interpretation: the three baskets are three days; 40:19. yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hath hanged thee on a tree, and the birds have eaten thy flesh from off thee.' 40:20. And it cometh to pass, on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he maketh a banquet to all his servants, and lifteth up the head of the chief of the butlers, and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants, 40:21. and he putteth back the chief of the butlers to his butlership, and he giveth the cup into the hand of Pharaoh; 40:22. and the chief of the bakers he hath hanged, as Joseph hath interpreted to them; 40:23. and the chief of the butlers hath not remembered Joseph, but forgetteth him. 41:1. And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River, 41:2. and lo, from the River coming up are seven kine, of fair appearance, and fat [in] flesh, and they feed among the reeds; 41:3. and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them out of the River, of bad appearance, and lean [in] flesh, and they stand near the kine on the edge of the River, 41:4. and the kine of bad appearance and lean [in] flesh eat up the seven kine of fair appearance, and fat, and Pharaoh awaketh. 41:5. And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good, 41:6. and lo, seven ears, thin, and blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them; 41:7. and the thin ears swallow the seven fat and full ears, and Pharaoh awaketh, and lo, a dream. 41:8. And it cometh to pass in the morning, that his spirit is moved, and he sendeth and calleth all the scribes of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh recounteth to them his dream, and there is no interpreter of them to Pharaoh. 41:9. And the chief of the butlers speaketh with Pharaoh, saying, 'My sin I mention this day: 41:10. Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers; 41:11. and we dream a dream in one night, I and he, each according to the interpretation of his dream we have dreamed. 41:12. And there [is] with us a youth, a Hebrew, servant to the chief of the executioners, and we recount to him, and he interpreteth to us our dreams, [to] each according to his dream hath he interpreted, 41:13. and it cometh to pass, as he hath interpreted to us so it hath been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.' 41:14. And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh. 41:15. And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I, I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,' 41:16. and Joseph answereth Pharaoh, saying, 'Without me, God doth answer Pharaoh with peace.' 41:17. And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph: 'In my dream, lo, I am standing by the edge of the River, 41:18. and lo, out of the River coming up are seven kine, fat [in] flesh, and of fair form, and they feed among the reeds; 41:19. and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean [in] flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness. 41:20. 'And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine, 41:21. and they come in unto their midst, and it hath not been known that they have come in unto their midst, and their appearance [is] bad as at the commencement; and I awake. 41:22. 'And I see in my dream, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, full and good; 41:23. and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with an east wind, are springing up after them; 41:24. and the thin ears swallow the seven good ears; and I tell unto the scribes, and there is none declaring to me.' 41:25. And Joseph saith unto Pharaoh, 'The dream of Pharaoh is one: that which God is doing he hath declared to Pharaoh; 41:26. the seven good kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years, the dream is one; 41:27. and the seven thin and bad kine which are coming up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, blasted with an east wind, are seven years of famine; 41:28. this [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: That which God is doing, he hath shewn Pharaoh. 41:29. 'Lo, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt, 41:30. and seven years of famine have arisen after them, and all the plenty is forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine hath finished the land, 41:31. and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it [is] very grievous. 41:32. 'And because of the repeating of the dream unto Pharaoh twice, surely the thing is established by God, and God is hastening to do it. 41:33. 'And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt; 41:34. let Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, and receive a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty, 41:35. and they gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and heap up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, food in the cities; and they have kept [it], 41:36. and the food hath been for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which are in the land of Egypt; and the land is cut off by the famine.' 41:37. And the thing is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants, 41:38. and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, 'Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God [is]?' 41:39. and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou; 41:40. thou, thou art over my house, and at thy mouth do all my people kiss; only in the throne I am greater than thou.' 41:41. And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'See, I have put thee over all the land of Egypt.' 41:42. And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him [with] garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck, 41:43. and causeth him to ride in the second chariot which he hath, and they proclaim before him, 'Bow the knee!' and, to put him over all the land of Egypt. 41:44. And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;' 41:45. and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt. 41:46. And Joseph [is] a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt; 41:47. and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. 41:48. And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which [is] round about [each] city hath he put in its midst; 41:49. and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number. 41:50. And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him, 41:51. and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;' 41:52. and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: 'for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.' 41:53. And the seven years of plenty are completed which have been in the land of Egypt, 41:54. and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt hath been bread; 41:55. and all the land of Egypt is famished, and the people crieth unto Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh saith to all the Egyptians, 'Go unto Joseph; that which he saith to you, do.' 41:56. And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all [places] which have [corn] in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt, 41:57. and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth. 42:1. And Jacob seeth that there is corn in Egypt, and Jacob saith to his sons, 'Why do you look at each other?' 42:2. he saith also, 'Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;' 42:3. and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt, 42:4. and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, 'Lest mischief meet him.' 42:5. And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan, 42:6. and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him, face to the earth. 42:7. And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, 'From whence have ye come?' and they say, 'From the land of Canaan, to buy food.' 42:8. And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him, 42:9. and Joseph remembereth the dreams which he dreamed of them, and saith unto them, 'Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye have come.' 42:10. And they say unto him, 'No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food; 42:11. we [are] all of us sons of one man, we [are] right men; thy servants have not been spies;' 42:12. and he saith unto them, 'No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;' 42:13. and they say, 'Thy servants [are] twelve brethren; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one [is] with our father to-day, and the one is not.' 42:14. And Joseph saith unto them, 'This [is] that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies, 42:15. by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this, except by your young brother coming hither; 42:16. send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not, Pharaoh liveth! surely ye [are] spies;' 42:17. and he removeth them unto charge three days. 42:18. And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, 'This do and live; God I fear! 42:19. if ye [are] right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn [for] the famine of your houses, 42:20. and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so. 42:21. And they say one unto another, 'Verily we [are] guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.' 42:22. And Reuben answereth them, saying, 'Spake I not unto you, saying, Sin not against the lad? and ye hearkened not; and his blood also, lo, it is required.' 42:23. And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter [is] between them; 42:24. and he turneth round from them, and weepeth, and turneth back unto them, and speaketh unto them, and taketh from them Simeon, and bindeth him before their eyes. 42:25. And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels [with] corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so. 42:26. And they lift up their corn upon their asses, and go from thence, 42:27. and the one openeth his sack to give provender to his ass at a lodging-place, and he seeth his money, and lo, it [is] in the mouth of his bag, 42:28. and he saith unto his brethren, 'My money hath been put back, and also, lo, in my bag:' and their heart goeth out, and they tremble, one to another saying, 'What [is] this God hath done to us!' 42:29. And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying, 42:30. 'The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land; 42:31. and we say unto him, We [are] right men, we have not been spies, 42:32. we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one [is] to-day with our father in the land of Canaan. 42:33. 'And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye [are] right men, one of your brethren leave with me, and [for] the famine of your houses take ye and go, 42:34. and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye [are] not spies, but ye [are] right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.' 42:35. And it cometh to pass, they are emptying their sacks, and lo, the bundle of each man's silver [is] in his sack, and they see their bundles of silver, they and their father, and are afraid; 42:36. and Jacob their father saith unto them, 'Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take, against me have been all these.' 42:37. And Reuben speaketh unto his father, saying, 'My two sons thou dost put to death, if I bring him not in unto thee; give him into my hand, and I, I bring him back unto thee;' 42:38. and he saith, 'My son doth not go down with you, for his brother [is] dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.' 43:1. And the famine [is] severe in the land; 43:2. and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, 'Turn back, buy for us a little food.' 43:3. And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, 'The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you; 43:4. if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food, 43:5. and if thou art not sending, we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.' 43:6. And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?' 43:7. and they say, 'The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?' 43:8. And Judah saith unto Israel his father, 'Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants. 43:9. I, I am surety [for] him, from my hand thou dost require him; if I have not brought him in unto thee, and set him before thee, then I have sinned against thee all the days; 43:10. for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.' 43:11. And Israel their father saith unto them, 'If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds; 43:12. and double money take in your hand, even the money which is brought back in the mouth of your bags, ye take back in your hand, it may be it [is] an oversight. 43:13. 'And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man; 43:14. and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved, I am bereaved.' 43:15. And the men take this present, double money also they have taken in their hand, and Benjamin; and they rise, and go down to Egypt, and stand before Joseph; 43:16. and Joseph seeth Benjamin with them, and saith to him who [is] over his house, 'Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal, and make ready, for with me do the men eat at noon.' 43:17. And the man doth as Joseph hath said, and the man bringeth in the men into the house of Joseph, 43:18. and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, 'For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in, to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants, our asses also.' 43:19. And they come nigh unto the man who [is] over the house of Joseph, and speak unto him at the opening of the house, 43:20. and say, 'O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food; 43:21. and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money [is] in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand; 43:22. and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.' 43:23. And he saith, 'Peace to you, fear not: your God and the God of your father hath given to you hidden treasure in your bags, your money came unto me;' and he bringeth out Simeon unto them. 43:24. And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph's house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses, 43:25. and they prepare the present until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they have heard that there they do eat bread. 43:26. And Joseph cometh into the house, and they bring to him the present which [is] in their hand, into the house, and bow themselves to him, to the earth; 43:27. and he asketh of them of peace, and saith, 'Is your father well? the aged man of whom ye have spoken, is he yet alive?' 43:28. and they say, 'Thy servant our father [is] well, he is yet alive;' and they bow, and do obeisance. 43:29. And he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and saith, 'Is this your young brother, of whom ye have spoken unto me?' and he saith, 'God favour thee, my son.' 43:30. And Joseph hasteth, for his bowels have been moved for his brother, and he seeketh to weep, and entereth the inner chamber, and weepeth there; 43:31. and he washeth his face, and goeth out, and refraineth himself, and saith, 'Place bread.' 43:32. And they place for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who are eating with him by themselves: for the Egyptians are unable to eat bread with the Hebrews, for it [is] an abomination to the Egyptians. 43:33. And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another; 43:34. and he lifteth up gifts from before him unto them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, yea, they drink abundantly with him. 44:1. And he commandeth him who [is] over his house, saying, 'Fill the bags of the men [with] food, as they are able to bear, and put the money of each in the mouth of his bag; 44:2. and my cup, the silver cup, thou dost put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his corn-money;' and he doth according to the word of Joseph which he hath spoken. 44:3. The morning is bright, and the men have been sent away, they and their asses 44:4. they have gone out of the city, they have not gone far off, and Joseph hath said to him who [is] over his house, 'Rise, pursue after the men; and thou hast overtaken them, and thou hast said unto them, Why have ye recompensed evil for good? 44:5. Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil [in] that which ye have done.' 44:6. And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words, 44:7. and they say unto him, 'Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word; 44:8. lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold? 44:9. with whomsoever of thy servants it is found, he hath died, and we also are to my lord for servants.' 44:10. And he saith, 'Now, also, according to your words, so it [is]; he with whom it is found becometh my servant, and ye are acquitted;' 44:11. and they hasten and take down each his bag to the earth, and each openeth his bag; 44:12. and he searcheth, at the eldest he hath begun, and at the youngest he hath completed, and the cup is found in the bag of Benjamin; 44:13. and they rend their garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city. 44:14. And Judah, his brethren also, cometh in unto the house of Joseph, and he is yet there, and they fall before him to the earth; 44:15. and Joseph saith to them, 'What [is] this deed that ye have done? have ye not known that a man like me doth diligently observe?' 44:16. And Judah saith, 'What do we say to my lord? what do we speak? and what, do we justify ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; lo, we [are] servants to my lord, both we, and he in whose hand the cup hath been found;' 44:17. and he saith, 'Far be it from me to do this; the man in whose hand the cup hath been found, he becometh my servant; and ye, go ye up in peace unto your father.' 44:18. And Judah cometh nigh unto him, and saith, 'O, my lord, let thy servant speak, I pray thee, a word in the ears of my lord, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant, for thou art as Pharaoh. 44:19. My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother? 44:20. and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him. 44:21. 'And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him; 44:22. and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died; 44:23. and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face. 44:24. 'And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord; 44:25. and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food, 44:26. and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us. 44:27. 'And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye, ye have known that two did my wife bare to me, 44:28. and the one goeth out from me, and I say, Surely he is torn, torn! and I have not seen him since; 44:29. when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol. 44:30. 'And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul), 44:31. then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol; 44:32. for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee, then I have sinned against my father all the days. 44:33. 'And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren, 44:34. for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.' 45:1. And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, 'Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren, 45:2. and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth. 45:3. And Joseph saith unto his brethren, 'I [am] Joseph, is my father yet alive?' and his brethren have not been able to answer him, for they have been troubled at his presence. 45:4. And Joseph saith unto his brethren, 'Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, 'I [am] Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt; 45:5. and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you. 45:6. 'Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet [are] five years, [in] which there is neither ploughing nor harvest; 45:7. and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape; 45:8. and now, ye, ye have not sent me hither, but God, and He doth set me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 45:9. 'Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not, 45:10. and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast, 45:11. and I have nourished thee there, for yet [are] five years of famine, lest thou become poor, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast. 45:12. 'And lo, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth which is speaking unto you; 45:13. and ye have declared to my father all my honour in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye have hasted, and have brought down my father hither.' 45:14. And he falleth on the neck of Benjamin his brother, and weepeth, and Benjamin hath wept on his neck; 45:15. and he kisseth all his brethren, and weepeth over them; and afterwards have his brethren spoken with him. 45:16. And the sound hath been heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, 'Come have the brethren of Joseph;' and it is good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, 45:17. and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan, 45:18. and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land. 45:19. 'Yea, thou, thou hast been commanded: this do ye, take for yourselves out of the land of Egypt, waggons for your infants, and for your wives, and ye have brought your father, and come; 45:20. and your eye hath no pity on your vessels, for the good of all the land of Egypt [is] yours.' 45:21. And the sons of Israel do so, and Joseph giveth waggons to them by the command of Pharaoh, and he giveth to them provision for the way; 45:22. to all of them hath he given, to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments; 45:23. and to his father he hath sent thus: ten asses bearing of the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses bearing corn and bread, even food for his father for the way. 45:24. And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, 'Be not angry in the way.' 45:25. And they go up out of Egypt, and come in to the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father, 45:26. and they declare to him, saying, 'Joseph [is] yet alive,' and that he [is] ruler over all the land of Egypt; and his heart ceaseth, for he hath not given credence to them. 45:27. And they speak unto him all the words of Joseph, which he hath spoken unto them, and he seeth the waggons which Joseph hath sent to bear him away, and live doth the spirit of Jacob their father; 45:28. and Israel saith, 'Enough! Joseph my son [is] yet alive; I go and see him before I die.' 46:1. And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac; 46:2. and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, 'Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, 'Here [am] I.' 46:3. And He saith, 'I [am] God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there; 46:4. I, I go down with thee to Egypt, and I, I also certainly bring thee up, and Joseph doth put his hand on thine eyes.' 46:5. And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him, 46:6. and they take their cattle, and their goods which they have acquired in the land of Canaan, and come into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him, 46:7. his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt. 46:8. And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben. 46:9. And sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 46:10. And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul son of the Canaanitess. 46:11. And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 46:12. And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul. 46:13. And sons of Issachar: Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. 46:14. And sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 46:15. These [are] sons of Leah whom she bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters [are] thirty and three. 46:16. And sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 46:17. And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 46:18. These [are] sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she beareth these to Jacob, sixteen persons. 46:19. Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 46:20. And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) [are] Manasseh and Ephraim. 46:21. And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 46:22. These [are] sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the persons [are] fourteen. 46:23. And sons of Dan: Hushim. 46:24. And sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 46:25. These [are] sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter; and she beareth these to Jacob, all the persons [are] seven. 46:26. All the persons who are coming to Jacob to Egypt, coming out of his thigh, apart from the wives of Jacob's sons, all the persons [are] sixty and six. 46:27. And the sons of Joseph who have been born to him in Egypt [are] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who are coming into Egypt [are] seventy. 46:28. And Judah he hath sent before him unto Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen, and they come into the land of Goshen; 46:29. and Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again; 46:30. and Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou [art] yet alive.' 46:31. And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, 'I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who [are] in the land of Canaan have come in unto me; 46:32. and the men [are] feeders of a flock, for they have been men of cattle; and their flock, and their herd, and all that they have, they have brought.' 46:33. 'And it hath come to pass when Pharaoh calleth for you, and hath said, What [are] your works? 46:34. that ye have said, Thy servants have been men of cattle from our youth, even until now, both we and our fathers,, in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for the abomination of the Egyptians is every one feeding a flock.' 47:1. And Joseph cometh, and declareth to Pharaoh, and saith, 'My father, and my brethren, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and lo, they [are] in the land of Goshen.' 47:2. And out of his brethren he hath taken five men, and setteth them before Pharaoh; 47:3. and Pharaoh saith unto his brethren, 'What [are] your works?' and they say unto Pharaoh, 'Thy servants [are] feeders of a flock, both we and our fathers;' 47:4. and they say unto Pharaoh, 'To sojourn in the land we have come, for there is no pasture for the flock which thy servants have, for grievous [is] the famine in the land of Canaan; and now, let thy servants, we pray thee, dwell in the land of Goshen.' 47:5. And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, 'Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee: 47:6. the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land cause thy father and thy brethren to dwell, they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if thou hast known, and there are among them men of ability, then thou hast set them heads over the cattle I have.' 47:7. And Joseph bringeth in Jacob his father, and causeth him to stand before Pharaoh; and Jacob blesseth Pharaoh. 47:8. And Pharaoh saith unto Jacob, 'How many [are] the days of the years of thy life?' 47:9. And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings [are] an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.' 47:10. And Jacob blesseth Pharaoh, and goeth out from before Pharaoh. 47:11. And Joseph settleth his father and his brethren, and giveth to them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded; 47:12. and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father [with] bread, according to the mouth of the infants. 47:13. And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine [is] very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine; 47:14. and Joseph gathereth all the silver that is found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn that they are buying, and Joseph bringeth the silver into the house of Pharaoh. 47:15. And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, 'Give to us bread, why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?' 47:16. and Joseph saith, 'Give your cattle; and I give to you for your cattle, if the money hath ceased.' 47:17. And they bring in their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph giveth to them bread, for the horses, and for the cattle of the flock, and for the cattle of the herd, and for the asses; and he tendeth them with bread, for all their cattle, during that year. 47:18. And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, 'We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle [is] unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground; 47:19. why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.' 47:20. And Joseph buyeth all the ground of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians have sold each his field, for the famine hath been severe upon them, and the land becometh Pharaoh's; 47:21. as to the people he hath removed them to cities from the [one] end of the border of Egypt even unto its [other] end. 47:22. Only the ground of the priests he hath not bought, for the priests have a portion from Pharaoh, and they have eaten their portion which Pharaoh hath given to them, therefore they have not sold their ground. 47:23. And Joseph saith unto the people, 'Lo, I have bought you to-day and your ground for Pharaoh; lo, seed for you, and ye have sown the ground, 47:24. and it hath come to pass in the increases, that ye have given a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those who [are] in your houses, and for food for your infants.' 47:25. And they say, 'Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;' 47:26. and Joseph setteth it for a statute unto this day, concerning the ground of Egypt, [that] Pharaoh hath a fifth; only the ground of the priests alone hath not become Pharaoh's. 47:27. And Israel dwelleth in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they have possession in it, and are fruitful, and multiply exceedingly; 47:28. and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years. 47:29. And the days of Israel are near to die, and he calleth for his son, for Joseph, and saith to him, 'If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and thou hast done with me kindness and truth; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt, 47:30. and I have lain with my fathers, and thou hast borne me out of Egypt, and buried me in their burying-place.' And he saith, 'I, I do according to thy word;' 47:31. and he saith, 'Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth himself on the head of the bed. 48:1. And it cometh to pass, after these things, that [one] saith to Joseph, 'Lo, thy father is sick;' and he taketh his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim. 48:2. And [one] declareth to Jacob, and saith, 'Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed. 48:3. And Jacob saith unto Joseph, 'God Almighty hath appeared unto me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesseth me, 48:4. and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during. 48:5. 'And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they [are]; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine; 48:6. and thy family which thou hast begotten after them are thine; by the name of their brethren they are called in their inheritance. 48:7. 'And I, in my coming in from Padan-Aram Rachel hath died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, while yet a kibrath of land to enter Ephrata, and I bury her there in the way of Ephrata, which [is] Bethlehem.' 48:8. And Israel seeth the sons of Joseph, and saith, 'Who [are] these?' 48:9. and Joseph saith unto his father, 'They [are] my sons, whom God hath given to me in this [place];' and he saith, 'Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I bless them.' 48:10. And the eyes of Israel have been heavy from age, he is unable to see; and he bringeth them nigh unto him, and he kisseth them, and cleaveth to them; 48:11. and Israel saith unto Joseph, 'To see thy face I had not thought, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.' 48:12. And Joseph bringeth them out from between his knees, and boweth himself on his face to the earth; 48:13. and Joseph taketh them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left towards Israel's right, and bringeth [them] nigh to him. 48:14. And Israel putteth out his right hand, and placeth [it] upon the head of Ephraim, who [is] the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh; he hath guided his hands wisely, for Manasseh [is] the first-born. 48:15. And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, 'God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day: 48:16. the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil doth bless the youths, and my name is called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.' 48:17. And Joseph seeth that his father setteth his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it is wrong in his eyes, and he supporteth the hand of his father to turn it aside from off the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh; 48:18. and Joseph saith unto his father, 'Not so, my father, for this [is] the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.' 48:19. And his father refuseth, and saith, 'I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;' 48:20. and he blesseth them in that day, saying, 'By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh. 48:21. And Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers; 48:22. and I, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I have taken out of the hand of the Amorite by my sword and by my bow.' 49:1. And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, 'Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days. 49:2. 'Be assembled, and hear, sons of Jacob, And hearken unto Israel your father. 49:3. Reuben! my first-born thou, My power, and beginning of my strength, The abundance of exaltation, And the abundance of strength; 49:4. Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up! 49:5. Simeon and Levi [are] brethren! Instruments of violence, their espousals! 49:6. Into their secret, come not, O my soul! Unto their assembly be not united, O mine honour; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will eradicated a prince. 49:7. Cursed [is] their anger, for [it is] fierce, And their wrath, for [it is] sharp; I divide them in Jacob, And I scatter them in Israel. 49:8. Judah! thou, thy brethren praise thee! Thy hand [is] on the neck of thine enemies, Sons of thy father bow themselves to thee. 49:9. A lion's whelp [is] Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise? 49:10. The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his [is] the obedience of peoples. 49:11. Binding to the vine his ass, And to the choice vine the colt of his ass, He hath washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering; 49:12. Red [are] eyes with wine, And white [are] teeth with milk! 49:13. Zebulun at a haven of the seas doth dwell, And he [is] for a haven of ships; And his side [is] unto Zidon. 49:14. Issacher [is] a strong ass, Crouching between the two folds; 49:15. And he seeth rest that [it is] good, And the land that [it is] pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant. 49:16. Dan doth judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel; 49:17. Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward. 49:18. For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah! 49:19. Gad! a troop assaulteth him, But he assaulteth last. 49:20. Out of Asher his bread [is] fat; And he giveth dainties of a king. 49:21. Naphtali [is] a hind sent away, Who is giving beauteous young ones. 49:22. Joseph [is] a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall; 49:23. And embitter him, yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers; 49:24. And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel. 49:25. By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; 49:26. Thy father's blessings have been mighty Above the blessings of my progenitors, Unto the limit of the heights age-during They are for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of the one Separate [from] his brethren. 49:27. Benjamin! a wolf teareth; In the morning he eateth prey, And at evening he apportioneth spoil.' 49:28. All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] that which their father hath spoken unto them, and he blesseth them; each according to his blessing he hath blessed them. 49:29. And he commandeth them, and saith unto them, 'I am being gathered unto my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite; 49:30. in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place; 49:31. (there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah); 49:32. the purchase of the field and of the cave which [is] in it, [is] from Sons of Heth.' 49:33. And Jacob finisheth commanding his sons, and gathereth up his feet unto the bed, and expireth, and is gathered unto his people. 50:1. And Joseph falleth on his father's face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him; 50:2. and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel; 50:3. and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days. 50:4. And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, 'If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 50:5. My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;' 50:6. and Pharaoh saith, 'Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.' 50:7. And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 50:8. and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen; 50:9. and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great. 50:10. And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which [is] beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days, 50:11. and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, see the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad, and say, 'A grievous mourning [is] this to the Egyptians;' therefore hath [one] called its name 'The mourning of the Egyptians,' which [is] beyond the Jordan. 50:12. And his sons do to him so as he commanded them, 50:13. and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre. 50:14. And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father. 50:15. And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, 'Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.' 50:16. And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, 'Thy father commanded before his death, saying, 50:17. Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him. 50:18. And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, 'Lo, we [are] to thee for servants.' 50:19. And Joseph saith unto them, 'Fear not, for [am] I in the place of God? 50:20. As for you, ye devised against me evil, God devised it for good, in order to do as [at] this day, to keep alive a numerous people; 50:21. and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart. 50:22. And Joseph dwelleth in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph liveth a hundred and ten years, 50:23. and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third [generation]; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph. 50:24. And Joseph saith unto his brethren, 'I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' 50:25. And Joseph causeth the sons of Israel to swear, saying, 'God doth certainly inspect you, and ye have brought up my bones from this [place].' 50:26. And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 11:25-50:26, YLT)