
The First Book of Moses, called Genesis

   {1:1} In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. {1:2}
And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. {1:3}
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. {1:4} And God
saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness. {1:5} And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

   {1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. {1:7} And God
made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was
so. {1:8} And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening
and there was morning, a second day.

   {1:9} And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
{1:10} And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. {1:11} And God
said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and]
fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed
thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. {1:12} And the earth brought
forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing
fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that
it was good. {1:13} And there was evening and there was morning, a
third day.

   {1:14} And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years: {1:15} and let them be for lights in
the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
{1:16} And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
{1:17} And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon
the earth, {1:18} and to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
{1:19} And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

   {1:20} And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. {1:21} And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living
creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind,
and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
{1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
{1:23} And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

   {1:24} And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures
after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth
after their kind: and it was so. {1:25} And God made the beasts of the
earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything
that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was
good. {1:26} And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. {1:27} And
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them: and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. {1:29} And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
food: {1:30} and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the
heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is life, [I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so.
{1:31} And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.



   {2:1} And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them. {2:2} And on the seventh day God finished his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. {2:3} And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it;
because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created
and made.

   {2:4} These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
{2:5} And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of
the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain
upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; {2:6} but
there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground. {2:7} And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul. {2:8} And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. {2:9} And out of the ground
made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. {2:10} And a river went out
of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became
four heads. {2:11} The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; {2:12} and
the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
{2:13} And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Cush. {2:14} And the name of the third
river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates. {2:15} And Jehovah God took the man, and
put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. {2:16} And
Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat: {2:17} but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.

   {2:18} And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a help meet for him. {2:19} And out of the
ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of
the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call
them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the
name thereof. {2:20} And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the
birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man
there was not found a help meet for him. {2:21} And Jehovah God caused
a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: {2:22} and the rib,
which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. {2:23} And the man said, This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man. {2:24} Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh. {2:25} And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.



   {3:1} Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? {3:2} And the woman
said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat: {3:3} but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch
it, lest ye die. {3:4} And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die: {3:5} for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good
and evil. {3:6} And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat;
and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. {3:7} And
the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. {3:8}
And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

   {3:9} And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where
art thou? {3:10} And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. {3:11} And he said,
Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree,
whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? {3:12} And the
man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat. {3:13} And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What
is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat. {3:14} And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because
thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou
eat all the days of thy life: {3:15} and I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy
head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. {3:16} Unto the woman he said, I
will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he
shall rule over thee. {3:17} And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the
ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life; {3:18} thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field; {3:19} in the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it
wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
{3:20} And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living. {3:21} And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his
wife coats of skins, and clothed them.

   {3:22} And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever-- {3:23} therefore
Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
from whence he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out the man; and he placed
at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

   {4:1} And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the help of] Jehovah. {4:2}
And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep,
but Cain was a tiller of the ground. {4:3} And in process of time it
came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto Jehovah. {4:4} And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his
flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to
his offering: {4:5} but unto Cain and to his offering he had not
respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. {4:6} And
Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen? {4:7} If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if
thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be
its desire, but do thou rule over it. {4:8} And Cain told Abel his
brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain
rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

   {4:9} And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? {4:10} And he said, What
hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from
the ground. {4:11} And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath
opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; {4:12}
when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee
its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.
{4:13} And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can
bear. {4:14} Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever
findeth me will slay me. {4:15} And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore
whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And
Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite
him.

   {4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. {4:17} And Cain knew his wife;
and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called
the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {4:18} And unto
Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech. {4:19} And Lamech took unto
him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other
Zillah. {4:20} And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell
in tents and [have] cattle. {4:21} And his brother's name was Jubal: he
was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe. {4:22} And
Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting
instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
{4:23} And Lamech said unto his wives:
Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
For I have slain a man for wounding me,
And a young man for bruising me:
{4:24} If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

   {4:25} And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called
his name Seth. For, [said she], God hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. {4:26} And to Seth, to him also
there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to
call upon the name of Jehovah.





   {5:1} This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; {5:2} male and
female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam,
in the day when they were created. {5:3} And Adam lived a hundred and
thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image;
and called his name Seth: {5:4} and the days of Adam after he begat
Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. {5:5}
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years:
and he died.

   {5:6} And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh:
{5:7} and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:8} and all the days of Seth
were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

   {5:9} And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. {5:10} and
Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and
begat sons and daughters: {5:11} and all the days of Enosh were nine
hundred and five years: and he died.

   {5:12} And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel: {5:13}
and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years,
and begat sons and daughters: {5:14} and all the days of Kenan were
nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

   {5:15} And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
{5:16} And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:17} and all the days of
Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

   {5:18} And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat
Enoch: {5:19} and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters: {5:20} And all the days of Jared were
nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

   {5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
{5:22} and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:23} and all the days of
Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} and Enoch walked
with God: and he was not; for God took him.

   {5:25} And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech: {5:26} and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. {5:27} And
all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and
he died.

   {5:28} And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son: {5:29} and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall
comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, [which cometh]
because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed. {5:30} And Lamech
lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat
sons and daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven
hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

   {5:32} And Noah was five hundred years old: And Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.



   {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of
the ground, and daughters were born unto them, {6:2} that the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all that they chose. {6:3} And Jehovah said, My spirit shall
not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his
days be a hundred and twenty years. {6:4} The Nephilim were in the
earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came
unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same
were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

   {6:5} And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually. {6:6} And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And Jehovah said, I
will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both
man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it
repenteth me that I have made them. {6:8} But Noah found favor in the
eyes of Jehovah.

   {6:9} These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,
[and] perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. {6:10} And Noah
begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} And the earth was
corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12} And
God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted their way upon the earth.

   {6:13} And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I
will destroy them with the earth. {6:14} Make thee an ark of gopher
wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and
without with pitch. {6:15} And this is how thou shalt make it: the
length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits. {6:16} A light shalt thou make to
the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and
third stories shalt thou make it. {6:17} And I, behold, I do bring the
flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth
shall die. {6:18} But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee. {6:19} And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive
with thee; they shall be male and female. {6:20} Of the birds after
their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing
of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee,
to keep them alive. {6:21} And take thou unto thee of all food that is
eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and
for them. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.



   {7:1} And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
{7:2} Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the
male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male
and his female: {7:3} of the birds also of the heavens, seven and
seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the
earth. {7:4} For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have
made will I destroy from off the face of the ground. {7:5} And Noah did
according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

   {7:6} And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth. {7:7} And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of
the flood. {7:8} Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and
of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground, {7:9} there
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God
commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after the seven days, that
the waters of the flood were upon the earth. {7:11} In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great
deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. {7:12} And the
rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

   {7:13} In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
sons with them, into the ark; {7:14} they, and every beast after its
kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its
kind, every bird of every sort. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into
the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. {7:16}
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in. {7:17} And the flood was forty
days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and
it was lifted up above the earth. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters. {7:19} And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and
all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
{7:20} Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
were covered. {7:21} And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both
birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth, and every man: {7:22} all in whose nostrils was the
breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
{7:23} And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of
the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the
heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was
left, and they that were with him in the ark. {7:24} And the waters
prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.



   {8:1} And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the
cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over
the earth, and the waters assuaged; {8:2} the fountains also of the
deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained; {8:3} and the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters
decreased. {8:4} And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} And
the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains
seen.

   {8:6} And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark which he had made: {8:7} and he sent forth a
raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up
from off the earth. {8:8} And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if
the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} but the
dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him
to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he
put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the
ark. {8:10} And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark; {8:11} and the dove came in to him at
eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew
that the waters were abated from off the earth. {8:12} And he stayed
yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not
again unto him any more.

   {8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the
first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from
off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
and, behold, the face of the ground was dried. {8:14} And in the second
month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
{8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go forth from the ark,
thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. {8:17}
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all
flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be
fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. {8:18} And Noah went forth, and
his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: {8:19} every
beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the
earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

   {8:20} And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on
the altar. {8:21} And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said
in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
{8:22} While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.



   {9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. {9:2} And the fear of
you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and
upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth,
and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. {9:3}
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb
have I given you all. {9:4} But flesh with the life thereof, [which is]
the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. {9:5} And surely your blood, [the
blood] of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I
require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's
brother, will I require the life of man. {9:6} Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he
man. {9:7} And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

   {9:8} And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
{9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you; {9:10} and with every living creature that is with you,
the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all
that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. {9:11} And I
will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off
any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a
flood to destroy the earth. {9:12} And God said, This is the token of
the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature
that is with you, for perpetual generations: {9:13} I do set my bow in
the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, {9:15} and I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh. {9:16} And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will
look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. {9:17}
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

   {9:18} And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. {9:19}
These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth
overspread.

   {9:20} And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
{9:21} and he drank of the wine, and was drunken. And he was uncovered
within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. {9:23} And
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,
and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their
faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. {9:24}
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done
unto him. {9:25} And he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

   {9:26} And he said,
Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
{9:27} God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.

   {9:28} And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
{9:29} And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and
he died.



   {10:1} Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely],
of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

   {10:2} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. {10:4} And the sons of Javan:
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. {10:5} Of these were the
isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his
tongue, after their families, in their nations.

   {10:6} And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
{10:7} And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush
begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} He was a
mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a
mighty hunter before Jehovah. {10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom
was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
{10:11} Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded
Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, {10:12} and Resen between Nineveh
and Calah (the same is the great city). {10:13} And Mizraim begat
Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} and Pathrusim,
and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

   {10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, {10:16} and
the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, {10:17} and the
Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, {10:18} and the Arvadite, and
the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
Canaanite spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the Canaanite was
from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward
Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha. {10:20} These are
the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their
lands, in their nations.

   {10:21} And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the
elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. {10:22} The
sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
{10:23} And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
{10:24} And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber. {10:25} And
unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg. For in his
days was the earth divided. And his brother's name was Joktan. {10:26}
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
{10:27} and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, {10:28} and Obal, and
Abimael, and Sheba, {10:29} and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all
these were the sons of Joktan. {10:30} And their dwelling was from
Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. {10:31}
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues,
in their lands, after their nations.

   {10:32} These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in
the earth after the flood.



   {11:1} And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
{11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a
plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said
one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. {11:4} And
they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may
reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth. {11:5} And Jehovah came down
to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
{11:6} And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all
one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will
be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. {11:7} Come, let us
go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech. {11:8} So Jehovah scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off
building the city. {11:9} Therefore was the name of it called Babel;
because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and
from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.

   {11:10} These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years
old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. {11:11} and Shem
lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.

   {11:12} And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Shelah. {11:13} and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

   {11:14} And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: {11:15} and
Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and
begat sons and daughters.

   {11:16} And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
{11:17} and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.

   {11:18} And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: {11:19} and
Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat
sons and daughters.

   {11:20} And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: {11:21}
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and
begat sons and daughters.

   {11:22} And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: {11:23} and
Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters.

   {11:24} And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
{11:25} and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters.

   {11:26} And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.

   {11:27} Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. {11:28} And Haran died before
his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
{11:29} 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. {11:30} And Sarai was
barren; She had no child. {11:31} 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.
{11:32} 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 thy 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 they 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 had 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 ear. 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 gather 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, And 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 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
Potiphera 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; and 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, expect 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 before 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 the 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 persecute 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 she 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.




