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You can also find out about how to make a +donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. + + +**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** + +**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** + +*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** + + +Title: The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis + +Release Date: June, 2005 [EBook #8228] +[This file was first posted on July 4, 2003] + +Edition: 10 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): GENESIS *** + + + + +From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. + + + +Book 01 Genesis +001:001 In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters + "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) + as a grammatical marker.} created the heavens and the earth. +001:002 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface + of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface + of the waters. +001:003 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. +001:004 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided + the light from the darkness. +001:005 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. + There was evening and there was morning, one day. +001:006 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, + and let it divide the waters from the waters." +001:007 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under + the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; + and it was so. +001:008 God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there + was morning, a second day. +001:009 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together + to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. +001:010 God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together + of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good. +001:011 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, + and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed + in it, on the earth;" and it was so. +001:012 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, + and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; + and God saw that it was good. +001:013 There was evening and there was morning, a third day. +001:014 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to + divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, + and for seasons, and for days and years; +001:015 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light + on the earth;" and it was so. +001:016 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule + the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. + He also made the stars. +001:017 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, +001:018 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide + the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. +001:019 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. +001:020 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, + and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." +001:021 God created the large sea creatures, and every living + creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, + after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. + God saw that it was good. +001:022 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill + the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." +001:023 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. +001:024 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after + their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth + after their kind;" and it was so. +001:025 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, + and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps + on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. +001:026 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 sky, and over the livestock, + and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that + creeps on the earth." +001:027 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; + male and female he created them. +001:028 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, + fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish + of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living + thing that moves on the earth." +001:029 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, + which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, + which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. +001:030 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, + and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, + I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so. +001:031 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. + There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. +002:001 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. +002:002 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. +002:003 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested + in it from all his work which he had created and made. +002:004 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of + the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God + made the earth and the heavens. +002:005 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of + the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it + to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground, +002:006 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole + surface of the ground. +002:007 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, + and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man + became a living soul. +002:008 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put + the man whom he had formed. +002:009 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is + pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life + also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge + of good and evil. +002:010 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there + it was parted, and became four heads. +002:011 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows + through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; +002:012 and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin + and the onyx stone. +002:013 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows + through the whole land of Cush. +002:014 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which + flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. +002:015 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden + to dress it and to keep it. +002:016 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden + you may freely eat; +002:017 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall + not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you + will surely die." +002:018 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; + I will make him a helper suitable for him." +002:019 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, + and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see + what he would call them. Whatever the man called every + living creature, that was its name. +002:020 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, + and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not + found a helper suitable for him. +002:021 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; + and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh + in its place. +002:022 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, + into a woman, and brought her to the man. +002:023 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. + She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." +002:024 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, + and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. +002:025 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. +003:001 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field + which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God + really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'" +003:002 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees + of the garden we may eat, +003:003 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, + God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you + touch it, lest you die.'" +003:004 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die, +003:005 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, + and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." +003:006 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 of it, and ate; + and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. +003:007 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew + that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, + and made themselves aprons. +003:008 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in + the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves + from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. +003:009 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" +003:010 The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, + because I was naked; and I hid myself." +003:011 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten + from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" +003:012 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, + she gave me of the tree, and I ate." +003:013 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" + The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." +003:014 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, + cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal + of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat + dust all the days of your life. +003:015 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your + offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, + and you will bruise his heel." +003:016 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain + in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. + Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." +003:017 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, + and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, + 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. + In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. +003:018 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; + and you will eat the herb of the field. +003:019 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you + return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. + For you are dust, and to dust you shall return." +003:020 The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother + of all living. +003:021 Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, + and clothed them. +003:022 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, + knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, + and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." +003:023 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, + to till the ground from which he was taken. +003:024 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east + of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned + every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. +004:001 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, + and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help." +004:002 Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper + of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. +004:003 As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering + to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. +004:004 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of + the fat of it. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, +004:005 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, + and the expression on his face fell. +004:006 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression + of your face fallen? +004:007 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, + sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you + are to rule over it." +004:008 Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." + It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up + against Abel, his brother, and killed him. +004:009 Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" + He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" +004:010 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's + blood cries to me from the ground. +004:011 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened + its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. +004:012 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its + strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer + in the earth." +004:013 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. +004:014 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface + of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, + and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. + It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me." +004:015 Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will + be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, + lest any finding him should strike him. +004:016 Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land + of Nod, east of Eden. +004:017 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. + He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name + of his son, Enoch. +004:018 To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. + Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became + the father of Lamech. +004:019 Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, + and the name of the other Zillah. +004:020 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell + in tents and have livestock. +004:021 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who + handle the harp and pipe. +004:022 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting + instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah. +004:023 Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. + You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain + a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. +004:024 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech + seventy-seven times." +004:025 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named + him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead + of Abel, for Cain killed him." +004:026 There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. + Then men began to call on Yahweh's name. +005:001 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day + that God created man, he made him in God's likeness. +005:002 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called + their name Adam,{"Adam" and "Man" are spelled with the exact + same consonants in Hebrew, so this can be correctly translated + either way.} in the day when they were created. +005:003 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a + son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. +005:004 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight + hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. +005:005 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, + then he died. +005:006 Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh. +005:007 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred + seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:008 All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, + then he died. +005:009 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan. +005:010 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred + fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:011 All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died. +005:012 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel. +005:013 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred + forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters +005:014 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, + then he died. +005:015 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared. +005:016 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred + thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:017 All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, + then he died. +005:018 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became + the father of Enoch. +005:019 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, + and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:020 All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, + then he died. +005:021 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. +005:022 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah + three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:023 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. +005:024 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. +005:025 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became + the father of Lamech. +005:026 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred + eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:027 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, + then he died. +005:028 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father + of a son, +005:029 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us + in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground + which Yahweh has cursed." +005:030 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred + ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters. +005:031 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, + then he died. +005:032 Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father + of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +006:001 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface + of the ground, and daughters were born to them, +006:002 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, + and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose. +006:003 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, + because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one + hundred twenty years." +006:004 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also + after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. + They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men + who were of old, men of renown. +006:005 Yahweh 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. +006:006 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it + grieved him in his heart. +006:007 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created + from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, + creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I + have made them." +006:008 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes. +006:009 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was + a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. + Noah walked with God. +006:010 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +006:011 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was + filled with violence. +006:012 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh + had corrupted their way on the earth. +006:013 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, + for the earth is filled with violence through them. + Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. +006:014 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, + and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. +006:015 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will + be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, + and the height of it thirty cubits. +006:016 You shall make a roof in the ship, and to a cubit shall you finish + it upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. + You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. +006:017 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy + all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. + Everything that is in the earth will die. +006:018 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come + into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' + wives with you. +006:019 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two + of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. + They shall be male and female. +006:020 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, + of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, + two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. +006:021 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; + and it will be for food for you, and for them." +006:022 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, + so he did. +007:001 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into + the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me + in this generation. +007:002 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, + the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, + take two, the male and his female. +007:003 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, + to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. +007:004 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty + days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, + I will destroy from the surface of the ground." +007:005 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him. +007:006 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came + on the earth. +007:007 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' + wives, because of the waters of the flood. +007:008 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything + that creeps on the ground +007:009 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, + as God commanded Noah. +007:010 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood + came on the earth. +007:011 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, + on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all + the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's + windows were opened. +007:012 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. +007:013 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, + and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, + entered into the ship; +007:014 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after + their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth + after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird + of every sort. +007:015 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with + the breath of life in them. +007:016 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, + as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in. +007:017 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, + and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. +007:018 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; + and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. +007:019 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high + mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. +007:020 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the + mountains were covered. +007:021 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, + livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, + and every man. +007:022 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, + of all that was on the dry land, died. +007:023 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface + of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, + and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. + Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. +007:024 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days. +008:001 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were + with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. + The waters subsided. +008:002 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, + and the rain from the sky was restrained. +008:003 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end + of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased. +008:004 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day + of the month, on Ararat's mountains. +008:005 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. + In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops + of the mountains were seen. +008:006 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window + of the ship which he had made, +008:007 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, + until the waters were dried up from the earth. +008:008 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated + from the surface of the ground, +008:009 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned + to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface + of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, + and brought her to him into the ship. +008:010 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth + the dove out of the ship. +008:011 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth + was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters + were abated from the earth. +008:012 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; + and she didn't return to him any more. +008:013 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, + the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. + Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. + He saw that the surface of the ground was dried. +008:014 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, + the earth was dry. +008:015 God spoke to Noah, saying, +008:016 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, + and your sons' wives with you. +008:017 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you + of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping + thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly + in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth." +008:018 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' + wives with him. +008:019 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves + on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. +008:020 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, + and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings + on the altar. +008:021 Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, + "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, + because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; + neither will I ever again strike everything living, + as I have done. +008:022 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, + and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." +009:001 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, + and multiply, and replenish the earth. +009:002 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every + animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. + Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish + of the sea are delivered into your hand. +009:003 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. + As the green herb, I have given everything to you. +009:004 But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat. +009:005 I will surely require your blood of your lives. + At the hand of every animal I will require it. + At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, + I will require the life of man. +009:006 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, + for God made man in his own image. +009:007 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, + and multiply in it." +009:008 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, +009:009 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, + and with your offspring after you, +009:010 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, + the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, + of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. +009:011 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut + off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there + ever again be a flood to destroy the earth." +009:012 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: +009:013 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign + of a covenant between me and the earth. +009:014 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, + that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, +009:015 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you + and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will + no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. +009:016 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I + may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every + living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." +009:017 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I + have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." +009:018 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, + and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. +009:019 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole + earth was populated. +009:020 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. +009:021 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered + within his tent. +009:022 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, + and told his two brothers outside. +009:023 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, + went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. + Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see + their father's nakedness. +009:024 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had + done to him. +009:025 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants + to his brothers." +009:026 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan + be his servant. +009:027 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. + Let Canaan be his servant." +009:028 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. +009:029 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died. +010:001 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah + and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them + after the flood. +010:002 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, + and Tiras. +010:003 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. +010:004 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. +010:005 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, + everyone after his language, after their families, + in their nations. +010:006 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. +010:007 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. + The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. +010:008 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty + one in the earth. +010:009 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, + "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh." +010:010 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, + in the land of Shinar. +010:011 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built + Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, +010:012 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city). +010:013 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, +010:014 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), + and Caphtorim. +010:015 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, +010:016 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, +010:017 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, +010:018 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. + Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. +010:019 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go + toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, + and Zeboiim, to Lasha. +010:020 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, + after their languages, in their lands, in their nations. +010:021 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder + brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. +010:022 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. +010:023 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. +010:024 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became + the father of Eber. +010:025 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, + for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's + name was Joktan. +010:026 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, +010:027 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, +010:028 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, +010:029 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. +010:030 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, + the mountain of the east. +010:031 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, + after their languages, in their lands, after their nations. +010:032 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, + in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth + after the flood. +011:001 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. +011:002 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain + in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. +011:003 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn + them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used + tar for mortar. +011:004 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower + whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, + lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth." +011:005 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children + of men built. +011:006 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have + all one language, and this is what they begin to do. + Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. +011:007 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, + that they may not understand one another's speech." +011:008 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface + of all the earth. They stopped building the city. +011:009 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because there + Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, + Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth. +011:010 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was + one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad + two years after the flood. +011:011 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father + of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:012 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah. +011:013 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father + of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:014 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber: +011:015 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became + the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:016 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. +011:017 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father + of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:018 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. +011:019 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father + of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:020 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. +011:021 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father + of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:022 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. +011:023 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, + and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:024 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. +011:025 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father + of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters. +011:026 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father + of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. +011:027 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. + Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. + Haran became the father of Lot. +011:028 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, + in Ur of the Chaldees. +011:029 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, + and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran + who was also the father of Iscah. +011:030 Sarai was barren. She had no child. +011:031 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, + and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went + forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. + They came to Haran and lived there. +011:032 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. + Terah died in Haran. +012:001 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, + and from your relatives, and from your father's house, + to the land that I will show you. +012:002 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make + your name great. You will be a blessing. +012:003 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him + who curses you. In you will all of the families of the + earth be blessed." +012:004 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. + Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. +012:005 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance + that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten + in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. + Into the land of Canaan they came. +012:006 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, + to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land. +012:007 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to + your seed{or, offspring}." He built an altar there to Yahweh, + who appeared to him. +012:008 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, + and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai + on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called + on the name of Yahweh. +012:009 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South. +012:010 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt + to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe + in the land. +012:011 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said + to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful + woman to look at. +012:012 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they + will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they + will save you alive. +012:013 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me + for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you." +012:014 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians + saw that the woman was very beautiful. +012:015 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; + and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. +012:016 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, + oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, + female donkeys, and camels. +012:017 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues + because of Sarai, Abram's wife. +012:018 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done + to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? +012:019 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her + to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, + and go your way." +012:020 Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him, and they brought him + on the way with his wife and all that he had. +013:001 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, + and Lot with him, into the South. +013:002 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. +013:003 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, + to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, + between Bethel and Ai, +013:004 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. + There Abram called on the name of Yahweh. +013:005 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. +013:006 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: + for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. +013:007 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock + and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite + and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. +013:008 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between + me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; + for we are relatives. +013:009 Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. + If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. + Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." +013:010 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, + that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed + Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land + of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. +013:011 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. + Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one + from the other. +013:012 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities + of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. +013:013 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners + against Yahweh. +013:014 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, + lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, + northward and southward and eastward and westward, +013:015 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to + your offspring forever. +013:016 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that + if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed + may also be numbered. +013:017 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth + of it; for I will give it to you." +013:018 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, + which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh. +014:001 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, + king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, + king of Goiim, +014:002 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). +014:003 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same + is the Salt Sea). +014:004 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth + year, they rebelled. +014:005 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who + were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, + and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, +014:006 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is + by the wilderness. +014:007 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), + and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, + that lived in Hazazon Tamar. +014:008 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) went out; and they set the battle in array + against them in the valley of Siddim; +014:009 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. +014:010 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings + of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those + who remained fled to the hills. +014:011 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, + and went their way. +014:012 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, + and his goods, and departed. +014:013 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. + Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, + and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram. +014:014 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth + his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, + and pursued as far as Dan. +014:015 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, + and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left + hand of Damascus. +014:016 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back + his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, + and the people. +014:017 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from + the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, + at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). +014:018 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: + and he was priest of God Most High. +014:019 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, + possessor of heaven and earth: +014:020 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies + into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all. +014:021 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, + and take the goods to yourself." +014:022 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand + to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, +014:023 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything + that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.' +014:024 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men + have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: + Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion." +015:001 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in + a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, + your exceedingly great reward." +015:002 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I + go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is + Eliezer of Damascus?" +015:003 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: + and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." +015:004 Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will + not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own + body will be your heir." +015:005 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, + and count the stars, if you are able to count them." + He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." +015:006 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. +015:007 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur + of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." +015:008 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?" +015:009 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female + goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, + and a young pigeon." +015:010 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, + and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't + divide the birds. +015:011 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram + drove them away. +015:012 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. + Now terror and great darkness fell on him. +015:013 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as + foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. + They will afflict them four hundred years. +015:014 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. + Afterward they will come out with great wealth, +015:015 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried + in a good old age. +015:016 In the fourth generation they will come here again, + for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." +015:017 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it + was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch + passed between these pieces. +015:018 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your + seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to + the great river, the river Euphrates: +015:019 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, +015:020 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, +015:021 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." +016:001 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, + an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. +016:002 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. + Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain + children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. +016:003 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, + after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, + and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. +016:004 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she + had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. +016:005 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. + I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw + that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. + Yahweh judge between me and you." +016:006 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. + Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly + with her, and she fled from her face. +016:007 The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in + the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. +016:008 He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? + Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face + of my mistress Sarai." +016:009 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, + and submit yourself under her hands." +016:010 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply + your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude." +016:011 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, + and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, + because Yahweh has heard your affliction. +016:012 He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will + be against every man, and every man's hand against him. + He will live opposite all of his brothers." +016:013 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are + a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive + after seeing him?" +016:014 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.{Beer Lahai Roi + means "well of the one who lives and sees me."} Behold, + it is between Kadesh and Bered. +016:015 Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, + whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. +016:016 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. +017:001 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, + and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, + and be blameless. +017:002 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will + multiply you exceedingly." +017:003 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying, +017:004 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be + the father of a multitude of nations. +017:005 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your + name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a + multitude of nations. +017:006 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. + Kings will come out of you. +017:007 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed + after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, + to be a God to you and to your seed after you. +017:008 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land + where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an + everlasting possession. I will be their God." +017:009 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, + you and your seed after you throughout their generations. +017:010 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me + and you and your seed after you. Every male among you + shall be circumcised. +017:011 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. + It will be a token of the covenant between me and you. +017:012 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, + every male throughout your generations, he who is born + in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is + not of your seed. +017:013 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, + must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh + for an everlasting covenant. +017:014 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh + of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. + He has broken my covenant." +017:015 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not + call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. +017:016 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. + Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. + Kings of peoples will come from her." +017:017 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, + "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? + Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" +017:018 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" +017:019 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. + You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I + will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant + for his seed after him. +017:020 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, + and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. + He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make + him a great nation. +017:021 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear + to you at this set time next year." +017:022 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. +017:023 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, + and all who were bought with his money; every male among + the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their + foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. +017:024 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised + in the flesh of his foreskin. +017:025 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised + in the flesh of his foreskin. +017:026 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. +017:027 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those + bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him. +018:001 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat + in the tent door in the heat of the day. +018:002 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men + stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them + from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, +018:003 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, + please don't go away from your servant. +018:004 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest + yourselves under the tree. +018:005 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. + After that you may go your way, now that you have come to + your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said." +018:006 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make + ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes." +018:007 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, + and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. +018:008 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, + and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, + and they ate. +018:009 They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? + He said, "See, in the tent." +018:010 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season + comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." + Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. +018:011 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. + It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. +018:012 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old + will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" +018:013 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I + really bear a child, yet I am old?' +018:014 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return + to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son." +018:015 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. + He said, "No, but you did laugh." +018:016 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. + Abraham went with them to see them on their way. +018:017 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, +018:018 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, + and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? +018:019 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his + children and his household after him, that they may keep + the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; + to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has + spoken of him." +018:020 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, + and because their sin is very grievous, +018:021 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad + as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know." +018:022 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham + stood yet before Yahweh. +018:023 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous + with the wicked? +018:024 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? + Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty + righteous who are in it? +018:025 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous + with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. + May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all + the earth do right?" +018:026 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, + then I will spare all the place for their sake." +018:027 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak + to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. +018:028 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? + Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, + "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." +018:029 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty + found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake." +018:030 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. + What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not + do it, if I find thirty there." +018:031 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. + What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not + destroy it for the twenty's sake." +018:032 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will + speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" + He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake." +018:033 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing + with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. +019:001 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate + of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. + He bowed himself with his face to the earth, +019:002 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into + your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, + and you will rise up early, and go on your way." + They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." +019:003 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered + into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, + and they ate. +019:004 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, + surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people + from every quarter. +019:005 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men + who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, + that we may have sex with them." +019:006 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. +019:007 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly. +019:008 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them + out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. + Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come + under the shadow of my roof." +019:009 They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came + in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. + Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" + They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door. +019:010 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house + to them, and shut the door. +019:011 They struck the men who were at the door of the house + with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied + themselves to find the door. +019:012 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? + Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you + have in the city, bring them out of the place: +019:013 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against + them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us + to destroy it." +019:014 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were + pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! + Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." + But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. +019:015 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! + Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, + lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." +019:016 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, + and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; + and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. +019:017 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, + "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't + stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, + lest you be consumed!" +019:018 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. +019:019 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you + have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown + to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, + lest evil overtake me, and I die. +019:020 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. + Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my + soul will live." +019:021 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning + this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which + you have spoken. +019:022 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." + Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.{Zoar means "little."} +019:023 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. +019:024 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire + from Yahweh out of the sky. +019:025 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants + of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. +019:026 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became + a pillar of salt. +019:027 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had + stood before Yahweh. +019:028 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land + of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land + went up as the smoke of a furnace. +019:029 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, + that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle + of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. +019:030 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his + two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. + He lived in a cave with his two daughters. +019:031 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, + and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after + the manner of all the earth. +019:032 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, + that we may preserve our father's seed." +019:033 They made their father drink wine that night: + and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. + He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose. +019:034 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said + to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. + Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, + and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." +019:035 They made their father drink wine that night also. + The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she + lay down, nor when she got up. +019:036 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father. +019:037 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father + of the Moabites to this day. +019:038 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. + He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. +020:001 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived + between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar. +020:002 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." + Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. +020:003 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said + to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman + whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife." +020:004 Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you + kill even a righteous nation? +020:005 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, + said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart + and the innocence of my hands have I done this." +020:006 God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity + of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you + from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you + to touch her. +020:007 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, + and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't + restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all + who are yours." +020:008 Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all + his servants, and told all these things in their ear. + The men were very scared. +020:009 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, + "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, + that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? + You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!" +020:010 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have + done this thing?" +020:011 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is + not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.' +020:012 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, + but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. +020:013 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, + that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show + to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'" +020:014 Abimelech took sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants, + and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him. +020:015 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. + Dwell where it pleases you." +020:016 To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand + pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes + to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated." +020:017 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, + and his female servants, and they bore children. +020:018 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house + of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. +021:001 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah + as he had spoken. +021:002 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, + at the set time of which God had spoken to him. +021:003 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore + to him, Isaac.{Isaac means "He laughs."} +021:004 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, + as God had commanded him. +021:005 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, + was born to him. +021:006 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will + laugh with me." +021:007 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would + nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age." +021:008 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast + on the day that Isaac was weaned. +021:009 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne + to Abraham, mocking. +021:010 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! + For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac." +021:011 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account + of his son. +021:012 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your + sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. + In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. + For from Isaac will your seed be called. +021:013 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, + because he is your seed." +021:014 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle + of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; + and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, + and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. +021:015 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child + under one of the shrubs. +021:016 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow + shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." + She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. +021:017 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called + to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails + you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice + of the boy where he is. +021:018 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. + For I will make him a great nation." +021:019 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, + filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. +021:020 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, + and became, as he grew up, an archer. +021:021 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife + for him out of the land of Egypt. +021:022 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain + of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all + that you do. +021:023 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal + falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. + But according to the kindness that I have done to you, + you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived + as a foreigner." +021:024 Abraham said, "I will swear." +021:025 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, + which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. +021:026 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. + Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today." +021:027 Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. + Those two made a covenant. +021:028 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. +021:029 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs + which you have set by themselves mean?" +021:030 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, + that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well." +021:031 Therefore he called that place Beersheba,{Beersheba can + mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."} because they + both swore there. +021:032 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up + with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned + into the land of the Philistines. +021:033 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there + on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. +021:034 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines + many days. +022:001 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, + and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +022:002 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, + even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there + for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will + tell you of." +022:003 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, + and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. + He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, + and went to the place of which God had told him. +022:004 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw + the place far off. +022:005 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. + The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come + back to you." +022:006 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on + Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. + They both went together. +022:007 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" + He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire + and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" +022:008 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, + my son." So they both went together. +022:009 They came to the place which God had told him of. + Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, + bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood. +022:010 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to + kill his son. +022:011 The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, + "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am." +022:012 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. + For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld + your son, your only son, from me." +022:013 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind + him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. + Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt + offering instead of his son. +022:014 Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide{or, + Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing}. As it is said to this day, + "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided." +022:015 The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out + of the sky, +022:016 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you + have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, + your only son, +022:017 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed + greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand + which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate + of his enemies. +022:018 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, + because you have obeyed my voice." +022:019 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went + together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba. +022:020 It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, + saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to + your brother Nahor: +022:021 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, +022:022 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." +022:023 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore + to Nahor, Abraham's brother. +022:024 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore + Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. +023:001 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length + of Sarah's life. +023:002 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land + of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. +023:003 Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children + of Heth, saying, +023:004 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. + Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I + may bury my dead out of my sight." +023:005 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, +023:006 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. + Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will + withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead." +023:007 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, + even to the children of Heth. +023:008 He talked 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, +023:009 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, + which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him + give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place." +023:010 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. + Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of + the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate + of his city, saying, +023:011 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you + the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children + of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." +023:012 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. +023:013 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of + the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. + I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, + and I will bury my dead there." +023:014 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, +023:015 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth + four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? + Therefore bury your dead." +023:016 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron + the silver which he had named in the audience of the children + of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the + current merchants' standard. +023:017 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was + before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, + and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all + of its borders, were deeded +023:018 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children + of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. +023:019 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave + of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), + in the land of Canaan. +023:020 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham + for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth. +024:001 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed + Abraham in all things. +024:002 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled + over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh. +024:003 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God + of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son + of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. +024:004 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take + a wife for my son Isaac." +024:005 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing + to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again + to the land you came from?" +024:006 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my + son there again. +024:007 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, + and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore + to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}.' + He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife + for my son from there. +024:008 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall + be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my + son there again." +024:009 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, + and swore to him concerning this matter. +024:010 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, + having a variety of good things of his master's with him. + He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. +024:011 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well + of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out + to draw water. +024:012 He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me + success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. +024:013 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters + of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. +024:014 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, + 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she + will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'-- + let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. + By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." +024:015 It happened, before he had finished 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 + on her shoulder. +024:016 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, + neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, + filled her pitcher, and came up. +024:017 The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, + a little water from your pitcher." +024:018 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her + pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink. +024:019 When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw + for your camels, until they have done drinking." +024:020 She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran + again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. +024:021 The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know + whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not. +024:022 It happened, 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, +024:023 and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. + Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?" +024:024 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, + whom she bore to Nahor." +024:025 She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, + and room to lodge in." +024:026 The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh. +024:027 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has + not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. + As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of + my master's relatives." +024:028 The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words. +024:029 Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran + out to the man, to the spring. +024:030 It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his + sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah + his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," + that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels + at the spring. +024:031 He said, "Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? + For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels." +024:032 The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. + He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash + his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. +024:033 Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat + until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on." +024:034 He said, "I am Abraham's servant. +024:035 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. + He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, + male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys. +024:036 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. + He has given all that he has to him. +024:037 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife + for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose + land I live, +024:038 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, + and take a wife for my son.' +024:039 I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?' +024:040 He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his + angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife + for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house. +024:041 Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. + If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.' +024:042 I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God + of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go-- +024:043 behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, + that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, + "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink," +024:044 and she will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for + your camels,"--let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed + for my master's son.' +024:045 Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth + with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, + and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.' +024:046 She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, + and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' + So I drank, and she made the camels drink also. +024:047 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, + 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' + I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands. +024:048 I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, + the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way + to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. +024:049 Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. + If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, + or to the left." +024:050 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. + We can't speak to you bad or good. +024:051 Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let + her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken." +024:052 It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, + he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh. +024:053 The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, + and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious + things to her brother and her mother. +024:054 They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, + and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, + "Send me away to my master." +024:055 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay + with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go." +024:056 He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered + my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." +024:057 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her." +024:058 They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" + She said, "I will go." +024:059 They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, + Abraham's servant, and his men. +024:060 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you + be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed + possess the gate of those who hate them." +024:061 Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, + and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way. +024:062 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived + in the land of the South. +024:063 Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. + He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there + were camels coming. +024:064 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, + she dismounted from the camel. +024:065 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in + the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." + She took her veil, and covered herself. +024:066 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. +024:067 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, + and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. + Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. +025:001 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. +025:002 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. +025:003 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons + of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. +025:004 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. + All these were the children of Keturah. +025:005 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac, +025:006 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. + He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, + eastward, to the east country. +025:007 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: + one hundred seventy-five years. +025:008 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, + an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. +025:009 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, +025:010 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. + Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife. +025:011 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, + his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi. +025:012 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, + whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. +025:013 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, + according to the order of their birth: the firstborn + of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, +025:014 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, +025:015 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. +025:016 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, + by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, + according to their nations. +025:017 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred + thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, + and was gathered to his people. +025:018 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you + go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives. +025:019 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. + Abraham became the father of Isaac. +025:020 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. +025:021 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. + Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. +025:022 The children struggled together within her. She said, + "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh. +025:023 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. + Two peoples will be separated from your body. + The one people will be stronger than the other people. + The elder will serve the younger. +025:024 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were + twins in her womb. +025:025 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. + They named him Esau. +025:026 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on + Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old + when she bore them. +025:027 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. + Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. +025:028 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. + Rebekah loved Jacob. +025:029 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, + and he was famished. +025:030 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, + for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom. +025:031 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright." +025:032 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the + birthright to me?" +025:033 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. + He sold his birthright to Jacob. +025:034 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, + rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright. +026:001 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine + that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech + king of the Philistines, to Gerar. +026:002 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. + Live in the land I will tell you about. +026:003 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. + For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I + will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. +026:004 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will + give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all + the nations of the earth be blessed, +026:005 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, + my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." +026:006 Isaac lived in Gerar. +026:007 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, + "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," + lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, + because she is beautiful to look at." +026:008 It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife. +026:009 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. + Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, + "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'" +026:010 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? + One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, + and you would have brought guilt on us!" +026:011 Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this + man or his wife will surely be put to death." +026:012 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one + hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. +026:013 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he + became very great. +026:014 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, + and a great household. The Philistines envied him. +026:015 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in + the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, + and filled with earth. +026:016 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much + mightier than we." +026:017 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, + and lived there. +026:018 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days + of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them + after the death of Abraham. He called their names after + the names by which his father had called them. +026:019 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well + of springing water. +026:020 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, + "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, + because they contended with him. +026:021 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. + He called the name of it Sitnah. +026:022 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't + argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, + "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful + in the land." +026:023 He went up from there to Beersheba. +026:024 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am + the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am + with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my + servant Abraham's sake." +026:025 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, + and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well. +026:026 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, + and Phicol the captain of his army. +026:027 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, + and have sent me away from you?" +026:028 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. + We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us + and you, and let us make a covenant with you, +026:029 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, + and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent + you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh." +026:030 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. +026:031 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. + Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. +026:032 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told + him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, + "We have found water." +026:033 He called it Shibah.{Shibah means "oath" or "seven."} Therefore + the name of the city is Beersheba{Beersheba means "well of the oath" + or "well of the seven"} to this day. +026:034 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, + the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter + of Elon the Hittite. +026:035 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits. +027:001 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, + so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, + and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am." +027:002 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. +027:003 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, + and go out to the field, and take me venison. +027:004 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, + that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die." +027:005 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. + Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. +027:006 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard + your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, +027:007 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, + and bless you before Yahweh before my death.' +027:008 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which + I command you. +027:009 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids + of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, + such as he loves. +027:010 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that + he may bless you before his death." +027:011 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother + is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. +027:012 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, + and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." +027:013 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. + Only obey my voice, and go get them for me." +027:014 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. + His mother made savory food, such as his father loved. +027:015 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, + which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, + her younger son. +027:016 She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, + and on the smooth of his neck. +027:017 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, + into the hand of her son Jacob. +027:018 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. + Who are you, my son?" +027:019 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. + I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat + of my venison, that your soul may bless me." +027:020 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, + my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success." +027:021 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, + my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." +027:022 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, + "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." +027:023 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, + like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him. +027:024 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am." +027:025 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, + that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. + He brought him wine, and he drank. +027:026 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son." +027:027 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, + and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son + is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed. +027:028 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, + and plenty of grain and new wine. +027:029 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. + Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons + bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. + Blessed be everyone who blesses you." +027:030 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, + and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, + that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. +027:031 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. + He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his + son's venison, that your soul may bless me." +027:032 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, + "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." +027:033 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has + taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before + you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed." +027:034 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an + exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, + "Bless me, even me also, my father." +027:035 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken + away your blessing." +027:036 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has + supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. + See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you + reserved a blessing for me?" +027:037 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, + and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. + With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then + will I do for you, my son?" +027:038 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? + Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up + his voice, and wept. +027:039 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth + will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. +027:040 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. + It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall + shake his yoke from off your neck." +027:041 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father + blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning + for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." +027:042 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. + She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said + to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you + by planning to kill you. +027:043 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, + my brother, in Haran. +027:044 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away; +027:045 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what + you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. + Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?" +027:046 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of + the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters + of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, + what good will my life do me?" +028:001 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall + not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. +028:002 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your + mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters + of Laban, your mother's brother. +028:003 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, + that you may be a company of peoples, +028:004 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed + with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, + which God gave to Abraham." +028:005 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of + Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother. +028:006 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away + to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as + he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not + take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," +028:007 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone + to Paddan Aram. +028:008 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, + his father. +028:009 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, + Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister + of Nebaioth, to be his wife. +028:010 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. +028:011 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, + because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, + and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. +028:012 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and the top + of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending + and descending on it. +028:013 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, + the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. + The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. +028:014 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread + abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, + and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families + of the earth be blessed. +028:015 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, + and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, + until I have done that which I have spoken of to you." +028:016 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh + is in this place, and I didn't know it." +028:017 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! + This is none other than God's house, and this is the + gate of heaven." +028:018 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone + that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, + and poured oil on the top of it. +028:019 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city + was Luz at the first. +028:020 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will + keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, + and clothing to put on, +028:021 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh + will be my God, +028:022 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be + God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give + the tenth to you." +029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of + the children of the east. +029:002 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks + of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered + the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large. +029:003 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone + from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone + again on the well's mouth in its place. +029:004 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" + They said, "We are from Haran." +029:005 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, + "We know him." +029:006 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. + See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep." +029:007 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, + not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, + and go and feed them." +029:008 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered + together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. + Then we water the sheep." +029:009 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her + father's sheep, for she kept them. +029:010 It happened, 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. +029:011 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. +029:012 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that + he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father. +029:013 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, + that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, + and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. +029:014 Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. + He lived with him for a month. +029:015 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you + therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will + your wages be?" +029:016 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, + and the name of the younger was Rachel. +029:017 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in + form and attractive. +029:018 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years + for Rachel, your younger daughter." +029:019 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I + should give her to another man. Stay with me." +029:020 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him + but a few days, for the love he had for her. +029:021 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, + that I may go in to her." +029:022 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. +029:023 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, + and brought her to him. He went in to her. +029:024 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid. +029:025 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. + He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? + Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have + you deceived me?" +029:026 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger + before the firstborn. +029:027 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other + also for the service which you will serve with me yet + seven other years." +029:028 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel + his daughter as wife. +029:029 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, + to be her handmaid. +029:030 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, + and served with him yet seven other years. +029:031 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, + but Rachel was barren. +029:032 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. + For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. + For now my husband will love me." +029:033 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has + heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." + She named him Simeon. +029:034 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my + husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." + Therefore was his name called Levi. +029:035 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time + will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. + Then she stopped bearing. +030:001 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied + her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else + I will die." +030:002 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, + "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit + of the womb?" +030:003 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she + may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her." +030:004 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went + in to her. +030:005 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. +030:006 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, + and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan. +030:007 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob + a second son. +030:008 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, + and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali. +030:009 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, + her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife. +030:010 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son. +030:011 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad. +030:012 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son. +030:013 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." + She named him Asher. +030:014 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes + in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel + said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." +030:015 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away + my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" + Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for + your son's mandrakes." +030:016 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went + out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; + for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." + He lay with her that night. +030:017 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob + a fifth son. +030:018 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid + to my husband." She named him Issachar. +030:019 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob. +030:020 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my + husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." + She named him Zebulun. +030:021 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah. +030:022 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. +030:023 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken + away my reproach." +030:024 She named him Joseph,{Joseph means "may he add."} saying, + "May Yahweh add another son to me." +030:025 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said + to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, + and to my country. +030:026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, + and let me go; for you know my service with which I + have served you." +030:027 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, + stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me + for your sake." +030:028 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it." +030:029 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your + livestock have fared with me. +030:030 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased + to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. + Now when will I provide for my own house also?" +030:031 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall + not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, + I will again feed your flock and keep it. +030:032 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there + every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among + the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. + This will be my hire. +030:033 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, + when you come concerning my hire that is before you. + Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, + and black among the sheep, that might be with me, + will be counted stolen." +030:034 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word." +030:035 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, + and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, + every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among + the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. +030:036 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, + and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. +030:037 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, + peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear + which was in the rods. +030:038 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the + gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. + They conceived when they came to drink. +030:039 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought + forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. +030:040 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks + toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: + and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them + into Laban's flock. +030:041 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, + that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock + in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; +030:042 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. + So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. +030:043 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, + female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. +031:001 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away + all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, + has he gotten all this wealth." +031:002 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was + not toward him as before. +031:003 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, + and to your relatives, and I will be with you." +031:004 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock, +031:005 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, + that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father + has been with me. +031:006 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength. +031:007 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, + but God didn't allow him to hurt me. +031:008 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all + the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked + will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked. +031:009 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given + them to me. +031:010 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, + and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped + on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. +031:011 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, + 'Here I am.' +031:012 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats + which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, + for I have seen all that Laban does to you. +031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you + vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, + and return to the land of your birth.'" +031:014 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion + or inheritance for us in our father's house? +031:015 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, + and has also quite devoured our money. +031:016 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, + that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has + said to you, do." +031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels, +031:018 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions + which he had gathered, including the livestock which + he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, + to the land of Canaan. +031:019 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole + the teraphim{teraphim were household idols that may have been + associated with inheritance rights to the household property.} + that were her father's. +031:020 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him + that he was running away. +031:021 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, + and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. +031:022 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. +031:023 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him + seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. +031:024 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, + and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak + to Jacob either good or bad." +031:025 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent + in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped + in the mountain of Gilead. +031:026 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, + and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword? +031:027 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, + that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, + with tambourine and with harp; +031:028 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? + Now have you done foolishly. +031:029 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your + father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself + that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.' +031:030 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your + father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?" +031:031 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, + 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.' +031:032 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. + Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." + For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them. +031:033 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into + the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. + He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. +031:034 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's + saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, + but didn't find them. +031:035 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I + can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." + He searched, but didn't find the teraphim. +031:036 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered + Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have + hotly pursued after me? +031:037 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found + of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives + and your relatives, that they may judge between us two. +031:038 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your + female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten + the rams of your flocks. +031:039 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. + I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, + whether stolen by day or stolen by night. +031:040 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, + and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes. +031:041 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen + years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, + and you have changed my wages ten times. +031:042 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear + of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me + away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, + and rebuked you last night." +031:043 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, + the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, + and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to + these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne? +031:044 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be + for a witness between me and you." +031:045 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. +031:046 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, + and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. +031:047 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" + means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called + it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.} +031:048 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." + Therefore it was named Galeed +031:049 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, + when we are absent one from another. +031:050 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides + my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness + between me and you." +031:051 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, + which I have set between me and you. +031:052 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, + that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you + will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. +031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, + judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of + his father, Isaac. +031:054 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his + relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night + in the mountain. +031:055 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and + his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned + to his place. +032:001 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. +032:002 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." + He called the name of that place Mahanaim. +032:003 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, + to the land of Seir, the field of Edom. +032:004 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell + my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. + I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. +032:005 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. + I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'" +032:006 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your + brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, + and four hundred men with him." +032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. + He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, + and the herds, and the camels, into two companies; +032:008 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, + then the company which is left will escape." +032:009 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my + father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, + and to your relatives, and I will do you good,' +032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, + and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; + for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I + have become two companies. +032:011 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: + for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers + with the children. +032:012 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed + as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there + are so many.'" +032:013 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had + with him, a present for Esau, his brother: +032:014 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred + ewes and twenty rams, +032:015 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, + twenty female donkeys and ten foals. +032:016 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd + by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, + and put a space between herd and herd." +032:017 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, + and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? + Whose are these before you?' +032:018 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a + present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'" +032:019 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed + the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, + when you find him. +032:020 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, + is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present + that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. + Perhaps he will accept me." +032:021 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged + that night in the camp. +032:022 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, + and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. +032:023 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over + that which he had. +032:024 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until + the breaking of the day. +032:025 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched + the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh + was strained, as he wrestled. +032:026 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, + "I won't let you go, unless you bless me." +032:027 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." +032:028 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; + for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed." +032:029 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." + He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" + He blessed him there. +032:030 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel{Peniel means "face + of God."}: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, + and my life is preserved." +032:031 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped + because of his thigh. +032:032 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of + the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, + because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew + of the hip. +033:001 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, + and with him four hundred men. He divided the children + between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids. +033:002 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her + children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. +033:003 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself + to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. +033:004 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, + and they wept. +033:005 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; + and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children + whom God has graciously given your servant." +033:006 Then the handmaids came near with their children, + and they bowed themselves. +033:007 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. + After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. +033:008 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" + Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord." +033:009 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you + have be yours." +033:010 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, + then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, + as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. +033:011 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has + dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." + He urged him, and he took it. +033:012 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I + will go before you." +033:013 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, + and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, + and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. +033:014 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I + will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock + that are before me and according to the pace of the children, + until I come to my lord to Seir." +033:015 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are + with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight + of my lord." +033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. +033:017 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made + shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place + is called Succoth.{succoth means shelters or booths.} +033:018 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. +033:019 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, + at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, + for one hundred pieces of money. +033:020 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El + Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God + of Israel is mighty."} +034:001 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out + to see the daughters of the land. +034:002 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. + He took her, lay with her, and humbled her. +034:003 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved + the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. +034:004 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young + lady as a wife." +034:005 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; + and his sons were with his livestock in the field. + Jacob held his peace until they came. +034:006 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. +034:007 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. + The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he + had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; + a which thing ought not to be done. +034:008 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, + longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. +034:009 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take + our daughters for yourselves. +034:010 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. + Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it." +034:011 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find + favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give. +034:012 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever + you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife." +034:013 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, + and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, +034:014 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister + to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. +034:015 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will + be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised; +034:016 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take + your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we + will become one people. +034:017 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we + will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we + will be gone." +034:018 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. +034:019 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight + in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house + of his father. +034:020 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, + and talked with the men of their city, saying, +034:021 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land + and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. + Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give + them our daughters. +034:022 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, + to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, + as they are circumcised. +034:023 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their + animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, + and they will dwell with us." +034:024 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, + and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, + all who went out of the gate of his city. +034:025 It happened on the third day, when they were sore, + that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, + each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, + and killed all the males. +034:026 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, + and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away. +034:027 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, + because they had defiled their sister. +034:028 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which + was in the city, that which was in the field, +034:029 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones + and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was + in the house. +034:030 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, + to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, + among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. + They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, + and I will be destroyed, I and my house." +034:031 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?" +035:001 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. + Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled + from the face of Esau your brother." +035:002 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, + "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, + change your garments. +035:003 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there + an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, + and was with me in the way which I went." +035:004 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, + and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them + under the oak which was by Shechem. +035:005 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were + around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob. +035:006 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land + of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. +035:007 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; + because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from + the face of his brother. +035:008 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel + under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon Bacuth. +035:009 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, + and blessed him. +035:010 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall + not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." + He named him Israel. +035:011 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. + A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings + will come out of your body. +035:012 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, + and to your seed after you will I give the land." +035:013 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. +035:014 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, + a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, + and poured oil on it. +035:015 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel." +035:016 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance + to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. +035:017 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, + "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son." +035:018 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), + that she named him Benoni,{"Benoni" means "son of my + trouble."} but his father named him Benjamin.{"Benjamin" + means "son of my right hand."} +035:019 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath + (the same is Bethlehem). +035:020 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar + of Rachel's grave to this day. +035:021 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. +035:022 It happened, while Israel lived 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. +035:023 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), + Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. +035:024 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. +035:025 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali. +035:026 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. + These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. +035:027 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba + (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. +035:028 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. +035:029 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, + old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. +036:001 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau + (that is, Edom). +036:002 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter + of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, + the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite; +036:003 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth. +036:004 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel. +036:005 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons + of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan. +036:006 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members + of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all + his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, + and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. +036:007 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, + and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because + of their livestock. +036:008 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. +036:009 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father + of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir: +036:010 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son + of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, + the wife of Esau. +036:011 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. +036:012 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore + to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. +036:013 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. + These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. +036:014 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, + the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to + Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. +036:015 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of + Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, + chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, +036:016 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs + who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the + sons of Adah. +036:017 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: + chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: + these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; + these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. +036:018 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, + chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came + of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. +036:019 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these + are their chiefs. +036:020 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: + Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, +036:021 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came + of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. +036:022 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna. +036:023 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, + and Onam. +036:024 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. + This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, + as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father. +036:025 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, + the daughter of Anah. +036:026 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, + and Cheran. +036:027 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. +036:028 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. +036:029 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan, + chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, +036:030 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are + the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs + in the land of Seir. +036:031 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, + before any king reigned over the children of Israel. +036:032 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his + city was Dinhabah. +036:033 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, + reigned in his place. +036:034 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned + in his place. +036:035 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck + Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. + The name of his city was Avith. +036:036 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. +036:037 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river, + reigned in his place. +036:038 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned + in his place. +036:039 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. + The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, + the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. +036:040 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to + their families, after their places, and by their names: + chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, +036:041 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, +036:042 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, +036:043 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, + according to their habitations in the land of their possession. + This is Esau, the father of the Edomites. +037:001 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the + land of Canaan. +037:002 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being + seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. + He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. + Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father. +037:003 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. +037:004 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than + all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak + peaceably to him. +037:005 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, + and they hated him all the more. +037:006 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: +037:007 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, + my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves + came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." +037:008 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? + Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him + all the more for his dreams and for his words. +037:009 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, + and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: + and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed + down to me." +037:010 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, + and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? + Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow + ourselves down to you to the earth?" +037:011 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. +037:012 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. +037:013 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding + the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." + He said to him, "Here I am." +037:014 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, + and well with the flock; and bring me word again." + So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. +037:015 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. + The man asked him, "What are you looking for?" +037:016 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, + where they are feeding the flock." +037:017 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, + 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, + and found them in Dothan. +037:018 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, + they conspired against him to kill him. +037:019 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. +037:020 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one + of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' + We will see what will become of his dreams." +037:021 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, + "Let's not take his life." +037:022 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this + pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- + that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him + to his father. +037:023 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped + Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; +037:024 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. + There was no water in it. +037:025 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, + and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, + with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, + going to carry it down to Egypt. +037:026 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill + our brother and conceal his blood? +037:027 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let + our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." + His brothers listened to him. +037:028 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted + up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites + for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt. +037:029 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; + and he tore his clothes. +037:030 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; + and I, where will I go?" +037:031 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped + the coat in the blood. +037:032 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought + it to their father, and said, "We have found this. + Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not." +037:033 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. + An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt + torn in pieces." +037:034 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, + and mourned for his son many days. +037:035 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, + but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down + to Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} to my son mourning." + His father wept for him. +037:036 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer + of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard. +038:001 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, + and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. +038:002 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name + was Shua. He took her, and went in to her. +038:003 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er. +038:004 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan. +038:005 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: + and he was at Chezib, when she bore him. +038:006 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. +038:007 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. + Yahweh killed him. +038:008 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform + the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed + to your brother." +038:009 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, + when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it + on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. +038:010 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, + and he killed him also. +038:011 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow + in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" + for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." + Tamar went and lived in her father's house. +038:012 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. + Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, + he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite. +038:013 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going + up to Timnah to shear his sheep." +038:014 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, + and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, + and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; + for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given + to him as a wife. +038:015 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, + for she had covered her face. +038:016 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, + let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was + his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, + that you may come in to me?" +038:017 He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." + She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" +038:018 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet + and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." + He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him. +038:019 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, + and put on the garments of her widowhood. +038:020 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 didn't find her. +038:021 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is + the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, + "There has been no prostitute here." +038:022 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; + and also the men of the place said, 'There has been + no prostitute here.'" +038:023 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent + this kid, and you haven't found her." +038:024 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, + saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; + and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." + Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." +038:025 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, + saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." + She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet, + and the cords, and the staff." +038:026 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous + than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." + He knew her again no more. +038:027 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, + twins were in her womb. +038:028 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied + a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first." +038:029 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother + came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" + Therefore his name was called Perez.{Perez means "breaking out."} +038:030 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet + thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.{Zerah + means "scarlet" or "brightness."} +039:001 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer + of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, + bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought + him down there. +039:002 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. + He was in the house of his master the Egyptian. +039:003 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made + all that he did prosper in his hand. +039:004 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, + and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had + he put into his hand. +039:005 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, + and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's + house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on + all that he had, in the house and in the field. +039:006 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern + himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. + Joseph was well-built and handsome. +039:007 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast + her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me." +039:008 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master + doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put + all that he has into my hand. +039:009 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept + back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. + How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" +039:010 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her, + to lie by her, or to be with her. +039:011 About this time, he went into the house to do his work, + and there were none of the men of the house inside. +039:012 She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" + He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. +039:013 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, + and had run outside, +039:014 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, + saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. + He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. +039:015 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, + that he left his garment by me, and ran outside." +039:016 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. +039:017 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew + servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me, +039:018 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left + his garment by me, and ran outside." +039:019 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, + which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant + did to me," that his wrath was kindled. +039:020 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, + the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was + there in custody. +039:021 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, + and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. +039:022 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all + the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, + he was responsible for it. +039:023 The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under + his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, + Yahweh made it prosper. +040:001 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king + of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt. +040:002 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer + and the chief baker. +040:003 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, + into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. +040:004 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took + care of them. They stayed in prison many days. +040:005 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, + each man according to the interpretation of his dream, + the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were + bound in the prison. +040:006 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw + that they were sad. +040:007 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his + master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?" +040:008 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there + is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, + "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me." +040:009 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, + "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, +040:010 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, + its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought + forth ripe grapes. +040:011 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." +040:012 Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: + the three branches are three days. +040:013 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, + and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup + into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer. +040:014 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show + kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, + and bring me out of this house. +040:015 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." +040:016 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, + he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold, + three baskets of white bread were on my head. +040:017 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food + for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket + on my head." +040:018 Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. + The three baskets are three days. +040:019 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from + off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat + your flesh from off you." +040:020 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, + that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up + the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief + baker among his servants. +040:021 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again, + and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand; +040:022 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. +040:023 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him. +041:001 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: + and behold, he stood by the river. +041:002 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, + and they fed in the marsh grass. +041:003 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, + ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink + of the river. +041:004 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. + So Pharaoh awoke. +041:005 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads + of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. +041:006 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, + sprung up after them. +041:007 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. + Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. +041:008 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, + and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. + Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could + interpret them to Pharaoh. +041:009 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember + my faults today. +041:010 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in + the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. +041:011 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man + according to the interpretation of his dream. +041:012 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain + of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. + To each man according to his dream he interpreted. +041:013 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: + he restored me to my office, and he hanged him." +041:014 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily + out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, + and came in to Pharaoh. +041:015 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there + is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, + that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." +041:016 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. + God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." +041:017 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on + the brink of the river: +041:018 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, + fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass, +041:019 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and + very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land + of Egypt for ugliness. +041:020 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle, +041:021 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they + had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. + So I awoke. +041:022 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up + on one stalk, full and good: +041:023 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted + with the east wind, sprung up after them. +041:024 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. + I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could + explain it to me." +041:025 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. + What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh. +041:026 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads + of grain are seven years. The dream is one. +041:027 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are + seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted + with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine. +041:028 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about + to do he has shown to Pharaoh. +041:029 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout + all the land of Egypt. +041:030 There will arise after them seven years of famine, + and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. + The famine will consume the land, +041:031 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that + famine which follows; for it will be very grievous. +041:032 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established + by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. +041:033 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, + and set him over the land of Egypt. +041:034 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, + and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce + in the seven plenteous years. +041:035 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. +041:036 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven + years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; + that the land not perish through the famine." +041:037 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes + of all his servants. +041:038 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, + a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" +041:039 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, + there is none so discreet and wise as you. +041:040 You shall be over my house, and according to your word + will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be + greater than you." +041:041 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all + the land of Egypt." +041:042 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it + on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, + and put a gold chain about his neck, +041:043 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. + They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all + the land of Egypt. +041:044 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall + no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." +041:045 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave + him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. + Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. +041:046 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king + of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, + and went throughout all the land of Egypt. +041:047 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly. +041:048 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, + he laid up in the same. +041:049 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, + until he stopped counting, for it was without number. +041:050 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, + whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, + bore to him. +041:051 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,{"Manasseh" + sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."} "For," he said, "God has + made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house." +041:052 The name of the second, he called Ephraim{"Ephraim" + sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."}: "For God has + made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." +041:053 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, + came to an end. +041:054 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. + There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt + there was bread. +041:055 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh + for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. + What he says to you, do." +041:056 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. + Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. + The famine was severe in the land of Egypt. +041:057 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, + because the famine was severe in all the earth. +042:001 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said + to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" +042:002 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. + Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, + and not die." +042:003 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. +042:004 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; + for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him." +042:005 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, + for the famine was in the land of Canaan. +042:006 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold + to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, + and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. +042:007 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted + like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. + He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, + "From the land of Canaan to buy food." +042:008 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him. +042:009 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, + and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see + the nakedness of the land." +042:010 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come + to buy food. +042:011 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants + are not spies." +042:012 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness + of the land." +042:013 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons + of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest + is this day with our father, and one is no more." +042:014 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.' +042:015 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, + you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest + brother comes here. +042:016 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, + that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, + or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." +042:017 He put them all together into custody for three days. +042:018 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, + for I fear God. +042:019 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound + in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine + of your houses. +042:020 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, + and you won't die." They did so. +042:021 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning + our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, + when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this + distress has come upon us." +042:022 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, + 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? + Therefore also, behold, his blood is required." +042:023 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was + an interpreter between them. +042:024 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned + to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, + and bound him before their eyes. +042:025 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, + and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give + them food for the way. So it was done to them. +042:026 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. +042:027 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the + lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth + of his sack. +042:028 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is + in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned + trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has + done to us?" +042:029 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, + and told him all that had happened to them, saying, +042:030 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, + and took us for spies of the country. +042:031 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies. +042:032 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, + and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.' +042:033 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know + that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, + and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. +042:034 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know + that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. + So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade + in the land.'" +042:035 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's + bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father + saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. +042:036 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me + of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, + and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things + are against me." +042:037 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, + if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, + and I will bring him to you again." +042:038 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother + is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along + the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray + hairs with sorrow to Sheol." +043:001 The famine was severe in the land. +043:002 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had + brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, + buy us a little more food." +043:003 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, + 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.' +043:004 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food, +043:005 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man + said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother + is with you.'" +043:006 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man + that you had another brother?" +043:007 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, + and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? + Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. + Is there any way we could know that he would say, + 'Bring your brother down?'" +043:008 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, + and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, + both we, and you, and also our little ones. +043:009 I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. + If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, + then let me bear the blame forever, +043:010 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second + time by now." +043:011 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. + Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry + down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, + spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds; +043:012 and take double money in your hand, and take back + the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. + Perhaps it was an oversight. +043:013 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man. +043:014 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, + that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. + If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved." +043:015 The men took that present, and they took double money in + their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, + and stood before Joseph. +043:016 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of + his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, + and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon." +043:017 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men + to Joseph's house. +043:018 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; + and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our + sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek + occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, + along with our donkeys." +043:019 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they + spoke to him at the door of the house, +043:020 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time + to buy food. +043:021 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, + and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, + our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand. +043:022 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. + We don't know who put our money in our sacks." +043:023 He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, + and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. + I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them. +043:024 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, + and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder. +043:025 They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, + for they heard that they should eat bread there. +043:026 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was + in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him + to the earth. +043:027 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, + the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?" +043:028 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." + They bowed the head, and did homage. +043:029 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, + his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, + of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious + to you, my son." +043:030 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; + and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, + and wept there. +043:031 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, + and said, "Serve the meal." +043:032 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, + and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, + because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, + for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. +043:033 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, + and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled + one with another. +043:034 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's + portion was five times as much as any of theirs. + They drank, and were merry with him. +044:001 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. +044:002 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, + with his grain money." He did according to the word that + Joseph had spoken. +044:003 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, + they and their donkeys. +044:004 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, + Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. + When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded + evil for good? +044:005 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which + he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'" +044:006 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them. +044:007 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? + Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing! +044:008 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought + again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we + steal silver or gold out of your lord's house? +044:009 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, + and we also will be my lord's bondservants." +044:010 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: + he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you + will be blameless." +044:011 Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground, + and every man opened his sack. +044:012 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. + The cup was found in Benjamin's sack. +044:013 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, + and returned to the city. +044:014 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was + still there. They fell on the ground before him. +044:015 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? + Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?" +044:016 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? + Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity + of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, + both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found." +044:017 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man + in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; + but as for you, go up in peace to your father." +044:018 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, + please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, + and don't let your anger burn against your servant; + for you are even as Pharaoh. +044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, + or a brother?' +044:020 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child + of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, + and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.' +044:021 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may + set my eyes on him.' +044:022 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: + for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' +044:023 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes + down with you, you will see my face no more.' +044:024 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, + we told him the words of my lord. +044:025 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.' +044:026 We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, + then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, + unless our youngest brother is with us.' +044:027 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife + bore me two sons: +044:028 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn + in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since. +044:029 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, + you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' +044:030 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, + and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up + in the boy's life; +044:031 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, + that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray + hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol. +044:032 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, + saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear + the blame to my father forever.' +044:033 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, + a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers. +044:034 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?-- + lest I see the evil that will come on my father." +045:001 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood + before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" + No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known + to his brothers. +045:002 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. +045:003 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father + still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they + were terrified at his presence. +045:004 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." + They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, + whom you sold into Egypt. +045:005 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold + me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. +045:006 For these two years the famine has been in the land, + and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither + plowing nor harvest. +045:007 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, + and to save you alive by a great deliverance. +045:008 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has + made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler + over all the land of Egypt. +045:009 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what + your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. + Come down to me. Don't wait. +045:010 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near + to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, + your herds, and all that you have. +045:011 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; + lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all + that you have."' +045:012 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, + that it is my mouth that speaks to you. +045:013 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, + and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring + my father down here." +045:014 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin + wept on his neck. +045:015 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his + brothers talked with him. +045:016 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, + "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, + and his servants. +045:017 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. + Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan. +045:018 Take your father and your households, and come to me, + and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you + will eat the fat of the land.' +045:019 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land + of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring + your father, and come. +045:020 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, + for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours." +045:021 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, + according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them + provision for the way. +045:022 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave + three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. +045:023 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded + with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded + with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. +045:024 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. + He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way." +045:025 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, + to Jacob their father. +045:026 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is + ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted, + for he didn't believe them. +045:027 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. + When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, + the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. +045:028 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. + I will go and see him before I die." +046:001 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, + and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. +046:002 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, + "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." +046:003 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go + down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. +046:004 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring + you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." +046:005 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, + their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons + which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. +046:006 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten + in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all + his seed with him, +046:007 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, + and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with + him into Egypt. +046:008 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came + into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. +046:009 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. +046:010 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul + the son of a Canaanite woman. +046:011 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +046:012 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; + but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez + were Hezron and Hamul. +046:013 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. +046:014 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. +046:015 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, + with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his + daughters were thirty-three. +046:016 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, + and Areli. +046:017 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah + their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. +046:018 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, + his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls. +046:019 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. +046:020 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, + whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, + bore to him. +046:021 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, + Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. +046:022 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: + all the souls were fourteen. +046:023 The son of Dan: Hushim. +046:024 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. +046:025 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, + and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven. +046:026 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his + direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the + souls were sixty-six. +046:027 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. + All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, + were seventy. +046:028 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him + to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. +046:029 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, + his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, + and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. +046:030 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen + your face, that you are still alive." +046:031 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, + "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, + 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land + of Canaan, have come to me. +046:032 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, + and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, + and all that they have.' +046:033 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, + 'What is your occupation?' +046:034 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock + from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' + that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd + is an abomination to the Egyptians." +047:001 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father + and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that + they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, + they are in the land of Goshen." +047:002 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented + them to Pharaoh. +047:003 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" + They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, + and our fathers." +047:004 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in + the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. + For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, + please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." +047:005 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers + have come to you. +047:006 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your + brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell + in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, + then put them in charge of my livestock." +047:007 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, + and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. +047:008 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years + of your life?" +047:009 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage + are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been + the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained + to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days + of their pilgrimage." +047:010 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. +047:011 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them + a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, + in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. +047:012 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his + father's household, with bread, according to their families. +047:013 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, + so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted + by reason of the famine. +047:014 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. +047:015 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in + the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, + "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? + For our money fails." +047:016 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food + for your livestock, if your money is gone." +047:017 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave + them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, + and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them + with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year. +047:018 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, + and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money + is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There + is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, + and our lands. +047:019 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? + Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will + be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, + and not die, and that the land won't be desolate." +047:020 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, + for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine + was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's. +047:021 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end + of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it. +047:022 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a + portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. + That is why they didn't sell their land. +047:023 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you + and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, + and you shall sow the land. +047:024 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth + to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed + of the field, for your food, for them of your households, + and for food for your little ones." +047:025 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor + in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants." +047:026 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt + to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. + Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's. +047:027 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; + and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, + and multiplied exceedingly. +047:028 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. + So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one + hundred forty-seven years. +047:029 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, + and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put + your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. + Please don't bury me in Egypt, +047:030 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me + out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." + He said, "I will do as you have said." +047:031 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed + himself on the bed's head. +048:001 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, + your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, + Manasseh and Ephraim. +048:002 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," + and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. +048:003 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz + in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, +048:004 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, + and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this + land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.' +048:005 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt + before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, + even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. +048:006 Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. + They will be called after the name of their brothers + in their inheritance. +048:007 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 + to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath + (the same is Bethlehem)." +048:008 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?" +048:009 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God + has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, + and I will bless them." +048:010 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. + He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, + and embraced them. +048:011 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, + and behold, God has let me see your seed also." +048:012 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed + himself with his face to the earth. +048:013 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's + left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's + right hand, and brought them near to him. +048:014 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, + who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, + guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. +048:015 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers + Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life + long to this day, +048:016 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, + and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers + Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst + of the earth." +048:017 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head + of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, + to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. +048:018 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is + the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." +048:019 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. + He also will become a people, and he also will be great. + However, his younger brother will be greater than he, + and his seed will become a multitude of nations." +048:020 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, + saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set + Ephraim before Manasseh. +048:021 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be + with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. +048:022 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, + which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword + and with my bow." +049:001 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, + that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the + days to come. +049:002 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. + Listen to Israel, your father. +049:003 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning + of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power. +049:004 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you + went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. + He went up to my couch. +049:005 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence. +049:006 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be + united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. + In their self-will they hamstrung oxen. +049:007 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. +049:008 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be + on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow + down before you. +049:009 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. + He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. + Who will rouse him up? +049:010 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff + from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. + To him will the obedience of the peoples be. +049:011 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; + he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the + blood of grapes. +049:012 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk. +049:013 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for + a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. +049:014 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags. +049:015 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, + that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, + and becomes a servant doing forced labor. +049:016 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. +049:017 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, + That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward. +049:018 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. +049:019 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel. +049:020 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties. +049:021 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. +049:022 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. + His branches run over the wall. +049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him, + and persecute him: +049:024 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were + made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, + (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), +049:025 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, + who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, + blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, + and of the womb. +049:026 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings + of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. + They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head + of him who is separated from his brothers. +049:027 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour + the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." +049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this + is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. + He blessed everyone according to his blessing. +049:029 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. + Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field + of Ephron the Hittite, +049:030 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, + in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field + from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. +049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they + buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: +049:032 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased + from the children of Heth." +049:033 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered + up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, + and was gathered to his people. +050:001 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him. +050:002 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; + and the physicians embalmed Israel. +050:003 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many + the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him + for seventy days. +050:004 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke + to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor + in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, +050:005 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me + in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." + Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, + and I will come again.'" +050:006 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he + made you swear." +050:007 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up + all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, + all the elders of the land of Egypt, +050:008 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. + Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, + they left in the land of Goshen. +050:009 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. + It was a very great company. +050:010 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, + and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. + He mourned for his father seven days. +050:011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning + in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning + by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called + Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. +050:012 His sons did to him just as he commanded them, +050:013 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried + him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham + bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, + from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. +050:014 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all + that went up with him to bury his father, after he had + buried his father. +050:015 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, + "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us + back for all of the evil which we did to him." +050:016 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded + before he died, saying, +050:017 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience + of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' + Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God + of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. +050:018 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; + and they said, "Behold, we are your servants." +050:019 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God? +050:020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, + to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive. +050:021 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your + little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. +050:022 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. + Joseph lived one hundred ten years. +050:023 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. + The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born + on Joseph's knees. +050:024 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely + visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land + which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." +050:025 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will + surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." +050:026 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they + embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): GENESIS *** + +This file should be named 8228.txt or 8228.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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