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