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Genesis - Chapters 30 - 40
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob
no children, Rachel
envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give
me children, or else I
die.
30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel: and he said, Am I
in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee
the fruit of the womb?
30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go
in unto her; and she
shall bear upon my knees, that I may also
have children by her.
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 maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second
son.
30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings
have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called
his name Naphtali.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had left
bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
son.
30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she
called his name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
second son.
30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the
daughters will call me
blessed: and she called his name Asher.
30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat
harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them
unto his mother Leah. Then
Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee,
of thy son's mandrakes.
30:15 And she said unto her, Is it a small
matter that thou hast taken
my husband? and wouldest thou take away my
son's mandrakes also? And
Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's
mandrakes.
30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the
evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in
unto me; for surely I
have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And
he lay with her that
night.
30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she
conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my
hire, because I have given
my maiden to my husband: and she called his
name Issachar.
30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare
Jacob the sixth son.
30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with
a good dowry; now will my
husband dwell with me, because I have born
him six sons: and she
called his name Zebulun.
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; and said, The LORD
shall add to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had
born Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go
unto mine own place, and
to my country.
30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for
whom I have served thee,
and let me go: for thou knowest my service
which I have done thee.
30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee,
if I have found favour in
thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by
experience that the LORD hath
blessed me for thy sake.
30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and
I will give it.
30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how
I have served thee, and
how thy cattle was with me.
30:30 For it was little which thou hadst
before I came, and it is now
increased unto a multitude; and the LORD
hath blessed thee since my
coming: and now when shall I provide for
mine own house also? 30:31
And he said, What shall I give thee? And
Jacob said, Thou shalt not
give me any thing: if thou wilt do this
thing for me, I will again
feed and keep thy flock.
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to
day, removing from thence
all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all
the brown cattle among
the sheep, and the spotted and speckled
among the goats: and of such
shall be my hire.
30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for
me in time to come, when it
shall come for my hire before thy face:
every one that is not speckled
and spotted among the goats, and brown among
the sheep, that shall be
counted stolen with me.
30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it
might be according to thy
word.
30:35 And he removed that day the he goats
that were ringstraked and
spotted, and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted, and
every one that had some white in it, and all
the brown among the
sheep, and gave them into the hand of his
sons.
30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt
himself and Jacob: and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in
them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had
pilled before the flocks in the
gutters in the watering troughs when the
flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to
drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived before the
rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and
set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the
brown in the flock of
Laban; and he put his own flocks by
themselves, and put them not unto
Laban's cattle.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the
stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before
the eyes of the cattle in
the gutters, that they might conceive among
the rods.
30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he
put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger
Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and
had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels,
and asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons,
saying, Jacob hath taken
away all that was our father's; and of that
which was our father's
hath he gotten all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of
Laban, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be
with thee.
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his
flock, 31:5 And said unto them, I see your
father's countenance, that
it is not toward me as before; but the God
of my father hath been with
me.
31:6 And ye know that with all my power I
have served your father.
31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times;
but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be
thy wages; then all the
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus,
The ringstraked shall be
thy hire; then bare all the cattle
ringstraked.
31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of
your father, and given
them to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that
the cattle conceived, that
I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream,
and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in
a dream, saying, Jacob:
And I said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes,
and see, all the rams which
leap upon the cattle are ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled: for I
have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou
anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise,
get thee out from this
land, and return unto the land of thy
kindred.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said
unto him, Is there yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our
father's house? 31:15 Are we not
counted of him strangers? for he hath sold
us, and hath quite devoured
also our money.
31:16 For all the riches which God hath
taken from our father, that is
ours, and our children's: now then,
whatsoever God hath said unto
thee, do.
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons
and his wives upon camels;
31:18 And he carried away all his cattle,
and all his goods which he
had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which
he had gotten in
Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in
the land of Canaan.
31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and
Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father's.
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 mount
Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day
that Jacob was fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and
pursued after him seven
days' journey; and they overtook him in the
mount Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a
dream by night, and said
unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to
Jacob either good or bad.
31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob
had pitched his tent in the
mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched
in the mount of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast
thou done, that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me, and carried away
my daughters, as captives
taken with the sword? 31:27 Wherefore didst
thou flee away secretly,
and steal away from me; and didst not tell
me, that I might have sent
thee away with mirth, and with songs, with
tabret, and with harp?
31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my
sons and my daughters? thou
hast now done foolishly in so doing.
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do
you hurt: but the God of
your father spake unto me yesternight,
saying, Take thou heed that
thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be
gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father's house, yet
wherefore hast thou stolen my
gods? 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to
Laban, Because I was
afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou
wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me.
31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods,
let him not live: before
our brethren discern thou what is thine with
me, and take it to thee.
For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and
into Leah's tent, and into
the two maidservants' tents; but he found
them not. Then went he out
of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and
put them in the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban
searched all the tent, but
found them not.
31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not
displease my lord that I
cannot rise up before thee; for the custom
of women is upon me. And he
searched but found not the images.
31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with
Laban: and Jacob answered
and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what
is my sin, that thou hast
so hotly pursued after me? 31:37 Whereas
thou hast searched all my
stuff, what hast thou found of all thy
household stuff? set it here
before my brethren and thy brethren, that
they may judge betwixt us
both.
31:38 This twenty years have I been with
thee; thy ewes and thy she
goats have not cast their young, and the
rams of thy flock have I not
eaten.
31:39 That which was torn of beasts I
brought not unto thee; I bare
the loss of it; of my hand didst thou
require it, whether stolen by
day, or stolen by night.
31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by
night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy
house; I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and
six years for thy cattle:
and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
31:42 Except the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of
Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst
sent me away now empty. God
hath seen mine affliction and the labour of
my hands, and rebuked thee
yesternight.
31:43 And Laban answered and said unto
Jacob, These daughters are my
daughters, and these children are my
children, and these cattle are my
cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and
what can I do this day
unto these my daughters, or unto their
children which they have born?
31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a
covenant, I and thou; and
let it be for a witness between me and thee.
31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up
for a pillar.
31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren,
Gather stones; and they took
stones, and made an heap: and they did eat
there upon the heap.
31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha:
but Jacob called it Galeed.
31:48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness
between me and thee this
day.
Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
31:49 And Mizpah; for he
said, The LORD watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from
another.
31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or
if thou shalt take other
wives beside my daughters, no man is with
us; see, God is witness
betwixt me and thee.
31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this
heap, and behold this
pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and
thee: 31:52 This heap be
witness, and this pillar be witness, that I
will not pass over this
heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
over this heap and this
pillar unto me, for harm.
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of
Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by
the fear of his father
Isaac.
31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the
mount, and called his
brethren to eat bread: and they did eat
bread, and tarried all night
in the mount.
31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose
up, and kissed his sons and
his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban
departed, and returned unto
his place.
32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him.
32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
is God's host: and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother unto the
land of Seir, the country of Edom.
32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus
shall ye speak unto my lord
Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have
sojourned with Laban, and
stayed there until now: 32:5 And I have
oxen, and asses, flocks, and
menservants, and womenservants: and I have
sent to tell my lord, that
I may find grace in thy sight.
32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob,
saying, We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet
thee, and four hundred men
with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and
distressed: and he divided the
people that was with him, and the flocks,
and herds, and the camels,
into two bands; 32:8 And said, If Esau come
to the one company, and
smite it, then the other company which is
left shall escape.
32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father
Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return
unto thy country, and to
thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
32:10 I am not worthy of
the least of all the mercies, and of all the
truth, which thou hast
shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I
passed over this Jordan;
and now I am become two bands.
32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand
of my brother, from the
hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will
come and smite me, and the
mother with the children.
32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee
good, and make thy seed
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude.
32:13 And he lodged there that same night;
and took of that which came
to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
32:14 Two hundred she
goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty
kine, and ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and ten foals.
32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of
his servants, every drove
by themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and
put a space betwixt drove and drove.
32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying,
When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose
art thou? and whither
goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
32:18 Then thou shalt
say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a
present sent unto my lord
Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
32:19 And so commanded he the second, and
the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, On this manner
shall ye speak unto Esau,
when ye find him.
32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy
servant Jacob is behind us. For
he said, I will appease him with the present
that goeth before me, and
afterward I will see his face; peradventure
he will accept of me.
32:21 So went the present over before him:
and himself lodged that
night in the company.
32:22 And he rose up that night, and took
his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and
passed over the ford Jabbok.
32:23 And he took them, and sent them over
the brook, and sent over
that he had.
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 out of
joint, as he wrestled with him.
32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I
will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy
name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called
no more Jacob, but Israel:
for as a prince hast thou power with God and
with men, and hast
prevailed.
32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell
me, I pray thee, thy name.
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost
ask after my name? And he
blessed him there.
32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel: for I have seen
God face to face, and my life is preserved.
32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun
rose upon him, and he
halted upon his thigh.
32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat
not of the sinew which
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the
thigh, unto this day: because
he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in
the sinew that shrank.
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, behold, Esau came,
and with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children unto Leah,
and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
33:2 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and
Joseph hindermost.
33:3 And he passed over before them, and
bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his
brother.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and fell on his neck,
and kissed him: and they wept.
33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children;
and said, Who are those with thee? And he
said, The children which God
hath graciously given thy servant.
33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they
and their children, and they
bowed themselves.
33:7 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves:
and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and
they bowed themselves.
33:8 And he said, What meanest thou by all
this drove which I met? And
he said, These are to find grace in the
sight of my lord.
33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my
brother; keep that thou hast
unto thyself.
33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if
now I have found grace in
thy sight, then receive my present at my
hand: for therefore I have
seen thy face, as though I had seen the face
of God, and thou wast
pleased with me.
33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is
brought to thee; because
God hath dealt graciously with me, and
because I have enough. And he
urged him, and he took it.
33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey,
and let us go, and I will
go before thee.
33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth
that the children are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young
are with me: and if men
should overdrive them one day, all the flock
will die.
33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over
before his servant: and I
will lead on softly, according as the cattle
that goeth before me and
the children be able to endure, until I come
unto my lord unto Seir.
33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with
thee some of the folk that
are with me. And he said, What needeth it?
let me find grace in the
sight of my lord.
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way
unto Seir.
33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and
built him an house, and made
booths for his cattle: therefore the name of
the place is called
Succoth.
33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of
Shechem, which is in the
land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram;
and pitched his tent
before the city.
33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field,
where he had spread his tent,
at the hand of the children of Hamor,
Shechem's father, for an hundred
pieces of money.
33:20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it EleloheIsrael.
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob, went
out to see the daughters of the land.
34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the
Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with
her, and defiled her.
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 And Jacob heard that he had defiled
Dinah his daughter: now his
sons were with his cattle in the field: and
Jacob held his peace until
they were come.
34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went
out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field when they heard it:
and the men were grieved, and they were very
wroth, because he had
wrought folly in Israel in lying with
Jacob's daughter: which thing
ought not to be done.
34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying,
The soul of my son Shechem
longeth for your daughter: I pray you give
her him to wife.
34:9 And make ye marriages with us, and give
your daughters unto us,
and take our daughters unto you.
34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the
land shall be before you;
dwell and trade ye therein, and get you
possessions therein.
34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and
unto her brethren, Let me
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall
say unto me I will give.
34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift,
and I will give according
as ye shall say unto me: but give me the
damsel to wife.
34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem
and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had
defiled Dinah their sister:
34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do
this thing, to give our
sister to one that is uncircumcised; for
that were a reproach unto us:
34:15 But in this will we consent unto you:
If ye will be as we be,
that every male of you be circumcised; 34:16
Then will we give our
daughters unto you, and we will take your
daughters to us, and we will
dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to
be circumcised; then will
we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and
Shechem Hamor's son.
34:19 And the young man deferred not to do
the thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more
honourable than all the
house of his father.
34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came
unto the gate of their city,
and communed with the men of their city,
saying, 34:21 These men are
peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell
in the land, and trade
therein; for the land, behold, it is large
enough for them; let us
take their daughters to us for wives, and
let us give them our
daughters.
34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto
us for to dwell with us,
to be one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they are
circumcised.
34:23 Shall not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of
their's be our's? only let us consent unto
them, and they will dwell
with us.
34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his
son hearkened all that went
out of the gate of his city; and every male
was circumcised, all that
went out of the gate of his city.
34:25 And it came to pass on the third day,
when they were sore, that
two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each
man his sword, and came upon the city
boldly, and slew all the males.
34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his
son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's
house, and went out.
34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain,
and spoiled the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen,
and their asses, and that
which was in the city, and that which was in
the field, 34:29 And all
their wealth, and all their little ones, and
their wives took they
captive, and spoiled even all that was in
the house.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye
have troubled me to make
me to stink among the inhabitants of the
land, among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites: and I being few in
number, they shall gather
themselves together against me, and slay me;
and I shall be destroyed,
I and my house.
34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our
sister as with an harlot?
35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up
to Bethel, and dwell there:
and make there an altar unto God, that
appeared unto thee when thou
fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and
to all that were with
him, Put away the strange gods that are
among you, and be clean, and
change your garments: 35:3 And let us arise,
and go up to Bethel; and
I will make there an altar unto God, who
answered me in the day of my
distress, and was with me in the way which I
went.
35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their
hand, and all their earrings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid
them under the oak which was by Shechem.
35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of
God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not
pursue after the sons of
Jacob.
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the
land of Canaan, that is,
Bethel, he and all the people that were with
him.
35:7 And he built there an altar, and called
the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he
fled from the face of his
brother.
35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and
she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was
called Allonbachuth.
35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when
he came out of Padanaram,
and blessed him.
35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is
Jacob: thy name shall not be
called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be
thy name: and he called his
name Israel.
35:11 And God said unto him, I am God
Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations
shall be of thee, and
kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12 And
the land which I gave
Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it,
and to thy seed after thee
will I give the land.
35:13 And God went up from him in the place
where he talked with him.
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place
where he talked with him,
even a pillar of stone: and he poured a
drink offering thereon, and he
poured oil thereon.
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place
where God spake with him,
Bethel.
35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and
there was but a little way
to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed,
and she had hard labour.
35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in
hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt
have this son also.
35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was
in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but
his father called him
Benjamin.
35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the
way to Ephrath, which is
Bethlehem.
35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave:
that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day.
35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his
tent beyond the tower of
Edar.
35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt
in that land, that Reuben
went and lay with Bilhah his father's
concubine: and Israel heard it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 35:23 The
sons of Leah; Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and
Zebulun: 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph,
and Benjamin: 35:25 And the
sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and
Naphtali: 35:26 And the
sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and
Asher: these are the sons of
Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father
unto Mamre, unto the city
of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned.
35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred
and fourscore years.
35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died,
and was gathered unto his
people, being old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried
him.
36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau,
who is Edom.
36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of
Canaan; Adah the daughter
of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah the daughter
of Zibeon the Hivite; 36:3 And Bashemath
Ishmael's daughter, sister of
Nebajoth.
36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and
Bashemath bare Reuel; 36:5 And
Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah: these are the sons of
Esau, which were born unto him in the land
of Canaan.
36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons,
and his daughters, and all
the persons of his house, and his cattle,
and all his beasts, and all
his substance, which he had got in the land
of Canaan; and went into
the country from the face of his brother
Jacob.
36:7 For their riches were more than that
they might dwell together;
and the land wherein they were strangers
could not bear them because
of their cattle.
36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is
Edom.
36:9 And these are the generations of Esau
the father of the Edomites
in mount Seir: 36:10 These are the names of
Esau's sons; Eliphaz the
son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son
of Bashemath the wife of
Esau.
36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
Kenaz.
36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz
Esau's son; and she bare to
Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah
Esau's wife.
36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and
Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah,
the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she
bare to Esau Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah.
36:15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau:
the sons of Eliphaz the
firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke
Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke
Amalek: these are the dukes
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom;
these were the sons of Adah.
36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's
son; duke Nahath, duke
Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are
the dukes that came of
Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the
sons of Bashemath Esau's
wife.
36:18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah
Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the
dukes that came of Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
36:19 These are the sons of Esau, who is
Edom, and these are their
dukes.
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite,
who inhabited the land;
Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer,
and Dishan: these are the dukes of the
Horites, the children of Seir
in the land of Edom.
36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's
sister was Timna.
36:23 And the children of Shobal were these;
Alvan, and Manahath, and
Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon;
both Ajah, and Anah: this
was that Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the
asses of Zibeon his father.
36:25 And the children of Anah were these;
Dishon, and Aholibamah the
daughter of Anah.
36:26 And these are the children of Dishon;
Hemdan, and Eshban, and
Ithran, and Cheran.
36:27 The children of Ezer are these;
Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
36:28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz,
and Aran.
36:29 These are the dukes that came of the
Horites; duke Lotan, duke
Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 36:30 Duke
Dishon, duke Ezer, duke
Dishan: these are the dukes that came of
Hori, among their dukes in
the land of Seir.
36:31 And these are the kings that reigned
in the land of Edom, before
there reigned any king over the children of
Israel.
36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in
Edom: and the name of his
city was Dinhabah.
36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of
Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
his stead.
36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land
of Temani reigned in his
stead.
36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of
Bedad, who smote Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and
the name of his city was
Avith.
36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his stead.
36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth
by the river reigned in
his stead.
36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son
of Achbor reigned in his
stead.
36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died,
and Hadar reigned in his
stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and
his wife's name was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the
daughter of Mezahab.
36:40 And these are the names of the dukes
that came of Esau,
according to their families, after their
places, by their names; duke
Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, 36:41 Duke
Aholibamah, duke Elah,
duke Pinon, 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman,
duke Mibzar, 36:43 Duke
Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of
Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their possession:
he is Esau the father of
the Edomites.
37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his
father was a stranger, 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 the lad was with the
sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
his father's wives: and
Joseph brought unto his father their evil
report.
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all
his children, because he
was the son of his old age: and he made him
a coat of many colours.
37:4 And when his brethren saw that their
father loved him more than
all his brethren, they hated him, and could
not speak peaceably unto
him.
37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told
it his brethren: and they
hated him yet the more.
37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray
you, this dream which I have
dreamed: 37:7 For, behold, we were binding
sheaves in the field, and,
lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright;
and, behold, your sheaves
stood round about, and made obeisance to my
sheaf.
37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt
thou indeed reign over us? or
shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the
more for his dreams, and for his words.
37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and
told it his brethren, and
said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more;
and, behold, the sun and
the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me.
37:10 And he told it to his father, and to
his brethren: and his
father rebuked him, and said unto him, What
is this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy
brethren indeed come to
bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
37:11 And his brethren
envied him; but his father observed the
saying.
37:12 And his brethren went to feed their
father's flock in Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not
thy brethren feed the flock
in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto
them. And he said to him,
Here am I.
37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee,
see whether it be well with
thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and
bring me word again. So he
sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he
came to Shechem.
37:15 And a certain man found him, and,
behold, he was wandering in
the field: and the man asked him, saying,
What seekest thou? 37:16
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I
pray thee, where they feed
their flocks.
37:17 And the man said, They are departed
hence; for I heard them say,
Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after
his brethren, and found
them in Dothan.
37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even
before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him to slay
him.
37:19 And they said one to another, Behold,
this dreamer cometh.
37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay
him, and cast him into some
pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath
devoured him: and we shall
see what will become of his dreams.
37:21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered
him out of their hands;
and said, Let us not kill him.
37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no
blood, but cast him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no
hand upon him; that he might
rid him out of their hands, to deliver him
to his father again.
37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was
come unto his brethren,
that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his
coat of many colours that
was on him; 37:24 And they took him, and
cast him into a pit: and the
pit was empty, there was no water in it.
37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and
they lifted up their eyes
and looked, and, behold, a company of
Ishmeelites came from Gilead
with their camels bearing spicery and balm
and myrrh, going to carry
it down to Egypt.
37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What
profit is it if we slay
our brother, and conceal his blood? 37:27
Come, and let us sell him
to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be
upon him; for he is our
brother and our flesh. And his brethren were
content.
37:28 Then there passed by Midianites
merchantmen; and they drew and
lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold
Joseph to the Ishmeelites
for twenty pieces of silver: and they
brought Joseph into Egypt.
37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and,
behold, Joseph was not in
the pit; and he rent his clothes.
37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and
said, The child is not;
and I, whither shall I go? 37:31 And they
took Joseph's coat, and
killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the
coat in the blood; 37:32 And
they sent the coat of many colours, and they
brought it to their
father; and said, This have we found: know
now whether it be thy son's
coat or no.
37:33 And he knew it, and said, It is my
son's coat; an evil beast
hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt
rent in pieces.
37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins,
and mourned for his son many days.
37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters
rose up to comfort him;
but he refused to be comforted; and he said,
For I will go down into
the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his
father wept for him.
37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt
unto Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that
Judah went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain
Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a
certain Canaanite, whose name
was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto
her.
38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and
he called his name Er.
38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and she called his name
Onan.
38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a
son; and called his name
Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare
him.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his
firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked
in the sight of the LORD;
and the LORD slew him.
38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto
thy brother's wife, and
marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not
be his; and it came to
pass, when he went in unto his brother's
wife, that he spilled it on
the ground, lest that he should give seed to
his brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did displeased
the LORD: wherefore he
slew him also.
38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter
in law, Remain a widow at
thy father's house, till Shelah my son be
grown: for he said, Lest
peradventure he die also, as his brethren
did. And Tamar went and
dwelt in her father's house.
38:12 And in process of time the daughter of
Shuah Judah's wife died;
and Judah was comforted, and went up unto
his sheepshearers to
Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the
Adullamite.
38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold
thy father in law goeth up
to Timnath to shear his sheep.
38:14 And she put her widow's garments off
from her, and covered her
with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in
an open place, which is
by the way to Timnath; for she saw that
Shelah was grown, and she was
not given unto him to wife.
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to
be an harlot; because she
had covered her face.
38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and
said, Go to, I pray thee,
let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not
that she was his daughter
in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give
me, that thou mayest come
in unto me? 38:17 And he said, I will send
thee a kid from the flock.
And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge,
till thou send it? 38:18
And he said, What pledge shall I give thee?
And she said, Thy signet,
and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in
thine hand. And he gave it
her, and came in unto her, and she conceived
by him.
38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid
by her vail from her, and
put on the garments of her widowhood.
38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of
his friend the Adullamite,
to receive his pledge from the woman's hand:
but he found her not.
38:21 Then he asked the men of that place,
saying, Where is the
harlot, that was openly by the way side? And
they said, There was no
harlot in this place.
38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I
cannot find her; and also
the men of the place said, that there was no
harlot in this place.
38:23 And Judah said, Let her take it to
her, lest we be shamed:
behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not
found her.
38:24 And it came to pass about three months
after, that it was told
Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law
hath played the harlot; and
also, behold, she is with child by whoredom.
And Judah said, Bring her
forth, and let her be burnt.
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent
to her father in law,
saying, By the man, whose these are, am I
with child: and she said,
Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the
signet, and bracelets, and
staff.
38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said,
She hath been more
righteous than I; because that I gave her
not to Shelah my son. And he
knew her again no more.
38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her
travail, that, behold,
twins were in her womb.
38:28 And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that the one put out
his hand: and the midwife took and bound
upon his hand a scarlet
thread, saying, This came out first.
38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back
his hand, that, behold, his
brother came out: and she said, How hast
thou broken forth? this
breach be upon thee: therefore his name was
called Pharez.
38:30 And afterward came out his brother,
that had the scarlet thread
upon his hand: and his name was called
Zarah.
39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt;
and Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him of the hands of
the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
thither.
39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he
was a prosperous man; and he
was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that the LORD was
with him, and that the LORD
made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight,
and he served him: and he
made him overseer over his house, and all
that he had he put into his
hand.
39:5 And it came to pass from the time that
he had made him overseer
in his house, and over all that he had, that
the LORD blessed the
Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of the LORD was
upon all that he had in the house, and in
the field.
39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's
hand; and he knew not
ought he had, save the bread which he did
eat. And Joseph was a goodly
person, and well favoured.
39:7 And it came to pass after these things,
that his master's wife
cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie
with me.
39:8 But he refused, and said unto his
master's wife, Behold, my
master wotteth not what is with me in the
house, and he hath committed
all that he hath to my hand; 39:9 There is
none greater in this house
than I; neither hath he kept back any thing
from me but thee, because
thou art his wife: how then can I do this
great wickedness, and sin
against God? 39:10 And it came to pass, as
she spake to Joseph day by
day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie
by her, or to be with her.
39:11 And it came to pass about this time,
that Joseph went into the
house to do his business; and there was none
of the men of the house
there within.
39:12 And she caught him by his garment,
saying, Lie with me: and he
left his garment in her hand, and fled, and
got him out.
39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that
he had left his garment
in her hand, and was fled forth, 39:14 That
she called unto the men of
her house, and spake unto them, saying, See,
he hath brought in an
Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto
me to lie with me, and I
cried with a loud voice: 39:15 And it came
to pass, when he heard that
I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left
his garment with me, and
fled, and got him out.
39:16 And she laid up his garment by her,
until his lord came home.
39:17 And she spake unto him according to
these words, saying, The
Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto
us, came in unto me to
mock me: 39:18 And it came to pass, as I
lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment with me, and fled
out.
39:19 And it came to pass, when his master
heard the words of his
wife, which she spake unto him, saying,
After this manner did thy
servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put
him into the prison, a
place where the king's prisoners were bound:
and he was there in the
prison.
39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and
shewed him mercy, and gave him
favour in the sight of the keeper of the
prison.
39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed
to Joseph's hand all the
prisoners that were in the prison; and
whatsoever they did there, he
was the doer of it.
39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to
any thing that was under
his hand; because the LORD was with him, and
that which he did, the
LORD made it to prosper.
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