1 {1:1} In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. {1:2} And the earth was without form, 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
the evening and the morning were the first 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 the evening and the
morning were the second day.
{1:9} And God said, Let the waters under the heaven 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 bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and]
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so. {1:12} And the earth
brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. {1:13} And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
{1:14} And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the 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 the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. {1:16}
And God made 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 the
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 the
evening and the morning were the fourth day. {1:20} And
God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven. {1:21} And God
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his 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
fowl multiply in the earth. {1:23} And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
{1:24} And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so. {1:25} And God
made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. {1:27} So 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 fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
{1:29} And God said, Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat. {1:30} And to every beast
of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have
given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. {1:31} And
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was]
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth
day.

2 {2:1} Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the host of them. {2:2} And on the seventh day God
ended 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 sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
and made.
{2:4} These [are] the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD
God made the earth and the heavens, {2:5} And every plant
of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field before it grew: for the LORD 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 the LORD
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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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
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 into four heads. {2:11} The name of the first
[is] Pison: 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 Ethiopia.
{2:14} And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that
[is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the
fourth river [is] Euphrates. {2:15} And the LORD God took
the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it. {2:16} And the LORD 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 the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
{2:19} And out of the ground the LORD God formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
[them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was]
the name thereof. {2:20} And Adam gave names to all
cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him. {2:21} And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; {2:22} And the rib,
which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man. {2:23} And Adam
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 {3:1}Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto
the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every
tree of the garden?
{3:2} And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat
of the fruit of the trees of the garden: {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 gods, knowing good and evil. {3:6} And when the
woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it
[was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
[one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
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
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. {3:9} And
the LORD God called unto Adam, 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 the
LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat. {3:14} And the LORD God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed
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; it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. {3:16} Unto the
woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow 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 sorrow 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 Adam called his wife’s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living. {3:21} Unto Adam
also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins,
and clothed them. {3:22} And the LORD 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 the LORD
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
Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.

4 {4:1} And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived,
and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the
LORD. {4:2} And she again 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 the
LORD. {4:4} And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of
his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD 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 the LORD said unto
Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen? {4:7} If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto
thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. {4:8}
And Cain talked with 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 the LORD 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 [art] thou cursed from the earth, which
hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from
thy hand; {4:12} When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. {4:13} And Cain said
unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
{4:14} Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the
face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall
be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come
to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.
{4:15} And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever
slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him.
{4:16} And Cain went out from the presence of the
LORD, 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 Methusael: and Methusael 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 [of such as have] cattle. {4:21} And his
brother’s name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ. {4:22} And Zillah, she also bare
Tubal- cain, an instructer of every artificer in 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 to my wounding, and a young man to my
hurt. {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 God, [said she,] hath
appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain
slew. {4:26} And to Seth, to him also there was born a son;
and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon
the name of the LORD.

5 {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 an 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 had
begotten 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 an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: {5:7} And
Seth lived after he begat Enos 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 Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
{5:10} And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: {5:11} And
all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and
he died.
{5:12} And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat
Mahalaleel: {5:13} And Cainan lived after he begat
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons
and daughters: {5:14} And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years: and he died.
{5:15} And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and
begat Jared: {5:16} And Mahalaleel lived after he begat
Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and
daughters: {5:17} And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight
hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
{5:18} And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years,
and he 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 an 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 an hundred eighty and two
years, and begat a son: {5:29} And he called his name
Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our
work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the
LORD 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 {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth, 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 which they
chose. {6:3} And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall
be an hundred and twenty years. {6:4} There were giants in
the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
[children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which
[were] of old, men of renown.
{6:5} And GOD 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 the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And the LORD said, I
will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
{6:8} But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
{6:9} These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a
just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah
walked with God. {6:10} And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} The earth also was corrupt
before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {6:12}
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his 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 the fashion] which thou shalt
make it [of:] The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred
cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits. {6:16} A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; 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, behold, I,
even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy
all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven;
[and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. {6:18} But
with thee will I establish my covenant; 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 fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his 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
thou shalt 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 {7:1} And the LORD 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 by sevens, the male and his female: and of
beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
{7:3} Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
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 substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the
earth. {7:5} And Noah did according unto all that the
LORD 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 fowls, and of every thing that creepeth
upon the earth, {7:9} There went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah. {7:10} And it came to pass after 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, the seventeenth day of the month, 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 his kind, and all the cattle after their kind,
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind, and every fowl after his 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 had commanded him: and the LORD 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 lift up
above the earth. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and were
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 hills, 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 of fowl, and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth, and every man: {7:22} All in whose nostrils [was] the
breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land,] died. {7:23}
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon
the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive,]
and they that [were] with him in the ark. {7:24} And the
waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

8 {8:1} And God remembered Noah, and every living thing,
and all the cattle that [was] 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 the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated. {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, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. {8:8}
Also 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 into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the
whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and
pulled 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 in the evening;
and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt 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;
which returned not again unto him any more.
{8:13} And it came to pass in the six hundredth 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 dry. {8:14} And in the second month, on the
seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
{8:15} And God spake unto Noah, saying, {8:16} Go
forth of 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] of fowl,
and of cattle, and of 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 fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
{8:20} And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar. {8:21} And the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I
will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing 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 {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 fowl of the
air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the
fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. {9:3}
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things. {9:4} But
flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall
ye not eat. {9:5} And surely your blood of your lives will I
require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at
the hand of man; 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, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that
go out of the ark, to 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 a 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 of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of
Canaan. {9:19} These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of
them was the whole earth overspread. {9:20} And Noah
began [to be] an husbandman, and he 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 younger 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] the
LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
{9:27} God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall 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 {10:1} Now these [are] the generations of the sons of
Noah, 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} By these were the isles of the Gentiles 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
Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: 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 the LORD: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
{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 went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And
Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and
Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and
Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
{10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
{10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite, {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
Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the
Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto
Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20} These [are]
the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in
their countries, [and] in their nations.
{10:21} Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
[children] born. {10:22} The children of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. {10:23} And
the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
{10:24} And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
{10:25} And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of
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 Hazar-maveth, 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
unto Sephar a mount 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 by these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.

11 {11:1} And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;
and they dwelt there. {11:3} And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. {11:4}
And they said, Go to, 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 the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
{11:6} And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one,
and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined to do. {11:7} Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another’s speech. {11:8} So the LORD scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off to build the city. {11:9} Therefore is the name of it
called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
{11:10} These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was]
an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after
the flood: {11:11} And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad
five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. {11:12}
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
{11:13} And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
{11:14} And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
{11:15} And Salah 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
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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 an 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} But 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 {12:1} Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s
house, unto a land that I will shew thee: {12:2} And I will
make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: {12:3} And I
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
{12:4} So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and
five years old when he departed out of Haran. {12:5} And
Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
{12:6} And Abram passed through the land unto the place
of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite
[was] then in the land. {12:7} And the LORD appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and
there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared
unto him. {12:8} And he removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent,
[having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there
he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the
name of the LORD. {12:9} And Abram journeyed, going on
still toward the south.
{12:10} And there was a famine in the land: and Abram
went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was]
grievous in the land. {12:11} And it came to pass, when he
was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai
his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to
look upon: {12:12} Therefore it shall come to pass, when
the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his
wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
{12:13} Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be
well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of
thee.
{12:14} And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come
into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was]
very fair. {12:15} The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and
commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh’s house. {12:16} And he entreated Abram well
for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and
menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
{12:17} And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife. {12:18}
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that]
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she
[was] thy wife? {12:19} Why saidst thou, She [is] my
sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now
therefore behold thy wife, take [her,] and go thy way.
{12:20} And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning
him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.

13 {13:1} And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his
wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
{13:2} And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold. {13:3} And he went on his journeys from the south
even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Hai; {13:4} Unto the place
of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there
Abram called on the name of the LORD.
{13:5} And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,
and herds, and tents. {13:6} And the land was not able to
bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
{13:7} And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. {13:8}
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we [be] brethren. {13:9} [Is] not the whole
land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if
[thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if
[thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
{13:10} And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain
of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the
garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest
unto Zoar. {13:11} Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the one from the other. {13:12} Abram dwelled
in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom. {13:13} But the
men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
{13:14} And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
from the place where thou art northward, and southward,
and eastward, and westward: {13:15} For all the land which
thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
{13:16} And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then]
shall thy seed also be numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk
through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it unto thee. {13:18} Then Abram removed
[his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which
[is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

14 {14:1} And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king
of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of
Elam, and Tidal king of nations; {14:2} [That these] made
war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of
Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. {14:3} All
these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
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the salt sea. {14:4} Twelve years they served
Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
{14:5} And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and
the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims
in Shaveh Kiriathaim, {14:6} And the Horites in their
mount Seir, unto El-paran, which [is] by the wilderness.
{14:7} And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which
[is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites,
and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon- 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
joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; {14:9} With
Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five. {14:10} And the vale of
Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to
the mountain. {14:11} And they took all the goods of
Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their
way. {14:12} And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son,
who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
{14:13} And there came one that had escaped, and told
Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the
Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these
[were] confederate with Abram. {14:14} And when Abram
heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his
trained [servants,] born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan. {14:15} And he
divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night,
and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is]
on the left hand of Damascus. {14:16} And he brought back
all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and
his goods, and the women also, and the people.
{14:17} And the king of Sodom went out to meet him
after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of
the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of Shaveh,
which [is] the king’s dale. {14:18} And Melchizedek king
of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the
priest of the most high God. {14:19} And he blessed him,
and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God,
possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} And blessed be the
most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hand. And he gave him tithes of all. {14:21} And the king
of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take
the goods to thyself. {14:22} And Abram said to the king of
Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most
high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23} That I
will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I
will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest
say, I have made Abram rich: {14:24} Save only that which
the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which
went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their
portion.

15 {15:1} After these things the word of the LORD came
unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy
shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. {15:2} And
Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine
heir. {15:4} And, behold, the word of the LORD [came]
unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that
shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
{15:5} And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look
now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to
number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
{15:6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to
him for righteousness. {15:7} And he said unto him, I [am]
the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to
give thee this land to inherit it. {15:8} And he said, Lord
GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? {15:9}
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. {15:10} And he
took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
not. {15:11} And when the fowls came down upon the
carcases, Abram drove them away. {15:12} And when the
sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
an horror of great darkness fell upon him. {15:13} And he
said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years; {15:14} And
also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance. {15:15}
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age. {15:16} But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of
the Amorites [is] not yet full. {15:17} And it came to pass,
that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between
those pieces. {15:18} In the same day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given
this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates: {15:19} The Kenites, and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites, {15:20} And the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Rephaims, {15:21} And the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

16 {16:1} Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children:
and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was]
Hagar. {16:2} And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the
LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in
unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. {16:3} And
Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
{16:4} And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived:
and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was
despised in her eyes. {16:5} And Sarai said unto Abram,
My wrong [be] upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was
despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
{16:6} But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in
thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
{16:7} And the angel of the LORD found her by a
fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur. {16:8} And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she
said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. {16:9} And
the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself under her hands. {16:10} And the angel
of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
{16:11} And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold,
thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
{16:12} And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be]
against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and
he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. {16:13}
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her,
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me? {16:14} Wherefore the well was
called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and
Bered.
{16:15} And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called
his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. {16:16} And
Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.

17 {17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the
Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. {17:2}
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and
will multiply thee exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on
his face: and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for
me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a
father of many nations. {17:5} Neither shall thy name any
more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for
a father of many nations have I made thee. {17:6} And I
will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. {17:7} And I will
establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed
after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to
be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. {17:8} And I
will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
{17:9} And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations. {17:10} This [is] my covenant, which ye shall
keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every
man child among you shall be circumcised. {17:11} And ye
shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a
token of the covenant betwixt me and you. {17:12} And he
that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every
man child in your generations, he that is born in the house,
or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy
seed. {17:13} He that is born in thy house, and he that is
bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
{17:14} And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of
his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
{17:15} And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy
wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall]
her name [be. ]{17:16} And I will bless her, and give thee a
son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a
mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her. {17:17}
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in
his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
{17:18} And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee! {17:19} And God said, Sarah thy wife
shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name
Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an
everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him. {17:20}
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will
make him a great nation. {17:21} But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year. {17:22} And he left off talking
with him, and God went up from Abraham.
{17:23} And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
were born in his house, and all that were bought with his
money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house;
and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame
day, as God had said unto him. {17:24} And Abraham
[was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin. {17:25} And Ishmael his son
[was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin. {17:26} In the selfsame day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. {17:27} And all
the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with
money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

18 {18:1} And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
{18:2} And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him: and when he saw [them,] he ran to meet
them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground, {18:3} And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy
servant: {18:4} Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5}
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
{18:6} And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal,
knead [it,] and make cakes upon the hearth. {18:7} And
Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it. {18:8} And he took butter, and milk, and the calf
which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood
by them under the tree, and they did eat.
{18:9} And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy
wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said,
I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life;
and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard
[it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him. {18:11} Now
Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age;
[and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
{18:12} Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being
old also? {18:13} And the LORD said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a
child, which am old? {18:14} Is any thing too hard for the
LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
{18:15} Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
{18:16} And the men rose up from thence, and looked
toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them
on the way. {18:17} And the LORD said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do; {18:18} Seeing that
Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
{18:19} For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of
the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
{18:20} And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
{18:21} I will go down now, and see whether they have
done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
unto me; and if not, I will know. {18:22} And the men
turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the LORD. {18:23} And
Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked? {18:24} Peradventure there be
fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?
{18:25} That be far from thee to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the
Judge of all the earth do right? {18:26} And the LORD
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I
will spare all the place for their sakes. {18:27} And
Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and
ashes: {18:28} Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five?
And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy
[it. ]{18:29} And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I
will not do [it] for forty’s sake. {18:30} And he said [unto
him,] Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak:
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I
will not do [it,] if I find thirty there. {18:31} And he said,
Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord:
Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said,
I will not destroy [it] for twenty’s sake. {18:32} And he
said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but
this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he
said, I will not destroy [it] for ten’s sake. {18:33} And the
LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

19 {19:1} And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up
to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward
the ground; {19:2} And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn
in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night,
and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on
your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the
street all night. {19:3} And he pressed upon them greatly;
and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and
he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and
they did eat.
{19:4} But before they lay down, the men of the city,
[even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both
old and young, all the people from every quarter: {19:5}
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are]
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them. {19:6} And Lot went out
at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, {19:7}
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8}
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known
man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye
to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do
nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my
roof. {19:9} And they said, Stand back. And they said
[again,] This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will
needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than
with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot,
and came near to break the door. {19:10} But the men put
forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and
shut to the door. {19:11} And they smote the men that
[were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small
and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
{19:12} And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out of this
place: {19:13} For we will destroy this place, because the
cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD;
and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. {19:14} And Lot
went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the
LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
{19:15} And when the morning arose, then the angels
hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the
iniquity of the city. {19:16} And while he lingered, the men
laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and
upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being
merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.
{19:17} And it came to pass, when they had brought them
forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not
behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the
mountain, lest thou be consumed. {19:18} And Lot said
unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: {19:19} Behold now, thy
servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in
saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and I die: {19:20} Behold now, this city
is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape
thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
{19:21} And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken. {19:22} Haste thee,
escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come
thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
{19:23} The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot
entered into Zoar. {19:24} Then the LORD rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
LORD out of heaven; {19:25} And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground.
{19:26} But his wife looked back from behind him, and
she became a pillar of salt.
{19:27} And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the
place where he stood before the LORD: {19:28} And he
looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
{19:29} And it came to pass, when God destroyed the
cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew
the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
{19:30} And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to
dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
daughters. {19:31} And the firstborn said unto the younger,
Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to
come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: {19:32}
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. {19:33}
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose. {19:34} And it
came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the
younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us
make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and]
lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
{19:35} And they made their father drink wine that night
also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
{19:36} Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by
their father. {19:37} And the firstborn bare a son, and called
his name Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites
unto this day. {19:38} And the younger, she also bare a son,
and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of
the children of Ammon unto this day.

20 {20:1} And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the
south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and
sojourned in Gerar. {20:2} And Abraham said of Sarah his
wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent,
and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to Abimelech in a
dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a
dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she [is]
a man’s wife. {20:4} But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
{20:5} Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she,
even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of
my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
{20:6} And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I
thee not to touch her. {20:7} Now therefore restore the man
[his] wife; for he [is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee,
and thou shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou
that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine.
{20:8} Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears:
and the men were sore afraid. {20:9} Then Abimelech
called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done
unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. {20:10} And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this thing? {20:11} And Abraham said, Because I
thought, Surely the fear of God [is] not in this place; and
they will slay me for my wife’s sake. {20:12} And yet
indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father,
but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife. {20:13} And it came to pass, when God caused me to
wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This
[is] thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every
place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my brother.
{20:14} And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto
Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. {20:15} And
Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee: dwell
where it pleaseth thee. {20:16} And unto Sarah he said,
Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand [pieces] of
silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all
that [are] with thee, and with all [other:] thus she was
reproved.
{20:17} So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they
bare [children. ]{20:18} For the LORD had fast closed up
all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah
Abraham’s wife.

21 {21:1} And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and
the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} For
Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
the set time of which God had spoken to him. {21:3} And
Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. {21:4} And Abraham
circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had
commanded him. {21:5} And Abraham was an hundred
years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
{21:6} And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so
that] all that hear will laugh with me. {21:7} And she said,
Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should
have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his
old age. {21:8} And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was
weaned.
{21:9} And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. {21:10}
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman
shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. {21:11}
And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight
because of his son.
{21:12} And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy
bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken
unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. {21:13}
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he [is] thy seed. {21:14} And Abraham rose up
early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water,
and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder, and
the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. {21:15} And the
water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under
one of the shrubs. {21:16} And she went, and sat her down
over against [him] a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for
she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat
over against [him,] and lift up her voice, and wept. {21:17}
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
called Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the
lad where he [is. ]{21:18} Arise, lift up the lad, and hold
him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
{21:19} And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and
gave the lad drink. {21:20} And God was with the lad; and
he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
{21:21} And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
{21:22} And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech
and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto
Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
{21:23} Now therefore swear unto me here by God that
thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor
with my son’s son: [but] according to the kindness that I
have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land
wherein thou hast sojourned. {21:24} And Abraham said, I
will swear. {21:25} And Abraham reproved Abimelech be-
cause of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had
violently taken away. {21:26} And Abimelech said, I wot
not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me,
neither yet heard I [of it,] but to day. {21:27} And Abraham
took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and
both of them made a covenant. {21:28} And Abraham set
seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. {21:29} And
Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven
ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? {21:30} And
he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged
this well. {21:31} Wherefore he called that place Beersheba;
because there they sware both of them. {21:32} Thus
they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose
up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.
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{21:33} And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beer-sheba,
and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting
God. {21:34} And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’
land many days.

22 {22:1} And it came to pass after these things, that God
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said,
Behold, [here] I [am. ]{22:2} And he said, Take now thy
son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee
into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt
offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
{22:3} And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him,
and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering,
and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told
him. {22:4} Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and saw the place afar off. {22:5} And Abraham said
unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and
the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you,
{22:6} And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering,
and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his
hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
{22:7} And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said,
My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a
burnt offering? {22:8} And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they
went both of them together. {22:9} And they came to the
place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. {22:10} And
Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son. {22:11} And the angel of the LORD called unto
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he
said, Here [am] I. {22:12} And he said, Lay not thine hand
upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I
know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only [son] from me. {22:13} And Abraham
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [him] a
ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son. {22:14} And Abraham called the name of
that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the
mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
{22:15} And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham
out of heaven the second time, {22:16} And said, By myself
have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son:]
{22:17} That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multi-
plying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy
seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; {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 hath also born
children unto thy brother Nahor; {22:21} Huz his firstborn,
and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
{22:22} And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph,
and Bethuel. {22:23} And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. {22:24}
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare
also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

23 {23:1} And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty
years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2}
And Sarah died in Kirjath-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 stood up from before his dead, and
spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, {23:4} I [am] a
stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
sight. {23:5} And the children of Heth answered Abraham,
saying unto him, {23:6} Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a
mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres
bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his
sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. {23:7} And
Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, [even] to the children of Heth. {23:8} And he
communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat
for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, {23:9} That he may give
me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the
end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
{23:10} And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and
Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his
city, saying, {23:11} Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I
thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the
presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy
dead. {23:12} And Abraham bowed down himself before
the people of the land. {23:13} And he spake unto Ephron
in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou
[wilt give it,] I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money
for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.
{23:14} And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
{23:15} My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four
hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and
thee? bury therefore thy dead. {23:16} And Abraham
hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron
the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons
of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money]
with the merchant.
{23:17} And the field of Ephron, which [was] in
Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the
cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the
field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made
sure {23:18} Unto Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at
the gate of his city. {23:19} And after this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before
Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
{23:20} And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were
made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace
by the sons of Heth.

24 {24:1} And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age:
and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. {24:2}
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
my thigh: {24:3} And I will make thee swear by the LORD,
the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt
not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites, among whom I dwell: {24:4} But thou shalt go
unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto
my son Isaac. {24:5} And the servant said unto him,
Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me
unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the
land from whence thou camest? {24:6} And Abraham said
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unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither
again.
{24:7} The LORD God of heaven, which took me from
my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and
which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto
thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before
thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
{24:8} And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee,
then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not
my son thither again. {24:9} And the servant put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him
concerning that matter.
{24:10} And the servant took ten camels of the camels of
his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master
[were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia,
unto the city of Nahor. {24:11} And he made his camels to
kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of
the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw
[water. ]{24:12} And he said, O LORD God of my master
Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and
shew kindness unto my master Abraham. {24:13} Behold, I
stand [here] by the well of water; and the daughters of the
men of the city come out to draw water: {24:14} And let it
come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down
thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same
be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and
thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto
my master.
{24:15} And it came to pass, before he had done
speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to
Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s
brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. {24:16} And
the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither
had any man known her: and she went down to the well,
and filled her pitcher, and came up. {24:17} And the
servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink
a little water of thy pitcher. {24:18} And she said, Drink,
my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her
hand, and gave him drink. {24:19} And when she had done
giving him drink, she said, I will draw [water] for thy
camels also, until they have done drinking. {24:20} And she
hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran
again unto the well to draw [water,] and drew for all his
camels. {24:21} And the man wondering at her held his
peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey
prosperous or not. {24:22} And it came to pass, as the
camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden
earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her
hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold; {24:23} And said,
Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there
room [in] thy father’s house for us to lodge in? {24:24} And
she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the son of
Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. {24:25} She said
moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to lodge in. {24:26} And the man bowed
down his head, and worshipped the LORD. {24:27} And he
said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master Abraham,
who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his
truth: I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of
my master’s brethren. {24:28} And the damsel ran, and told
[them of] her mother’s house these things.
{24:29} And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was]
Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
{24:30} And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and
bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the
words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man
unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood
by the camels at the well. {24:31} And he said, Come in,
thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou
without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
camels.
{24:32} And the man came into the house: and he
ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the
camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men’s feet that
[were] with him. {24:33} And there was set [meat] before
him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine
errand. And he said, Speak on. {24:34} And he said, I [am]
Abraham’s servant. {24:35} And the LORD hath blessed
my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath
given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and
menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
{24:36} And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my
master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all
that he hath. {24:37} And my master made me swear,
saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: {24:38}
But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son. {24:39} And I said
unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow
me. {24:40} And he said unto me, The LORD, before
whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy
way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred,
and of my father’s house: {24:41} Then shalt thou be clear
from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and
if they give not thee [one,] thou shalt be clear from my oath.
{24:42} And I came this day unto the well, and said, O
LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper
my way which I go; {24:43} Behold, I stand by the well of
water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin
cometh forth to draw [water,] and I say to her, Give me, I
pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; {24:44} And
she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD
hath appointed out for my master’s son. {24:45} And before
I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came
forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
unto the well, and drew [water:] and I said unto her, Let me
drink, I pray thee. {24:46} And she made haste, and let
down her pitcher from her [shoulder,] and said, Drink, and I
will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made
the camels drink also. {24:47} And I asked her, and said,
Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of
Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I
put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her
hands. {24:48} And I bowed down my head, and
worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my
master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take
my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son. {24:49} And
now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me:
and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the
left. {24:50} Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said,
The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak
unto thee bad or good. {24:51} Behold, Rebekah [is] before
thee, take [her,] and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s
wife, as the LORD hath spoken. {24:52} And it came to
pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he
worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth.
{24:53} And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he
gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
{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
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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 the LORD hath prospered my way; send me
away that I may go to my master. {24:57} And they said,
We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. {24:58}
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go
with this man? And she said, I will go. {24:59} And they
sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham’s servant, and his men. {24:60} And they blessed
Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou
[the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed
possess the gate of those which hate them.
{24:61} And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they
rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the
servant took Rebekah, and went his way. {24:62} And Isaac
came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the
south country. {24:63} And Isaac went out to meditate in
the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw,
and, behold, the camels [were] coming. {24:64} And
Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel. {24:65} For she [had] said unto the
servant, What man [is] this that walketh in the field to meet
us? And the servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore
she took a vail, and covered herself. {24:66} And the
servant told Isaac all things that he had done. {24:67} And
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and
Isaac was comforted after his mother’s [death.]

25 {25:1} Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name
[was] Keturah. {25:2} And she bare him Zimran, and
Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
{25:3} And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons
of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
{25:4} And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the
children of Keturah.
{25:5} And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
{25:6} But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham
had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his
son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
{25:7} And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham’s
life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
{25:8} Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good
old age, an old man, and full [of years;] and was gathered to
his people. {25:9} And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried
him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son
of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre; {25:10} The
field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there
was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
{25:11} And it came to pass after the death of Abraham,
that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
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 firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, {25:14} And Mishma, and
Dumah, and Massa, {25:15} Hadar, and Tema, Jetur,
Naphish, and Kedemah: {25:16} These [are] the sons of
Ishmael, and these [are] their names, by their towns, and by
their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
{25:17} And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an
hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the
ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. {25:18}
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before
Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
{25:19} And these [are] the generations of Isaac,
Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: {25:20} And Isaac
was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to
Laban the Syrian. {25:21} And Isaac intreated the LORD
for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the LORD was
intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. {25:22}
And the children struggled together within her; and she said,
If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to enquire of
the LORD. {25:23} And the LORD said unto her, Two
nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall
be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be
stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve
the younger.
{25:24} And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
behold, [there were] twins in her womb. {25:25} And the
first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they
called his name Esau. {25:26} And after that came his
brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his
name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was] threescore years old
when she bare them. {25:27} And the boys grew: and Esau
was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a
plain man, dwelling in tents. {25:28} And Isaac loved Esau,
because he did eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved
Jacob.
{25:29} And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the
field, and he [was] faint: {25:30} And Esau said to Jacob,
Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage;] for I
[am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom. {25:31}
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. {25:32}
And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what
profit shall this birthright do to me? {25:33} And Jacob
said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he
sold his birthright unto Jacob. {25:34} Then Jacob gave
Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink,
and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his]
birthright.

26 {26:1} And there was a famine in the land, beside the
first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went
unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. {26:2}
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
{26:3} Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all
these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware
unto Abraham thy father; {26:4} And I will make thy seed
to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy
seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the na-
tions of the earth be blessed; {26:5} Because that Abraham
obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.
{26:6} And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: {26:7} And the men of
the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my
sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest, [said he,]
the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because
she [was] fair to look upon. {26:8} And it came to pass,
when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of
the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and,
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behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife. {26:9}
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety
she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister?
And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
{26:10} And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done
unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy
wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
{26:11} And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying,
He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to
death. {26:12} Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received
in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed
him. {26:13} And the man waxed great, and went forward,
and grew until he became very great: {26:14} For he had
possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. {26:15}
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in
the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped
them, and filled them with earth. {26:16} And Abimelech
said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than
we.
{26:17} And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in
the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. {26:18} And Isaac
digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called
them. {26:19} And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley,
and found there a well of springing water. {26:20} And the
herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying,
The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well
Esek; because they strove with him. {26:21} And they
digged another well, and 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 the LORD 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 the LORD appeared unto him the
same night, and said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father:
fear not, for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and
multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake. {26:25}
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of
the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s
servants digged a well.
{26:26} Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and
Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain
of his army. {26:27} And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore
come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away
from you? {26:28} And they said, We saw certainly that the
LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath
betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
covenant with thee; {26:29} That thou wilt do us no hurt, as
we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee
nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou
[art] now the blessed of the LORD. {26:30} And he made
them a feast, and they did eat and drink. {26:31} And they
rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another:
and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace. {26:32} And it came to pass the same day, that
Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well
which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found
water. {26:33} And he called it Shebah: therefore the name
of the city [is] Beer-sheba unto this day.
{26:34} And Esau was forty years old when he took to
wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath
the daughter of Elon the Hittite: {26:35} Which were a grief
of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

27 {27:1} And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and
his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau
his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto
him, Behold, [here am] I. {27:2} And he said, Behold now,
I am old, I know not the day of my death: {27:3} Now
therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;
{27:4} And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and
bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee
before I die. {27:5} And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake
to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for]
venison, [and] to bring [it.]
{27:6} And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother,
saying, {27:7} Bring me venison, and make me savoury
meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before
my death. {27:8} Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command thee. {27:9} Go now to
the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the
goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth: {27:10} And thou shalt bring [it] to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his
death. {27:11} And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,
Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a
smooth man: {27:12} My father peradventure will feel me,
and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a
curse upon me, and not a blessing. {27:13} And his mother
said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my son: only obey
my voice, and go fetch me [them. ]{27:14} And he went,
and fetched, and brought [them] to his mother: and his
mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
[27:15} And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son
Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them
upon Jacob her younger son: {27:16} And she put the skins
of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck: {27:17} And she gave the savoury meat
and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her
son Jacob.
{27:18} And he came unto his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son? {27:19}
And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn; I
have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee,
sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
{27:20} And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou
hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because
the LORD thy God brought [it] to me. {27:21} And Isaac
said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel
thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not.
{27:22} And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he
felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob’s voice, but the
hands [are] the hands of Esau. {27:23} And he discerned
him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s
hands: so he blessed him. {27:24} And he said, [Art] thou
my very son Esau? And he said, I [am. ]{27:25} And he
said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my son’s
venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it]
near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and
he drank. {27:26} And his father Isaac said unto him, Come
near now, and kiss me, my son. {27:27} And he came near,
and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as the
smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: {27:28}
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: {27:29}
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down
to thee: cursed [be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed
[be] he that blesseth thee.
{27:30} And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made
an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out
from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother
came in from his hunting. {27:31} And he also had made
savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto
his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison,
that thy soul may bless me. {27:32} And Isaac his father
said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he said, I [am] thy son,
thy firstborn Esau. {27:33} And Isaac trembled very
exceedingly, and said, Who? where [is] he that hath taken
venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of all before
thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be
blessed. {27:34} And when Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and
said unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.
{27:35} And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and
hath taken away thy blessing. {27:36} And he said, Is not
he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these
two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he
hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
reserved a blessing for me? {27:37} And Isaac answered
and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and
all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with
corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do
now unto thee, my son? {27:38} And Esau said unto his
father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me,
[even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice,
and wept. {27:39} And Isaac his father answered and said
unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the
earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; {27:40} And
by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and
it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
{27:41} And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart,
The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I
slay my brother Jacob. {27:42} And these words of Esau
her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called
Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy
brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself,
[purposing] to kill thee. {27:43} Now therefore, my son,
obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to
Haran; {27:44} And tarry with him a few days, until thy
brother’s fury turn away; {27:45} Until thy brother’s anger
turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast
done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence:
why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
{27:46} And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the
daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

28 {28:1} And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and
charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife
of the daughters of Canaan. {28:2} Arise, go to Padanaram,
to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy
mother’s brother. {28:3} And God Almighty bless thee, and
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a
multitude of people; {28:4} And give thee the blessing of
Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou
mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which
God gave unto Abraham. {28:5} And Isaac sent away
Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of
Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and
Esau’s mother.
{28:6} When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and
sent him away to Padan-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 Padan-aram; {28:8} And Esau
seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his
father; {28:9} Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto
the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael
Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
{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 of the stones of that place, and [put] them for his
pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. {28:12} And he
dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the
top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it. {28:13} And, behold, the
LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of
Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon
thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; {28:14}
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed. {28:15} And, behold, I
[am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither
thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will
not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken
to thee of.
{28:16} And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
{28:17} And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this
place! this is none other but the house of God, and this [is]
the gate of heaven. {28:18} And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his
pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the
top of it. {28:19} And he called the name of that place
Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the
first. {28:20} And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will
be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will
give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, {28:21} So that
I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the
LORD be my God: {28:22} And this stone, which I have
set [for] a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou
shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

29 {29:1} Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into
the land of the people of the east. {29:2} And he looked, and
behold a well in the field, and, lo, there [were] three flocks
of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the
flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well’s mouth.
{29:3} And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they
rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the
sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his
place. {29:4} And Jacob said unto them, My brethren,
whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we. {29:5}
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
And they said, We know [him. ]{29:6} And he said unto
them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold,
Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. {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 [till] they roll
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the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
{29:9} And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came
with her father’s sheep: for she kept them. {29:10} And it
came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban
his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s
brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the
well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s
brother. {29:11} And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his
voice, and wept. {29:12} And Jacob told Rachel that he
[was] her father’s brother, and that he [was] Rebekah’s son:
and she ran and told her father. {29:13} And it came to
pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son,
that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him,
and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these
things. {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} Leah [was]
tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
{29:18} And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee
seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. {29:19} And
Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I
should give her to another man: abide with me. {29:20}
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed
unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.
{29:21} And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife,
for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. {29:22}
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and
made a feast. {29:23} And it came to pass in the evening,
that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and
he went in unto her. {29:24} And Laban gave unto his
daughter Leah Zilpah his maid [for] an handmaid. {29:25}
And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was]
Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done
unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore
then hast thou beguiled me? {29:26} And Laban said, It
must not be so done in our country, to give the younger
before the firstborn. {29:27} Fulfil her week, and we will
give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve
with me yet seven other years. {29:28} And Jacob did so,
and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter
to wife also. {29:29} And Laban gave to Rachel his
daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. {29:30} And
he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
{29:31} And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated,
he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren. {29:32} And
Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon
my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
{29:33} And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,
Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath
therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name
Simeon. {29:34} And she conceived again, and bare a son;
and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me,
because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name
called Levi. {29:35} And she conceived again, and bare a
son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore
she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

30 {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 {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 Padan-aram, 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
Jegar-sahadutha: 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 {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 {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
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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 have 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 El-elohe-Israel.

34 {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 theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto
them, and they will dwell with us. {34:24} And unto Hamor
and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the
gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that
went out of the gate of his city.
{34:25} And it came to pass on the third day, when they
were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon
the city boldly, and slew all the males. {34:26} And they
slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went
out. {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 {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]
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with him. {35:7} And he built there an altar, and called the
place El-beth-el: 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 Padan-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
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 Ben-oni: 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 Padan-aram.
{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 {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 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 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 {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 {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 {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.

40 {40:1} And it came to pass after these things, [that] the
butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended
their lord the king of Egypt. {40:2} And Pharaoh was wroth
against two [of] his officers, against the chief of the butlers,
and against the chief of the bakers. {40:3} And he put them
in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the
prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound. {40:4} And the
captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
served them: and they continued a season in ward.
{40:5} And they dreamed a dream both of them, each
man his dream in one night, each man according to the
interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the
king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison. {40:6}
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And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked
upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad. {40:7} And he
asked Pharaoh’s officers that [were] with him in the ward of
his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to
day? {40:8} And they said unto him, We have dreamed a
dream, and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said
unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God? tell me
[them,] I pray you. {40:9} And the chief butler told his
dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a
vine [was] before me; {40:10} And in the vine [were] three
branches: and it [was] as though it budded, [and] her
blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth
ripe grapes: {40:11} And Pharaoh’s cup [was] in my hand:
and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup,
and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. {40:12} And
Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation of it: The
three branches [are] three days: {40:13} Yet within three
days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto
thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his
hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
{40:14} But think on me when it shall be well with thee,
and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention
of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
{40:15} For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the
Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should
put me into the dungeon. {40:16} When the chief baker saw
that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also
[was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets
on my head: {40:17} And in the uppermost basket [there
was] of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds
did eat them out of the basket upon my head. {40:18} And
Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation
thereof: The three baskets [are] three days: {40:19} Yet
within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off
thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat
thy flesh from off thee.
{40:20} And it came to pass the third day, [which was]
Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his
servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of
the chief baker among his servants. {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 {41:1} And it came to pass at the end of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
{41:2} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a
meadow. {41:3} And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and
stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river. {41:4}
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the
seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. {41:5}
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold,
seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
{41:6} And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the
east wind sprung up after them. {41:7} And the seven thin
ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream. {41:8} And it came to
pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent
and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise
men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there
was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
{41:9} Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I
do remember my faults this day: {41:10} Pharaoh was
wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain
of the guard’s house, both [me] and the chief baker: {41:11}
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his
dream. {41:12} And [there was] there with us a young man,
an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told
him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man
according to his dream he did interpret. {41:13} And it
came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he
restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
{41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they
brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved
[himself,] and changed his raiment, and came in unto
Pharaoh. {41:15} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it:
and I have heard say of thee, [that] thou canst understand a
dream to interpret it. {41:16} And Joseph answered
Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an
answer of peace. {41:17} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In
my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
{41:18} And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a
meadow: {41:19} And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such
as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: {41:20}
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first
seven fat kine: {41:21} And when they had eaten them up,
it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they
[were] still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
{41:22} And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears
came up in one stalk, full and good: {41:23} And, behold,
seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them: {41:24} And the thin ears devoured
the seven good ears: and I told [this] unto the magicians; but
[there was] none that could declare [it] to me.
{41:25} And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of
Pharaoh [is] one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is]
about to do. {41:26} The seven good kine [are] seven years;
and the seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is]
one. {41:27} And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that
came up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty
ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of
famine. {41:28} This [is] the thing which I have spoken
unto Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he sheweth unto
Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold, there come seven years of great
plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: {41:30} And there
shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the
famine shall consume the land; {41:31} And the plenty
shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine
following; for it [shall be] very grievous. {41:32} And for
that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it is]
because the thing [is] established by God, and God will
shortly bring it to pass. {41:33} Now therefore let Pharaoh
look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land
of Egypt. {41:34} Let Pharaoh do [this,] and let him appoint
officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land
of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} And let them
gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in
the cities. {41:36} And that food shall be for store to the
land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the
land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
{41:37} And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of all his servants. {41:38} And Pharaoh
said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is,]
a man in whom the Spirit of God is? {41:39} And Pharaoh
said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all
this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art:]
{41:40} Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto
thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne
will I be greater than thou. {41:41} And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
{41:42} And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and
put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of
fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; {41:43} And
he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and
they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him
[ruler] over all the land of Egypt. {41:44} And Pharaoh said
unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. {41:45} And
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he
gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest
of On. And Joseph went out over [all] 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 gathered corn as the sand of the
sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without
number. {41:50} And unto Joseph were born two sons
before the years of famine came, which Asenath the
daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
{41:51} And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh: For God, [said he,] hath made me forget all my
toil, and all my father’s house. {41:52} And the name of the
second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be
fruitful in the land of my affliction.
{41:53} And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in
the land of Egypt, were ended. {41:54} And the seven years
of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and
the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there
was bread. {41:55} And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and
Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what
he saith to you, do. {41:56} And the famine was over all the
face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and
sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the
land of Egypt. {41:57} And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy [corn;] because that the famine was so
sore in all lands.

42 {42:1} Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt,
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
{42:2} And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn
in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence;
that we may live, and not die.
{42:3} And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn
in Egypt. {42:4} But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent
not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure
mischief befall him. {42:5} And the sons of Israel came to
buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the
land of Canaan. {42:6} And Joseph [was] the governor over
the land, [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the
land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down
themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth. {42:7}
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them;
and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said,
From the land of Canaan to buy food. {42:8} And Joseph
knew his brethren, but they knew not him. {42:9} And
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them,
and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come. {42:10} And they said unto him, Nay,
my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. {42:11} We
[are] all one man’s sons; we [are] true [men,] thy servants
are no spies. {42:12} And he said unto them, Nay, but to
see the nakedness of the land ye are come. {42:13} And
they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the sons of
one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest
[is] this day with our father, and one [is] not. {42:14} And
Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto you,
saying, Ye [are] spies: {42:15} Hereby ye shall be proved:
By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except
your youngest brother come hither. {42:16} Send one of
you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be
any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye
[are] spies. {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 the house
of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses: {42:20} But bring your youngest brother unto me;
so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And
they did so.
{42:21} And they said one to another, We [are] verily
guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish
of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us. {42:22} And
Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore, behold, also his blood is required. {42:23} And
they knew not that Joseph understood [them;] for he spake
unto them by an interpreter. {42:24} And he turned himself
about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and
communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and
bound him before their eyes.
{42:25} Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with
corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to
give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
{42:26} And they laded their asses with the corn, and
departed thence. {42:27} And as one of them opened his
sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his
money; for, behold, it [was] in his sack’s mouth. {42:28}
And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and,
lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them,] and
they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that]
God hath done unto us?
{42:29} And they came unto Jacob their father unto the
land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them;
saying, {42:30} The man, [who is] the lord of the land,
spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
{42:31} And we said unto him, We [are] true [men;] we are
no spies: {42:32} We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our
father in the land of Canaan. {42:33} And the man, the lord
of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye
[are] true [men;] leave one of your brethren [here] with me,
and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be
gone: {42:34} And bring your youngest brother unto me:
then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are]
true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall
traffick in the land.
{42:35} And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks,
that, behold, every man’s bundle of money [was] in his
sack: and when [both] they and their father saw the bundles
of money, they were afraid. {42:36} And Jacob their father
said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children:]
Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take
Benjamin [away:] all these things are against me. {42:37}
And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two
sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand,
and I will bring him to thee again. {42:38} And he said, My
son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and
he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the
which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave.

43 {43:1} And the famine [was] sore in the land. {43:2} And
it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they
had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go
again, buy us a little food. {43:3} And Judah spake unto
him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying,
Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.
{43:4} If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go
down and buy thee food: {43:5} But if thou wilt not send
[him,] we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye
shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.
{43:6} And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me,
as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? {43:7} And
they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our
kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another]
brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these
words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring
your brother down? {43:8} And Judah said unto Israel his
father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that
we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our
little ones. {43:9} I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt
thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him
before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: {43:10}
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this
second time. {43:11} And their father Israel said unto them,
If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the
land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a
little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and
almonds: {43:12} And take double money in your hand;
and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your
sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an
oversight: {43:13} Take also your brother, and arise, go
again unto the man: {43:14} And God Almighty give you
mercy before the man, that he may send away your other
brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children,] I
am bereaved.
{43:15} And the men took that present, and they took
double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and
went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. {43:16} And
when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make
ready; for [these] men shall dine with me at noon. {43:17}
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the
men into Joseph’s house. {43:18} And the men were afraid,
because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they
said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at
the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and
our asses. {43:19} And they came near to the steward of
Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of
the house, {43:20} And said, O sir, we came indeed down
at the first time to buy food: {43:21} And it came to pass,
when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and,
behold, [every] man’s money [was] in the mouth of his
sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it
again in our hand. {43:22} And other money have we
brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who
put our money in our sacks. {43:23} And he said, Peace
[be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father,
hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money.
And he brought Simeon out unto them. {43:24} And the
man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave [them]
water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender. {43:25} And they made ready the present
against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should
eat bread there.
{43:26} And when Joseph came home, they brought him
the present which [was] in their hand into the house, and
bowed themselves to him to the earth. {43:27} And he
asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your father well,
the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive? {43:28}
And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good
health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads,
and made obeisance. {43:29} And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, [Is]
this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And
he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. {43:30} And
Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into
[his] chamber, and wept there. {43:31} And he washed his
face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread. {43:32} And they set on for him by himself, and for
them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat
with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not
eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an abomination
unto the Egyptians. {43:33} And they sat before him, the
firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest
according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at
another. {43:34} And he took [and sent] messes unto them
from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so
much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry
with him.

44 {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 corn money. And he did according
to the word that Joseph had spoken. {44:3} As soon as the
morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their
asses. {44:4} [And] when they were gone out of the city,
[and] not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up,
follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them,
say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
{44:5} [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and
whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
{44:6} And he overtook them, and he spake unto them
these same words. {44:7} And they said unto him,
Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy
servants should do according to this thing: {44:8} Behold,
the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
{44:9} With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both
let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
{44:10} And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto
your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant;
and ye shall be blameless. {44:11} Then they speedily took
down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every
man his sack. {44:12} And he searched, [and] began at the
eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in
Benjamin’s sack. {44:13} Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
{44:14} And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s
house; for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on
the ground. {44:15} And Joseph said unto them, What deed
[is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I
can certainly divine? {44:16} And Judah said, What shall
we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we
clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy
servants: behold, we [are] my lord’s servants, both we, and
[he] also with whom the cup is found. {44:17} And he said,
God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose hand
the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get
you up in peace unto your father.
{44:18} Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s
ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for
thou [art] even as Pharaoh. {44:19} My lord asked his
servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? {44:20}
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man,
and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is
dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth
him. {44:21} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him
down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. {44:22}
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father:
for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.
{44:23} And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face
no more. {44:24} And it came to pass when we came up
unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my
lord. {44:25} And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a
little food. {44:26} And we said, We cannot go down: if our
youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we
may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother
[be] with us. {44:27} And thy servant my father said unto
us, Ye know that my wife bare me two [sons: ]{44:28} And
the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in
pieces; and I saw him not since: {44:29} And if ye take this
also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. {44:30} Now
therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad
[be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s
life; {44:31} It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the
lad [is] not [with us,] that he will die: and thy servants shall
bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with
sorrow to the grave. {44:32} For thy servant became surety
for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto
thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
{44:33} Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide
instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go
up with his brethren. {44:34} For how shall I go up to my
father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see
the evil that shall come on my father.

45 {45:1} Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all
them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to
go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while
Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. {45:2} And
he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard. {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} Now therefore 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 yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall]
neither [be] earing nor harvest. {45:7} And God sent me
before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to
save your lives by a great deliverance. {45:8} So now [it
was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. {45:9} Haste ye,
and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy
son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come
down unto me, tarry not: {45:10} And thou shalt dwell in
the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou,
and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks,
and thy herds, and all that thou hast: {45:11} And there will
I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five years of famine; lest
thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to
poverty. {45:12} And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes
of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh
unto you. {45:13} And ye shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall
haste and bring down my father hither. {45:14} And he fell
upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin
wept upon his neck. {45:15} Moreover he kissed all his
brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren
talked with him.
{45:16} And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s
house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants. {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 children 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 corn and bread and meat 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 told
him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over
all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he
believed them not. {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 {46:1} And Israel took his journey with all that he had,
and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God
of his father Isaac. {46:2} And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said,
Here [am] I. {46:3} And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy
father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make
of thee a great nation: {46:4} I will go down with thee into
Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again:] and
Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. {46:5} And
Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel
carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their
wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
{46:6} And they took their cattle, and their goods, which
they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him: {46:7} His sons, and his
sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters,
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
{46:8} And these [are] the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob’s firstborn. {46:9} And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch,
and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
{46:10} And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman.
{46:11} And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and
Merari.
{46:12} And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,
and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
{46:13} And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and
Job, and Shimron.
{46:14} And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and
Jahleel. {46:15} These [be] the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in Padan-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; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and
Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of
Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. {46:18} These [are] the sons
of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and
these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls. {46:19} The
sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
{46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On bare unto him.
{46:21} And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and
Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh,
Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. {46:22} These [are] the
sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls
[were] fourteen.
{46:23} And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
{46:24} And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shillem. {46:25} These [are] the sons of Bilhah,
which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare
these unto Jacob: all the souls [were] seven. {46:26} All the
souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of
his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls [were]
threescore and six; {46:27} And the sons of Joseph, which
were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of
the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were]
threescore and ten.
{46:28} And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to
direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of
Goshen. {46:29} And Joseph made ready his chariot, and
went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented
himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his
neck a good while. {46:30} And Israel said unto Joseph,
Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou
[art] yet alive. {46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren,
and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh,
and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house,
which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
{46:32} And the men [are] shepherds, for their trade hath
been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and
their herds, and all that they have. {46:33} And it shall
come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What [is] your occupation? {46:34} That ye shall say, Thy
servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even
until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell
in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an
abomination unto the Egyptians.

47 {47:1} Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said,
My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan;
and, behold, they [are] in the land of Goshen. {47:2} And
he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and
presented them unto Pharaoh. {47:3} And Pharaoh said
unto his brethren, What [is] your occupation? And they said
unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both we, [and]
also our fathers. {47:4} They said moreover unto Pharaoh,
For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants
have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in
the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy
servants dwell in the land of Goshen. {47:5} And Pharaoh
spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are
come unto thee: {47:6} The land of Egypt [is] before thee;
in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell;
in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest
[any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers
over my cattle. {47:7} And Joseph brought in Jacob his
father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh. {47:8} And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
[art] thou? {47:9} And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days
of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty
years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the
life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. {47:10}
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
Pharaoh.
{47:11} And Joseph placed his father and his brethren,
and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best
of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
commanded. {47:12} And Joseph nourished his father, and
his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread,
according to [their] families.
{47:13} And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the
famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all]
the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. {47:14}
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which
they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s
house. {47:15} And when money failed in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came
unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die
in thy presence? for the money faileth. {47:16} And Joseph
said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if
money fail. {47:17} And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for
horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds,
and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their
cattle for that year. {47:18} When that year was ended, they
came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will
not hide [it] from my lord, how that our money is spent; my
lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in
the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: {47:19}
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we
may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. {47:20}
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for
the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s. {47:21}
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one]
end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
{47:22} Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the
priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did
eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they
sold not their lands. {47:23} Then Joseph said unto the
people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land
for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the
land. {47:24} And it shall come to pass in the increase, that
ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts
shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food,
and for them of your households, and for food for your little
ones. {47:25} And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let
us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be
Pharaoh’s servants. {47:26} And Joseph made it a law over
the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have
the fifth [part;] except the land of the priests only, [which]
became not Pharaoh’s.
{47:27} And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the
country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and
grew, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} And Jacob lived
in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of
Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. {47:29} And
the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his
son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in
thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal
kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
{47:30} But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry
me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said. {47:31} And he said, Swear
unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself
upon the bed’s head.

48 {48:1} And it came to pass after these things, that [one]
told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with
him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. {48:2} And [one]
told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto
thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
{48:3} And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appear-
ed unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed
me, {48:4} And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee
fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a
multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed
after thee [for] an everlasting possession.
{48:5} And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,
which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I
came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and
Simeon, they shall be mine. {48:6} And thy issue, which
thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be
called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
{48:7} And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel
died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet
[there was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I
buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is
Bethlehem. {48:8} And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and
said, Who [are] these? {48:9} And Joseph said unto his
father, They [are] my sons, whom God hath given me in this
[place.] And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I
will bless them. {48:10} Now the eyes of Israel were dim
for age, [so that] he could not see. And he brought them
near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
{48:11} And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to
see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
{48:12} And Joseph brought them out from between his
knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
{48:13} And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right
hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left
hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought [them] near
unto him. {48:14} And Israel stretched out his right hand,
and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who [was] the younger,
and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his
hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.
{48:15} And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before
whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God
which fed me all my life long unto this day, {48:16} The
Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in
the midst of the earth. {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 firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. {48:19} And
his father refused, and said, I know [it,] my son, I know [it:]
he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great:
but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
his seed shall become a multitude of nations. {48:20} And
he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,
saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he
set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} And Israel said unto
Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring
you again unto the land of your fathers. {48:22} Moreover I
have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I
took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with
my bow.

49 {49:1} And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall
befall you in the last days. {49:2} Gather yourselves
together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel
your father.
{49:3} Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power: {49:4} Unstable as water, thou shalt
not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then
defiledst thou [it:] he went up to my couch.
{49:5} Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of
cruelty [are in] their habitations. {49:6} O my soul, come
not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour,
be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in
their selfwill they digged down a wall. {49:7} Cursed [be]
their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their wrath, for it was
cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
{49:8} Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall
praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy
father’s children shall bow down before thee. {49:9} Judah
[is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up? {49:10} The sceptre shall not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the
people [be. ]{49:11} Binding his foal unto the vine, and his
ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in
wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: {49:12} His
eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
{49:13} Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and
he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be]
unto Zidon.
{49:14} Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between
two burdens: {49:15} And he saw that rest [was] good, and
the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to
bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
{49:16} Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel. {49:17} Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder
in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider
shall fall backward. {49:18} I have waited for thy salvation,
O LORD.
{49:19} Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the last.
{49:20} Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall
yield royal dainties.
{49:21} Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
{49:22} Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful
bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
{49:23} The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at
him,] and hated him: {49:24} But his bow abode in strength,
and the arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:) {49:25} [Even] by the God of
thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who
shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of
the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb: {49:26} The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost
bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was
separate from his brethren.
{49:27} Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning
he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the
spoil.
{49:28} All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this
[is it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them;
every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
{49:29} And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to
be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the
cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite, {49:30} In
the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is]
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession
of a buryingplace. {49:31} There they buried Abraham and
Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife; and there I buried Leah. {49:32} The purchase of the
field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children
of Heth. {49:33} And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed,
and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

50 {50:1} And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and
wept upon him, and kissed him. {50:2} And Joseph com-
manded his servants the physicians to embalm his father:
and the physicians embalmed Israel. {50:3} And forty days
were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those
which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him
threescore and ten days. {50:4} And when the days of his
mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,
speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, {50:5} My
father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which
I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury
my father, and I will come again. {50:6} And Pharaoh said,
Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear.
{50:7} And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with
him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his
house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, {50:8} And
all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s
house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their
herds, they left in the land of Goshen. {50:9} And there
went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a
very great company. {50:10} And they came to the
threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there
they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and
he made a mourning for his father seven days. {50:11} And
when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was
called Abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond 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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before
Mamre.
{50:14} And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his
brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father,
after he had buried his father.
{50:15} And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father
was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and
will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
{50:16} And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father did command before he died, saying, {50:17} So
shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the
trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee
evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the
servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when
they spake unto him. {50:18} And his brethren also went
and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
[be] thy servants. {50:19} And Joseph said unto them, Fear
not: for [am] I in the place of God? {50:20} But as for you,
ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to
bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.
{50:21} Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and
your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly
unto them.
{50:22} And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s
house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. {50:23}
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third
[generation:] the children also of Machir the son Manasseh
were brought up upon Joseph’s knees. {50:24} And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you,
and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {50:25} And Joseph
took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
{50:26} So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years
old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in
Egypt.