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1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the
 face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over 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
 between the light and the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
 Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the
 first day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the
 waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
1:7 And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters
 that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the
 expanse; and it was so.
1:8 And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening,
 and there was morning -- a second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered
 together to 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 he called Seas. And God saw that it was
 good.
1:11 And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb
 producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind,
 the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed
 after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is
 in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a third
 day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the
 heavens, to divide between the day and 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 expanse of the heavens,
 to give light on the earth. And it was so.
1:16 And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule
 the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the
 stars.
1:17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give
 light on the earth,
1:18 and to rule during the day and during the night, and to
 divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it
 was good.
1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fourth
 day.
1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
 souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the
 heavens.
1:21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living
 soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind,
 and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was
 good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and
 fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the
 earth.
1:23 And there was evening, and there was morning -- a fifth
 day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after
 their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth,
 after their kind. And it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the
 cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground
 after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
 likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
 and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over
 the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on
 the earth.
1:27 And God created Man in his image, in the image of God
 created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and
 multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion
 over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and
 over every animal that moveth on the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing
 seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the
 fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
1:30 and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the
 heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which
 is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.
1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was
 very good. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the
 sixth day.
2:1 And the heavens and the earth and all their host were
 finished.
2:2 And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he
 had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
 which he had made.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because
 that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in
 making it.
2:4 These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when
 they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth
 and heavens,
2:5 and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and
 every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had
 not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to
 till the ground.
2:6 But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole
 surface of the ground.
2:7 And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and
 breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a
 living soul.
2:8 And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and
 there put Man whom he had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow
 that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree
 of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the
 knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from
 thence it was parted, and became four main streams.
2:11 The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds
 the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.
2:12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx
 stone are there.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which
 surrounds the whole land of Cush.
2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
 which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that
 is Euphrates.
2:15 And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of
 Eden, to till it and to guard it.
2:16 And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of
 the garden thou shalt 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 of it thou
 shalt certainly die.
2:18 And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be
 alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.
2:19 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every
 animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought
 [them] to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man
 called each living soul, that was its name.
2:20 And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the
 heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he
 found no helpmate, his like.
2:21 And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man;
 and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh
 in its stead.
2:22 And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man
 into a woman; and brought her to Man.
2:23 And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of
 my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken
 out of a man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
 cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not
 ashamed.
3:1 And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field
 which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it
 even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of
 the garden?
3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
 of the trees of the garden;
3:3 but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the
 garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not
 touch it, lest ye die.
3:4 And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly
 die;
3:5 but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will
 be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
 it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired
 to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and
 gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
 they were naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made
 themselves aprons.
3:8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the
 garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid
 themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of
 the trees of the garden.
3:9 And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art
 thou?
3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I feared,
 because I am naked; and I hid myself.
3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou
 eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
3:12 And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with
 me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
3:13 And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou
 hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I
 ate.
3:14 And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast
 done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every
 beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust
 all the days of thy life.
3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
 between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and
 thou shalt crush his heel.
3:16 To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail
 and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to
 thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
3:17 And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the
 voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded
 thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on
 thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of
 thy life;
3:18 and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt
 eat the herb of the field.
3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou
 return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust
 thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
3:20 And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the
 mother of all living.
3:21 And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin,
 and clothed them.
3:22 And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of
 us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his
 hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for
 ever ...!
3:23 Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of
 Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
3:24 And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the
 flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of
 Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.
4:1 And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain,
 and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.
4:2 And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a
 shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.
4:3 And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of
 the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah.
4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock,
 and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his
 offering;
4:5 and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And
 Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy
 countenance fallen?
4:7 If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with
 confidence]? 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 spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when
 they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his
 brother, and slew him.
4:9 And Jehovah said to 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 is crying to me from the ground.
4:11 And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened
 its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield
 thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the
 earth.
4:13 And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be
 borne.
4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the
 ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
 wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass,
 [that] every one who finds me will slay me.
4:15 And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain,
 it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain,
 lest any finding him should smite him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt
 in the land of Nod, toward the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch.
 And he built a city; and he called the name of the city after
 the name of his son Enoch.
4:18 And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and
 Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech.
4:19 And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah,
 and the name of the second, Zillah.
4:20 And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell
 in tents, and [breed] cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of
 those who handle the harp and pipe.
4:22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every
 kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain
 was Naamah.
4:23 And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my
 voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have
 slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise.
4:24 If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and
 seven fold.
4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and
 called his name Seth: ... For God has appointed me another seed
 instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him.
4:26 And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his
 name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.
5:1 This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God
 created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and
 called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son]
 in his 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 begot sons and daughters.
5:5 And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and
 thirty years; and he died.
5:6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
5:7 And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and
 seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years;
 and he died.
5:9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
5:10 And Enosh lived after he had begotten Cainan eight hundred
 and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years;
 and he died.
5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.
5:13 And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight
 hundred and forty years, and begot 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-five years, and begot Jared.
5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight
 hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and
 ninety-five years; and he died.
5:18 And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot
 Enoch.
5:19 And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred
 years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two
 years; and he died.
5:21 And Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methushelah.
5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah
 three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five
 years.
5:24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took
 him.
5:25 And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and
 begot Lemech.
5:26 And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven
 hundred and eighty-two years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:27 And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and
 sixty-nine years; and he died.
5:28 And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot
 a son.
5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall
 comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our
 hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
5:30 And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred
 and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.
5:31 And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and
 seventy-seven years; and he died.
5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem,
 Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the
 earth, and daughters were born to them,
6:2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
 fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
6:3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man;
 for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and
 twenty years.
6:4 In those days were the giants on the earth, and also
 afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters
 of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the
 heroes, who of old were men of renown.
6:5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the
 earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only
 evil continually.
6:6 And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and
 it grieved him in his heart.
6:7 And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created,
 from the earth -- from man to cattle, to creeping things, and
 to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.
6:8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.
6:9 This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect
 amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was
 full of violence.
6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt;
 for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.
6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
 me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold,
 I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou
 make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
6:15 And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be
 three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
 height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high
 shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou
 set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story]
 shalt thou make it.
6:17 For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to
 destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of
 life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.
6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
 go 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 fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their
 kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two
 of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.
6:21 And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to
 thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.
6:22 And Noah did it; according to all that God had commanded
 him, so did he.
7:1 And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy
 house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
 generation.
7:2 Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a
 male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two,
 a male and its female.
7:3 Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female;
 to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
7:4 For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth
 forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I
 have made will I destroy from the ground.
7:5 And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded
 him.
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
 was on 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
 fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
7:9 there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and
 female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the
 flood were on the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
 month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day
 all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the
 windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty
 nights.
7:13 On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth,
 the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
 sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle
 after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the
 earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind -- every bird
 of every wing.
7:15 And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all
 flesh, in which was the breath of life.
7:16 And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as
 God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters
 increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the
 earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the
 earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all
 the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the
 mountains were covered.
7:21 And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well
 as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on
 the earth, and all mankind:
7:22 everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of
 all that was on the dry [land], died.
7:23 And every living being was destroyed that was on the
 ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of
 the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah
 alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty
 days.
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the
 cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to
 pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
8:2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were
 closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
8:3 And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring;
 and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters
 abated.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
 day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in
 the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the tops of the
 mountains were 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 out the raven, which went forth going to and
 fro, until the waters were dried from the earth.
8:8 And he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had
 become low on the ground.
8:9 But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her
 foot, and returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on
 the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and
 brought her to him into the ark.
8:10 And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth
 the dove out of the ark.
8:11 And the dove came to him at eventide; and behold, in her
 beak was an olive-leaf plucked off; and Noah knew that the
 waters had become low on the earth.
8:12 And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the
 dove; but she returned no more to him.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in
 the first [month], on the first of the month, that the waters
 were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of
 the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was
 dried.
8:14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the
 month, the earth was dry.
8:15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16 Go out of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and
 thy sons' wives with thee.
8:17 Bring forth with thee every animal which is with thee, of
 all flesh, fowl as well as cattle, and all the creeping things
 which creep on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and
 may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
8:18 And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his
 sons' wives with him.
8:19 All the animals, all the creeping things, and all the fowl
 -- everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went
 out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah built an altar to Jehovah; and took of every clean
 animal, and of all clean fowl, and offered up burnt-offerings
 on the altar.
8:21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in
 his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on
 account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his
 youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have
 done.
8:22 Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and
 harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and
 night, shall not cease.
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be
 fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9:2 And let the fear of you and the dread of you be upon every
 animal of the earth, and upon all fowl of the heavens: upon all
 that moveth [on] the ground; and upon all the fishes of the
 sea: into your hand are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the
 green herb I give you everything.
9:4 Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
9:5 And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I
 require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at
 the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his
 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 he hath made Man.
9:7 And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and
 multiply on it.
9:8 And God spoke to 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 soul which is with you, fowl as well
 as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all
 that has gone out of the ark -- every animal of the earth.
9:11 And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all
 flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and
 henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.
9:12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set
 between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for
 everlasting generations:
9:13 I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of
 the covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds 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 soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not
 henceforth 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 soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.
9:17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant
 which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
 the earth.
9:18 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and
 Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the
 population of] the whole earth spread abroad.
9:20 And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a
 vineyard.
9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered
 himself in his tent.
9:22 And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his
 father, and told his two brethren outside.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took the upper garment and both laid
 [it] upon their shoulders, and went backwards, and covered the
 nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned away,
 that they saw not their father's nakedness.
9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest
 son had done to him.
9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of
 bondmen to his brethren.
9:26 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, And let
 Canaan be his bondman.
9:27 Let God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of
 Shem, And let Canaan be his bondman.
9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
 years.
9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years;
 and he died.
10:1 And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem,
 Ham, and Japheth; and to 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 From these came the distribution of the isles of the
 nations, according to 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 Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is
 said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
 Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 From that land went out Asshur, and built Nineveh, and
 Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,
10:12 and Resen, between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great
 city.
10:13 -- And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the
 Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,
10:14 and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim, out of whom came the
 Philistines, and the Caphtorim.
10:15 -- And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
10:16 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
10:17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And
 afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves
 abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as one
 goes to Gerar, up to Gazah; as one goes to Sodom, and Gomorrah,
 and Admah, and Zeboim, up to Lesha.
10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after
 their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
10:21 And to Shem -- to him also were [sons] born; he is the
 father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the
 elder.
10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
 and Aram.
10:23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24 -- And Arphaxad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.
10:25 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was
 Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's
 name was Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,
 and Jerah,
10:27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28 and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were sons of
 Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar,
 the eastern mountain.
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 from these came the
 distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.
11:1 And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.
11:2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that
 they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
11:3 And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks,
 and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and
 they had asphalt for mortar.
11:4 And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a
 tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us
 make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of
 the whole earth.
11:5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which
 the children of men built.
11:6 And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all
 one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they
 be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
11:7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language,
 that they may not understand one another's speech.
11:8 And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the
 whole earth. And they left off building the city.
11:9 Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there
 confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah
 scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred
 years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11:11 And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred
 years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.
11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four
 hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
11:15 And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred
 and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
11:17 And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred
 and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
11:19 And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and
 nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
11:21 And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and
 seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
11:23 And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred
 years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
11:25 And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and
 nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and
 Haran.
11:27 And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram,
 Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the
 land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife
 was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of
 Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
11:30 And Sarai was barren: she had no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
 son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife;
 and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go
 into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt
 there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and
 Terah died in Haran.
12:1 And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from
 thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I
 will shew thee.
12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and 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 And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went
 with him. And Abram was seventy-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 possessions that they had acquired, and the souls
 that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into
 the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem,
 to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
12:7 And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will
 I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who
 had appeared to him.
12:8 And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of
 Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel toward the west,
 and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah,
 and called on the name of Jehovah.
12:9 And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.
12:10 And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to
 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 to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that
 thou art a woman fair to look upon.
12:12 And it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, that
 they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save
 thee alive.
12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well
 with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.
12:14 And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the
 Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
12:15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to
 Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had
 sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and
 she-asses, and camels.
12:17 And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
 plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast
 done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
12:19 Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her
 as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take [her], and
 go away.
12:20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him, and they
 sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all
 that he had, and Lot with him, towards 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 as far as
 Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the
 beginning, between Bethel and Ai;
13:4 to the place of the altar that he had made there at the
 first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
13:5 And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and
 tents.
13:6 And the land could not support them, that they might dwell
 together, for their property was great; and they could not
 dwell together.
13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle
 and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the
 Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
13:8 And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no
 contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy
 herdsmen, for we are brethren.
13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray
 thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and
 if to the right, then I will take the left.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
 the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had
 destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like
 the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.
13:11 And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and
 Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the
 other:
13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the
 cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.
13:13 And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners
 before Jehovah.
13:14 And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated
 himself 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 that thou seest will I give to thee, and
 to thy seed for ever.
13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that
 if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will
 be numbered.
13:17 Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it
 and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.
13:18 Then Abram moved [his] tents, and came and dwelt by the
 oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar
 to Jehovah.
14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of
 Shinar, Arioch the king of El-lasar, Chedorlaomer the king of
 Elam, and Tidal the king of nations,
14:2 [that] they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with
 Birsha the king of Gomorrah, Shinab the king of Admah, and
 Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is
 Zoar.
14:3 All these were joined in the vale of Siddim, which is the
 salt sea.
14:4 Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the
 thirteenth year they rebelled.
14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings
 that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim,
 and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim,
14:6 and the Horites on their mount Seir, to 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 at Hazazon-Tamar.
14:8 And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the
 king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela,
 which is Zoar, went out, and they joined battle with them in
 the vale of Siddim,
14:9 with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and Tidal the king of
 nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king
 of Ellasar -- four kings with the five.
14:10 And the vale of Siddim was full of pits of asphalt. 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 property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
 all their victuals, and departed.
14:12 And they took Lot and his property, Abram's brother's son,
 and departed. For he dwelt in Sodom.
14:13 And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew.
 And he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of
 Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. And these were Abram's allies.
14:14 And Abram heard that his brother was taken captive; and he
 led out his trained [servants], born in his house, three
 hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] as far as Dan.
14:15 And he divided himself against them by night, he and his
 servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah,
 which is to the left of Damascus.
14:16 And he brought back all the property, and brought again
 his brother Lot and his property, and the women also, and the
 people.
14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had
 returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were
 with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's
 valley.
14:18 And Melchisedec king of Salem brought out bread and wine.
 And he was priest of the Most High ∙God.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most
 High ∙God, possessor of heavens and earth.
14:20 And blessed be the Most High ∙God, who has delivered thine
 enemies into thy hand. And he gave him the tenth of all.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the souls,
 and take the property for thyself.
14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my
 hand to Jehovah, the Most High ∙God, possessor of heavens and
 earth,
14:23 if from a thread even to a sandal-thong, yes, if of all
 that is thine, I take [anything] ...; that thou mayest not say,
 I have made Abram rich;
14:24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the
 portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre,
 let them take their portion.
15:1 After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a
 vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding
 great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, 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, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and
 behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.
15:4 And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This
 shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy
 body shall be thine heir.
15:5 And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens,
 and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he
 said to him, So shall thy seed be!
15:6 And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as]
 righteousness.
15:7 And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur
 of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.
15:8 And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall
 possess it?
15:9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old,
 and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
 old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
15:10 And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and
 laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did
 not divide.
15:11 And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram
 scared them away.
15:12 And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon
 Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.
15:13 And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be
 a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall
 serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
15:14 But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge;
 and afterwards they shall come out with great property.
15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
 buried in a good old age.
15:16 And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither
 again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was
 dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of
 fire which passed between those pieces.
15:18 On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram,
 saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt
 to 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 Rephaim,
15:21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites,
 and the Jebusites.
16:1 And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she
 had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me
 up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant:
 it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened
 to the voice of Sarai.
16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her
 maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in
 the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his
 wife.
16:4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she
 saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed
 in her eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given
 my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has
 conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge
 between me and thee!
16:6 And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy
 hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed
 her; and she fled from her face.
16:7 And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in
 the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest
 thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing
 from the face of my mistress Sarai.
16:9 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy
 mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
16:10 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy
 seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
16:11 And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art
 with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name
 Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.
16:12 And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every
 man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell
 before the face of all his brethren.
16:13 And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou
 art the ∙God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have
 I seen after he has revealed himself.
16:14 Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is
 between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of
 his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16:16 And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael
 to Abram.
17:1 And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared
 to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty ∙God: walk
 before my face, and be perfect.
17:2 And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will
 very greatly multiply thee.
17:3 And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him,
 saying,
17:4 It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt
 be a father of a multitude of nations.
17:5 And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name
 shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I
 made thee.
17:6 And I will make thee exceedingly 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 to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
17:8 And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of
 thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
 possession; and I will be a God to them.
17:9 And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep
 my covenant, 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 -- that every male among you be
 circumcised.
17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and
 [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
17:12 And at eight days old shall every male in your generations
 be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he
 who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.
17:13 He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy
 money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your
 flesh for an everlasting covenant.
17:14 And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised
 in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from
 his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.
17:15 And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou
 shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
17:16 And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of
 her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings
 of peoples shall be of her.
17:17 And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his
 heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years
 old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?
17:18 And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before
 thee!
17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son;
 and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my
 covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed
 after him.
17:20 And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless
 him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply
 him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great
 nation.
17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah
 shall bear to thee at this appointed 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 who were born in
 his house, and all who were bought with his money -- every male
 among the people of Abraham's house -- and circumcised the
 flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to
 him.
17:24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years old 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 his house, or bought
 with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
18:1 And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he
 sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.
18:2 And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men
 standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them
 from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,
18:3 and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes,
 pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.
18:4 Let now a little water be fetched, that ye may wash your
 feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves;
 after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on
 towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.
18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said,
 Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes.
18:7 And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf tender and
 good, and gave [it] to the attendant; and he hasted to dress
 it.
18:8 And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had
 dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them
 under the tree, and they ate.
18:9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
 Behold, in the tent.
18:10 And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this]
 time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
 And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it
 had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
 become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?
18:13 And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah
 laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?
18:14 Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time
 appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year,
 and Sarah shall have a son.
18:15 And Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was
 afraid. And he said, No; but thou didst laugh.
18:16 And the men rose up thence, and looked toward Sodom; and
 Abraham went with them to conduct them.
18:17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am
 doing?
18:18 Since Abraham shall indeed 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 Jehovah, to
 do righteousness and justice, in order that Jehovah may bring
 upon Abraham what he hath spoken of him.
18:20 And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
 great and 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 to me; and
 if not, I will know [it].
18:22 And the men turned thence, and went towards Sodom; and
 Abraham remained yet standing before Jehovah.
18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also cause the
 righteous to perish with the wicked?
18:24 There are perhaps fifty righteous within the city: wilt
 thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the
 fifty righteous that are therein?
18:25 Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with
 the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked -- far
 be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?
18:26 And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous
 within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their
 sakes.
18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured
 to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.
18:28 Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt
 thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said,
 If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy [it].
18:29 And he continued yet to speak with him, and said, Perhaps
 there may be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it
 for the forty's sake.
18:30 And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry that I speak!
 Perhaps there may be thirty found there. And he said, I will
 not do it if I find thirty there.
18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak with the
 Lord. Perhaps there may be twenty found there. And he said, I
 will not destroy [it] for the twenty's sake.
18:32 And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, that I speak
 yet but this time! Perhaps there may be ten found there. And he
 said, I will not destroy [it] for the ten's sake.
18:33 And Jehovah went away when he had ended speaking to
 Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was
 sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to
 meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,
19:2 and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you,
 into your servant's house, and lodge, and wash your feet; and
 ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No;
 but we will pass the night in the open place.
19:3 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and
 entered into his house. And he made them a repast, and baked
 unleavened cakes; and they ate.
19:4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of
 Sodom, surrounded the house, from the youngest to the oldest --
 all the people from every quarter.
19:5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men
 that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that
 we may know them.
19:6 And Lot went out to them to the entrance, and shut the door
 after him,
19:7 and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man:
 let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in
 your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have
 they come under the shadow of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one
 came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse
 with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man --
 on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
19:10 And the men stretched out their hand, and brought Lot into
 the house to them, and shut the door.
19:11 And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the
 house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and
 they wearied themselves to find the entrance.
19:12 And the men said to Lot, Whom hast thou here besides? a
 son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and all whom thou
 hast in the city -- bring [them] out of the place.
19:13 For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of
 them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to
 destroy it.
19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had
 married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for
 Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in
 the sight of his sons-in-law.
19:15 And as the dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up,
 take thy wife and thy two daughters who are present, lest thou
 perish in the iniquity of the city.
19:16 And as he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand, and on
 the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters,
 Jehovah being merciful to him; and they led him out, and set
 him without the city.
19:17 And it came to pass when they had brought them outside,
 that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee,
 neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain,
 lest thou perish.
19:18 And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;
19:19 behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes,
 and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to
 me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the
 mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.
19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is small:
 I pray thee, let me escape thither -- is it not small? -- and
 my soul shall live.
19:21 And he said to him, Behold, I have accepted thee
 concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city
 of which thou hast spoken.
19:22 Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou
 art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.
19:23 The sun rose upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
19:24 And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and
 fire from Jehovah out of heaven,
19:25 and overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
 inhabitants of the cities, and what grew upon the ground.
19:26 And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
 pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham rose early in the morning [and went] to the
 place where he had stood before Jehovah;
19:28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
 the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from
 the land as the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the
 plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
 midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which
 Lot dwelt.
19:30 And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and
 his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And
 he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old,
 and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the
 manner of all the earth:
19:32 come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie
 with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
19:33 And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And
 the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not
 know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
19:34 And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born
 said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let
 us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie
 with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
19:35 And they gave their father wine to drink that night also.
 And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of
 her lying down, nor of her rising.
19:36 And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their
 father.
19:37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab:
 the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name
 Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to
 this day.
20:1 And Abraham departed thence towards the south country, and
 dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned at Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And
 Abimelech the 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, because of the woman
 that 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 also kill a righteous nation?
20:5 Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she
 said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the
 innocency of my hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst
 this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld
 thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered
 thee to touch her.
20:7 And now, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and
 will pray for thee, that thou mayest live. And if thou do not
 restore [her], know that thou shalt certainly die, thou and all
 that is thine.
20:8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his
 servants, and spoke all these words in their ears; and the men
 were greatly afraid.
20:9 And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What hast
 thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that
 thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Thou
 hast done to me deeds that ought not to be done.
20:10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What hast thou seen that
 thou hast done this?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because I said, Surely the fear of God
 is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.
20:12 But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my
 father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
 wife.
20:13 And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my
 father's house, that I said to her, Let this be thy kindness
 which thou shalt shew to me: at every place whither we shall
 come, say of me, He is my brother.
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and bondmen and
 bondwomen, and gave [them] to Abraham, and restored him Sarah
 his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell
 where it is good in thine eyes.
20:16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
 thousand [pieces] of silver; behold, let that be to thee a
 covering of the eyes, in respect of all that are with thee, and
 with all; and she was reproved.
20:17 And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and
 his wife and his handmaids, and they bore [children].
20:18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house
 of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
21:1 And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did
 to Sarah as he had spoken.
21:2 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age,
 at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him,
 whom Sarah bore 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 a hundred years old when his son Isaac was
 born to him.
21:6 And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will
 laugh with me.
21:7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will
 suckle children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age.
21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a
 great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had
 borne to Abraham, mocking.
21:10 And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her
 son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son
 -- with Isaac.
21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because
 of his son.
21:12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy
 sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all
 that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac
 shall a seed be called to thee.
21:13 But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation,
 because he is thy seed.
21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread,
 and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on
 her shoulder -- and the child, and sent her away. And she
 departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
21:15 And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast
 the child under one of the shrubs,
21:16 and she went and sat down over against [him], a bow-shot
 off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child.
 And she sat over against [him], and lifted up her voice and
 wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God
 called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What
 [aileth] thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of
 the lad there, where he is.
21:18 Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will
 make of him a great nation.
21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and
 she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad
 drink.
21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the
 wilderness, and became 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 captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God
 is with thee in all that thou doest.
21:23 And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal
 deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson.
 According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt
 do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.
21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water
 that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
21:26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this,
 neither hast thou told me [of it], neither have I heard [of it]
 but to-day.
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to
 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 to Abraham, What [mean] these seven
 ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?
21:30 And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my
 hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this
 well.
21:31 Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there
 they had sworn, both of them.
21:32 And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose
 up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the
 land of the Philistines.
21:33 And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called
 there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal ∙God.
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God tried
 Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.
22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son], whom thou
 lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there
 offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which
 I will tell thee of.
22:3 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
 and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and
 he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went
 to the place that God had told him of.
22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the
 place from afar.
22:5 And Abraham said to 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 on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the
 knife, and they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spoke to 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 sheep for a burnt-offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the
 sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them
 together.
22:9 And they came to the place of which God had told him. And
 Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound
 Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to
 slaughter his son.
22:11 And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens,
 and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.
22:12 And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad,
 neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest
 God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], from me.
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold,
 behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and
 Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a
 burnt-offering instead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh;
 as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will
 be provided.
22:15 And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the
 heavens a second time,
22:16 and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because
 thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only
 [son],
22:17 I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed,
 as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on 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 bless
 themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.
22:19 And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up
 and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at
 Beer-sheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
 Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy
 brother Nahor:
22:21 Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the
 father of Aram,
22:22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
 Bethuel.
22:23 (And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to
 Nahor, Abraham's brother.
22:24 And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and
 Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.
23:1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years:
 [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-Arba: that is Hebron, in the land
 of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
 her.
23:3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the
 sons of Heth, saying,
23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a
 possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead
 from before me.
23:5 And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a prince of God among us: in the
 choicest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall
 withhold from thee his sepulchre for burying thy dead.
23:7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the
 land, to the sons of Heth,
23:8 and spoke to them, saying, If it be your will that I should
 bury my dead from before me, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron
 the son of Zohar,
23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is his,
 which is at the end of his field; for the full money let him
 give it to me amongst you for a possession of a sepulchre.
23:10 And Ephron was dwelling among the sons of Heth. And Ephron
 the Hittite answered Abraham, in the ears of the sons of Heth,
 [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
23:11 No, my lord: hear me. The field give I thee; and the cave
 that is in it, to thee I give it; before the eyes of the sons
 of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
23:12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land;
23:13 and he spoke to Ephron, in the ears of the people of the
 land, saying, But if only thou wouldst listen to me, I give the
 money for the field: take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead
 there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
23:15 My lord, hearken to me. A field of four hundred shekels of
 silver, what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy
 dead.
23:16 And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
 Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of
 Heth -- four hundred shekels of silver, current with the
 merchant.
23:17 So the field of Ephron, which was at Machpelah, which was
 before Mamre, the field, and the cave that was in it, and all
 the trees that were in the field, that were in all its borders
 round about,
23:18 were assured to Abraham for a possession before the eyes
 of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his
 city.
23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
 of the field at Machpelah, opposite to Mamre: that is Hebron,
 in the land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field and the cave that was in it were assured to
 Abraham for a possession of a sepulchre by the sons of Heth.
24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] advanced in age; and Jehovah had
 blessed Abraham in all things.
24:2 And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house,
 who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee,
 under my thigh,
24:3 and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the
 heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for
 my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am
 dwelling;
24:4 but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a
 wife for my son Isaac.
24:5 And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be
 willing to follow me to this land: must I, then, bring thy son
 again in any case to the land from which thou hast removed?
24:6 And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son
 thither again.
24:7 Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my
 father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has
 spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed
 will I give this land -- he will send his angel before thee,
 that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence.
24:8 And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou
 shalt be quit of 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 swore unto him concerning that matter.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his
 master, and departed; now all the treasure of his master was
 under his hand; and he arose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the
 city of Nahor.
24:11 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a
 well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came
 out to draw [water].
24:12 And he said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, meet me, I
 pray thee, [with thy blessing] this day, and deal kindly with
 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 maiden to whom I shall
 say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and
 who will say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, be
 she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby
 I shall know that thou hast dealt kindly with my master.
24:15 And it came to pass before he had ended speaking, that
 behold, Rebecca came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
 Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother; and [she had] her
 pitcher upon her shoulder.
24:16 And the maiden was very fair in countenance; a virgin, and
 no man had 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, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.
24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord! And she hasted and let down
 her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.
24:19 And when she had given him enough to drink, she said, I
 will draw [water] for thy camels also, until they have drunk
 enough.
24:20 And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough,
 and ran again to the well to draw [water]; and she drew for all
 his camels.
24:21 And the man was astonished at her, remaining silent, to
 know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not.
24:22 And it came to pass when the camels had drunk enough, that
 the man took a gold ring, of half a shekel weight, and two
 bracelets for her hands, 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?
24:24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son
 of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.
24:25 And she said to him, There is straw, and also much
 provender with us; also room to lodge.
24:26 And the man stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah,
24:27 and said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham,
 who has not withdrawn his loving-kindness and his faithfulness
 from my master; I being in the way, Jehovah has led me to the
 house of my master's brethren.
24:28 And the maiden ran and told these things to her mother's
 house.
24:29 And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban; and Laban ran out
 to the man, to the well.
24:30 And it came to pass when he saw the ring and the bracelets
 on his sister's hand, and when he heard the words of Rebecca
 his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me -- that he came to
 the man, and behold, he was standing by the camels, by the
 well.
24:31 And he said, Come in, blessed of Jehovah! why standest
 thou outside? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
 camels.
24:32 And the man came into the house; and he ungirded the
 camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to
 wash his feet, and the feet of the men who were with him.
24:33 And there was set [meat] before him to eat; but he said, I
 will not eat until I have made known my business. And he said,
 Speak on.
24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
24:35 And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he is
 become great; and he has given him sheep and cattle, and silver
 and gold, and bondmen and bondwomen, and camels and asses.
24:36 And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master after
 she had grown old; and unto him has he given all that he has.
24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
 wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose
 land I am dwelling;
24:38 but thou shalt by all means go to my father's house and to
 my family, and take a wife for my son.
24:39 And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not follow
 me?
24:40 And he said to me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked,
 will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way, that thou
 mayest take a wife for my son of my family, and out of my
 father's house.
24:41 Then shalt thou be quit of my oath, when thou shalt have
 come to my family. And if they give thee not [one], thou shalt
 be quit of my oath.
24:42 And I came this day to the well, and said, Jehovah, God of
 my master Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper my way on which I
 go,
24:43 behold, I stand by the well of water, and let it come to
 pass that the damsel who cometh forth to draw [water], and to
 whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water out of
 thy pitcher to drink,
24:44 and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also
 draw for thy camels -- that she should be the woman whom
 Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son.
24:45 Before I ended speaking in my heart, behold, Rebecca came
 forth with her pitcher on her shoulder, and went down to the
 well, and drew [water]; and I said to her, Give me, I pray
 thee, to drink.
24:46 And she hasted and let down her pitcher from her
 [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
 also. And I drank; and she gave 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
 bore to him. And I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets
 on her hands.
24:48 And I stooped, and bowed down before Jehovah; and I
 blessed Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has led me the
 right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
24:49 And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master,
 tell me; and if not, tell me; and I will turn to the right hand
 or to the left.
24:50 And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
 proceeds from Jehovah: we cannot speak to thee bad or good.
24:51 Behold, Rebecca is before thee: take [her], and go away;
 and let her be wife of thy master's son, as Jehovah has said.
24:52 And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their
 words, that he bowed down to the earth before Jehovah.
24:53 And the servant brought forth silver articles, and gold
 articles, and clothing, and he gave [them] to Rebecca; and he
 gave to her brother, and to her mother, precious things.
24:54 And they ate and drank, he and the men that were with him,
 and lodged. And they rose up in the morning; and he said, Send
 me away to my master.
24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide
 with us [some] days, or [say] ten; after that she shall go.
24:56 And he said to them, Do not hinder me, seeing Jehovah has
 prospered my way: send me away, and I will go to my master.
24:57 And they said, Let us call the maiden and inquire at her
 mouth.
24:58 And they called Rebecca and said to her, Wilt thou go with
 this man? And she said, I will go.
24:59 And they sent away Rebecca their sister, and her nurse,
 and Abraham's servant, and his men.
24:60 And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, Thou art our
 sister; mayest thou become thousands of tens of thousands; and
 may thy seed possess the gate of their enemies!
24:61 And Rebecca arose, and her maids, and they rode upon the
 camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebecca, and
 went away.
24:62 And Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi; for he
 was dwelling in the south country.
24:63 And Isaac had gone out to meditate in the fields toward
 the beginning of evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw,
 and behold, camels were coming.
24:64 And Rebecca lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac, and she
 sprang off the camel.
24:65 And she had said to the servant, Who is the man that is
 walking in the fields to meet us? And the servant said, That is
 my master! Then she took the veil, and covered herself.
24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
24:67 And Isaac led her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he
 took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And
 Isaac was comforted after [the death of] his mother.
25:1 And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
25:2 And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
 Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan
 were the Asshurim, and the Letushim, and the Leummim.
25:4 And the sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch,
 and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.
25:6 And to the sons of the concubines that Abraham had, Abraham
 gave gifts, and, while he yet lived, sent them away from Isaac
 his son, eastward to the east country.
25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which
 he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years.
25:8 And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and
 full [of days]; and was gathered to his peoples.
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 was opposite to Mamre --
25:10 the field that Abraham had 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 at Beer-lahai-roi.
25:12 And these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
 whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's bondwoman, bore to Abraham.
25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their
 names according to their generations: Nebaioth, the firstborn
 of Ishmael; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
25:15 Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names,
 in their hamlets and their encampments -- twelve princes of
 their peoples.
25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred
 and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was
 gathered to his peoples.
25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to
 Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face
 of all his brethren.
25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son.
 Abraham begot Isaac.
25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as
 wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the
 sister of Laban the Syrian.
25:21 And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was
 barren; and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebecca 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 inquire of
 Jehovah.
25:23 And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And
 two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And 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 a hairy
 garment; and they called his name Esau.
25:26 And after that came his brother out; and his hand took
 hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac
 was sixty years old when they were born.
25:27 And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in
 hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man,
 dwelling in tents.
25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste;
 and Rebecca loved Jacob.
25:29 And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field,
 and he was faint.
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red
 -- the red thing there, for I am faint. Therefore was his name
 called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and of what use
 can the birthright be to me?
25:33 And Jacob said, Swear unto me now. And he swore unto him,
 and sold his birthright to Jacob.
25:34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and the dish of lentils; and he
 ate and drank, and rose up and went away. Thus Esau despised
 the birthright.
26:1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the former
 famine which had been in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to
 Abimelech the king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
26:2 And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt:
 dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.
26:3 Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless
 thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
 countries; and I will perform the oath which I swore unto
 Abraham thy father.
26:4 And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and
 unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed
 shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves --
26:5 because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my
 charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
26:6 And Isaac dwelt at Gerar.
26:7 And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said,
 She is my sister; for he feared to say, my wife, [saying to
 himself,] Lest the men of the place slay me on account of
 Rebecca -- because she was fair in countenance.
26:8 And it came to pass when he had been there some time, that
 Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked out of the window,
 and saw, and behold, Isaac was dallying with Rebecca his wife.
26:9 Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is
 certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and
 Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of
 her.
26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? But
 a little and one of the people might have lain with thy wife,
 and thou wouldest have brought a trespass on us.
26:11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that
 touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.
26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same
 year a hundredfold; and Jehovah blessed him.
26:13 And the man became great, and he became continually
 greater, until he was very great.
26:14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of
 herds, and a great number of servants; and the Philistines
 envied him.
26:15 And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in
 the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them
 and filled them with earth.
26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for thou art
 become much mightier than we.
26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his camp in the
 valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
26:18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that they had dug
 in the days of Abraham his father, and that the Philistines had
 stopped 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 dug in the valley, and found there a
 well of springing water.
26:20 But the shepherds of Gerar strove with Isaac's shepherds,
 saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well
 Esek, because they had quarrelled with him.
26:21 And they dug another well, and they strove for that also;
 and he called the name of it Sitnah.
26:22 And he removed thence and dug another well; and they did
 not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth, and
 said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be
 fruitful in the land.
26:23 And he went up thence to Beer-sheba.
26:24 And Jehovah appeared to 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 built an altar there, and called upon the name of
 Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's
 servants dug a well.
26:26 And Abimelech, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the
 captain of his host, went to him from Gerar.
26:27 And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye
 hate me, and have driven me away from you?
26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah is with thee;
 and we said, Let there be then an oath between us -- between us
 and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,
26:29 that thou wilt do us no wrong, as we have not touched
 thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have
 let thee go in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah.
26:30 And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
26:31 And they rose early in the morning, and swore 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 that they had dug, and
 said to him, We have found water.
26:33 And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is
 Beer-sheba to this day.
26:34 And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith
 the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of
 Elon the Hittite.
26:35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca.
27:1 And it came to pass when Isaac had become old, and his eyes
 were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his
 elder son, and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Here am
 I.
27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am become old; I know not the
 day of my death.
27:3 And now, I pray thee, take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy
 bow, and go out to the field and hunt me venison,
27:4 and prepare me a savoury dish such as I love, and bring it
 to me that I may eat, in order that my soul may bless thee
 before I die.
27:5 And Rebecca heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And
 Esau went to the field to hunt venison, to bring it.
27:6 And Rebecca spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
 thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
27:7 Bring me venison, and prepare me a savoury dish, that I may
 eat, and bless thee before Jehovah, before my death.
27:8 And now, my son, hearken to my voice in that which I
 command thee.
27:9 Go, I pray thee, to the flock, and fetch me thence two good
 kids of the goats. And I will make of them a savoury dish for
 thy father, such as he loves.
27:10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat,
 in order that he may bless thee before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebecca his mother, Behold, Esau my
 brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
27:12 My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall be in his
 sight as one who mocks [him], and I shall bring a curse on me,
 and not a blessing.
27:13 And his mother said to him, On me [be] thy curse, my son!
 Only hearken to my voice, and go, fetch [them].
27:14 And he went, and fetched and brought [them] to his mother.
 And his mother prepared a savoury dish such as his father
 loved.
27:15 And Rebecca took the clothes of her elder son Esau, the
 costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them on
 Jacob her younger son;
27:16 and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his
 hands, and on the smooth of his neck;
27:17 and she gave the savoury dishes and the bread that she had
 prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
27:18 And he came to his father, and said, My father! And he
 said, Here am I: who art thou, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. I
 have done according as thou didst say to me. Arise, I pray
 thee, sit and eat of my venison, in order that thy soul may
 bless me.
27:20 And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou hast found
 [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah thy God
 put [it] in my way.
27:21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I
 may feel thee, my son, whether thou be really my son Esau or
 not.
27:22 And Jacob drew near to 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 did not discern him, because his hands were hairy,
 as his brother Esau's hands; and he blessed him.
27:24 And he said, Art thou really my son Esau? And he said, It
 is I.
27:25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me, that I may eat of my
 son's venison, in order that my soul may bless thee. And he
 brought [it] near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine,
 and he drank.
27:26 And his father Isaac said to him, Come near, now, and kiss
 me, my son.
27:27 And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelt the smell
 of his clothes, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my
 son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed.
27:28 And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness
 of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine.
27:29 Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be
 lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to
 thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that
 bless thee.
27:30 And it came to pass when Isaac had ended blessing Jacob,
 and when Jacob was only just gone out from Isaac his father,
 that Esau his brother came from his hunting.
27:31 And he also had prepared savoury dishes, and he brought
 [them] in to his father, and said to his father, Let my father
 arise and eat of his son's venison, in order that thy soul may
 bless me.
27:32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he
 said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.
27:33 Then Isaac trembled with exceeding great trembling, and
 said, Who was he, then, that hunted venison and brought [it] to
 me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have
 blessed him; also blessed he shall be.
27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
 great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless
 me -- me also, my father!
27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and has taken
 away thy blessing.
27:36 And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for
 he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and
 behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast
 thou not reserved a blessing for me?
27:37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made
 him lord over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him
 for servants, and with corn and new wine have I supplied him --
 and what can I do now for thee, my son?
27:38 And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one
 blessing, my father? bless me -- me also, my father! And Esau
 lifted up his voice and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy
 dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew
 of heaven from above;
27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live; And thou shalt serve thy
 brother; And it shall come to pass when thou rovest about, That
 thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which
 his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The
 days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my
 brother Jacob.
27:42 And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca.
 And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him,
 Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself
 that he will kill thee.
27:43 And now, my son, hearken to my voice, and arise, flee to
 Laban my brother, to Haran;
27:44 and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury
 turn away --
27:45 until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he
 forget what thou hast done to him; then I will send and fetch
 thee thence. Why should I be bereaved even of you both in one
 day?
27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because
 of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters
 of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good
 should my life do me?
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him,
 and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
 Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy
 mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of
 Laban thy mother's brother.
28:3 And the Almighty ∙God bless thee, and make thee fruitful
 and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a company of
 peoples.
28:4 And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and
 to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the
 land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham!
28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Padan-Aram, to
 Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca,
 Jacob's and Esau's mother.
28:6 And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him
 away to Padan-Aram, to take a wife thence, blessing him, and
 giving him a charge saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
 daughters of Canaan;
28:7 and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and
 was gone to Padan-Aram.
28:8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the
 sight of Isaac his father.
28:9 And Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that
 he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the
 sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went towards
 Haran.
28:11 And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there,
 because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the
 place, and made [it] his pillow, and lay down in that place.
28:12 And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the
 earth, and the top of it reached to the heavens. And behold,
 angels of God ascended and descended upon it.
28:13 And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am
 Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac:
 the land on which 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] to which thou goest, and will bring thee again into
 this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I
 have spoken to thee of.
28:16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah
 is in this place, and I knew [it] not.
28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place!
 this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate
 of heaven.
28:18 And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone
 that he had made his pillow, and set it up [for] a pillar, and
 poured oil on the top of it.
28:19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name
 of that city was Luz at the first.
28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
 keep me on this road that I go, and will give me bread to eat,
 and a garment to put on,
28:21 and I come again to my father's house in peace -- then
 shall Jehovah be my God.
28:22 And this stone, which I have set up [for] a pillar, shall
 be God's house; and of all that thou wilt give me I will
 without fail give the tenth to thee.
29:1 And Jacob continued his journey, and went into the land of
 the children of the east.
29:2 And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the fields,
 and behold there, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for
 out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was
 at the mouth of the well.
29:3 And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled
 the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep,
 and put the stone again on the mouth of the well in its place.
29:4 And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And
 they said, Of Haran are we.
29:5 And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And
 they said, We do know [him].
29:6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, [He is]
 well; and behold, there comes Rachel his daughter with the
 sheep.
29:7 And he said, Behold, it is yet high day; it is not time
 that the cattle should be gathered together; water the sheep,
 and go, feed [them].
29:8 And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered
 together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well,
 and we water the sheep.
29:9 While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her
 father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
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
 mouth of the well, and watered the sheep 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 a brother of her father,
 and that he was Rebecca'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, Thou art indeed my bone and my
 flesh. And he abode with him a month's time.
29:15 And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
 shouldest thou serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall be thy
 wages?
29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was
 Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel.
29:17 And the eyes of Leah were tender; but Rachel was of
 beautiful form and beautiful countenance.
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 were in
 his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
29:21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days
 are fulfilled, that I may go in to 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 to her.
29:24 And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his maidservant, to be
 maidservant to Leah his daughter.
29:25 And it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was
 Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done to me?
 Have I not served thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived
 me?
29:26 And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give
 the younger before the firstborn.
29:27 Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee
 the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me
 yet seven other years.
29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week [with] this one,
 and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife.
29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah, his
 maidservant, to be her maidservant.
29:30 And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel
 more than Leah. And he served with him yet seven other years.
29:31 And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her
 womb; but Rachel was barren.
29:32 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name
 Reuben; for she said, Because Jehovah has looked upon my
 affliction; for now my husband will love me.
29:33 And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because
 Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me
 this one also; and she called his name Simeon.
29:34 And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now
 this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him
 three sons; therefore was his name called Levi.
29:35 And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This
 time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name
 Judah. And she ceased to bear.
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel
 envied her sister, and said to 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 has withheld from thee the fruit of
 the womb?
30:3 And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to
 her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be
 built up by her.
30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as wife, and Jacob
 went in to her.
30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
30:6 And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also
 heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his
 name Dan.
30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore
 Jacob a second son.
30:8 And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my
 sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.
30:9 And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took
 Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a son.
30:11 And Leah said, Fortunately! and she called his name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore 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 out in the days of wheat-harvest, and
 found mandrakes in the fields; and he brought them to his
 mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of
 thy son's mandrakes.
30:15 And she said to her, Is it [too] little that thou hast
 taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also?
 And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for
 thy son's mandrakes.
30:16 And when Jacob came from the fields in the evening, Leah
 went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for
 indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
 with her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore
 Jacob a fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have
 given my maidservant to my husband; and she called his name
 Issachar.
30:19 And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
30:20 and Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; this
 time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him
 six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name
 Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and
 opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken
 away my reproach.
30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add
 to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that
 Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place
 and to my country.
30:26 Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my
 children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which
 I have served thee.
30:27 And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour
 in thine eyes -- I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me
 for thy sake.
30:28 And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it.
30:29 And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee,
 and what thy cattle has become with me.
30:30 For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is
 increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the
 time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house?
30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
 shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will
 again feed [and] keep thy flock:
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence
 all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs,
 and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and [that] shall
 be my hire.
30:33 And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when
 thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not
 speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the
 lambs, let that be stolen with me.
30:34 And Laban said, Well, let it 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, every one that had white in it, and all the brown
 among the lambs, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
30:36 And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob.
 And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.
30:37 And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree,
 and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the
 white which was on the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock,
 in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to
 drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock
 brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the
 flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of
 Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put
 them with Laban's flock.
30:41 And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were
 ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock
 in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;
30:42 but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so
 the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased very, very much, and had much
 cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has
 taken away all that was our father's, and of what was our
 father's he has acquired all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold, it was
 not toward him as previously.
31:3 And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into 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 fields to
 his flock,
31:5 and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it
 is not toward me as previously; but the God of my father has
 been with me.
31:6 And you know that with all my power I have served your
 father.
31:7 And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten
 times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all
 the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked
 shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.
31:9 And God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given
 [them] to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the
 flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and
 behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked,
 speckled, and spotted.
31:11 And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I
 said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams
 that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and
 spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.
31:13 I am the ∙God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar,
 where thou vowedst a vow to me. Now arise, depart out of this
 land, and return to the land of thy kindred.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet
 any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us,
 and has even constantly devoured our money.
31:16 For all the wealth that God has taken from our father is
 ours and our children's; and now whatever God has said to thee
 do.
31:17 And Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
 camels,
31:18 and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that
 he had acquired -- the cattle of his possessions that he had
 acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the
 land of Canaan.
31:19 And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole
 the teraphim that [belonged] to her father.
31:20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not
 tell him that he fled.
31:21 And he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and
 passed over the river, and set his face [toward] mount Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had
 fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him
 seven days' journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and
 said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or
 bad.
31:25 And Laban came up with Jacob; and Jacob had pitched his
 tent on the mountain; Laban also with his brethren pitched on
 mount Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou
 hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as
 captives of war?
31:27 Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me,
 and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with
 mirth and with songs, with tambour and with harp;
31:28 and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
 Now thou hast acted foolishly.
31:29 It would be in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but
 the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take
 care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
31:30 And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly
 longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou stolen my
 gods?
31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, I was afraid; for I
 said, Lest thou shouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live.
 Before our brethren discern what is thine with me, and take
 [it] to thee. But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen
 them.
31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,
 and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he
 went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them under the
 camel's saddle; and she sat upon them. And Laban explored all
 the tent, but found nothing.
31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of
 anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee,
 for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched
 carefully, but did not find the teraphim.
31:36 And Jacob was angry, and he disputed with Laban. And Jacob
 answered and said to Laban, What is my fault, what my sin, that
 thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
31:37 Whereas thou hast explored all my baggage, what hast thou
 found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my
 brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.
31:38 These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy
 she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock
 I have not eaten.
31:39 What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear
 the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, [whether]
 stolen by day or stolen by night.
31:40 Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and
 the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
31:41 I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served
 thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for
 thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
31:42 Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the
 fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have
 sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and
 the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.
31:43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my
 daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock,
 and all that thou seest is mine; but as for my daughters, what
 can I do this day to them, or to their sons whom they have
 brought forth?
31:44 And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let
 it be 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 to his brethren, Gather stones. And they
 took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.
31:47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and 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, Let Jehovah watch between me
 and thee, when we shall be hidden one from another:
31:50 if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou
 shouldest take wives besides my daughters, -- no man is with
 us; see, God is witness between me and thee!
31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the
 pillar which I have set up between me and thee:
31:52 [let] this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that
 neither I pass this heap [to go] to thee, nor thou pass this
 heap and this pillar [to come] to me, for harm.
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
 father, judge between us! And Jacob swore by the fear of his
 father Isaac.
31:54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and
 invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and
 lodged on the mountain.
31:55 And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons
 and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and
 returned to his place.
32:1 And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him.
32:2 And when Jacob saw them he said, This is the camp of God.
 And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his
 brother, into the land of Seir, the fields of Edom.
32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my
 lord, to Esau: Thy servant Jacob speaks thus -- With Laban have
 I sojourned and tarried until now;
32:5 and I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and bondmen, and
 bondwomen; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find
 favour in thine eyes.
32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to
 thy brother, to Esau; and he also is coming to meet thee, and
 four hundred men with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was distressed; and he
 divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the
 cattle and the camels, into two troops.
32:8 And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it,
 then the other troop which is left shall escape.
32:9 And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my
 father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst unto me: Return into thy
 country and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,
32:10 -- I am too small for all the loving-kindness and all the
 faithfulness that thou hast shewn unto thy servant; for with my
 staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two
 troops.
32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from
 the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me,
 [and] the mother with the children.
32:12 And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and
 make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered
 for multitude.
32:13 And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to
 his hand a gift 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 young asses.
32:16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants,
 every drove by itself; and he said to his servants, Go on
 before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
 brother meets thee, and asks thee, saying, Whose art thou, and
 where goest thou, and whose are these before thee?
32:18 -- then thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob's: it is a gift
 sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.
32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all
 that followed the droves, saying, According to this word shall
 ye speak to Esau when ye find him.
32:20 And, moreover, ye shall say, Behold, thy servant Jacob is
 behind us. For he said, I will propitiate him with the gift
 that goes before me, and afterwards I will see his face:
 perhaps he will accept me.
32:21 And the gift went over before him; and he himself lodged
 that night in the camp.
32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his
 two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
 of the Jabbok;
32:23 and he took them and led them over the river, and led over
 what he had.
32:24 And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him
 until the rising of the dawn.
32:25 And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he
 touched the joint of his thigh; and the joint of Jacob's thigh
 was dislocated as he wrestled with him.
32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said,
 I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
32:27 And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called
 Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with
 men, and hast prevailed.
32:29 And Jacob asked and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy
 name. And he said, How is it that thou askest 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 has been preserved.
32:31 And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and
 he limped upon his hip.
32:32 Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew
 that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he
 touched the joint of Jacob's thigh -- the sinew.
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau
 was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed
 the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two
 maidservants:
33:2 and he put the maidservants and their children foremost,
 and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
 hindmost.
33:3 And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth seven
 times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
 neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
33:5 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the
 children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The
 children that God has graciously given thy servant.
33:6 And the maidservants drew near, they and their children,
 and they bowed.
33:7 And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they
 bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.
33:8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I
 met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.
33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou
 hast be thine.
33:10 And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found
 favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for
 therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face
 of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.
33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to
 thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have
 everything. And he urged him, and he took [it].
33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I
 will go before thee.
33:13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are
 tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if
 they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would
 die.
33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and
 I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle
 that is before me, and according to the pace of the children,
 until I come to my lord, to Seir.
33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the
 people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find
 favour in the eyes of my lord.
33:16 And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house,
 and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the
 place was called Succoth.
33:18 And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in
 the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he
 encamped before the city.
33:19 And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread
 his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father,
 for a hundred kesitahs.
33:20 And there he set up an altar, and called it
 El-Elohe-Israel.
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to
 Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
34:2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince
 of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and
 humbled her.
34:3 And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and
 he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden.
34:4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this
 girl as wife.
34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but
 his sons were with his cattle in the fields, and Jacob said
 nothing until they came.
34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem came out to Jacob, to speak
 to him.
34:7 And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard
 [it]; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry,
 because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying
 with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.
34:8 And Hamor spoke to them, saying, My son Shechem's soul
 cleaves to your daughter: I pray you, give her to him as wife.
34:9 And make marriages with us: give your daughters to us, and
 take our daughters to you.
34:10 And dwell with us, and the land shall be before you: dwell
 and trade in it, and get yourselves possessions in it.
34:11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me
 find favour in your eyes; and what ye shall say to me I will
 give.
34:12 Impose on me very much as dowry and gift, and I will give
 according as ye shall say to me; but give me the maiden as
 wife.
34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his
 father deceitfully, and spoke -- because he had defiled Dinah
 their sister --
34:14 and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to
 one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach to us.
34:15 But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as
 we, that every male of you be circumcised;
34:16 then will we give our daughters to you, and take your
 daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.
34:17 But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then
 will we take our daughter and go away.
34:18 And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and
 Shechem, Hamor's son.
34:19 And the youth did not delay to do this, because he had
 delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was honourable above all in
 the house of his father.
34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their
 city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
34:21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell
 in the land, and trade in it. And the land -- behold, it is of
 wide extent before them. We will take their daughters as wives,
 and give them our daughters.
34:22 But only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with
 us, to be one people -- if every male among us be circumcised,
 just as they are circumcised.
34:23 Their cattle, and their possessions, and every beast of
 theirs, shall they not be ours? only let us consent to them,
 and they will dwell with us.
34:24 And all that went out at the gate of his city hearkened to
 Hamor and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised --
 all that went out at 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 his sword, and came upon the city boldly,
 and slew all the males.
34:26 And Hamor and Shechem his son they slew 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 plundered the
 city, because they had defiled their sister.
34:28 Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what
 [was] in the city, and what [was] in the field they took;
34:29 and all their goods, and all their little ones, and their
 wives took they captive, and plundered them, and all that was
 in the houses.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, in
 that ye make me odious among the inhabitants of the land --
 among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few men in
 number, and they will gather themselves against me and smite
 me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
34:31 And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with
 a harlot?
35:1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
 there, and make there an altar unto the ∙God that appeared unto
 thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
35:2 And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with
 him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse
 yourselves, and change your garments;
35:3 and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make
 there an altar to the ∙God that answered me in the day of my
 distress, and was with me in the way that I went.
35:4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in
 their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob
 hid them under the terebinth that [is] 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 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that
 is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place
 El-beth-el; because there God had appeared to him when he fled
 from the face of his brother.
35:8 And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried
 beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called
 Allon-bachuth.
35:9 And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from
 Padan-Aram, and blessed him.
35:10 And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
 henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And
 he called his name Israel.
35:11 And God said to him, I am the Almighty ∙God: 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 that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I
 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 had talked
 with him.
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had talked
 with him, a pillar of stone, and poured on it a drink-offering,
 and poured oil on it.
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God had
 talked with him, Beth-el.
35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a
 certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in
 childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
35:17 And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her
 childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this
 also is a son for thee.
35:18 And it came to pass as her soul was departing -- for she
 died -- that she called his name Benoni; but his father called
 him Benjamin.
35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath,
 which [is] Bethlehem.
35:20 And Jacob erected a pillar upon her grave: that is the
 pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day.
35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other
 side of Migdal-Eder.
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 of it. And 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 maidservant: Dan and
 Naphtali.
35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher.
 These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in
 Padan-Aram.
35:27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre -- to
 Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and
 Isaac.
35:28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
35:29 And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his
 peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob
 buried him.
36:1 And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom.
36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the
 daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of
 Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
36:3 and Basmath Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
36:4 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel.
36:5 And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are
 the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan.
36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters,
 and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his
 beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the
 land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother
 Jacob.
36:7 For their property was too great for them to dwell
 together, and the land where they were sojourners could not
 bear them, because of their cattle.
36:8 Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom.
36:9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom,
 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 Basmath 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
 bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
36:13 -- And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah,
 Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife.
36:14 -- And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of
 Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau
 Jeush and Jaalam and Korah.
36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of
 Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief
 Zepho, chief Kenaz,
36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the
 chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
 Adah.
36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: chief Nahath,
 chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs
 of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath
 Esau's wife.
36:18 -- And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: chief
 Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of
 Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
36:19 These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is
 Edom.
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of
 the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
36:21 and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of
 the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
36:22 -- And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
 sister was Timna.
36:23 -- And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath,
 and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
36:24 -- And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah.
 This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness
 as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
36:25 -- And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah
 the daughter of Anah.
36:26 -- And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban,
 and Ithran, and Cheran.
36:27 -- These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and
 Akan.
36:28 -- These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
36:29 These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief
 Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the
 chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of
 Seir.
36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom
 before there reigned a king over the children of Israel.
36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of
 his city was Dinhabah.
36:33 And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
 reigned in his stead.
36:34 And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites
 reigned in his stead.
36:35 And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote
 Midian in the fields 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 on 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 daughter of Mezahab.
36:40 And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according
 to their families, after their places, with their names: chief
 Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
36:42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
36:43 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom,
 according to their dwelling-places in the land of their
 possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.
37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned --
 in the land of Canaan.
37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
 years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing
 service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
 his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil
 report of them.
37:3 And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he
 was son of his old age; and he made him a vest of many colours.
37:4 And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than
 all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him
 with friendliness.
37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren,
 and they hated him yet the more.
37:6 And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I
 have dreamt:
37:7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my
 sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves
 came round about and bowed down to my sheaf.
37:8 And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king
 over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet
 the more for his dreams and for his words.
37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his
 brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and
 behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.
37:10 And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And
 his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream
 which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother
 and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the
 saying.
37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock at
 Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the
 flock] at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he
 said to him, Here am I.
37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see after the welfare
 of thy brethren, and after the welfare of the flock; and bring
 me word again. And he sent him out of the vale of Hebron; and
 he came towards Shechem.
37:15 And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the
 country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
37:16 And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray
 thee, where they feed [their flocks].
37:17 And the man said, They have removed from this; for I heard
 them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
 brethren, and found them at Dothan.
37:18 And when they saw him from afar, and before he came near
 to them, they conspired against him to put him to death.
37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that
 dreamer!
37:20 And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of
 the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and
 we will see what becomes of his dreams.
37:21 And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their
 hand, and said, Let us not take his life.
37:22 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this
 pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him -- in
 order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him
 to his father again.
37:23 And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, that
 they stripped Joseph of his vest, the vest of many colours,
 which he had on;
37:24 and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit
 was empty -- there was no water in it.
37:25 And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their
 eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from
 Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and
 ladanum -- going to carry [it] down to Egypt.
37:26 And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we
 kill our brother and secrete his blood?
37:27 Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not
 our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his
 brethren hearkened [to him].
37:28 And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew
 and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the
 Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph
 to Egypt.
37:29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph [was]
 not in the pit; and he rent his garments,
37:30 and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not;
 and I, where shall I go?
37:31 And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the
 goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;
37:32 and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried
 to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now
 whether it is thy son's vest or not.
37:33 And he discerned it, and said, [It is] my son's vest! an
 evil beast has devoured him: Joseph is without doubt rent in
 pieces!
37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on 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 said, For I will go
 down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for
 him.
37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a
 chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.
38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from
 his brethren, and turned in to a man of Adullam whose name was
 Hirah.
38:2 And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanitish man whose
 name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her.
38:3 And she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name
 Er.
38:4 And she again conceived and bore a son, and she called his
 name Onan.
38:5 And again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah;
 and he was at Chezib when she bore him.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name
 was Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of
 Jehovah, and Jehovah slew him.
38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to thy brother's wife, and
 fulfil to her the brother-in-law's duty, and raise up seed to
 thy brother.
38:9 But when Onan knew that the seed should not be his own, it
 came to pass when he went in to his brother's wife, that he
 spilled [it] on the ground, in order to give no seed to his
 brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of
 Jehovah, and he slew him also.
38:11 And Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a
 widow in thy father's house, until Shelah my son is grown; for
 he said, Lest he die also, as his brethren. And Tamar went and
 remained in her father's house.
38:12 And as the days were multiplied, Judah's wife, the
 daughter of Shua, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up
 to his sheep-shearers, to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the
 Adullamite.
38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is
 going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
38:14 And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her,
 and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat
 in the entry of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she
 saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as
 wife.
38:15 And Judah saw her, and took her for a harlot; because she
 had covered her face.
38:16 And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Come, I
 pray thee, let me go in to thee; for he did not know that she
 was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me,
 that thou mayest come in to me?
38:17 And he said, I will send [thee] a kid of the goats from
 the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, until
 thou send it?
38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said,
 Thy signet, and thy lace, and thy staff which is in thy hand.
 And he gave [it] her, and went in to her; and she conceived by
 him.
38:19 And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from
 her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
38:20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his
 friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's
 hand; but he found her not.
38:21 And he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the
 prostitute that was at Enaim, by the way-side? And they said,
 There was no prostitute here.
38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her;
 and also the men of the place said, No prostitute has been
 here.
38:23 Then Judah said, Let her take [it] for herself, lest we be
 put to shame. Behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found
 her.
38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was
 told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed
 fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication.
 And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned.
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law,
 saying, By the man to whom these [belong] am I with child; and
 she said, Acknowledge, I pray thee, whose are this signet, and
 this lace, and this staff.
38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She is more
 righteous than I, because I have not given her to Shelah my
 son. And he knew her again no more.
38:27 And it came to pass at the time of her delivery, that
 behold, twins were in her womb.
38:28 And it came to pass when she brought forth, that one
 stretched out [his] hand, and the midwife took it and bound
 round 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!
 on thee be the breach! And they called his name Pherez.
38:30 And afterwards came out his brother, round whose hand was
 the scarlet thread; and they called his name Zerah.
39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a
 chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an
 Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had
 brought him down thither.
39:2 And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man;
 and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that
 Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
39:4 And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and attended on him;
 and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into
 his hand.
39:5 And it came to pass from the time he had set him over his
 house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's
 house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on 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 took
 cognizance of nothing with him, save the bread that he ate. And
 Joseph was of a beautiful form and of a beautiful countenance.
39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's
 wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
39:8 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my
 master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the
 house, and all that he has, he has given into my hand.
39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he
 withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife;
 and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
39:10 And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day and
 he hearkened not to her, to lie with her [and] to be with her,
39:11 that on a certain day he went into the house to do his
 business, and there was none of the men of the house there in
 the house.
39:12 Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me!
 But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out.
39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his
 garment in her hand and had fled forth,
39:14 that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to
 them, saying, See, he has brought in a Hebrew man to us, to
 mock us: he came in to 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
 went out.
39:16 And she laid his garment by her until his lord came home.
39:17 And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The
 Hebrew bondman that thou hast brought to us came in to 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 forth.
39:19 And it came to pass when his lord heard the words of his
 wife which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did thy
 bondman to me, that his wrath was kindled.
39:20 And Joseph's lord took him and put him into the
 tower-house, [the] place where the king's prisoners were
 confined; and he was there in the tower-house.
39:21 And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him,
 and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the
 tower-house.
39:22 And the chief of the tower-house committed to Joseph's
 hand all the prisoners that were in the tower-house; and
 whatever they had to do there he did.
39:23 The chief of the tower-house looked not to anything under
 his hand, because Jehovah was with him; and what he did,
 Jehovah made it prosper.
40:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the
 cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their
 lord the king of Egypt.
40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth with his two chamberlains -- with the
 chief of the cup-bearers and with the chief of the bakers;
40:3 and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of
 the life-guard, into the tower-house, into the place where
 Joseph was imprisoned.
40:4 And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them,
 that he should attend on them. And they were [several] days in
 custody.
40:5 And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each
 his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream,
 the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were
 imprisoned in the tower-house.
40:6 And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked on
 them, and behold, they were sad.
40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in
 custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces [so]
 sad to-day?
40:8 And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is
 no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not
 interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [your dreams], I pray
 you.
40:9 Then the chief of the cup-bearers 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: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into
 grapes.
40:11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes,
 and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup into
 Pharaoh's hand.
40:12 And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it:
 the three branches are three days.
40:13 In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and
 restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup
 into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his
 cup-bearer.
40:14 Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well
 with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make
 mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;
40:15 for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews,
 and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into
 the dungeon.
40:16 And when the chief of the bakers saw that the
 interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also was in my
 dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my
 head.
40:17 And in the uppermost basket there were all manner of
 victuals for Pharaoh that the baker makes, and the birds ate
 them out of the basket upon my head.
40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation
 of it: the three baskets are three days.
40:19 In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off
 thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh
 from off thee.
40:20 And it came to pass the third day -- Pharaoh's birthday --
 that he made a feast to all his bondmen. And he lifted up the
 head of the chief of the cup-bearers, and the head of the chief
 of the bakers among his bondmen.
40:21 And he restored the chief of the cup-bearers to his office
 of cup-bearer again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
40:22 And he hanged the chief of the bakers, as Joseph had
 interpreted to them.
40:23 But the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph,
 and forgot him.
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that
 Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
41:2 And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
 fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
41:3 And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
 river, bad-looking and lean-fleshed, and stood by the kine on
 the bank of the river.
41:4 And the kine that were bad-looking and lean-fleshed ate up
 the seven kine that were fine-looking and fat. And Pharaoh
 awoke.
41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven
 ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.
41:6 And behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east
 wind, sprung up after them.
41:7 And the thin ears devoured the seven fat 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 scribes of Egypt,
 and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his
 dream; but [there was] none to interpret them to Pharaoh.
41:9 Then spoke the chief of the cup-bearers to Pharaoh, saying,
 I remember mine offences this day.
41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody
 into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of
 the bakers.
41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed
 each according to the interpretation of his dream.
41:12 And there was there with us a Hebrew youth, a bondman of
 the captain of the life-guard, to whom we told [them], and he
 interpreted to us our dreams; to each he interpreted according
 to his dream.
41:13 And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us, so it
 came about: me has he restored to my 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 clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and
 there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee,
 thou understandest a dream to interpret it.
41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God
 will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
41:17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood
 on the bank of the river.
41:18 And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
 fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass.
41:19 And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and
 very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed -- such as I never saw in all
 the land of Egypt for badness.
41:20 And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
41:21 and they came into their belly, and it could not be known
 that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as
 at the beginning. And I awoke.
41:22 And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on
 one stalk, full and good.
41:23 And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the
 east wind, sprung up after them;
41:24 and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told
 it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.
41:25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one.
 What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.
41:26 The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good
 ears are seven years: the dream is one.
41:27 And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them
 are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the
 east wind, will be seven years of famine.
41:28 This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God
 is about to do he has let Pharaoh see.
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout
 the land of Egypt.
41:30 And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and
 all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the
 famine will waste away the land.
41:31 And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by
 reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.
41:32 And as regards the double repetition of the dream to
 Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God
 will hasten to do it.
41:33 And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and
 wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do [this]: let him appoint overseers over the
 land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the
 seven years of plenty,
41:35 and let them gather all the food of these coming good
 years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in
 the cities, and keep [it].
41:36 And let the food be as store for the land for the seven
 years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the
 land perish not through the famine.
41:37 And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
 eyes of all his bondmen.
41:38 And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find [one] as
 this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this
 known to thee, there is none [so] discreet and wise as thou.
41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy
 commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only
 concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
41:41 And Pharaoh said to 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 on
 Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a
 gold chain on his neck.
41:43 And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he
 had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him
 over all the land of Egypt.
41:44 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee
 shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of
 Egypt.
41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and
 gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest
 in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before
 Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and
 passed through the whole land of Egypt.
41:47 And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by
 handfuls.
41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that
 was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the
 food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he
 laid up in it.
41:49 And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much,
 until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
41:50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine
 came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On
 bore to him.
41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh --
 For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
 house.
41:52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim -- For God
 has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
41:53 And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of
 Egypt were ended;
41:54 and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according
 as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in
 all the land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55 And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And
 the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all
 the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.
41:56 And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened
 every place in which there was [provision], and sold grain to
 the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of
 Egypt.
41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy
 [grain], because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
42:1 And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said
 to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in
 Egypt; go down thither and buy [grain] for us from thence, in
 order that we may live, and not die.
42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of
 Egypt.
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
 brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.
42:5 So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that
 came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
42:6 And Joseph, he was the governor over the land -- he it was
 that sold [the corn] to all the people of the land. And
 Joseph's brethren came and bowed down to him, the face to the
 earth.
42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made
 himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to
 them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan,
 to buy food.
42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.
42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of
 them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed
 places of the land ye are come.
42:10 And they said to him, No, my lord; but to buy food are thy
 servants come.
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest: thy servants are
 not spies.
42:12 And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of
 the land are ye come.
42:13 And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, 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 to them, That is it that I have spoken to
 you, saying, Ye are spies.
42:15 By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh lives, ye
 shall not go forth hence, unless your youngest brother come
 hither!
42:16 Send one of you, that he may fetch your brother, but ye
 shall be imprisoned, and your words shall be put to the proof,
 whether the truth is in you; and if not, as Pharaoh lives, ye
 are spies.
42:17 And he put them in custody three days.
42:18 And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye
 may live: I fear God.
42:19 If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in
 the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger
 of your households;
42:20 and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your
 words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.
42:21 Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty
 concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he
 besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is
 come upon us.
42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you,
 saying, Do not sin against the lad? But ye did not hearken; and
 now behold, his blood also is required.
42:23 And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the
 interpreter was between them.
42:24 And he turned away from them, and wept. And he returned to
 them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and
 bound him before their eyes.
42:25 And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn,
 and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
 them provision for the way. And thus did they to them.
42:26 And they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed
 thence.
42:27 And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in
 the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of
 his sack.
42:28 And he said to his brethren, My money is returned [to me],
 and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed
 [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is
 this [that] God has done to us?
42:29 And they came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their
 father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,
42:30 The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and
 treated us as spies of the land.
42:31 And we said to him, We are honest; we are not spies:
42:32 we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not,
 and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of
 Canaan.
42:33 And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby
 shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren
 with me, and take [for] the hunger of your households, and go,
42:34 and bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know
 that ye are not spies, but are honest. Your brother will I give
 up to you; and ye may trade in the land.
42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that
 behold, every man had his bundle of money in his sack; and they
 saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were
 afraid.
42:36 And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me
 of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take
 Benjamin! All these things are against me.
42:37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons
 if I bring him not back to thee: give him into my hand, and I
 will bring him to thee again.
42:38 But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his
 brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should
 befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down
 my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
43:1 And the famine was grievous in the land.
43:2 And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the
 grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said
 to them, Go again, buy us a little food.
43:3 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did positively
 testify to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, unless 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 do not send [him], we will not go down, for the
 man said to us, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother
 be with you.
43:6 And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to
 tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
43:7 And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and
 after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a
 brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words.
 Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother
 down?
43:8 And Judah said to 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 our little ones.
43:9 I will be surety for him: of my hand shalt thou require
 him; if I bring him not to thee, and set him before thy face,
 then shall I be guilty toward thee for ever.
43:10 For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have
 returned already twice.
43:11 And their father Israel said to them, If it is then so, do
 this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and
 carry down the man a gift: a little balsam and a little honey,
 tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds.
43:12 And take other money in your hand, and the money that was
 returned to you in the mouth of your sacks, carry back in your
 hand: perhaps it is an oversight.
43:13 And take your brother, and arise, go again to the man.
43:14 And the Almighty ∙God give you mercy before the man, that
 he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I
 be bereaved of children, am bereaved.
43:15 And the men took that gift, and took double money in their
 hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
 came before Joseph.
43:16 And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and said to the [man]
 who was over his house, Bring the men into the house, and
 slaughter cattle, and make ready; for the men shall eat with me
 at noon.
43:17 And the man did as Joseph had said; 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 said, Because of the money that was
 returned to us in our sacks at the beginning are we brought in,
 that he may turn against us, and fall upon us and take us for
 bondmen, and our asses.
43:19 And they came up to the man that was over Joseph's house,
 and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
43:20 and said, Ah! my lord, we came indeed down at the first 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 according to its weight; and we
 have brought it again in our hand.
43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy
 food. We do not know 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, has given you treasure in your sacks; your
 money came to me. And he brought Simeon out to them.
43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave
 water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
 food.
43:25 And they made ready the gift for Joseph's coming at noon;
 for they had heard that they should eat bread there.
43:26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift that 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 spoke? Is he yet alive?
43:28 And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet
 alive. And they bowed, 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 spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my
 son!
43:30 And Joseph made haste, for his bowels burned for his
 brother; and he sought [a place] to weep, and he went into the
 chamber, and wept there.
43:31 And he washed his face, and came out, and controlled
 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 who ate 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 had portions carried to them from before him. And
 Benjamin's portion was five times greater than the portions of
 them all. And they drank, and made merry with him.
44:1 And he commanded him who was over his house, saying, Fill
 the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry; and put
 every man's money in the mouth of his sack.
44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of
 the youngest, and his grain-money. And he did according to the
 word of Joseph which he had spoken.
44:3 In the morning, when it was light, the men were sent away,
 they and their asses.
44:4 They were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet] far off,
 when Joseph said to him who was over his house, Up! follow
 after the men; and when thou overtakest them, thou shalt say to
 them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?
44:5 Is not this [it] in which my lord drinks, and in which
 indeed he divines? Ye have done evil [in] what ye have done.
44:6 And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.
44:7 And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as
 these? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing!
44:8 Behold, the money that we found in our sacks' mouths we
 have brought again to thee from the land of Canaan; and how
 should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die;
 and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
44:10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according to your
 words: let him with whom it is found be my bondman, but ye
 shall be blameless.
44:11 And they hasted and laid down every man his sack on the
 ground, and opened every man his sack.
44:12 And he searched carefully: he began at the eldest, and
 ended at the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's
 sack.
44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his
 ass, and they returned to the city.
44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he
 was still there; and they fell down before him to the ground.
44:15 And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have
 done? Did ye not know that such a man as I can certainly
 divine?
44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall
 we speak, and how justify ourselves? God has found out the
 iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord's bondmen,
 both we, and he in whose hand the cup has been found.
44:17 And he said, Far be it from me to do so! The man in whose
 hand the cup has been found, he shall be my bondman; but as for
 you, go up in peace to your father.
44:18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Ah! 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 to my lord, We have an aged father, and a
 child born to him in his old age, [yet] young; and his brother
 is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father
 loves him.
44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down to me,
 that I may set mine eye on him.
44:22 And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father:
 if he should leave his father, [his father] would die.
44:23 And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless 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 to thy servant my
 father, we told him the words of my lord.
44:25 And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
44:26 But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be
 with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face
 unless our youngest brother is with us.
44:27 And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife
 bore me two [sons];
44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, He must
 certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him
 [again] hitherto.
44:29 And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should
 befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to
 Sheol.
44:30 And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad
 is not with us, -- seeing that his life is bound up with his
 life,
44:31 it will come to pass when he sees that the lad is not
 [there], that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the
 grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father,
 saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty
 toward my father all my days.
44:33 And now, let thy servant stay, I pray thee, instead of the
 lad a bondman to my lord, and let the lad go up with his
 brethren;
44:34 for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not
 with me? -- lest I see the evil that would come on my father.
45:1 And Joseph could not control himself before all them that
 stood by him, and he cried, Put every man out from me! And no
 man stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his
 brethren.
45:2 And he raised his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians
 heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
45:3 And Joseph said to his brethren, I am Joseph. Does my
 father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him, for
 they were troubled at his presence.
45:4 And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray
 you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother,
 whom ye sold into Egypt.
45:5 And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves,
 that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve
 life.
45:6 For the famine has been these two years in the land; and
 yet there are five years in which there will be neither
 ploughing nor harvest.
45:7 So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the
 earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
45:8 And now it was not you [that] sent me here, but God; and he
 has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
 governor over all the land of Egypt.
45:9 Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy
 son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me,
 tarry not.
45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt
 be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, and thy
 sheep, and thy cattle, and all that thou hast.
45:11 And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five
 years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou,
 and thy household, and all that thou hast.
45:12 And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
 Benjamin, that it is my mouth which speaks to you.
45:13 And tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all
 that ye have seen, and haste and bring down my father hither.
45:14 And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
 Benjamin wept on his neck.
45:15 And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and
 after that his brethren talked with him.
45:16 And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
 Joseph's brethren are come. And it was good in the eyes of
 Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his bondmen.
45:17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, Do this:
 load your beasts and depart, go into the land of Canaan,
45:18 and take your father and your households, and come to me;
 and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall
 eat the fat of the land.
45:19 And thou art commanded -- this do: take waggons out of the
 land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and take
 up your father, and come.
45:20 And let not your eye regret your stuff; for the good of
 all the land of Egypt shall be yours.
45:21 And the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them
 waggons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
 provision for the way.
45:22 To each one of them all he gave changes of clothing; but
 to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver and five
 changes of clothing.
45:23 And to his father he sent this: ten asses laden with the
 good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and
 bread, and food for his father by the way.
45:24 And he sent his brethren away, and they departed. And he
 said to them, Do not quarrel on the way.
45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of
 Canaan to Jacob their father.
45:26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he
 is governor over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted,
 for he did not believe them.
45:27 And they spoke to him all the words of Joseph, which he
 had spoken to them. And he saw the waggons that Joseph had sent
 to carry him. And the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
45:28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is yet alive;
 I will go and see him before I die.
46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came
 to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his
 father Isaac.
46:2 And God spoke to 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 to Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.
46:4 I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will also
 certainly bring thee up; and Joseph shall put his hand on 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, on the waggons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods which they had
 acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to 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 he brought with him to Egypt.
46:8 And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into
 Egypt: Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn, Reuben.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
 Carmi.
46:10 -- And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,
 and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul 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
 Pherez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
 And the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 -- And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, and Job, and
 Shimron.
46:14 -- And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 -- These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in
 Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons
 and his daughters were thirty-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 Jishvah, and Jishvi,
 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 she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20 And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
 Ephraim, whom Asnath bore to him, the daughter of Potipherah
 the priest in On.
46:21 -- And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and
 Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and
 Ard.
46:22 -- These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob:
 all the souls were fourteen.
46:23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
46:24 -- And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer,
 and Shillem.
46:25 -- These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel
 his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls were
 seven.
46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come
 out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls
 were sixty-six.
46:27 And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, were
 two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob that came to
 Egypt were seventy.
46:28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give notice
 before he came to Goshen. And they came into the land of
 Goshen.
46:29 Then Joseph yoked his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
 his father, to Goshen, and he presented himself to him; and he
 fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
46:30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, after I have
 seen thy face, since thou still livest.
46:31 And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father's house,
 I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brethren and
 my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to
 me;
46:32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been occupied
 with cattle; and they have brought their sheep, and their
 cattle, and all that they have.
46:33 And it shall come to pass that when Pharaoh shall call you
 and say, What is your occupation?
46:34 then ye shall say, Thy servants are men that have been
 occupied with cattle from our youth even until now, both we and
 our fathers; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen;
 for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
47:1 And Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my
 brethren, and their sheep and their cattle, 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 from the whole number of his brethren, five
 men, and set them before Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What is your occupation?
 And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we
 and our fathers.
47:4 And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we
 come; for there is no pasture for the sheep that thy servants
 have, for the famine is grievous in the land of Canaan; and
 now, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of
 Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
 brethren are come to thee.
47:6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land
 settle thy father and thy brethren: let them dwell in the land
 of Goshen. And if thou knowest men of activity among them, then
 set them as overseers of cattle over what I have.
47:7 And Joseph brought Jacob his father, and set him before
 Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the
 years of thy life?
47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
 sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have
 been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain
 to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days
 of their sojourning.
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from Pharaoh.
47:11 And Joseph settled 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 maintained his father, and his brethren, and
 all his father's household, with bread, according to the number
 of the little ones.
47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was
 very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan
 were exhausted through the famine.
47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
 land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which
 they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when money came to an end in the land of Egypt and in
 the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying,
 Give us bread! for why should we die before thee? for [our]
 money is all gone.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for
 your cattle, if [your] money be all gone.
47:17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave
 them bread for horses, and for flocks of sheep, and for herds
 of cattle, and for asses; and he fed them with bread for all
 their cattle that year.
47:18 And that year ended; and they came to him the second year,
 and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since
 [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in
 the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but
 our bodies and our land.
47:19 Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?
 Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be
 bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not
 die, and that the land be not desolate.
47:20 And Joseph bought all the soil of Egypt for Pharaoh; for
 the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
 prevailed over them; and the land became Pharaoh's.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them into the cities,
 from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end
 of it.
47:22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the
 priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their
 assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not
 sell their land.
47:23 And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you
 this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you,
 and sow the land.
47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall
 give the fifth to Pharaoh, and the 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 us alive. Let us find
 favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
 bondmen.
47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this
 day, [that] the fifth should be for Pharaoh, except the land of
 the priests: theirs alone did not become Pharaoh's.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of
 Goshen; and they had possessions in it, and were fruitful and
 multiplied exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; and
 the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and
 forty-seven years.
47:29 And the days of Israel approached that he should die. And
 he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found
 favour in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
 thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray
 thee, in Egypt;
47:30 but when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me
 out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I
 will do according to thy word.
47:31 And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel
 worshipped on the bed's head.
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 is
 coming to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon
 the bed.
48:3 And Jacob said to Joseph, The Almighty ∙God appeared to me
 at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
48:4 and he said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful and
 multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples;
 and will give this land to thy seed after thee [for] an
 everlasting possession.
48:5 And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of
 Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine: Ephraim
 and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon.
48:6 And thy family which thou hast begotten after them shall be
 thine: they shall be called after the name of their brethren in
 their inheritance.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
 the land of Canaan on the way, when there was yet a certain
 distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way
 to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
48:9 And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God
 has given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, to me,
 that I may bless them.
48:10 But the eyes of Israel were heavy from age: he could not
 see. And he brought them nearer to him; and he kissed them, and
 embraced them.
48:11 And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy
 face; and behold, God has let me see also thy seed.
48:12 And Joseph brought them out from his knees, and bowed down
 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 to him.
48:14 But Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it] on
 Ephraim's head -- now he was the younger -- and his left hand
 on Manasseh's head; guiding his hands intelligently, for
 Manasseh was the firstborn.
48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my
 fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God that shepherded me
 all my life long to this day,
48:16 the Angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads;
 and let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers
 Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the
 midst of the land!
48:17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the
 head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of
 his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to
 Manasseh's head.
48:18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this
 is the firstborn: put thy right hand on his head.
48:19 But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know:
 he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but
 truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed
 will become the fulness of nations.
48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel
 bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh! And he
 set Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God will be
 with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
48:22 And *I* have given to thee one tract [of land] above thy
 brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
 sword and with my bow.
49:1 And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
 together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end
 of days.
49:2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen
 to Israel your father.
49:3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, My might, and the
 firstfruits of my vigour: Excellency of dignity, and excellency
 of strength.
49:4 Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence;
 Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst
 thou [it]: he went up to my bed.
49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their
 swords.
49:6 My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not
 united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men,
 And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it [was] violent; And their
 rage, for it [was] cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, And
 scatter them in Israel.
49:8 Judah -- [as to] thee, thy brethren will praise thee; Thy
 hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's
 children will bow down to thee.
49:9 Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone
 up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a
 lioness: who will rouse him up?
49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver
 from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be
 the obedience of peoples.
49:11 He bindeth his foal to the vine, And his ass's colt to the
 choice vine; He washeth his dress in wine, And his garment in
 the blood of grapes.
49:12 The eyes are red with wine, And the teeth [are] white with
 milk.
49:13 Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the seas; Yea, he will
 be at the shore of the ships, And his side [toucheth] upon
 Sidon.
49:14 Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two
 hurdles.
49:15 And he saw the rest that it was good, And the land that it
 was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And was a
 tributary servant.
49:16 Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of
 Israel.
49:17 Dan will be a serpent on the way, A horned snake on the
 path, Which biteth the horse's heels, So that the rider falleth
 backwards.
49:18 I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
49:19 Gad -- troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon
 the heel.
49:20 Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give
 royal dainties.
49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose; He giveth goodly words.
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well;
 [His] branches shoot over the wall.
49:23 The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
49:24 But his bow abideth firm, And the arms of his hands are
 supple By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From thence is
 the shepherd, the stone of Israel:
49:25 From the ∙God of thy father, and he will help thee; And
 from the Almighty, and he will bless thee -- With blessings of
 heaven from above, With blessings of the deep that lieth under,
 With blessings of the breast and of the womb.
49:26 The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my
 ancestors, Unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: They shall
 be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him
 that was separated from his brethren.
49:27 Benjamin -- [as] a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the
 morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will
 divide the booty.
49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is
 what their father spoke to them; and he blessed them: every one
 according to his blessing he blessed them.
49:29 And he charged them, and said to them, I am gathered to 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
 opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought
 of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of
 a sepulchre.
49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
 buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah.
49:32 The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it,
 was from the children of Heth.
49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
 gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered
 to his peoples.
50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
 and kissed him.
50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
 his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
 the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned
 for him seventy days.
50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke
 to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in
 your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave
 which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
 bury me. And now, let me go up, I pray thee, that I may 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 bondmen 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
 the camp was very great.
50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is
 beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and
 very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his
 father of seven days.
50:11 And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
 mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is
 a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it
 was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
50:12 And his sons did to him according as he had commanded
 them;
50:13 and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and
 buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham
 had bought along with the field, for a possession of a
 sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.
50:14 And, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to
 Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him
 to bury his father.
50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
 they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should
 indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!
50:16 And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Thy father
 commanded before he died, saying,
50:17 Thus shall ye speak to Joseph: Oh forgive, I pray thee,
 the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin! for they did
 evil to thee. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression
 of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when
 they spoke to him.
50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face,
 and said, Behold, we are thy bondmen.
50:19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I then in the place
 of God?
50:20 Ye indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in
 order that he might do as [it is] this day, to save a great
 people alive.
50:21 And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little
 ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.
50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and
 Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
 [generation]; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were
 born on Joseph's knees.
50:24 And Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will
 certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into
 the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,
 God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones
 hence.
50:26 And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they
 embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.