Hall of Fame/HallofFameCDROM.cdr/biblekjv/genesis.txt

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GENESIS 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
GENESIS 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness {was} upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the waters.
GENESIS 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
GENESIS 1:4 And God saw the light, that {it was} good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
GENESIS 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
GENESIS 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
GENESIS 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which {were} under the firmament from the waters which {were}
above the firmament: and it was so.
GENESIS 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day.
GENESIS 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the Heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry {land} appear:
and it was so.
GENESIS 1:10 And God called the dry {land} Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that
{it was} good.
GENESIS 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, {and} the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed {is} in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
GENESIS 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, {and} herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed {was} in itself, after his kind: and God saw that {it was}
good.
GENESIS 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
GENESIS 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
GENESIS 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
GENESIS 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: {he made}
the stars also.
GENESIS 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth,
GENESIS 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that {it was}
good.
GENESIS 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
GENESIS 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life, and fowl {that} may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
GENESIS 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God
saw that {it was} good.
GENESIS 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply
in the earth.
GENESIS 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
GENESIS 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after his kind: and it was so.
GENESIS 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon
the earth after his kind: and God saw that {it was} good.
GENESIS 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
GENESIS 1:27 So God created man in his {own} image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them.
GENESIS 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
GENESIS 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which {is} upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in the which {is} the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
GENESIS 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein {there is} life, {I have given} every green herb for
meat: and it was so.
GENESIS 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, {it was} very good.  And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
GENESIS 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them.
GENESIS 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he
had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
GENESIS 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
GENESIS 2:4 These {are} the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made
the earth and the heavens,
GENESIS 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord
God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and {there was} not
a man to till the ground.
GENESIS 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground.
GENESIS 2:7 And the Lord God formed man {of} the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
GENESIS 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
GENESIS 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree
of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
GENESIS 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
GENESIS 2:11 The name of the first {is} Pison: that {is} it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where {there is} gold;
GENESIS 2:12 And the gold of that land {is} good: there {is}
bdellium and the onyx stone.
GENESIS 2:13 And the name of the second river {is} Gihon: the
same {is} it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
GENESIS 2:14 And the name of the third river {is} Hiddekel: that
{is} it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth
river {is} Euphrates.
GENESIS 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
GENESIS 2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
GENESIS 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
GENESIS 2:18 And the Lord God said, {It is} not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
GENESIS 2:19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every
beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought {them}
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam
called every living creature, that {was} the name thereof.
GENESIS 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl
of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there
was not found an help meet for him.
GENESIS 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof;
GENESIS 2:22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
GENESIS 2:23 And Adam said, This {is} now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.
GENESIS 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
GENESIS 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
GENESIS 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the
field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
GENESIS 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of
the fruit of the trees of the garden:
GENESIS 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which {is} in the midst
of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither
shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
GENESIS 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:
GENESIS 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil.
GENESIS 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree {was} good for
food, and that it {was} pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make {one} wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in
the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of
the garden.
GENESIS 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where {art} thou?
GENESIS 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, because I {was} naked; and I hid myself.
GENESIS 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou {wast} naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
GENESIS 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest {to be}
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
GENESIS 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What {is} this
{that} thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled
me, and I did eat.
GENESIS 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou {art} cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
GENESIS 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
GENESIS 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children; and thy desire {shall be} to thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee.
GENESIS 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which
I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed {is}
the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat {of} it all the
days of thy life;
GENESIS 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
GENESIS 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou {art}, and unto dust shalt thou return.
GENESIS 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was
the mother of all living.
GENESIS 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make
coats of skins, and clothed them.
GENESIS 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever:
GENESIS 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the
garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
GENESIS 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east
of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
GENESIS 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and
bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
GENESIS 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a
keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
GENESIS 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
GENESIS 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his
flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel
and to his offering:
GENESIS 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
GENESIS 4:6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and
why is thy countenance fallen?
GENESIS 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
{shall be} his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
GENESIS 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
his brother, and slew him.
GENESIS 4:9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where {is} Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: {am} I my brother's keeper?
GENESIS 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
GENESIS 4:11 And now {art} thou cursed from the earth, which hath
opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
GENESIS 4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
GENESIS 4:13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment {is}
greater than I can bear.
GENESIS 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the
face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall
be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, {that} every one that findeth me shall slay me.
GENESIS 4:15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever
slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the
Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
GENESIS 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and
dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
GENESIS 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city,
after the name of his son, Enoch.
GENESIS 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat
Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat
Lamech.
GENESIS 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the
one {was} Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
GENESIS 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as
dwell in tents, and {of such as have} cattle.
GENESIS 4:21 And his brother's name {was} Jubal: he was the
father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
GENESIS 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer
of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain
{was} Naamah.
GENESIS 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,
Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I
have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
GENESIS 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
seventy and sevenfold.
GENESIS 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son,
and called his name Seth: For God, {said she}, hath appointed me
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
GENESIS 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and
he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of
the Lord.
GENESIS 5:1 This {is} the book of the generations of Adam. In the
day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
GENESIS 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them,
and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
GENESIS 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat
{a son} in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name
Seth:
GENESIS 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were
eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred
and thirty years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat
Enos:
GENESIS 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve
years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
GENESIS 5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five
years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
GENESIS 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight
hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten
years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared:
GENESIS 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight
hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred
ninety and five years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and
he begat Enoch:
GENESIS 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty
and two years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
GENESIS 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah
three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty
and five years:
GENESIS 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he {was} not; for God
took him.
GENESIS 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech.
GENESIS 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty and nine years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years,
and begat a son:
GENESIS 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This {same}
shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
GENESIS 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred
ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
GENESIS 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred
seventy and seven years: and he died.
GENESIS 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
GENESIS 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
GENESIS 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that
they {were} fair; and they took them wives of all which they
chose.
GENESIS 6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also {is} flesh: yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years.
GENESIS 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters
of men, and they bare {children} to them, the same {became}
mighty men which {were} of old, men of renown.
GENESIS 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man {was} great in
the earth, and {that} every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart {was} only evil continually.
GENESIS 6:6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
GENESIS 6:7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me
that I have made them.
GENESIS 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
GENESIS 6:9 These {are} the generations of Noah: Noah was a just
man {and} perfect in his generations, {and} Noah walked with God.
GENESIS 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
GENESIS 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth
was filled with violence.
GENESIS 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
GENESIS 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
GENESIS 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou
make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with
pitch.
GENESIS 6:15 And this {is the fashion} which thou shalt make it
{of}: The length of the ark {shall be} three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
GENESIS 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit
shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou
set in the side thereof; {with} lower, second, and third
{stories} shalt thou make it.
GENESIS 6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein {is} the breath of
life, from under heaven; {and} every thing that {is} in the earth
shall die.
GENESIS 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and
thy sons' wives with thee.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of
every {sort} shall come unto thee, to keep {them} alive.
GENESIS 6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,
and thou shalt gather {it} to thee; and it shall be for food for
thee, and for them.
GENESIS 6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded
him, so did he.
GENESIS 7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in
this generation.
GENESIS 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by
sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that {are} not
clean by two, the male and his female.
GENESIS 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
GENESIS 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon
the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GENESIS 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord
commanded him.
GENESIS 7:6 And Noah {was} six hundred years old when the flood
of waters was upon the earth.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that {are} not clean,
and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
GENESIS 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the
male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
GENESIS 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the
waters of the flood were upon the earth.
GENESIS 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were
all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
GENESIS 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
GENESIS 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
GENESIS 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort.
GENESIS 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two
of all flesh, wherein {is} the breath of life.
GENESIS 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of
all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
GENESIS 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above
the earth.
GENESIS 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly
upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
GENESIS 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high hills, that {were} under the whole heaven, were
covered.
GENESIS 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and
the mountains were covered.
GENESIS 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both
of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
GENESIS 7:22 All in whose nostrils {was} the breath of life, of
all that {was} in the dry {land}, died.
GENESIS 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was
upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained {alive}, and
they that {were} with him in the ark.
GENESIS 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred
and fifty days.
GENESIS 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and
all the cattle that {was} with him in the ark: and God made a
wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
GENESIS 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
GENESIS 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the
waters were abated.
GENESIS 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
GENESIS 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth
month: in the tenth {month}, on the first {day} of the month,
were the tops of the mountains seen.
GENESIS 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:
GENESIS 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
GENESIS 8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the
waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
GENESIS 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,
and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters {were} on
the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took
her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
GENESIS 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he
sent forth the dove out of the ark;
GENESIS 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo,
in her mouth {was} an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that
the waters were abated from off the earth.
GENESIS 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth
the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
GENESIS 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first
year, in the first {month}, the first {day} of the month, the
waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the
ground was dry.
GENESIS 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth
day of the month, was the earth dried.
GENESIS 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
GENESIS 8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy
sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
GENESIS 8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that {is}
with thee, of all flesh, {both} of fowl, and of cattle, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may
breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon
the earth.
GENESIS 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
his sons' wives with him:
GENESIS 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl,
{and} whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
GENESIS 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of
every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
GENESIS 8:21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart {is} evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as
I have done.
GENESIS 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.
GENESIS 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
GENESIS 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be
upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of
the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
GENESIS 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;
even as the green herb have I given you all things.
GENESIS 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
GENESIS 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require;
at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of
man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life
of man.
GENESIS 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be
shed: for in the image of God made he man.
GENESIS 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
GENESIS 9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,
saying,
GENESIS 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and
with your seed after you;
GENESIS 9:10 And with every living creature that {is} with you,
of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with
you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the
earth.
GENESIS 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither
shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;
neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
GENESIS 9:12 And God said, This {is} the token of the covenant
which I make between me and you and every living creature that
{is} with you, for perpetual generations:
GENESIS 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a
token of a covenant between me and the earth.
GENESIS 9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
GENESIS 9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which {is} between
me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters
shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
GENESIS 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look
upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God
and every living creature of all flesh that {is} upon the earth.
GENESIS 9:17 And God said unto Noah, This {is} the token of the
covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that
{is} upon the earth.
GENESIS 9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark,
were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham {is} the father of
Canaan.
GENESIS 9:19 These {are} the three sons of Noah: and of them was
the whole earth overspread.
GENESIS 9:20 And Noah began {to be} an husbandman, and he planted
a vineyard:
GENESIS 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he
was uncovered within his tent.
GENESIS 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of
his father, and told his two brethren without.
GENESIS 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid {it}
upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the
nakedness of their father; and their faces {were} backward, and
they saw not their father's nakedness.
GENESIS 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his
younger son had done unto him.
GENESIS 9:25 And he said, Cursed {be} Canaan; a servant of
servants shall he be unto his brethren.
GENESIS 9:26 And he said, Blessed {be} the Lord God of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant.
GENESIS 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the
tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
GENESIS 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and
fifty years.
GENESIS 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty
years: and he died.
GENESIS 10:1 Now these {are} the generations of the sons of Noah,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the
flood.
GENESIS 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai,
and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
GENESIS 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah.
GENESIS 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,
Kittim, and Dodanim.
GENESIS 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in
their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in
their nations.
GENESIS 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut,
and Canaan.
GENESIS 10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah,
and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and
Dedan.
GENESIS 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one
in the earth.
GENESIS 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it
is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
GENESIS 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and
Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
GENESIS 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
GENESIS 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same {is}
a great city.
GENESIS 10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim,
and Naphtuhim,
GENESIS 10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came
Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
GENESIS 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
GENESIS 10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite,
GENESIS 10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
GENESIS 10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the
Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites
spread abroad.
GENESIS 10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as
thou comest to Gerar, unto gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
GENESIS 10:20 These {are} the sons of Ham, after their families,
after their tongues, in their countries, {and} in their nations.
GENESIS 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were
{children} born.
GENESIS 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
GENESIS 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,
and Mash.
GENESIS 10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
GENESIS 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one
{was} Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his
brother's name {was} Joktan.
GENESIS 10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
GENESIS 10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
GENESIS 10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
GENESIS 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these {were}
the sons of Joktan.
GENESIS 10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
unto Sephar a mount of the east.
GENESIS 10:31 These {are} the sons of Shem, after their families,
after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
GENESIS 10:32 These {are} the families of the sons of Noah, after
their generations, in their nations: and by these were the
nations divided in the earth after the flood.
GENESIS 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech.
GENESIS 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the
east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.
GENESIS 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and
slime had they for morter.
GENESIS 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a
tower, whose top {may reach} unto heaven; and let us make us a
name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth.
GENESIS 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men builded.
GENESIS 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people {is} one, and
they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now
nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to
do.
GENESIS 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
GENESIS 11:8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon
the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
GENESIS 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because
the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and
from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all
the earth.
GENESIS 11:10 These {are} the generations of Shem: Shem {was} an
hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
GENESIS 11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Salah:
GENESIS 11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
GENESIS 11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg:
GENESIS 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred
and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
GENESIS 11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and
nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat
Serug:
GENESIS 11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and
seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
GENESIS 11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah:
GENESIS 11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
GENESIS 11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
GENESIS 11:27 Now these {are} the generations of Terah: Terah
begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat lot.
GENESIS 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land
of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
GENESIS 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of
Abram's wife {was} Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah,
the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of
Iscah.
GENESIS 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she {had} no child.
GENESIS 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of
Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son
Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there.
GENESIS 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five
years: and Terah died in Haran.
GENESIS 12:1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew thee:
GENESIS 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 12:4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him;
and Lot went with him: and Abram {was} seventy and five years old
when he departed out of Haran.
GENESIS 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's
son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go
into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
GENESIS 12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of
Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite {was} then in
the land.
GENESIS 12:7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy
seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto
the Lord, who appeared unto him.
GENESIS 12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the
east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, {having} Bethel on the
west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the
Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
GENESIS 12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the
south.
GENESIS 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went
down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine {was} grievous
in the land.
GENESIS 12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter
into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know
that thou {art} a fair woman to look upon:
GENESIS 12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians
shall see thee, that they shall say, This {is} his wife: and they
will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
GENESIS 12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou {art} my sister: that it may
be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of
thee.
GENESIS 12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into
Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she {was} very fair.
GENESIS 12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended
her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
GENESIS 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he
had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and
maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
GENESIS 12:17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with
great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
GENESIS 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What {is} this
{that} thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that
she {was} thy wife?
GENESIS 12:19 Why saidst thou, She {is} my sister? so I might
have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take
{her}, and go thy way.
GENESIS 12:20 And Pharaoh commanded {his} men concerning him: and
they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
GENESIS 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife,
and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
GENESIS 13:2 And Abram {was} very rich in cattle, in silver, and
in gold.
GENESIS 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to
Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
GENESIS 13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there
at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
GENESIS 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and
herds, and tents.
GENESIS 13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they
might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they
could not dwell together.
GENESIS 13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite
and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
GENESIS 13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I
pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we {be} brethren.
GENESIS 13:9 {Is} not the whole land before thee? separate
thyself, I pray thee, from me: if {thou wilt take} the left hand,
then I will go to the right; or if {thou depart} to the right
hand, then I will go to the left.
GENESIS 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the
plain of Jordan, that it {was} well watered every where, before
the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, {even} as the garden of
the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
GENESIS 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot
journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the
other.
GENESIS 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched {his} tent toward
Sodom.
GENESIS 13:13 But the men of Sodom {were} wicked and sinners
before the Lord exceedingly.
GENESIS 13:14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was
separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the
place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
GENESIS 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed for ever.
GENESIS 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, {then} shall
thy seed also be numbered.
GENESIS 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it
and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
GENESIS 13:18 Then Abram removed {his} tent, and came and dwelt
in the plain of Mamre, which {is} in Hebron, and built there an
altar unto the Lord.
GENESIS 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of
Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of nations;
GENESIS 14:2 {That these} made war with Bera king of Sodom, and
with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber
king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
GENESIS 14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of
Siddim, which is the salt sea.
GENESIS 14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
GENESIS 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and
the kings that {were} with him, and smote the Rephaims in
Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
GENESIS 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,
which {is} by the wilderness.
GENESIS 14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which {is}
Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
GENESIS 14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king
of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
the king of Bela (the same {is} Zoar;) and they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim;
GENESIS 14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal
king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five.
GENESIS 14:10 And the vale of Siddim {was full of} slimepits; and
the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they
that remained fled to the mountain.
GENESIS 14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and all their victuals, and went their way.
GENESIS 14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt
in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
GENESIS 14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram
the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these {were}
confederate with Abram.
GENESIS 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken
captive, he armed his trained {servants}, born in his own house,
three hundred and eighteen, and pursued {them} unto Dan.
GENESIS 14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his
servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah,
which {is} on the left hand of Damascus.
GENESIS 14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought
again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people.
GENESIS 14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after
his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings
that {were} with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which {is} the
king's dale.
GENESIS 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread
and wine: and he {was} the priest of the most high God.
GENESIS 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed {be} Abram of
the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
GENESIS 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath
delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.
GENESIS 14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the
persons, and take the goods to thyself.
GENESIS 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up
mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of
heaven and earth,
GENESIS 14:23 That I will not {take} from a thread even to a
shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that {is} thine,
lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
GENESIS 14:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and
the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.
GENESIS 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto
Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I {am} thy shield,
{and} thy exceeding great reward.
GENESIS 15:2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me,
seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house {is} this
Eliezer of Damascus?
GENESIS 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no
seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
GENESIS 15:4 And, behold, the word of the Lord {came} unto him,
saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come
forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
GENESIS 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number
them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
GENESIS 15:6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to
him for righteousness.
GENESIS 15:7 And he said unto him, I {am} the Lord that brought
thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit
it.
GENESIS 15:8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I
shall inherit it?
GENESIS 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three
years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three
years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
GENESIS 15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in
the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds
divided he not.
GENESIS 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases,
Abram drove them away.
GENESIS 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
GENESIS 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy
seed shall be a stranger in a land {that is} not theirs, and
shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
GENESIS 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
GENESIS 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou
shalt be buried in a good old age.
GENESIS 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither
again: for the iniquity of the Amorites {is} not yet full.
GENESIS 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down,
and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
GENESIS 15:18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
GENESIS 15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the
Kadmonites,
GENESIS 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims,
GENESIS 15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
GENESIS 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she
had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name {was} Hagar.
GENESIS 16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it
may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to
the voice of Sarai.
GENESIS 16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the
Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
GENESIS 16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and
when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in
her eyes.
GENESIS 16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong {be} upon thee:
I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she
had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between
me and thee.
GENESIS 16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid {is} in
thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
GENESIS 16:7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of
water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
GENESIS 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest
thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
GENESIS 16:9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to
thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
GENESIS 16:10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will
multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for
multitude.
GENESIS 16:11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold,
thou {art} with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
GENESIS 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand {will be}
against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
GENESIS 16:13 And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto
her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me?
GENESIS 16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold,
{it is} between Kadesh and Bered.
GENESIS 16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his
son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
GENESIS 16:16 And Abram {was} fourscore and six years old, when
Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
GENESIS 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the
Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I {am} the Almighty
God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
GENESIS 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and
will multiply thee exceedingly.
GENESIS 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,
saying,
GENESIS 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant {is} with thee, and
thou shalt be a father of many nations.
GENESIS 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but
thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I
made thee.
GENESIS 17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will
make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
GENESIS 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee
and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
GENESIS 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of
Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
GENESIS 17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my
covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their
generations.
GENESIS 17:10 This {is} my covenant, which ye shall keep, between
me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you
shall be circumcised.
GENESIS 17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;
and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
GENESIS 17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised
among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born
in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which {is}
not of thy seed.
GENESIS 17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought
with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall
be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
GENESIS 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his
people; he hath broken my covenant.
GENESIS 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife,
thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah {shall} her name
{be}.
GENESIS 17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of
her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be {a mother} of
nations; kings of people shall be of her.
GENESIS 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and
said in his heart, Shall {a child} be born unto him that is an
hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old,
bear?
GENESIS 17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might
live before thee!
GENESIS 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son
indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish
my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, {and} with his
seed after him.
GENESIS 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I
have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
GENESIS 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which
Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
GENESIS 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up
from Abraham.
GENESIS 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were
born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every
male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh
of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
GENESIS 17:24 And Abraham {was} ninety years old and nine, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
GENESIS 17:25 And Ishmael his son {was} thirteen years old, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
GENESIS 17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and
Ishmael his son.
GENESIS 17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house,
and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
GENESIS 18:1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
GENESIS 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three
men stood by him: and when he saw {them}, he ran to meet them
from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
GENESIS 18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
GENESIS 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash
your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
GENESIS 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye
your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
GENESIS 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and
said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead {it},
and make cakes upon the hearth.
GENESIS 18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf
tender and good, and gave {it} unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
GENESIS 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he
had dressed, and set {it} before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat.
GENESIS 18:9 And they said unto him, Where {is} Sarah thy wife?
And he said, Behold, in the tent.
GENESIS 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee
according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have
a son. And Sarah heard {it} in the tent door, which {was} behind
him.
GENESIS 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah {were} old {and} well
stricken in age; {and} it ceased to be with Sarah after the
manner of women.
GENESIS 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,
After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also?
GENESIS 18:13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah
laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
GENESIS 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time
appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life,
and Sarah shall have a son.
GENESIS 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she
was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
GENESIS 18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward
Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
GENESIS 18:17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
thing which I do;
GENESIS 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed
in him?
GENESIS 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the
Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
GENESIS 18:20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
GENESIS 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and
if not, I will know.
GENESIS 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and
went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
GENESIS 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also
destroy the righteous with the wicked?
GENESIS 18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the
city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the
fifty righteous that {are} therein?
GENESIS 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should
be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of
all the earth do right?
GENESIS 18:26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for
their sakes.
GENESIS 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and
ashes:
GENESIS 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for {lack of} five? And
he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy {it}.
GENESIS 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I
will not do {it} for forty's sake.
GENESIS 18:30 And he said {unto him}, Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found
there. And he said, I will not do {it}, if I find thirty there.
GENESIS 18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to
speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found
there. And he said, I will not destroy {it} for twenty's sake.
GENESIS 18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I
will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy {it} for ten's sake.
GENESIS 18:33 And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
GENESIS 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot
sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing {them} rose up to meet
them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
GENESIS 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray
you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash
your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And
they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
GENESIS 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in
unto him and entered into his house; and he made them a feast,
and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
GENESIS 19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city,
{even} the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every quarter:
GENESIS 19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where
{are} the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them.
GENESIS 19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the
door after him,
GENESIS 19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
GENESIS 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not
known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye
to them as {is} good in your eyes: only unto these men do
nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
GENESIS 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said {again},
This one {fellow} came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a
judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they
pressed sore upon the man, {even} Lot, and came near to break the
door.
GENESIS 19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot
into the house to them, and shut to the door.
GENESIS 19:11 And they smote the men that {were} at the door of
the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
GENESIS 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring {them} out of this place:
GENESIS 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of
them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord
hath sent us to destroy it.
GENESIS 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law,
which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one
that mocked unto his sons in law.
GENESIS 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels
hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity
of the city.
GENESIS 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his
hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him
forth, and set him without the city.
GENESIS 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them
forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind
thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.
GENESIS 19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
GENESIS 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy
sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed
unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain,
lest some evil take me, and I die:
GENESIS 19:20 Behold now, this city {is} near to flee unto, and
it {is} a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ({is} it not a
little one?) and my soul shall live.
GENESIS 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee
concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city,
for the which thou hast spoken.
GENESIS 19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any
thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city
was called Zoar.
GENESIS 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered
into Zoar.
GENESIS 19:24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
GENESIS 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,
and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground.
GENESIS 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she
became a pillar of salt.
GENESIS 19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the
place where he stood before the Lord:
GENESIS 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward
all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
GENESIS 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities
of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent lot out of
the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the
which Lot dwelt.
GENESIS 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the
mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell
in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
GENESIS 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father
{is} old, and {there is} not a man in the earth to come in unto
us after the manner of all the earth:
GENESIS 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
GENESIS 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night:
and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
GENESIS 19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the
firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with
my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go
thou in, {and} lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our
father.
GENESIS 19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night
also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
GENESIS 19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by
their father.
GENESIS 19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name
Moab: the same {is} the father of the Moabites unto this day.
GENESIS 19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called
his name Benammi: the same {is} the father of the children of
Ammon unto this day.
GENESIS 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south
country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in
Gerar.
GENESIS 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She {is} my
sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
GENESIS 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and
said to him, Behold, thou {art but} a dead man, for the woman
which thou hast taken; for she {is} a man's wife.
GENESIS 20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said,
Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
GENESIS 20:5 Said he not unto me, She {is} my sister? and she,
even she herself said, He {is} my brother: in the integrity of my
heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
GENESIS 20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee
not to touch her.
GENESIS 20:7 Now therefore restore the man {his} wife; for he
{is} a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live:
and if thou restore {her} not, know thou that thou shalt surely
die, thou, and all that {are} thine.
GENESIS 20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and
called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears:
and the men were sore afraid.
GENESIS 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him,
What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that
thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
GENESIS 20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou,
that thou hast done this thing?
GENESIS 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the
fear of God {is} not in this place; and they will slay me for my
wife's sake.
GENESIS 20:12 And yet indeed {she is} my sister; she {is} the
daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she
became my wife.
GENESIS 20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander
from my father's house, that I said unto her, This {is} thy
kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we
shall come, say of me, He {is} my brother.
GENESIS 20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and womenservants, and gave {them} unto Abraham, and
restored him Sarah his wife.
GENESIS 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land {is} before
thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
GENESIS 20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy
brother a thousand {pieces} of silver: behold, he {is} to thee a
covering of the eyes, unto all that {are} with thee, and with all
{other}: thus she was reproved.
GENESIS 20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed
Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare
{children}.
GENESIS 20:18 For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of
the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
GENESIS 21:1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the
Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
GENESIS 21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his
old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
GENESIS 21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born
unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
GENESIS 21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight
days old, as God had commanded him.
GENESIS 21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son
Isaac was born unto him.
GENESIS 21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, {so that}
all that hear will laugh with me.
GENESIS 21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that
Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born {him} a
son in his old age.
GENESIS 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made
a great feast the {same} day that Isaac was weaned.
GENESIS 21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which
she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
GENESIS 21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be
heir with my son, {even} with Isaac.
GENESIS 21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight
because of his son.
GENESIS 21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous
in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in
all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for
in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
GENESIS 21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a
nation, because he {is} thy seed.
GENESIS 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took
bread, and a bottle of water, and gave {it} unto Hagar, putting
{it} on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
GENESIS 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast
the child under one of the shrubs.
GENESIS 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against {him} a
good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see
the death of the child. And she sat over against {him}, and lift
up her voice, and wept.
GENESIS 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel
of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What
aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the
lad where he {is}.
GENESIS 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand;
for I will make him a great nation.
GENESIS 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave
the lad drink.
GENESIS 21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in
the wilderness, and became an archer.
GENESIS 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his
mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech
and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham,
saying, God {is} with thee in all that thou doest:
GENESIS 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou
wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's
son: {but} according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,
thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast
sojourned.
GENESIS 21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
GENESIS 21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of
water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
GENESIS 21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this
thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I {of it},
but to day.
GENESIS 21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
GENESIS 21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
GENESIS 21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What {mean} these
seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
GENESIS 21:30 And he said, For {these} seven ewe lambs shalt thou
take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have
digged this well.
GENESIS 21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because
there they sware both of them.
GENESIS 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then
Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and
they returned into the land of the Philistines.
GENESIS 21:33 And {Abraham} planted a grove in Beersheba, and
called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
GENESIS 21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many
days.
GENESIS 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did
tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold,
{here} I {am}.
GENESIS 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only {son}
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.
GENESIS 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and
Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and
rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
GENESIS 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and saw the place afar off.
GENESIS 22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here
with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and
come again to you.
GENESIS 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and
laid {it} upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife; and they went both of them together.
GENESIS 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said,
My father: and he said, Here {am} I, my son. And he said, Behold
the fire and the wood: but where {is} the lamb for a burnt
offering?
GENESIS 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a
lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
GENESIS 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him
of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order,
and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
GENESIS 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the
knife to slay his son.
GENESIS 22:11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here {am} I.
GENESIS 22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou
fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only
{son} from me.
GENESIS 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind {him} a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son.
GENESIS 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place
Jehovahjireh: as it is said {to} this day, In the mount of the
Lord it shall be seen.
GENESIS 22:15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out
of heaven the second time,
GENESIS 22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord,
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thine only {son}:
GENESIS 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which {is} upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies;
GENESIS 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth
be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
GENESIS 22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they
rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at
Beersheba.
GENESIS 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was
told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
unto thy brother Nahor;
GENESIS 22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel
the father of Aram,
GENESIS 22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel.
GENESIS 22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did
bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
GENESIS 22:24 And his concubine, whose name {was} Reumah, she
bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
GENESIS 23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years
old: {these were} the years of the life of Sarah.
GENESIS 23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same {is} Hebron
in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and
to weep for her.
GENESIS 23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake
unto the sons of Heth, saying,
GENESIS 23:4 I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me
a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead
out of my sight.
GENESIS 23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
GENESIS 23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou {art} a mighty prince among
us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us
shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury
thy dead.
GENESIS 23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the
people of the land, {even} to the children of Heth.
GENESIS 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your
mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and
intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
GENESIS 23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
hath, which {is} in the end of his field; for as much money as it
is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you.
GENESIS 23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and
Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth, {even} of all that went in at the gate of his
city, saying,
GENESIS 23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and
the cave that {is} therein, I give it thee; in the presence of
the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
GENESIS 23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of
the land.
GENESIS 23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the
people of the land, saying, But if thou {wilt give it}, I pray
thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take {it} of
me, and I will bury my dead there.
GENESIS 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
GENESIS 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land {is worth} four
hundred shekels of silver; what {is} that betwixt me and thee?
bury therefore thy dead.
GENESIS 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham
weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience
of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current
{money} with the merchant.
GENESIS 23:17 And the field of Ephron which {was} in Machpelah,
which {was} before Mamre, the field, and the cave which {was}
therein, and all the trees that {were} in the field, that {were}
in all the borders round about, were made sure
GENESIS 23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of
the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his
city.
GENESIS 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in
the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same {is}
Hebron in the land of Canaan.
GENESIS 23:20 And the field, and the cave that {is} therein, were
made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the
sons of Heth.
GENESIS 24:1 And Abraham was old, {and} well stricken in age: and
the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
GENESIS 24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his
house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy
hand under my thigh:
GENESIS 24:3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of
heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife
unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I
dwell:
GENESIS 24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
GENESIS 24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the
woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I
needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
GENESIS 24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again.
GENESIS 24:7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my
father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake
Unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I
give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou
shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
GENESIS 24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee,
then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son
thither again.
GENESIS 24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of
Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
GENESIS 24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of
his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master {were}
in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city
of Nahor.
GENESIS 24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the
city by a well of water at the time of the evening, {even} the
time that women go out to draw {water}.
GENESIS 24:12 And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray
thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my
master Abraham.
GENESIS 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:
GENESIS 24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I
shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;
and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also:
{let the same be} she {that} thou hast appointed for thy servant
Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master.
GENESIS 24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,
that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
GENESIS 24:16 And the damsel {was} very fair to look upon, a
virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the
well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
GENESIS 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me,
I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
GENESIS 24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and
let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
GENESIS 24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I
will draw {water} for thy camels also, until they have done
drinking.
GENESIS 24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again unto the well to draw {water}, and drew for
all his camels.
GENESIS 24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit
whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
GENESIS 24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done
drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel
weight, and two Bracelets for her hands of ten {shekels} weight
of gold;
GENESIS 24:23 And said, Whose daughter {art} thou? tell me, I
pray thee: is there room {in} thy father's house for us to lodge
in?
GENESIS 24:24 And she said unto him, I {am} the daughter of
Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
GENESIS 24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and
provender enough, and room to lodge in.
GENESIS 24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the
Lord.
GENESIS 24:27 And he said, Blessed {be} the Lord God of my master
Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and
his truth: I {being} in the way, the Lord led me to the house of
my master's brethren.
GENESIS 24:28 And the damsel ran, and told {them of} her mother's
house these things.
GENESIS 24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name {was}
Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
GENESIS 24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and
Bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he
came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the
well.
GENESIS 24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord;
wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house,
and room for the camels.
GENESIS 24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded
his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and
water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that {were} with him.
GENESIS 24:33 And there was set {meat} before him to eat: but he
said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said,
Speak on.
GENESIS 24:34 And he said, I {am} Abraham's servant.
GENESIS 24:35 And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he
is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels,
and asses.
GENESIS 24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master
when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
GENESIS 24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell:
GENESIS 24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
GENESIS 24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman
will not follow me.
GENESIS 24:40 And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk,
will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou
shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's
house:
GENESIS 24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from {this} my oath, when
thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee {one}, thou
shalt be clear from my oath.
GENESIS 24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord
God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I
go:
GENESIS 24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall
come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw {water},
and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy
pitcher to drink;
GENESIS 24:44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also
draw for thy camels: {let} the same {be} the woman whom the Lord
hath appointed out for my master's son.
GENESIS 24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart,
behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and
she went down unto the well, and drew {water}: and I said unto
her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
GENESIS 24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from
her {shoulder}, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
GENESIS 24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter {art}
thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and
the bracelets upon her hands.
GENESIS 24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord,
and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me
in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his
son.
GENESIS 24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my
master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
GENESIS 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
GENESIS 24:51 Behold, Rebekah {is} before thee, take {her}, and
go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath
spoken.
GENESIS 24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant
heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, {bowing himself} to
the earth.
GENESIS 24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave {them} to Rebekah: he gave
also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
GENESIS 24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that
{were} with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
GENESIS 24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel
abide with us {a few} days, at the least ten; after that she
shall go.
GENESIS 24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the
Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my
master.
GENESIS 24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire
at her mouth.
GENESIS 24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt
thou go with this man?  And she said, I will go.
GENESIS 24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her
nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
GENESIS 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou
{art} our sister, be thou {the mother} of thousands of millions,
and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
GENESIS 24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode
upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took
Rebekah, and went his way.
GENESIS 24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi;
for he dwelt in the south country.
GENESIS 24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the
camels {were} coming.
GENESIS 24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
GENESIS 24:65 For she {had} said unto the servant, What man {is}
this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant {had}
said, It {is} my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered
herself.
GENESIS 24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had
done.
GENESIS 24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent,
and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and
Isaac was comforted after his mother's {death}.
GENESIS 25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name {was}
Keturah.
GENESIS 25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
GENESIS 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of
Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
GENESIS 25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and
Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah.  All these {were} the children of
Keturah.
GENESIS 25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
GENESIS 25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham
had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
GENESIS 25:7 And these {are} the days of the years of Abraham's
life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
GENESIS 25:8 Then Abraham gave up the Ghost, and died in a good
old age, an old man, and full {of years}; and was gathered to his
people.
GENESIS 25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the
cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which {is} before Mamre;
GENESIS 25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of
Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
GENESIS 25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham,
that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
Lahairoi.
GENESIS 25:12 Now these {are} the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare
unto Abraham:
GENESIS 25:13 And these {are} the names of the sons of Ishmael,
by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
GENESIS 25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
GENESIS 25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
GENESIS 25:16 These {are} the sons of Ishmael, and these {are}
their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes
according to their nations.
GENESIS 25:17 And these {are} the years of the life of Ishmael,
an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the Ghost
and died; and was gathered unto his people.
GENESIS 25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that {is}
before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: {and} he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
GENESIS 25:19 And these {are} the generations of Isaac, Abraham's
son: Abraham begat Isaac:
GENESIS 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah
to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the
sister to Laban the Syrian.
GENESIS 25:21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because
she {was} barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived.
GENESIS 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 the Lord.
GENESIS 25:23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations {are} in
thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy
bowels; and {the one} people shall be stronger than {the other}
people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
GENESIS 25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,
behold, {there were} twins in her womb.
GENESIS 25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy
garment; and they called his name Esau.
GENESIS 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand
took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and
Isaac {was} threescore years old when she bare them.
GENESIS 25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a
man of the field; and Jacob {was} a plain man, dwelling in tents.
GENESIS 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of {his}
venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
GENESIS 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the
field, and he {was} faint:
GENESIS 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with
that same red {pottage}; for I {am} faint: therefore was his name
called Edom.
GENESIS 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
GENESIS 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I {am} at the point to die:
and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
GENESIS 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware
unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
GENESIS 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles;
and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus
Esau despised {his} birthright.
GENESIS 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first
famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
GENESIS 26:2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not
down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
GENESIS 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and
will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give
all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware
unto Abraham thy father;
GENESIS 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
GENESIS 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
GENESIS 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
GENESIS 26:7 And the men of the place asked {him} of his wife;
and he said, She {is} my sister: for he feared to say, {She is}
my wife; lest, {said he}, the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah; because she {was} fair to look upon.
GENESIS 26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long
time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac {was} sporting with Rebekah
his wife.
GENESIS 26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a
surety she {is} thy wife; and how saidst thou, She {is} my
sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for
her.
GENESIS 26:10 And Abimelech said, What {is} this thou hast done
unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife,
and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
GENESIS 26:11 And Abimelech charged all {his} people, saying, He
that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
GENESIS 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the
same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
GENESIS 26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became very great:
GENESIS 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied
him.
GENESIS 26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had
digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had
stopped them, and filled them with earth.
GENESIS 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou
art much mightier than we.
GENESIS 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in
the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
GENESIS 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which
they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the
Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he
called their names after the names by which his father had called
them.
GENESIS 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and
found there a well of springing water.
GENESIS 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's
herdmen, saying, The water {is} ours: and he called the name of
the well Esek; because they strove with him.
GENESIS 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that
also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
GENESIS 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another
well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us,
and we shall be fruitful in the land.
GENESIS 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
GENESIS 26:24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and
said, I {am} the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I {am}
with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my
servant Abraham's sake.
GENESIS 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the
name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's
servants digged a well.
GENESIS 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath
one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
GENESIS 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
GENESIS 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was
with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
{even} betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
GENESIS 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not
touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and
have sent thee away in peace: thou {art} now the blessed of the
Lord.
GENESIS 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and
drink.
GENESIS 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware
one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from
him in peace.
GENESIS 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's
servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had
digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
GENESIS 26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the
city is Beersheba unto this day.
GENESIS 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife
Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
GENESIS 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to
Rebekah.
GENESIS 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and
his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him,
Behold, {here am} I.
GENESIS 27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the
day of my death:
GENESIS 27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy
quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me {some}
venison;
GENESIS 27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring
{it} to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I
die.
GENESIS 27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son.
And Esau went to the field to hunt {for} venison, {and} to bring
{it}.
GENESIS 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
GENESIS 27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I
may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
GENESIS 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to
that which I command thee.
GENESIS 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two
good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy
father, such as he loveth:
GENESIS 27:10 And thou shalt bring {it} to thy father, that he
may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
GENESIS 27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau
my brother {is} a hairy man, and I {am} a smooth man:
GENESIS 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall
seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
GENESIS 27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me {be} thy
curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me {them}.
GENESIS 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought {them} to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father
loved.
GENESIS 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son
Esau, which {were} with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob
her younger son:
GENESIS 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon
his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
GENESIS 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which
she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
GENESIS 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here {am} I; who {art} thou, my son?
GENESIS 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I {am} Esau thy
firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray
thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
GENESIS 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How {is it} that thou
hast found {it} so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord
thy God brought {it} to me.
GENESIS 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee,
that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou {be} my very son Esau
or not.
GENESIS 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he
felt him, and said, The voice {is} Jacob's voice, but the hands
{are} the hands of Esau.
GENESIS 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were
hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
GENESIS 27:24 And he said, {Art} thou my very son Esau? And he
said, I {am}.
GENESIS 27:25 And he said, Bring {it} near to me, and I will eat
of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought
{it near} to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he
drank.
GENESIS 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now,
and kiss me, my son.
GENESIS 27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled
the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the
smell of my son {is} as the smell of a field which the Lord hath
blessed:
GENESIS 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and
the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
GENESIS 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to
thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow
down to thee: cursed {be} every one that curseth thee, and
blessed {be} he that blesseth thee.
GENESIS 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an
end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from
his hunting.
GENESIS 27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it
unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise,
and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
GENESIS 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who {art} thou?
And he said, I {am} thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
GENESIS 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?
where {is} he that hath taken venison, and brought {it} me, and I
have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,
{and} he shall be blessed.
GENESIS 27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he
cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, {even} me also, O my father.
GENESIS 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and
hath taken away thy blessing.
GENESIS 27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he
hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright;
and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,
Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
GENESIS 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I
have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him
for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and
what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
GENESIS 27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father?  bless me, {even} me also, O my father. And
Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
GENESIS 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of
the dew of heaven from above;
GENESIS 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve
thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
GENESIS 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The
days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
GENESIS 27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to
Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said
unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth
comfort himself, {purposing} to kill thee.
GENESIS 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise,
flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
GENESIS 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's
fury turn away;
GENESIS 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and
he forget {that} which thou hast done to him: then I will send,
and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you
both in one day?
GENESIS 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life
because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these {which are} of the daughters of
the land, what good shall my life do me?
GENESIS 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged
him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
GENESIS 28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
GENESIS 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
GENESIS 28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and
to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein
thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
GENESIS 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram
unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
GENESIS 28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent
him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that
as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
GENESIS 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and
was gone to Padanaram;
GENESIS 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased
not Isaac his father;
GENESIS 28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives
which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the
sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
GENESIS 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward
Haran.
GENESIS 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried
there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the
stones of that place, and put {them for} his pillows, and lay
down in that place to sleep.
GENESIS 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels
of God ascending and descending on it.
GENESIS 28:13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I
{am} the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:
the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy
seed;
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 28:15 And, behold, I {am} with thee, and will keep thee
in all {places} whither thou goest, and will bring thee again
into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done
{that} which I have spoken to thee of.
GENESIS 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew {it} not.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put {for} his pillows, and set it up {for}
a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
GENESIS 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but
the name of that city {was called} Luz at the first.
GENESIS 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with
me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
GENESIS 28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace;
then shall the Lord be my God:
GENESIS 28:22 And this stone, which I have set {for} a pillar,
shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.
GENESIS 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the
land of the people of the east.
GENESIS 29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and,
lo, there {were} three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of
that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone {was} upon
the well's mouth.
GENESIS 29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
GENESIS 29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence {be}
ye? And they said, Of Haran {are} we.
GENESIS 29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of
Nahor? And they said, We know {him}.
GENESIS 29:6 And he said unto them, {Is} he well? And they said,
{He is} well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
GENESIS 29:7 And he said, Lo, {it is} yet high day, neither {is
it} time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye
the sheep, and go {and} feed {them}.
GENESIS 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be
gathered together, and {till} they roll the stone from the well's
mouth; then we water the sheep.
GENESIS 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with
her father's sheep; for she kept them.
GENESIS 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the
daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban
his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
mother's brother.
GENESIS 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice,
and wept.
GENESIS 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he {was} her father's
brother, and that he {was} Rebekah's son: and she ran and told
her father.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou {art} my bone
and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
GENESIS 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou {art} my
brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what {shall} thy wages {be}?
GENESIS 29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder
{was} Leah, and the name of the younger {was} Rachel.
GENESIS 29:17 Leah {was} tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful
and well favoured.
GENESIS 29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee
seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they
seemed unto him {but} a few days, for the love he had to her.
GENESIS 29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give {me} my wife, for
my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
GENESIS 29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the
place, and made a feast.
GENESIS 29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took
Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto
her.
GENESIS 29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his
maid {for} an handmaid.
GENESIS 29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold,
it {was} Leah: and he said to Laban, What {is} this thou hast
done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore
then hast thou beguiled me?
GENESIS 29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our
country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
GENESIS 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also
for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years.
GENESIS 29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he
gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
GENESIS 29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her maid.
GENESIS 29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also
Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
GENESIS 29:31 And when the Lord saw that Leah {was} hated, he
opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.
GENESIS 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called
his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon
my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
GENESIS 29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,
Because the Lord hath heard that I {was} hated, he hath therefore
given me this {son} also: and she called his name Simeon.
GENESIS 29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,
Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have
born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
GENESIS 29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she
said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.
GENESIS 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children,
or else I die.
GENESIS 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he
said, {Am} I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the
fruit of the womb?
GENESIS 30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her;
and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children
by her.
GENESIS 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and
Jacob went in unto her.
GENESIS 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
GENESIS 30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also
heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
GENESIS 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare
Jacob a second son.
GENESIS 30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I
wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his
name Naphtali.
GENESIS 30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took
Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
GENESIS 30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
GENESIS 30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his
name Gad.
GENESIS 30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
GENESIS 30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will
call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
GENESIS 30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and
found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy
son's mandrakes.
GENESIS 30:15 And she said unto her, {Is it} a small matter that
thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee
to night for thy son's mandrakes.
GENESIS 30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and
Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me;
for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
with her that night.
GENESIS 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and
bare Jacob the fifth son.
GENESIS 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I
have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
GENESIS 30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth
son.
GENESIS 30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me {with} a good
dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him
six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
GENESIS 30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her
name Dinah.
GENESIS 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to
her, and opened her womb.
GENESIS 30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God
hath taken away my reproach:
GENESIS 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord
shall add to me another son.
GENESIS 30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,
that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
GENESIS 30:26 Give {me} my wives and my children, for whom I have
served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I
have done thee.
GENESIS 30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have
found favour in thine eyes, {tarry: for} I have learned by
experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.
GENESIS 30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give
{it}.
GENESIS 30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have
served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
GENESIS 30:30 For {it was} little which thou hadst before I
{came}, and it is {now} increased unto a multitude; and the Lord
hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide
for mine own house also?
GENESIS 30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob
said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this
thing for me, I will again feed {and} keep thy flock.
GENESIS 30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing
from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among
the goats: {and of} such shall be my hire.
GENESIS 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to
come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one
that {is} not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown
among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
GENESIS 30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be
according to thy word.
GENESIS 30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled
and spotted, {and} every one that had {some} white in it, and all
the brown among the sheep, and gave {them} into the hand of his
sons.
GENESIS 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and
Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
GENESIS 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the
hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and
made the white appear which {was} in the rods.
GENESIS 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the
flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
GENESIS 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and
brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
GENESIS 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces
of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the
flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put
them not unto Laban's cattle.
GENESIS 30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle
did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
GENESIS 30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put {them} not
in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
GENESIS 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much
cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
GENESIS 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying,
Jacob hath taken away all that {was} our father's; and of {that}
which {was} our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
GENESIS 31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and,
behold, it {was} not toward him as before.
GENESIS 31:3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land
of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
GENESIS 31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the
field unto his flock,
GENESIS 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance,
that it {is} not toward me as before; but the God of my father
hath been with me.
GENESIS 31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served
your father.
GENESIS 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
GENESIS 31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages;
then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The
ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle
ringstraked.
GENESIS 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father,
and given {them} to me.
GENESIS 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle
conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle {were} ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
GENESIS 31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,
{saying}, Jacob: And I said, Here {am} I.
GENESIS 31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all
the rams which leap upon the cattle {are} ringstraked, speckled,
and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
GENESIS 31:13 I {am} the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, {and} where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get
thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
GENESIS 31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, {Is
there} yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's
house?
GENESIS 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath
sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
GENESIS 31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our
father, that {is} ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever
God hath said unto thee, do.
GENESIS 31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives
upon camels;
GENESIS 31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his
goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he
had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the
land of Canaan.
GENESIS 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had
stolen the images that {were} her father's.
GENESIS 31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian,
in that he told him not that he fled.
GENESIS 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up,
and passed over the river, and set his face {toward} the mount
Gilead.
GENESIS 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob
was fled.
GENESIS 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued
after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount
Gilead.
GENESIS 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by
night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
GENESIS 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched
his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the
mount of Gilead.
GENESIS 31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that
thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my
daughters, as captives {taken} with the sword?
GENESIS 31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal
away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee
away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
GENESIS 31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my
daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in {so} doing.
GENESIS 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but
the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take
thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
GENESIS 31:30 And now, {though} thou wouldest needs be gone,
because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, {yet}
wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
GENESIS 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me.
GENESIS 31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not
live: before our brethren discern thou what {is} thine with me,
and take {it} to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
GENESIS 31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's
tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found {them}
not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent.
GENESIS 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in
the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found {them} not.
GENESIS 31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my
lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women
{is} upon me. And he searched but found not the images.
GENESIS 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and
Jacob answered and said to Laban, What {is} my trespass? what
{is} my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
GENESIS 31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast
thou found of all thy household stuff? set {it} here before my
brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
GENESIS 31:38 This twenty years {have} I {been} with thee; thy
ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of
thy flock have I not eaten.
GENESIS 31:39 That which was torn {of beasts} I brought not unto
thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it,
{whether} stolen by day, or stolen by night.
GENESIS 31:40 {Thus} I was; in the day the drought consumed me,
and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
GENESIS 31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I
served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years
for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
GENESIS 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham,
and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent
me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour
of my hands, and rebuked {thee} yesternight.
GENESIS 31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, {These}
daughters {are} my daughters, and {these} children {are} my
children, and {these} cattle {are} my cattle, and all that thou
seest {is} mine: and what can I do this day unto these my
daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
GENESIS 31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I
and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
GENESIS 31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up {for} a
pillar.
GENESIS 31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones;
and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there
upon the heap.
GENESIS 31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob
called it Galeed.
GENESIS 31:48 And Laban said, This heap {is} a witness between me
and thee this day.  Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
GENESIS 31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me
and thee, when we are absent one from another.
GENESIS 31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou
shalt take {other} wives beside my daughters, no man {is} with
us; see, God {is} witness betwixt me and thee.
GENESIS 31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and
behold {this} pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
GENESIS 31:52 This heap {be} witness, and {this} pillar {be}
witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that
thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for
harm.
GENESIS 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God
of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of
his father Isaac.
GENESIS 31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and
called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
GENESIS 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed
his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed,
and returned unto his place.
GENESIS 32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him.
GENESIS 32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This {is} God's
host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
GENESIS 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his
brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
GENESIS 32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak
unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned
with Laban, and stayed there until now:
GENESIS 32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants,
and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find grace in thy sight.
GENESIS 32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We
came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and
four hundred men with him.
GENESIS 32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided the people that {was} with him, and the flocks, and
herds, and the camels, into two bands;
GENESIS 32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite
it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
GENESIS 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto
thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
GENESIS 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies,
and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant;
for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become
two bands.
GENESIS 32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my
brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come
and smite me, {and} the mother with the children.
GENESIS 32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and
make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered
for multitude.
GENESIS 32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of
that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
GENESIS 32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two
hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
GENESIS 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine,
and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
GENESIS 32:16 And he delivered {them} into the hand of his
servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
GENESIS 32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose {art} thou?
and whither goest thou? and whose {are} these before thee?
GENESIS 32:18 Then thou shalt say, {They be} thy servant Jacob's;
it {is} a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he
{is} behind us.
GENESIS 32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and
all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye
speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
GENESIS 32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob {is}
behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that
goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure
he will accept of me.
GENESIS 32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself
lodged that night in the company.
GENESIS 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives,
and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over
the ford Jabbok.
GENESIS 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and
sent over that he had.
GENESIS 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man
with him until the breaking of the day.
GENESIS 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,
he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
GENESIS 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And
he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
GENESIS 32:27 And he said unto him, What {is} thy name? And he
said, Jacob.
GENESIS 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more
Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and
with men, and hast prevailed.
GENESIS 32:29 And Jacob asked {him}, and said, Tell {me}, I pray
thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore {is} it {that} thou dost
ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
GENESIS 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
GENESIS 32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him,
and he halted upon his thigh.
GENESIS 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not {of} the
sinew which shrank, which {is} upon the hollow of the thigh, unto
this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the
sinew that shrank.
GENESIS 33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and,
behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided
the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
GENESIS 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children
foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
GENESIS 33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to
the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
GENESIS 33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell
on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
GENESIS 33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who {are} those with thee? And he said, The
children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
GENESIS 33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their
children, and they bowed themselves.
GENESIS 33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
GENESIS 33:8 And he said, What {meanest} thou by all this drove
which I met? And he said, {These are} to find grace in the sight
of my lord.
GENESIS 33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that
thou hast unto thyself.
GENESIS 33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have
found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of
God, and thou wast pleased with me.
GENESIS 33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to
thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I
have enough. And he urged him, and he took {it}.
GENESIS 33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us
go, and I will go before thee.
GENESIS 33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the
children {are} tender, and the flocks and herds with young {are}
with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock
will die.
GENESIS 33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his
servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that
goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come
unto my lord unto Seir.
GENESIS 33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee {some} of
the folk that {are} with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me
find grace in the sight of my lord.
GENESIS 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
GENESIS 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an
house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
GENESIS 33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which
{is} in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and
pitched his tent before the city.
GENESIS 33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had
spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for an hundred pieces of money.
GENESIS 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it
EleloheIsrael.
GENESIS 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
GENESIS 34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince
of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and
defiled her.
GENESIS 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob,
and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
GENESIS 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get
me this damsel to wife.
GENESIS 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his
daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and
Jacob held his peace until they were come.
GENESIS 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob
to commune with him.
GENESIS 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when
they heard {it}: and the men were grieved, and they were very
wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with
Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
GENESIS 34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my
son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to
wife.
GENESIS 34:9 And make ye marriages with us, {and} give your
daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
GENESIS 34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be
before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions
therein.
GENESIS 34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her
brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say
unto me I will give.
GENESIS 34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will
give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to
wife.
GENESIS 34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor
his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah
their sister:
GENESIS 34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing,
to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that {were}
a reproach unto us:
GENESIS 34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be
as we {be}, that every male of you be circumcised;
GENESIS 34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we
will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and
we will become one people.
GENESIS 34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be
circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
GENESIS 34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's
son.
GENESIS 34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing,
because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he {was} more
honourable than all the house of his father.
GENESIS 34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of
their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
GENESIS 34:21 These men {are} peaceable with us; therefore let
them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold,
{it is} large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us
for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
GENESIS 34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to
dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they {are} circumcised.
GENESIS 34:23 {Shall} not their cattle and their substance and
every beast of theirs {be} ours? only let us consent unto them,
and they will dwell with us.
GENESIS 34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened
all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
GENESIS 34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they
were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,
Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
boldly, and slew all the males.
GENESIS 34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the
edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and
went out.
GENESIS 34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled
the city, because they had defiled their sister.
GENESIS 34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their
asses, and that which {was} in the city, and that which {was} in
the field,
GENESIS 34:29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones,
and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that
{was} in the house.
GENESIS 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled
me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among
the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I {being} few in number,
they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me;
and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
GENESIS 34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as
with an harlot?
GENESIS 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and
dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
GENESIS 35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that
{were} with him, Put away the strange gods that {are} among you,
and be clean, and change your garments:
GENESIS 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will
make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my
distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
GENESIS 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which
{were} in their hand, and {all their} earrings which {were} in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which {was} by
Shechem.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which {is} in the land of
Canaan, that {is}, Bethel, he and all the people that {were} with
him.
GENESIS 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place
Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from
the face of his brother.
GENESIS 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried
beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
GENESIS 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out
of Padanaram, and blessed him.
GENESIS 35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name {is} Jacob: thy
name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name: and he called his name Israel.
GENESIS 35:11 And God said unto him, I {am} God Almighty: be
fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be
of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
GENESIS 35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to
thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the
land.
GENESIS 35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he
talked with him.
GENESIS 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he
talked with him, {even} a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink
offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
GENESIS 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God
spake with him, Bethel.
GENESIS 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a
little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had
hard labour.
GENESIS 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour,
that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this
son also.
GENESIS 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing,
({for she died}) that she called his name Benoni: but his father
called him Benjamin.
GENESIS 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to
Ephrath, which {is} Bethlehem.
GENESIS 35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that {is}
the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
GENESIS 35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond
the tower of Edar.
GENESIS 35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that
land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's
concubine: and Israel heard {it}. Now the sons of Jacob were
twelve:
GENESIS 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
GENESIS 35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
GENESIS 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and
Naphtali:
GENESIS 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and
Asher: these {are} the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padanaram.
GENESIS 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arbah, which {is} Hebron, where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned.
GENESIS 35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore
years.
GENESIS 35:29 And Isaac gave up the Ghost, and died, and was
gathered unto his people, {being} old and full of days: and his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
GENESIS 36:1 Now these {are} the generations of Esau, who {is}
Edom.
GENESIS 36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah
the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
GENESIS 36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of
Nebajoth.
GENESIS 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare
Reuel;
GENESIS 36:5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah:
these {are} the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the
land of Canaan.
GENESIS 36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his
daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and
all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the
land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his
brother Jacob.
GENESIS 36:7 For their riches were more than that they might
dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could
not bear them because of their cattle.
GENESIS 36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau {is} Edom.
GENESIS 36:9 And these {are} the generations of Esau the father
of the Edomites in mount Seir:
GENESIS 36:10 These {are} the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the
son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife
of Esau.
GENESIS 36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho,
and Gatam, and Kenaz.
GENESIS 36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and
she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these {were} the sons of Adah Esau's
wife.
GENESIS 36:13 And these {are} the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and
Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
GENESIS 36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter
of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
GENESIS 36:15 These {were} dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the firstborn {son} of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke
Zepho, duke Kenaz,
GENESIS 36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, {and} duke Amalek: these
{are} the dukes {that came} of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these
{were} the sons of Adah.
GENESIS 36:17 And these {are} the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke
Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these {are} the
dukes {that came} of Reuel in the land of Edom; these {are} the
sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
GENESIS 36:18 And these {are} the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife;
duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these {were} the dukes {that
came} of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
GENESIS 36:19 These {are} the sons of Esau, who {is} Edom, and
these {are} their dukes.
GENESIS 36:20 These {are} the sons of Seir the Horite, who
inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
GENESIS 36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these {are} the
dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
GENESIS 36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and
Lotan's sister {was} Timna.
GENESIS 36:23 And the children of Shobal {were} these; Alvan, and
Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
GENESIS 36:24 And these {are} the children of Zibeon; both Ajah,
and Anah: this {was that} Anah that found the mules in the
wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
GENESIS 36:25 And the children of Anah {were} these; Dishon, and
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
GENESIS 36:26 And these {are} the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and
Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
GENESIS 36:27 The children of Ezer {are} these; Bilhan, and
Zaavan, and Akan.
GENESIS 36:28 The children of Dishan {are} these; Uz, and Aran.
GENESIS 36:29 These {are} the dukes {that came} of the Horites;
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
GENESIS 36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these {are}
the dukes {that came} of Hori, among their dukes in the land of
Seir.
GENESIS 36:31 And these {are} the kings that reigned in the land
of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of
Israel.
GENESIS 36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the
name of his city {was} Dinhabah.
GENESIS 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
reigned in his stead.
GENESIS 36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani
reigned in his stead.
GENESIS 36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who
smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city {was} Avith.
GENESIS 36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in
his stead.
GENESIS 36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth {by} the
river reigned in his stead.
GENESIS 36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor
reigned in his stead.
GENESIS 36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar
reigned in his stead: and the name of his city {was} Pau; and his
wife's name {was} Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter
of Mezahab.
GENESIS 36:40 And these {are} the names of the dukes {that came}
of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by
their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
GENESIS 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
GENESIS 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
GENESIS 36:43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these {be} the dukes of
Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their
possession: he {is} Esau the father of the Edomites.
GENESIS 37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a
stranger, in the land of Canaan.
GENESIS 37:2 These {are} the generations of Jacob. Joseph,
{being} seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his
brethren; and the lad {was} with the sons of Bilhah, and with the
sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his
father their evil report.
GENESIS 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,
because he {was} the son of his old age: and he made him a coat
of {many} colours.
GENESIS 37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved
him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not
speak peaceably unto him.
GENESIS 37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told {it} his
brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
GENESIS 37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream
which I have dreamed:
GENESIS 37:7 For, Behold, we {were} binding sheaves in the field,
and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold,
your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
GENESIS 37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed
reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
GENESIS 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his
brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and,
behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me.
GENESIS 37:10 And he told {it} to his father, and to his
brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What
{is} this dream that thou hast dreamed?  Shall I and thy mother
and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the
earth?
GENESIS 37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father
observed the saying.
GENESIS 37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock
in Shechem.
GENESIS 37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren
feed {the flock} in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto
them. And he said to him, Here {am I}.
GENESIS 37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it
be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me
word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came
to Shechem.
GENESIS 37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, {he was}
wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What
seekest thou?
GENESIS 37:16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray
thee, where they feed {their flocks}.
GENESIS 37:17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I
heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
brethren, and found them in Dothan.
GENESIS 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came
near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
GENESIS 37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer
cometh.
GENESIS 37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast
him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured
him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
GENESIS 37:21 And Reuben heard {it}, and he delivered him out of
their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
GENESIS 37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, {but}
cast him into this pit that {is} in the wilderness, and lay no
hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to
deliver him to his father again.
GENESIS 37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his
brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, {his} coat of
{many} colours that {was} on him;
GENESIS 37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the
pit {was} empty, {there was} no water in it.
GENESIS 37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up
their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came
from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
going to carry {it} down to Egypt.
GENESIS 37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit {is
it} if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
GENESIS 37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and
let not our hand be upon him; for he {is} our brother {and} our
flesh. And his brethren were content.
GENESIS 37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and
they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to
the Ishmeelites for twenty {pieces} of silver: and they brought
Joseph into Egypt.
GENESIS 37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold,
Joseph {was} not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
GENESIS 37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The
child {is} not; and I, whither shall I go?
GENESIS 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of
the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
GENESIS 37:32 And they sent the coat of {many} colours, and they
brought {it} to their father; and said, This have we found: know
now whether it {be} thy son's coat or no.
GENESIS 37:33 And he knew it, and said, {It is} my son's coat; an
evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in
pieces.
GENESIS 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon
his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
GENESIS 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to
comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I
will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father
wept for him.
GENESIS 37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, {and} captain of the guard.
GENESIS 38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went
down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite,
whose name {was} Hirah.
GENESIS 38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain
Canaanite, whose name {was} Shuah; and he took her, and went in
unto her.
GENESIS 38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his
name Er.
GENESIS 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she
called his name Onan.
GENESIS 38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and
called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
GENESIS 38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose
name {was} Tamar.
GENESIS 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight
of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.
GENESIS 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's
wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
GENESIS 38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and
it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he
spilled {it} on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his
brother.
GENESIS 38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the Lord:
wherefore he slew him also.
GENESIS 38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law,
Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be
grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his
brethren {did}. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
GENESIS 38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah
Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his
sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
GENESIS 38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in
law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
GENESIS 38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and
covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
place, which {is} by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah
was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
GENESIS 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her {to be} an
harlot; because she had covered her face.
GENESIS 38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to,
I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she
{was} his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me,
that thou mayest come in unto me?
GENESIS 38:17 And he said, I will send {thee} a kid from the
Flock. And she said, Wilt thou give {me} a pledge, till thou send
{it}?
GENESIS 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she
said, Thy signet, and thy Bracelets, and thy staff that {is} in
thine hand. And he gave {it} her, and came in unto her, and she
conceived by him.
GENESIS 38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail
from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
GENESIS 38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend
the Adullamite, to receive {his} pledge from the woman's hand:
but he found her not.
GENESIS 38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where
{is} the harlot, that {was} openly by the way side? And they
said, There was no harlot in this {place}.
GENESIS 38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find
her; and also the men of the place said, {that} there was no
harlot in this {place}.
GENESIS 38:23 And Judah said, Let her take {it} to her, lest we
be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
GENESIS 38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that
it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played
the harlot; and also, behold, she {is} with child by whoredom.
And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
GENESIS 38:25 When she {was} brought forth, she sent to her
father in law, saying, By the man, whose these {are, am} I with
child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose {are} these, the
signet, and bracelets, and staff.
GENESIS 38:26 And Judah acknowledged {them}, and said, She hath
been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah
my son. And he knew her again no more.
GENESIS 38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail,
that, behold, twins {were} in her womb.
GENESIS 38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that {the
one} put out {his} hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his
hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
GENESIS 38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand,
that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou
broken forth? {this} breach {be} upon thee: therefore his name
was called Pharez.
GENESIS 38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the
scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
GENESIS 39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought
him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
thither.
GENESIS 39:2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a
prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the
Egyptian.
GENESIS 39:3 And his master saw that the Lord {was} with him, and
that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
GENESIS 39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served
him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all {that} he
had he put into his hand.
GENESIS 39:5 And it came to pass from the time {that} he had made
him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the
Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and
in the field.
GENESIS 39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he
knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And
Joseph was {a} goodly {person}, and well favoured.
GENESIS 39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his
master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with
me.
GENESIS 39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife,
Behold, my master wotteth not what {is} with me in the house, and
he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
GENESIS 39:9 {There is} none greater in this house than I;
neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because
thou {art} his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and
sin against God?
GENESIS 39:10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by
day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, {or} to be
with her.
GENESIS 39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that {Joseph}
went into the house to do his business; and {there was} none of
the men of the house there within.
GENESIS 39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with
me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him
out.
GENESIS 39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left
his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
GENESIS 39:14 That she called unto the men of her house, and
spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto
us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried
with a loud voice:
GENESIS 39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up
my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled,
and got him out.
GENESIS 39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord
came home.
GENESIS 39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words,
saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came
in unto me to mock me:
GENESIS 39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and
cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
GENESIS 39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the
words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
GENESIS 39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the
prison, a place where the king's prisoners {were} bound: and he
was there in the prison.
GENESIS 39:21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy,
and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
GENESIS 39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
hand all the prisoners that {were} in the prison; and whatsoever
they did there, he was the doer {of it}.
GENESIS 39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing
{that was} under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and
{that} which he did, the Lord made {it} to prosper.
GENESIS 40:1 And it came to pass after these things, {that} the
butler of the king of Egypt and {his} baker had offended their
lord the king of Egypt.
GENESIS 40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two {of} his officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the
bakers.
GENESIS 40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain
of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph {was}
bound.
GENESIS 40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with
them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
GENESIS 40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his
dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of
his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which
{were} bound in the prison.
GENESIS 40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and
looked upon them, and, behold, they {were} sad.
GENESIS 40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that {were} with him
in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye {so}
sadly to day?
GENESIS 40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and
{there is} no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, {Do}
not interpretations {belong} to God? tell me {them}, I pray you.
GENESIS 40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and
said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine {was} before me;
GENESIS 40:10 And in the vine {were} three branches: and it {was}
as though it budded, {and} her blossoms shot forth; and the
clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
GENESIS 40:11 And Pharaoh's cup {was} in my hand: and I took the
grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand.
GENESIS 40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This {is} the
interpretation of it: The three branches {are} three days:
GENESIS 40:13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine
head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou
wast his butler.
GENESIS 40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee,
and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me
unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
GENESIS 40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the
Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put
me into the dungeon.
GENESIS 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation
{was} good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and,
behold, {I had} three white baskets on my head:
GENESIS 40:17 And in the uppermost basket {there was} of all
manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out
of the basket upon my head.
GENESIS 40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This {is} the
interpretation thereof: The three baskets {are} three days:
GENESIS 40:19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy
head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds
shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
GENESIS 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, {which was}
Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants:
and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief
baker among his servants.
GENESIS 40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his
butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
GENESIS 40:22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them.
GENESIS 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but
forgat him.
GENESIS 41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
GENESIS 41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
GENESIS 41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out
of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the
{other} kine upon the brink of the river.
GENESIS 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up
the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
GENESIS 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and,
behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
GENESIS 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the
east wind sprung up after them.
GENESIS 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and
full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, {it was} a dream.
GENESIS 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit
was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
dream; but {there was} none that could interpret them unto
Pharaoh.
GENESIS 41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I
do remember my faults this day:
GENESIS 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in
ward in the captain of the guard's house, {both} me and the chief
baker:
GENESIS 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we
dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
GENESIS 41:12 And {there was} there with us a young man, an
Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and
he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his
dream he did interpret.
GENESIS 41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it
was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
GENESIS 41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they
brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved {himself},
and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
GENESIS 41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a
dream, and {there is} none that can interpret it: and I have
heard say of thee, {that} thou canst understand a dream to
interpret it.
GENESIS 41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, {It is} not in
me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
GENESIS 41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold,
I stood upon the bank of the river:
GENESIS 41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven
kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
GENESIS 41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them,
poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw
in all the land of Egypt for badness:
GENESIS 41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up
the first seven fat kine:
GENESIS 41:21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be
known that they had eaten them; but they {were} still ill
favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
GENESIS 41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came
up in one stalk, full and good:
GENESIS 41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, {and}
blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
GENESIS 41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and
I told {this} unto the magicians; but {there was} none that could
declare {it} to me.
GENESIS 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh
{is} one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he {is} about to do.
GENESIS 41:26 The seven good kine {are} seven years; and the
seven good ears {are} seven years: the dream {is} one.
GENESIS 41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came
up after them {are} seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted
with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
GENESIS 41:28 This {is} the thing which I have spoken unto
Pharaoh: what God {is} about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
GENESIS 41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty
throughout all the land of Egypt:
GENESIS 41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of
famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of
Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
GENESIS 41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by
reason of that famine following; for it {shall be} very grievous.
GENESIS 41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh
twice; {it is} because the thing {is} established by God, and God
will shortly bring it to pass.
GENESIS 41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet
and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:34 Let Pharaoh do {this}, and let him appoint officers
over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in
the seven plenteous years.
GENESIS 41:35 And let them gather all the food of those good
years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and
let them keep food in the cities.
GENESIS 41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land
against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
GENESIS 41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and
in the eyes of all his servants.
GENESIS 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find
{such a one} as {this} is, a man in whom the Spirit of God {is}?
GENESIS 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath
shewed thee all this, {there is} none so discreet and wise as
thou {art}:
GENESIS 41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy
word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be
greater than thou.
GENESIS 41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee
over all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and
put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine
linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
GENESIS 41:43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which
he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him
{ruler} over all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I {am} Pharaoh, and
without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the
land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah;
and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest
of On. And Joseph went out over {all} the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:46 And Joseph {was} thirty years old when he stood
before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought
forth by handfuls.
GENESIS 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years,
which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the
cities: the food of the field, which {was} round about every
city, laid he up in the same.
GENESIS 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea,
very much, until he left numbering; for {it was} without number.
GENESIS 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years
of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest
of On bare unto him.
GENESIS 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn
Manasseh: For God, {said he}, hath made me forget all my toil,
and all my father's house.
GENESIS 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For
God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
GENESIS 41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in
the land of Egypt, were ended.
GENESIS 41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come,
according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands;
but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
GENESIS 41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the
people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
GENESIS 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth:
and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to
buy {corn}; because that the famine was {so} sore in all lands.
GENESIS 42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt,
Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
GENESIS 42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn
in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that
we may live, and not die.
GENESIS 42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in
Egypt.
GENESIS 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with
his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
GENESIS 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy {corn} among
those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
GENESIS 42:6 And Joseph {was} the governor over the land, {and}
he {it was} that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's
brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him {with} their
faces to the earth.
GENESIS 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but
made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and
he said unto them, Whence come ye?  And they said, From the land
of Canaan to buy food.
GENESIS 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
GENESIS 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of
them, and said unto them, Ye {are} spies; to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come.
GENESIS 42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy
food are thy servants come.
GENESIS 42:11 We {are} all one man's sons; we {are} true {men},
thy servants are no spies.
GENESIS 42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the
nakedness of the land ye are come.
GENESIS 42:13 And they said, Thy servants {are} twelve brethren,
the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest {is} this day with our father, and one {is} not.
GENESIS 42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That {is it} that I
spake unto you, saying, Ye {are} spies:
GENESIS 42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh
ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come
hither.
GENESIS 42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother,
and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved,
whether {there be any} truth in you: or else by the life of
Pharaoh surely ye {are} spies.
GENESIS 42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
GENESIS 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do,
and live; {for} I fear God:
GENESIS 42:19 If ye {be} true {men}, let one of your brethren be
bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the
famine of your houses:
GENESIS 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall
your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
GENESIS 42:21 And they said one to another, We {are} verily
guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is
this distress come upon us.
GENESIS 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto
you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
GENESIS 42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood {them};
for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
GENESIS 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept;
and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from
them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
GENESIS 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with
corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
GENESIS 42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and
departed thence.
GENESIS 42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it {was}
in his sack's mouth.
GENESIS 42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is
restored; and, lo, {it is} even in my sack: and their heart
failed {them}, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What
{is} this {that} God hath done unto us?
GENESIS 42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land
of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
GENESIS 42:30 The man, {who is} the lord of the land, spake
roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
GENESIS 42:31 And we said unto him, We {are} true {men}; we are
no spies:
GENESIS 42:32 We {be} twelve brethren, sons of our father; one
{is} not, and the youngest {is} this day with our father in the
land of Canaan.
GENESIS 42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us,
Hereby shall I know that ye {are} true {men}; leave one of your
brethren {here} with me, and take {food for} the famine of your
households, and be gone:
GENESIS 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall
I know that ye {are} no spies, but {that} ye {are} true {men: so}
will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the
land.
GENESIS 42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks,
that, behold, every man's bundle of money {was} in his sack: and
when {both} they and their father saw the bundles of money, they
were afraid.
GENESIS 42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye
bereaved {of my children}: Joseph {is} not, and Simeon {is} not,
and ye will take Benjamin {away}: all these things are against
me.
GENESIS 42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my
two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand,
and I will bring him to thee again.
GENESIS 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for
his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him
by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave.
GENESIS 43:1 And the famine {was} sore in the land.
GENESIS 43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn
which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them,
Go again, buy us a little food.
GENESIS 43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did
solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face,
except your brother {be} with you.
GENESIS 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go
down and buy thee food:
GENESIS 43:5 But if thou wilt not send {him}, we will not go
down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except
your brother {be} with you.
GENESIS 43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye {so} ill with
me, {as} to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
GENESIS 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our
state, and of our kindred, saying, {Is} your father yet alive?
have ye {another} brother? and we told him according to the Tenor
of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring
your brother down?
GENESIS 43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad
with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die,
both we, and thou, {and} also our little ones.
GENESIS 43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou
require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before
thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
GENESIS 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had
returned this second time.
GENESIS 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If {it must
be} so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your
vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a
little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
GENESIS 43:12 And take double money in your hand; and the money
that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry {it}
again in your hand; peradventure it {was} an oversight:
GENESIS 43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto
the man:
GENESIS 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,
that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be
bereaved {of my children}, I am bereaved.
GENESIS 43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to
Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
GENESIS 43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
the ruler of his house, Bring {these} men home, and slay, and
make ready; for {these} men shall dine with me at noon.
GENESIS 43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought
the men into Joseph's house.
GENESIS 43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought
into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was
returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that
he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us
for bondmen, and our asses.
GENESIS 43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's
house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
GENESIS 43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first
time to buy food:
GENESIS 43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that
we opened our sacks, and, behold, {every} man's money {was} in
the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have
brought it again in our hand.
GENESIS 43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands
to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
GENESIS 43:23 And he said, Peace {be} to you, fear not: your God,
and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your
sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
GENESIS 43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house,
and gave {them} water, and they washed their feet; and he gave
their asses provender.
GENESIS 43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came
at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
GENESIS 43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the
present which {was} in their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves to him to the earth.
GENESIS 43:27 And he asked them of {their} welfare, and said,
{Is} your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? {Is} he yet
alive?
GENESIS 43:28 And they answered, Thy servant our father {is} in
good health, he {is} yet alive. And they bowed down their heads,
and made obeisance.
GENESIS 43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother
Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, {Is} this your younger
brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious
unto thee, my son.
GENESIS 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn
upon his brother: and he sought {where} to weep; and he entered
into {his} chamber, and wept there.
GENESIS 43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained
himself, and said, Set on bread.
GENESIS 43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that {is} an abomination unto the Egyptians.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 43:34 And he took {and sent} messes unto them from before
him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
And they drank, and were merry with him.
GENESIS 44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying,
Fill the men's sacks {with} food, as much as they can carry, and
put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
GENESIS 44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth
of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the
word that Joseph had spoken.
GENESIS 44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent
away, they and their asses.
GENESIS 44:4 {And} when they were gone out of the city, {and} not
{yet} far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the
men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore
have ye rewarded evil for good?
GENESIS 44:5 {Is} not this {it} in which my lord drinketh, and
whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
GENESIS 44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these
same words.
GENESIS 44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord
these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to
this thing:
GENESIS 44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks'
mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how
then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
GENESIS 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both
let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
GENESIS 44:10 And he said, Now also {let} it {be} according unto
your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye
shall be blameless.
GENESIS 44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to
the ground, and opened every man his sack.
GENESIS 44:12 And he searched, {and} began at the eldest, and
left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
GENESIS 44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man
his ass, and returned to the city.
GENESIS 44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house;
for he {was} yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
GENESIS 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed {is} this that
ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly
divine?
GENESIS 44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?
what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we {are} my
lord's servants, both we, and {he} also with whom the cup is
found.
GENESIS 44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: {but}
the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant;
and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
GENESIS 44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my
lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou
{art} even as Pharaoh.
GENESIS 44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a
father, or a brother?
GENESIS 44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old
man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is
dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth
him.
GENESIS 44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down
unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
GENESIS 44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his
father: for {if} he should leave his father, {his father} would
die.
GENESIS 44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your
youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no
more.
GENESIS 44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy
servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
GENESIS 44:25 And our father said, Go again, {and} buy us a
little food.
GENESIS 44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest
brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the
man's face, except our youngest brother {be} with us.
GENESIS 44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know
that my wife bare me two {sons}:
GENESIS 44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he
is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
GENESIS 44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief
befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
GENESIS 44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father,
and the lad {be} not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in
the lad's life;
GENESIS 44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad
{is} not {with us}, that he will die: and thy servants shall
bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow
to the grave.
GENESIS 44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my
father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear
the blame to my father for ever.
GENESIS 44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide
instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up
with his brethren.
GENESIS 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad
{be} not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall
come on my father.
GENESIS 45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all
them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out
from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made
himself known unto his brethren.
GENESIS 45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house
of Pharaoh heard.
GENESIS 45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I {am} Joseph;
doth my father yet live?  And his brethren could not answer him;
for they were troubled at his presence.
GENESIS 45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me,
I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I {am} Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
GENESIS 45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with
yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before
you to preserve life.
GENESIS 45:6 For these two years {hath} the famine {been} in the
land: and yet {there are} five years, in the which {there shall}
neither {be} earing nor harvest.
GENESIS 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a
posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
GENESIS 45:8 So now {it was} not you {that} sent me hither, but
God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his
house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him,
Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt:
come down unto me, tarry not:
GENESIS 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and
thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that
thou hast:
GENESIS 45:11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet {there are}
five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that
thou hast, come to poverty.
GENESIS 45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my
brother Benjamin, that {it is} my mouth that speaketh unto you.
GENESIS 45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in
Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring
down my father hither.
GENESIS 45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and
wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
GENESIS 45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon
them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
GENESIS 45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,
saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well,
and his servants.
GENESIS 45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy
brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the
land of Canaan;
GENESIS 45:18 And take your father and your households, and come
unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and
ye shall eat the fat of the land.
GENESIS 45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons
out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your
wives, and bring your father, and come.
GENESIS 45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the
land of Egypt {is} yours.
GENESIS 45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave
them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave
them provision for the way.
GENESIS 45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment;
but to Benjamin he gave three hundred {pieces} of silver, and
five changes of raiment.
GENESIS 45:23 And to his father he sent after this {manner}; ten
asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses
laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
GENESIS 45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed:
and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
GENESIS 45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the
land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
GENESIS 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph {is} yet alive, and he
{is} governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart
fainted, for he believed them not.
GENESIS 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he
had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
GENESIS 45:28 And Israel said, {It is} enough; Joseph my son {is}
yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
GENESIS 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had,
and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac.
GENESIS 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the
night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here {am} I.
GENESIS 46:3 And he said, I {am} God, the God of thy father: fear
not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great
nation:
GENESIS 46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also
surely bring thee up {again}: and Joseph shall put his hand upon
thine eyes.
GENESIS 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of
Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and
their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
GENESIS 46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which
they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt,
Jacob, and all his seed with him:
GENESIS 46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he
with him into Egypt.
GENESIS 46:8 And these {are} the names of the children of Israel,
which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn.
GENESIS 46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and
Hezron, and Carmi.
GENESIS 46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and
Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish
woman.
GENESIS 46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
GENESIS 46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,
and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
GENESIS 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and
Job, and Shimron.
GENESIS 46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and
Jahleel.
GENESIS 46:15 These {be} the sons of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his
sons and his daughters {were} thirty and three.
GENESIS 46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and
Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
GENESIS 46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and
Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah;
Heber, and Malchiel.
GENESIS 46:18 These {are} the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to
Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, {even} sixteen
souls.
GENESIS 46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and
Benjamin.
GENESIS 46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of on bare unto him.
GENESIS 46:21 And the sons of Benjamin {were} Belah, and Becher,
and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim,
and Ard.
GENESIS 46:22 These {are} the sons of Rachel, which were born to
Jacob: all the souls {were} fourteen.
GENESIS 46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
GENESIS 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and
Jezer, and Shillem.
GENESIS 46:25 These {are} the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave
unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the
souls {were} seven.
GENESIS 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt,
which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the
souls {were} threescore and six;
GENESIS 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in
Egypt, {were} two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, {were} threescore and ten.
GENESIS 46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct
his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
GENESIS 46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to
meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto
him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
GENESIS 46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since
I have seen thy face, because thou {art} yet alive.
GENESIS 46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his
father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house, which {were} in the land of
Canaan, are come unto me;
GENESIS 46:32 And the men {are} shepherds, for their trade hath
been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and
their herds, and all that they have.
GENESIS 46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call
you, and shall say, What {is} your occupation?
GENESIS 46:34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been
about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, {and} also
our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every
shepherd {is} an abomination unto the Egyptians.
GENESIS 47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My
father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and
all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and,
behold, they {are} in the land of Goshen.
GENESIS 47:2 And he took some of his brethren, {even} five men,
and presented them unto Pharaoh.
GENESIS 47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What {is} your
occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants {are}
shepherds, both we, {and} also our fathers.
GENESIS 47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in
the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their
flocks; for the famine {is} sore in the land of Canaan: now
therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of
Goshen.
GENESIS 47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
and thy brethren are come unto thee:
GENESIS 47:6 The land of Egypt {is} before thee; in the best of
the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of
Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest {any} men of activity
among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
GENESIS 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him
before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
GENESIS 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old {art} thou?
GENESIS 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years
of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained
unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days
of their pilgrimage.
GENESIS 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
Pharaoh.
GENESIS 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and
gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the
land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
GENESIS 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren,
and all his father's household, with bread, according to {their}
families.
GENESIS 47:13 And {there was} no bread in all the land; for the
famine {was} very sore, so that the land of Egypt and {all} the
land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
GENESIS 47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found
in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's
house.
GENESIS 47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,
Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the
money faileth.
GENESIS 47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give
you for your cattle, if money fail.
GENESIS 47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and
Joseph gave them bread {in exchange} for horses, and for the
flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and
he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
GENESIS 47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the
second year, and said unto him, We will not hide {it} from my
lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of
cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands:
GENESIS 47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we
and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give {us} seed, that we may
live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
GENESIS 47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for
Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the
famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
GENESIS 47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities
from {one} end of the borders of Egypt even to the {other} end
thereof.
GENESIS 47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the
priests had a portion {assigned them} of Pharaoh, and did eat
their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not
their lands.
GENESIS 47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have
bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, {here is} seed
for you, and ye shall sow the land.
GENESIS 47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye
shall give the fifth {part} unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be
your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them
of your households, and for food for your little ones.
GENESIS 47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us
find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants.
GENESIS 47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt
unto this day, {that} Pharaoh should have the fifth {part},
except the land of the priests only, {which} became not
Pharaoh's.
GENESIS 47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the
country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
GENESIS 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
years.
GENESIS 47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he
called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,
and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in
Egypt:
GENESIS 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt
carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said.
GENESIS 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him.
And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 48:2 And {one} told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son
Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.
GENESIS 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared
unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
GENESIS 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people;
and will give this land to thy seed after thee {for} an
everlasting possession.
GENESIS 48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which
were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee
into Egypt, {are} mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
GENESIS 48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them,
shall be thine, {and} shall be called after the name of their
brethren in their inheritance.
GENESIS 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died
by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet {there was} but
a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the
way of Ephrath; the same {is} Bethlehem.
GENESIS 48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who {are}
these?
GENESIS 48:9 And Joseph said unto his father, They {are} my sons,
whom God hath given me in this {place}. And he said, Bring them,
I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
GENESIS 48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, {so that}
he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
GENESIS 48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to
see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
GENESIS 48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees,
and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
GENESIS 48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right
hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
toward Israel's right hand, and brought {them} near unto him.
GENESIS 48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid
{it} upon Ephraim's head, who {was} the younger, and his left
hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for
Manasseh {was} the firstborn.
GENESIS 48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom
my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all
my life long unto this day,
GENESIS 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless
the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my
fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in
the midst of the earth.
GENESIS 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right
hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up
his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto
Manasseh's head.
GENESIS 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father:
for this {is} the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
GENESIS 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know {it}, my
son, I know {it}: he also shall become a people, and he also
shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater
than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
GENESIS 48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall
Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
GENESIS 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God
shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your
fathers.
GENESIS 48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy
brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.
GENESIS 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you {that} which shall
befall you in the last days.
GENESIS 49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of
Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
GENESIS 49:3 Reuben, thou {art} my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power:
GENESIS 49:4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because
thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou {it}: he
went up to my couch.
GENESIS 49:5 Simeon and Levi {are} brethren; instruments of
cruelty {are in} their habitations.
GENESIS 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto
their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their
anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a
wall.
GENESIS 49:7 Cursed {be} their anger, for {it was} fierce; and
their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and
scatter them in Israel.
GENESIS 49:8 Judah, thou {art he} whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand {shall be} in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's
children shall bow down before thee.
GENESIS 49:9 Judah {is} a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son,
thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as
an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
GENESIS 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
{shall} the gathering of the people {be}.
GENESIS 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt
unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his
clothes in the blood of grapes:
GENESIS 49:12 His eyes {shall be} red with wine, and his teeth
white with milk.
GENESIS 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he
{shall be} for an haven of ships; and his border {shall be} unto
Zidon.
GENESIS 49:14 Issachar {is} a strong ass couching down between
two burdens:
GENESIS 49:15 And he saw that rest {was} good, and the land that
{it was} pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a
servant unto tribute.
GENESIS 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel.
GENESIS 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the
path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall
backward.
GENESIS 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
GENESIS 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the last.
GENESIS 49:20 Out of Asher his bread {shall be} fat, and he shall
yield royal dainties.
GENESIS 49:21 Naphtali {is} a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
GENESIS 49:22 Joseph {is} a fruitful bough, {even} a fruitful
bough by a well; {whose} branches run over the wall:
GENESIS 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot {at
him}, and hated him:
GENESIS 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his
hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty {God} of Jacob;
(from thence {is} the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
GENESIS 49:25 {Even} by the God of thy father, who shall help
thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of
heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings
of the breasts, and of the womb:
GENESIS 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above
the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
GENESIS 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin {as} a wolf: in the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
GENESIS 49:28 All these {are} the twelve tribes of Israel: and
this {is it} that their father spake unto them, and blessed them;
every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
GENESIS 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be
gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that
{is} in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
GENESIS 49:30 In the cave that {is} in the field of Machpelah,
which {is} before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
GENESIS 49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there
they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
GENESIS 49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that {is}
therein {was} from the children of Heth.
GENESIS 49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his
sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the
Ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
GENESIS 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept
upon him, and kissed him.
GENESIS 50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to
embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
GENESIS 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are
fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
mourned for him threescore and ten days.
GENESIS 50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph
spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found
grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh,
saying,
GENESIS 50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there
shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and
bury my father, and I will come again.
GENESIS 50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee swear.
GENESIS 50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him
went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and
all the elders of the land of Egypt,
GENESIS 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.
GENESIS 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and
horsemen: and it was a very great company.
GENESIS 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which
{is} beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very
sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven
days.
GENESIS 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said,
This {is} a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the
name of it was called Abelmizraim, which {is} beyond Jordan.
GENESIS 50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded
them:
GENESIS 50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan,
and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace
of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
GENESIS 50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his
brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after
he had buried his father.
GENESIS 50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father
was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will
certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
GENESIS 50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy
father did command before he died, saying,
GENESIS 50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee
now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did
unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of
the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake unto him.
GENESIS 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his
face; and they said, Behold, we {be} thy servants.
GENESIS 50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for {am} I in
the place of God?
GENESIS 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; {but}
God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as {it is} this day, to
save much people alive.
GENESIS 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and
your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them.
GENESIS 50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's
house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
GENESIS 50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
{generation}: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh
were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
GENESIS 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God
will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the
land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
GENESIS 50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,
saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones
from hence.
GENESIS 50:26 So Joseph died, {being} an hundred and ten years
old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.