Genesis

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1:2	TheAnd the earth was a formless and voiddesolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was movinghovering over the surface of the waters.
1:5	God called the light “day,,” and the darkness He called “night..” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
1:7	God made the expanse, and separated the waters whichthat were below the expanse from the waters whichthat were above the expanse; and it was so.
1:8	God called the expanse “heaven..” And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
1:10	And God called the dry land “earth,,” and the gathering of the waters He called “seas;”; and God saw that it was good.
1:11	Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit afteraccording to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
1:12	The earth broughtproduced forth vegetation, plants yielding seed afteraccording to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, afteraccording to their kind; and God saw that it was good.
1:13	ThereAnd there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
1:14	Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and letthey themshall beserve foras signs and for seasons, and for days and years;
1:15	and letthey themshall beserve foras lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.
1:19	ThereAnd there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
1:21	And God created the great sea monsterscreatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, afteraccording to their kind, and every winged bird afteraccording to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
1:23	ThereAnd there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
1:24	Then God said, “Let the earth bringproduce forth living creatures afteraccording to their kind: cattlelivestock and creepingcrawling things and beastsanimals of the earth afteraccording to their kind”; and it was so.
1:25	God made the beastsanimals of the earth afteraccording to their kind, and the cattlelivestock afteraccording to their kind, and everything that creepscrawls on the ground afteraccording to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
1:26	Then God said, “Let Us make manmankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattlelivestock and over all the earth, and over every creepingcrawling thing that creepscrawls on the earth.”
1:27	So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
1:30	and to every beastanimal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everyeverything thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
1:31	And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2:1	ThusAnd so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hostsheavenly lights.
2:3	Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because inon it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
2:4	This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.
2:5	Now no shrub of the field was yet inon the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
2:7	Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living beingperson.
2:9	Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:12	The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there as well.
2:15	Then the Lord God took the man and put him intoin the gardenGarden of Eden to cultivate it and keeptend it.
2:16	The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat freely;
2:17	but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for inon the day that you eat from it you will surelycertainly die.”
2:19	OutAnd out of the ground the Lord God formed every beastanimal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
2:20	The man gave names to all the cattlelivestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beastanimal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
2:22	TheAnd the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
2:23	TheThen the man said, “ThisAt last this is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman,‘woman,’ Because she was taken out of Manman.”
2:25	And the man and his wife were both naked, andbut they were not ashamed.
3:1	Now the serpent was more craftycunning than any beastanimal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed,Has has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
3:4	The serpent said to the woman, “You surelycertainly will not die!
3:5	For God knows that inon the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will bebecome like God, knowing good and evil.”
3:6	When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took fromsome of its fruit and ate; and she also gave alsosome to her husband with her, and he ate.
3:7	Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loinwaist coverings.
3:8	TheyNow they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
3:11	And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree offrom which I commanded you not to eat?”
3:12	The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fromsome of the fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
3:13	Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
3:14	TheThen the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattlethe livestock, And more than everyany beastanimal of the field; On your belly you willshall go, And dust you willshall eat All the days of your life;
3:15	And I will putmake enmityenemies BetweenOf you and the woman, And betweenof your seedoffspring and her seedDescendant; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise himHim on the heel.”
3:16	To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you willshall bringdeliver forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he willshall rule over you.”
3:17	Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; InWith toilhard labor you willshall eat offrom it All the days of your life.
3:18	Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; AndYet you willshall eat the plants of the field;
3:19	By the sweat of your face You willshall eat bread, TillUntil you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
3:20	Now the man callednamed his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
3:21	TheAnd the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
3:22	Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretchreach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
3:23	therefore the Lord God sent him out fromof the gardenGarden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
3:24	So He drove the man out; and at the east of the gardenGarden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
4:1	Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gottenobtained a manchildmale child with the help of the Lord.”
4:2	AgainAnd again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. AndNow Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tillercultivator of the ground.
4:3	So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord offrom the fruit of the ground.
4:4	Abel, on his part also brought ofan offering, from the firstlingsfirstborn of his flock and offrom their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering;
4:5	but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenanceface fellwas gloomy.
4:6	Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why hasis your countenanceface fallengloomy?
4:7	If you do well, will not your countenanceface not be lifted upcheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is crouchinglurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
4:8	Cain toldtalked Abelto his brother. AndAbel; and it camehappened aboutthat when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother Abel and killed him.
4:10	Then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground.
4:12	When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrantwanderer and a wandererdrifter on the earth.”
4:13	Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bearendure!
4:14	Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a vagrantwanderer and a wandererdrifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
4:15	So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfoldseven times as much.” And the Lord appointedplaced a signmark foron Cain, so that no one finding him would slaykill him.
4:16	Then Cain wentleft out from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17	Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and heCain built a city, and callednamed the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.
4:18	Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad becamefathered the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael becamefathered the father of Methushael, and Methushael becamefathered the father of Lamech.
4:19	Lamech took totwo himselfwives twofor wiveshimself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
4:20	Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwelllive in tents and have livestock.
4:21	His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipeflute.
4:23	Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, GivePay heedattention to my speechwords, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;!
4:24	If Cain is avenged sevenfoldseven times, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”seven times!”
4:25	Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspringchild in place of Abel, forbecause Cain killed him.”
4:26	To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he callednamed hishim name Enosh. Then menpeople began to call upon the name of the Lord.
5:1	This is the book of the generations of Adam. InOn the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
5:2	He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man“mankind” inon the day when they were created.
5:3	When Adam had lived one130 hundred and thirty years, he becamefathered the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
5:4	Then the days of Adam after he becamefathered the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:5	So all the days that Adam lived were nine930 hundred and thirty years, and he died.
5:6	Now Seth lived one105 hundred and five years, and becamefathered the father of Enosh.
5:7	Then Seth lived eight807 hundred and seven years after he becamefathered the father of Enosh, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:8	So all the days of Seth were nine912 hundred and twelve years, and he died.
5:9	Now Enosh lived ninety years, and becamefathered the father of Kenan.
5:10	Then Enosh lived eight815 hundred and fifteen years after he becamefathered the father of Kenan, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:11	So all the days of Enosh were nine905 hundred and five years, and he died.
5:12	Now Kenan lived seventy years, and becamefathered the father of Mahalalel.
5:13	Then Kenan lived eight840 hundred and forty years after he becamefathered the father of Mahalalel, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:14	So all the days of Kenan were nine910 hundred and ten years, and he died.
5:15	Now Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and becamefathered the father of Jared.
5:16	Then Mahalalel lived eight830 hundred and thirty years after he becamefathered the father of Jared, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:17	So all the days of Mahalalel were eight895 hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
5:18	Now Jared lived one162 hundred and sixty-two years, and becamefathered the father of Enoch.
5:19	Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he becamefathered the father of Enoch, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:20	So all the days of Jared were nine962 hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.
5:21	Now Enoch lived sixty-five years, and becamefathered the father of Methuselah.
5:22	Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he becamefathered the father of Methuselah, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:23	So all the days of Enoch were three365 hundred and sixty-five years.
5:25	Now Methuselah lived one187 hundred and eighty-seven years, and becamefathered the father of Lamech.
5:26	Then Methuselah lived seven782 hundred and eighty-two years after he becamefathered the father of Lamech, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:27	So all the days of Methuselah were nine969 hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
5:28	Now Lamech lived one182 hundred and eighty-two years, and becamefathered the father of a son.
5:29	NowAnd he callednamed hishim name Noah, saying, “This one will give us restcomfort from our work and from the toilhard labor of our hands arisingcaused fromby the ground which the Lord has cursed.”
5:30	Then Lamech lived five595 hundred and ninety-five years after he becamefathered the father of Noah, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
5:31	So all the days of Lamech were seven777 hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.
5:32	Now after Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah becamefathered the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:1	Now it came about, when menmankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
6:2	that the sons of God saw that the daughters of menmankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
6:3	Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shallwill not striveremain with man forever, because he is also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one120 hundred and twenty years.”
6:4	The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of menmankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
6:5	Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of manmankind was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of histheir hearthearts was only evil continually.
6:6	TheSo the Lord was sorry that He had made manmankind on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
6:7	TheThen the Lord said, “I will blotwipe out manmankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, fromand mananimals toas animalswell, toand creepingcrawling things, and tothe birds of the sky;. forFor I am sorry that I have made them.”
6:9	These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time;generation. Noah walked with God.
6:10	And Noah becamefathered the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:12	And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for allhumanity flesh had corrupted theirits way upon the earth.
6:13	Then God said to Noah, “The end of allhumanity flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of thempeople; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
6:14	Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with roomscompartments, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
6:15	This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its breadthwidth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
6:16	You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and setput the door of the ark inon the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
6:17	BeholdNow behold, I, evenMyself I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
6:18	But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
6:20	Of the birds afteraccording to their kind, and of the animals afteraccording to their kind, of every creepingcrawling thing of the ground afteraccording to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
6:21	As for you, take for yourself some of allevery food whichthat is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”
6:22	ThusSo Noah did these things; according to alleverything that God had commanded him, so he did.
7:1	Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this timegeneration.
7:2	You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
7:3	also of the birds of the sky, byseven sevenspairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
7:4	For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will blotwipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
7:5	So Noah didacted accordingin toaccordance allwith everything that the Lord had commanded him.
7:7	Then Noah and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waterwaters of the flood.
7:8	Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creepscrawls on the ground,
7:9	therethey all went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
7:10	ItNow it came about after the seven days, that the waterwaters of the flood came upon the earth.
7:11	In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on thethat same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
7:13	On thethis very same day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
7:14	they and every beastanimal afteraccording to its kind, and all the cattlelivestock afteraccording to their kind, and every creepingcrawling thing that creepscrawls on the earth afteraccording to its kind, and every bird afteraccording to its kind, all sorts of birds.
7:15	So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
7:16	Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed itthe door behind him.
7:19	TheAnd the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
7:21	AllSo fleshall creatures that moved on the earth perished,: birds, andlivestock, cattleanimals, and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
7:23	ThusSo He blottedwiped out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from manmankind to animals, to creepingcrawling things, and tothe birds of the sky, and they were blottedwiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
7:24	The water prevailed upon the earth onefor hundred150 and fifty days.
8:1	But God remembered Noah and all the beastsanimals and all the cattlelivestock that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
8:3	and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one150 hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
8:4	InThen in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5	TheAnd the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:8	Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abatedlow fromon the facesurface of the land;
8:9	but the dove found no resting place for the sole of herits foot, so sheit returned to him intoin the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took herit, and brought herit into the ark to himself.
8:10	So he waited yet another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
8:11	TheAnd the dove came to him towardin the evening, and behold, in herits beak was a freshlyfresh picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abatedlow fromon the earth.
8:12	Then he waited yet another seven days longer, and sent out the dove; but sheit did not return to him again.
8:13	Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground washad dried up.
8:14	InAnd in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
8:17	Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creepingcrawling thing that creepscrawls on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
8:18	So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
8:19	Every beastanimal, every creepingcrawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
8:20	Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took some of every kind of clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21	The Lord smelled the soothing aroma;, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
8:22	While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, AndCold cold and heat, AndSummer summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
9:1	AndThen God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9:2	The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beastanimal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; withon everything that creepscrawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea,. intoThey yourare handhanded theyover areto givenyou.
9:3	Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I givehave allgiven everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
9:4	OnlyBut you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
9:5	Surely I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every beastanimal I will require it. And from every manperson, from every man’s as his brother I will require the life of mana person.
9:6	Whoever sheds man’shuman blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made manmankind.
9:9	“Now behold, I Myself doam establishestablishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
9:10	and with every living creature that is with you,: the birds, the cattlelivestock, and every beastanimal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beastanimal of the earth.
9:11	I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cuteliminated off by the waterwaters of thea flood, neithernor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
9:12	God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successivefuture generations;
9:13	I have set My bowrainbow in the cloud, and it shall beserve foras a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
9:14	It shall come about, when I bringmake a cloud appear over the earth, that the bowrainbow will be seen in the cloud,
9:16	When the bowrainbow is in the cloud, then I will look uponat it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
9:18	Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
9:21	He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
9:23	But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it uponon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
9:26	He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, The God of Shem; And letmay Canaan be his servant.
9:27	May God enlarge Japheth, And letmay himhe dwelllive in the tents of Shem; And letmay Canaan be his servant.”
9:28	Noah lived three350 hundred and fifty years after the flood.
9:29	So all the days of Noah were nine950 hundred and fifty years, and he died.
10:1	Now these are the records of the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
10:2	The sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3	The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4	The sons of Javan were Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5	From these the people of the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.
10:6	The sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
10:7	The sons of Cush were Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
10:8	Now Cush becamefathered the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.
10:10	TheAnd the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11	From that land he went forthto into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,
10:13	Mizraim becamefathered the father of Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14	and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whichwhom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
10:15	Canaan becamefathered the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
10:16	and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
10:17	and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18	and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
10:19	The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon asgoing you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; asand yougoing go toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
10:20	These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
10:22	The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23	The sons of Aram were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24	Arpachshad becamefathered the father of Shelah; and Shelah becamefathered the father of Eber.
10:26	Joktan becamefathered the father of Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
10:27	and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28	and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29	and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan.
10:30	Now their settlement extended from Mesha asgoing you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.
10:31	These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.
10:32	These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogiesdescendants, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.
11:1	Now all the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
11:2	ItAnd it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
11:3	TheyThen they said to one another, “Come, let’s us make bricks and burnfire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
11:4	TheyAnd they said, “Come, let’s us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let’s us make a name for ourselves; a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of all the whole earth.”
11:5	TheNow the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
11:6	TheAnd the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they beganhave started to do, and now nothing which they purposeplan to do will be impossible for them.
11:8	So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
11:9	Therefore itsit name was callednamed Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the whole earth.
11:10	These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was onea hundred years old, andwhen becamehe thefathered father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood;
11:11	and Shem lived five hundred years after he becamefathered the father of Arpachshad, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:12	Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and becamefathered the father of Shelah;
11:13	and Arpachshad lived four403 hundred and three years after he becamefathered the father of Shelah, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:14	Shelah lived thirty years, and becamefathered the father of Eber;
11:15	and Shelah lived four403 hundred and three years after he becamefathered the father of Eber, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:16	Eber lived thirty-four years, and becamefathered the father of Peleg;
11:17	and Eber lived four430 hundred and thirty years after he becamefathered the father of Peleg, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:18	Peleg lived thirty years, and becamefathered the father of Reu;
11:19	and Peleg lived two209 hundred and nine years after he becamefathered the father of Reu, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:20	Reu lived thirty-two years, and becamefathered the father of Serug;
11:21	and Reu lived two207 hundred and seven years after he becamefathered the father of Serug, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:22	Serug lived thirty years, and becamefathered the father of Nahor;
11:23	and Serug lived two hundred years after he becamefathered the father of Nahor, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:24	Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and becamefathered the father of Terah;
11:25	and Nahor lived one119 hundred and nineteen years after he becamefathered the father of Terah, and he hadfathered other sons and daughters.
11:26	Terah lived seventy years, and becamefathered the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27	Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah becamefathered the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran becamefathered the father of Lot.
11:28	Haran died induring the presencelifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
11:29	Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai;, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
11:30	Sarai was barrenunable to conceive; she haddid nonot have a child.
11:31	Now Terah took Abram his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife;, and they wentdeparted out together from Ur of the Chaldeans into ordergo to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
11:32	The days of Terah were two205 hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
12:1	Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you;
12:2	And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
12:4	So Abram went forthaway as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
12:5	Abram took Sarai his wife Sarai and Lot his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the personspeople which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thusso they came to the land of Canaan.
12:6	Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the CanaaniteCanaanites waswere then in the land at that time.
12:7	TheAnd the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
12:8	Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
12:9	Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
12:10	Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojournlive there, for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.
12:11	It came about, when he camewas nearapproaching to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;
12:13	Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well withfor me because of you, and that I may live on account of you.”
12:14	ItNow it came about, when Abram cameentered into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
12:16	Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep, and oxen, andmale donkeys, and male servants and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
12:18	Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
12:19	Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for mymyself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.”!”
12:20	And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.
13:2	Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
13:3	HeAnd he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
13:4	to the place of the altar which he had made there formerlypreviously; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
13:5	Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, and herds, and tents.
13:6	And the land could not sustainsupport both of them while dwellingliving together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.
13:7	And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the CanaaniteCanaanites and the PerizzitePerizzites were dwellingliving then in the land at that time.
13:8	So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.relatives!
13:9	Is not the wholeentire land not before you? Please separate from me; if toyou choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if toyou choose the right, then I will go to the left.”
13:10	Lot liftedraised up his eyes and saw all the valleyvicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt asgoing youtoward go to Zoar.
13:11	So Lot chose for himself all the valleyvicinity of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. ThusSo they separated from each other.
13:12	Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valleyvicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
13:13	Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly andwicked sinners against the Lord.
13:14	The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now liftraise up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;
13:15	for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.
13:16	I will make your descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can numbercount the dust of the earth, then your descendants cancould also be numberedcounted.
13:17	Arise, walk about in the land through its length and breadthwidth; for I will give it to you.”
13:18	Then Abram moved his tent and came and dweltlived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron,; and there he built an altar to the Lord.
14:3	All these kings came as allies to the valleyValley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
14:4	TwelveFor twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
14:5	InAnd in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings thatwho were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
14:6	and the Horites inon their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
14:8	And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayedlined up for battle against them in the valleyValley of Siddim,
14:9	against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
14:10	Now the valleyValley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.
14:11	Then they took all the goodspossessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply, and departed.
14:13	Then a fugitivesurvivor came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was livingresiding by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and thesethey were allies with Abram.
14:14	When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, threenumbering hundred and eighteen318, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
14:15	HeThen he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
14:16	He brought back all the goodspossessions, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the other people.
14:17	Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valleyValley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
14:18	And Melchizedek the king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.
14:19	HeAnd he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
14:20	And blessed be God Most High, Who has deliveredhanded over your enemies intoto your handyou.” HeAnd he gave him a tenth of alleverything.
14:21	TheThen the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give the people to me and take the goodspossessions for yourself.”
14:22	But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, possessorPossessor of heaven and earth,
14:23	that I will not take a thread or a sandal thongstrap or anything that is yours, forso fearthat you woulddo not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
15:2	But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
15:3	And Abram also said, “Since You have given me no offspring to meson, one who has been born in my house is my heir.”
15:4	Then behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.”
15:5	And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
15:6	Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckonedcredited it to him as righteousness.
15:8	HeBut he said, “O Lord God, how may I know that I will possess it?”
15:9	So He said to him, “Bring Me a three -year -old heifer, and a three -year -old female goat, and a three -year -old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
15:11	TheAnd birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
15:13	Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
15:16	Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquitywrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
15:17	ItNow it came about, when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch appeared which passed between these pieces.
15:19	the Keniteland andof the Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15:20	and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15:21	and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”
16:1	Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him noa childrenchild, andbut she had an Egyptian maidslave woman whose name was Hagar.
16:2	So Sarai said to Abram, “NowSee beholdnow, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please gohave inrelations towith my maidslave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
16:3	AfterAnd so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidslave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
16:4	HeThen wenthe inhad torelations with Hagar, and she conceived; and when sheHagar sawbecame aware that she had conceived, her mistress was despisedinsignificant in her sight.
16:5	AndSo Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you.! I gaveput my maidslave woman into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despisedinsignificant in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
16:6	But Abram said to Sarai, “BeholdLook, your maidslave woman is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.
16:8	He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maidslave woman, from where have you come, from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”
16:9	ThenSo the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”
16:10	Moreover,The the angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”
16:11	The angel of the Lord said to her further, “Behold, you are with childpregnant, And you will beargive birth to a son; And you shall callname hishim name Ishmael, Because the Lord has givenheard heed to your affliction.
16:12	HeBut he will be a wild donkey of a man,; His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live toin thedefiance east of all his brothers.”
16:13	Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees me”; for she said, “Have I even remainedseen aliveHim here and lived after seeingHe Himsaw me?”
16:15	So Hagar bore Abram a son to Abram; and Abram callednamed the name of his son, to whom Hagar boregave birth, Ishmael.
17:2	I will establishmake My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly.”
17:5	No longer shall youryou name be callednamed Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
17:6	I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.
17:7	I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations foras an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
17:8	And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land ofwhere youryou sojourningslive as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, foras an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
17:12	And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, including a servantslave who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.
17:13	A servantslave who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surelycertainly be circumcised; thusso shall My covenant shall be in your flesh foras an everlasting covenant.
17:14	But as for an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
17:15	Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife Sarai, you shall not call her by the name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
17:17	Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man onea hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, beargive birth to a child?”
17:19	But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you shall callname hishim name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him foras an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
17:20	As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
17:21	But My covenant I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year.”
17:23	Then Abraham took Ishmael his son Ishmael, and all the servantsslaves who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin inon thethis very same day, as God had said to him.
17:25	And Ishmael his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
17:26	InOn thethis very same day Abraham was circumcised, andas Ishmaelwell as his son Ishmael.
17:27	AllAnd all the men of his household, those who were born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
18:1	Now the Lord appeared to himAbraham by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
18:2	When he liftedraised up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himselfdown to the earthground,
18:4	Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and restmake yourselves comfortable under the tree;
18:5	and I will bring a piece of bread, so that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant.” And they said, “So do, as you have said.”
18:6	So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread cakes.”
18:8	He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placedset it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.
18:9	Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife Sarah?” And he said, “There, in the tent.”
18:10	He said, “I will surelycertainly return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife Sarah will have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.
18:12	So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shallam I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
18:13	AndBut the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeedactually beargive birth to a child, when I am so old?’
18:15	Sarah denied it, however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
18:18	since Abraham will surelycertainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
18:21	I will go down now, and see ifwhether they have done entirely accordingas tothe its outcry, which has come to Me indicates; and if not, I will know.”
18:23	Abraham cameapproached near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
18:24	Suppose there are fifty righteous people within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
18:25	Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slaykill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”
18:26	So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the wholeentire place on their account.”
18:27	And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am butonly dust and ashes.
18:28	Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the wholeentire city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
18:29	HeAnd he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose forty are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it on account of the forty.”
18:32	Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once;: suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”
19:1	Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting inat the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rosestood up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
19:2	And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the public square.”
19:3	Yet he strongly urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
19:4	Before they lay down, the men of the city, —the men of Sodom, —surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
19:8	Now beholdlook, I have two daughters who have not had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothingnot do anything to these men, inasmuchbecause as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
19:9	But they said, “StandGet aside.”out Furthermore,of theythe way!” They also said, “This one came in as ana alienforeigner, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.”!” So they pressed hard against Lot and camemoved nearforward to break the door.
19:11	TheyThen they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, bothfrom the small andto the great, so that they weariedbecame themselvesweary of trying to find the doorway.
19:12	Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else havedo you have here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
19:14	So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord willis destroydestroying the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jestingjoking.
19:16	But he hesitated. So the men seizedgrasped his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, forbecause the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
19:17	When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valleysurrounding area; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”
19:19	Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindnesscompassion, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;
19:20	now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) so that my life may be saved.”
19:21	HeAnd he said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.
19:22	Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was callednamed Zoar.
19:24	Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,
19:25	and He overthrew those cities, and all the valleysurrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
19:26	But hisLot’s wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27	Now Abraham arosegot up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord;
19:28	and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley,surrounding area; and behold, he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.
19:29	ThusSo it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valleysurrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrowdestruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
19:30	Now Lot went up from Zoar, with his two daughters and stayed in the mountains, andbecause his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.
19:31	Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to comehave inrelations towith us afteraccording to the mannercustom of all the earth.
19:32	Come, let’s us make our father drink wine, and let’s ussleep lie with him so that we may preservekeep our family alive through our father.”
19:33	So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and layslept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or whengot she aroseup.
19:34	On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “BeholdLook, I layslept last night with my father; let’s us make him drink wine tonight also;too, then you go in and liesleep with him, so that we may preservekeep our family alive through our father.”
19:35	So they madehad their father drink wine that night alsotoo, and the younger arosegot up and layslept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or whengot she aroseup.
19:36	ThusAnd so both of the daughters of Lot wereconceived with child by their father.
19:37	The firstborn boregave birth to a son, and callednamed hishim name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
19:38	As for the younger, she also boregave birth to a son, and callednamed hishim name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
20:1	Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojournedlived for a time in Gerar.
20:2	And Abraham said of Sarah his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah.
20:4	Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, “Lord, will You slaykill a nation, even though blameless?
20:5	Did he himself not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
20:7	Now thereforethen, restorereturn the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restorereturn her, know that you shallwill surelycertainly die, you and all who are yours.”
20:8	So Abimelech arosegot up early in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearingpresence; and the menpeople were greatly frightened.
20:12	Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother,; and she became my wife;
20:14	Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restoredreturned his wife Sarah to him.
20:16	To Sarah he said, “BeholdLook, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver;. behold,It it is your vindication before all who are with you, and before alleveryone men you are cleared.”
20:17	Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidsfemale slaves, so that they boregave birth to children.
20:18	For the Lord had completely closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21:3	Abraham callednamed the name of his son who was born to him, the son whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
21:5	Now Abraham was onea hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
21:7	And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have bornegiven himbirth to a son in his old age.”
21:8	TheAnd the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham madeheld a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
21:9	Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking Isaac.
21:10	Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maidslave woman and her son, for the son of this maidslave woman shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.”!”
21:11	The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son Ishmael.
21:12	But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed because of the ladboy and your maidslave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.
21:13	And of the son of the maidslave woman I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant.”
21:14	So Abraham rosegot up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
21:16	Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “DoMay I not let me see the boy die.”!” And she sat opposite him, and liftedraised up her voice and wept.
21:17	God heard the ladboy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the ladboy where he is.
21:18	AriseGet up, lift up the ladboy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”
21:19	Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the ladboy a drink.
21:20	And God was with the ladboy, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21:23	so now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posteritydescendants, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojournedresided.”
21:27	So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
21:28	ThenBut Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
21:29	Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”
21:30	He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness tofor me, that I dug this well.”
21:32	So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arosegot up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
21:34	And Abraham sojournedresided in the land of the Philistines for many days.
22:2	Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
22:3	So Abraham rosegot up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son Isaac; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and aroseset out and went to the place of which God had told him.
22:5	Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the ladboy will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
22:6	And Abraham took the wood offor the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son Isaac, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
22:7	Isaac spoke to Abraham his father Abraham and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “BeholdLook, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
22:10	And Abraham stretchedreached out with his hand and took the knife to slayslaughter his son.
22:12	He said, “Do not stretchreach out your hand against the ladboy, and do nothingnot do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
22:13	Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by hisits horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered himit up foras a burnt offering in the place of his son.
22:14	And Abraham callednamed the name of that place The Lord Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “InOn the mountmountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
22:17	indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
22:18	InAnd in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
22:19	So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arosegot up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived atin Beersheba.
22:20	Now it came about after these things, that itAbraham was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
22:21	Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22:22	and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.””—
22:23	Bethueland becameit thewas fatherBethuel ofwho fathered Rebekah;. theseThese eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
22:24	His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also boregave birth to Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
23:1	Now Sarah lived one127 hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2	Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham wentcame in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
23:3	Then Abraham rosearose from mourning before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
23:4	“I am a stranger and a sojournerforeign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
23:6	“Hear us, my lord,: you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”
23:7	So Abraham rosestood up and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.
23:8	And he spoke with them, saying, “If ityou isare yourwilling wishto forlet me to bury my dead out of my sight, hearlisten to me, and approachplead with Ephron the son of Zohar for me,
23:10	Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham inso thethat hearing of the sons of Heth; evenheard, ofthat is, all who wententered in at the gate of his city, saying,
23:11	“No, my lord, hearlisten to me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”
23:13	HeBut he spoke to Ephron inso thethat hearing of the people of the land heard, saying, “If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”
23:15	“My lord, listen to me;: a pieceplot of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, —what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
23:16	Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearingpresence of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercialcurrency standardacceptable to a merchant.
23:17	So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over
23:18	to Abraham foras a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who wententered in at the gate of his city.
23:19	After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife Sarah in the cave of the field atof Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
23:20	So the field and the cave that iswas in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth.
24:2	Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who hadwas in charge of all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh,
24:3	and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,;
24:7	The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ ’—He will send His angel beforeahead of you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
24:8	But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free fromof this myoath oathof mine; only do not take my son back there.”
24:9	So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master Abraham, and swore to him concerning this matter.
24:10	Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and setwent out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; andso he aroseset out and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
24:11	He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water atwhen it was evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
24:12	HeAnd he said, “O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindnesskindness to my master Abraham.
24:14	now may it be that the girlyoung woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindnesskindness to my master.”
24:15	BeforeAnd it came about, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
24:16	The girlyoung woman was very beautiful, a virgin,; and no man had had relations with her;. andShe she went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.
24:18	SheAnd she said, “Drink, my lord”; andthen she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.
24:19	Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw alsowater for your camels until they have finished drinking.”
24:21	Meanwhile, the man was gazingtaking a close look at her in silence, to knowfind out whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.
24:22	When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
24:23	and he said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodgestay inovernight at your father’s house?”
24:24	She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, theMilcah’s son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
24:25	Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodgestay inovernight.”
24:27	HeAnd he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsakenabandoned His lovingkindnesskindness and His truthtrustworthiness toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”
24:28	Then the girlyoung woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
24:30	When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister Rebekah, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
24:31	And he said, “Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside, since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”
24:33	But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have toldstated my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”
24:35	The Lord has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maidsslave women, and camels and donkeys.
24:36	Now Sarah my master’s wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.
24:39	Then I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman does not follow me.’
24:40	HeAnd he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;
24:42	“So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I gohave been going successful;
24:43	behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maidenyoung unmarried woman who comes out to draw water, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;
24:44	and she willsays say to me, “You drink, and I will draw for your camels also”; ”—let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’
24:45	“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
24:48	And I bowed low and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsmanbrother for his son.
24:49	So now if you are going to deal kindly and trulytruthfully with my master, tell me; and if not, lettell me knownow, so that I may turn to the right hand or the left.”
24:50	Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The matter comeshas come from the Lord; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.
24:53	TheAnd the servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
24:54	Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arosegot up in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.”
24:55	But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girlyoung woman stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”
24:56	HeHowever, he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”
24:57	And they said, “We will call the girlyoung woman and consultask her wishes.”
24:59	ThusSo they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.
24:60	TheyAnd they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, Become thousands of ten thousands, And may your descendants possess The gate of those who hate them.”
24:61	Then Rebekah arosegot up with her maidsfemale attendants, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
24:62	Now Isaac had come back from goinga journey to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the Negev.
24:63	Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he liftedraised up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming.
24:64	Rebekah liftedraised up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
24:67	Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thusso Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
25:2	She bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
25:3	Jokshan becamefathered the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
25:4	The sons of Midian were Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were the sons of Keturah.
25:7	These are all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, one175 hundred and seventy-five years.
25:8	Abraham breathed his last and died inat a ripegood old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
25:10	the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife Sarah.
25:12	Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidslave woman, bore to Abraham;
25:13	and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14	and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
25:15	Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
25:17	These are the years of the life of Ishmael, one137 hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
25:18	They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt asgoing one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.
25:19	Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham becamefathered the father of Isaac;
25:21	Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barrenunable to have children; and the Lord answered him, and Rebekah his wife Rebekah conceived.
25:22	But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I in this waycondition?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
25:23	TheAnd the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shallwill be stronger than the other; And the older shallwill serve the younger.”
25:24	When her days leading to bethe delivereddelivery were fulfilledat an end, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25:25	Now the first came forthout red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
25:26	Afterward his brother came forthout with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so hishe name was callednamed Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
25:27	When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field,; but Jacob was a peacefulcivilized man, living in tents.
25:28	Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game,; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29	When Jacob had cooked a stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was famishedexhausted;
25:30	and Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me have a swallowmouthful of that red stuff there, for I am famishedexhausted.” Therefore hishe name was called Edom by name.
25:32	Esau said, “BeholdLook, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?”
25:33	And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore an oath to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
25:34	Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rosegot up and went on his way. ThusSo Esau despised his birthright.
26:2	TheAnd the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.
26:3	SojournLive for a time in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
26:4	I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;,
26:5	because Abraham obeyed Me and keptfulfilled Myhis chargeduty to Me, and kept My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
26:7	When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, forsince she is beautiful.”
26:8	ItNow it came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked outdown through a window, and saw them, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.
26:9	Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she certainly she is your wife! HowSo thenhow didis it that you saysaid, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I saidthought, ‘otherwise I might diebe killed on account of her.’ ”
26:10	And Abimelech said, “What is this that you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lainslept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
26:11	So Abimelech chargedcommanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shallwill surelycertainly be put to death.”
26:12	Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfoldhundred times as much. And the Lord blessed him,
26:14	for he had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
26:15	Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earthdirt.
26:17	AndSo Isaac departed from there and camped in the valleyValley of Gerar, and settled there.
26:20	the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contendedargued with him.
26:22	HeThen he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, “At last the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
26:23	ThenAnd he went up from there to Beersheba.
26:24	TheAnd the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham; Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you, and multiply your descendants, For the sake of My servant Abraham.”
26:26	Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath, and Phicol the commander of his army.
26:28	They said, “We seehave seen plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘LetAn thereoath must now be antaken oathby betweenus,’ usthat is, evenby between you and us,. andSo let us make a covenant with you,
26:29	that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.’.” ”
26:31	In the morning they arosegot up early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away, and they departedleft from him in peace.
27:2	Then Isaac said, “Behold now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death.
27:4	and prepare a savorydelicious dishmeal for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
27:5	Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home,
27:7	‘Bring me some game and prepare a savorydelicious dishmeal for me, so that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’
27:8	NowSo thereforenow, my son, listen to me as I command you.
27:9	Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, so that I may prepare them as a savorydelicious dishmeal for your father, such as he loves.
27:11	But Jacob answeredsaid to his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
27:12	Perhaps my father will feeltouch me, then I will be aslike a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”
27:13	But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get themthe goats for me.”
27:14	So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savorya fooddelicious meal such as his father loved.
27:15	Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son Jacob.
27:17	She also gave the savorydelicious foodmeal and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.
27:19	Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. GetCome upnow, please, sit and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”
27:20	Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the Lord your God causedmade it tocome happen to me.”
27:21	Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come close, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
27:22	So Jacob came close to Isaac his father Isaac, and he felttouched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
27:23	HeAnd he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.
27:30	Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father Isaac, that Esau his brother Esau came in from his hunting.
27:31	Then he also made savorya fooddelicious meal, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”
27:32	IsaacHis his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”
27:33	Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who then was he thenwho that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate offrom all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”
27:34	When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me alsoas well, O my father!”
27:36	Then heEsau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplantedbetrayed me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
27:37	But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him all his relatives as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. NowWhat as for you then, what can I do for you, my son?”
27:38	Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me alsoas well, O my father.” So Esau liftedraised his voice and wept.
27:39	Then Isaac his father Isaac answered and said to him, “Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, And away from the dew of heaven from above.
27:40	ByAnd by your sword you shall live, And your brother you shall serve your brother; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will break his yoke from your neck.”
27:41	So Esau boreheld a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
27:42	Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.
27:43	Now thereforethen, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!
27:45	until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send word and get you from there. Why should I belose bereaved of you both in one day?”
27:46	And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
28:1	So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and chargedcommanded him, andsaying said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
28:2	Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
28:3	May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a companymultitude of peoples.
28:4	May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, so that you may possess the land ofwhere youryou sojourningslive as a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.”
28:6	Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he chargedcommanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”
28:11	HeAnd camehe tohappened upon a certainparticular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and putmade it undera support for his head, and lay down in that place.
28:12	HeAnd he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
28:13	AndThen behold, the Lord stoodwas standing above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.
28:14	Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
28:16	Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “SurelyThe the Lord is certainly in this place, and I did not know it.”!”
28:17	HeAnd he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”!”
28:18	So Jacob rosegot up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had putplaced underas a support for his head, and set it up as a pillarmemorial stone, and poured oil on its top.
28:19	HeThen calledhe thenamed name of that place Bethel; however,but previously the name of the city had been Luz.
28:20	Then Jacob also made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,
28:22	ThisAnd this stone, which I have set up as a pillarmemorial stone, will be God’s house, and of alleverything that You give me I will surelyassuredly give a tenth to You.”
29:1	Then Jacob wentset out on his journey, and camewent to the land of the sonspeople of the east.
29:2	He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, forbecause from that well they watered the flocks from that well. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.
29:3	When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep,. andThen they would put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.
29:5	HeSo he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” And they said, “We know him.”
29:6	And he said to them, “Is it well with him?” And they said, “It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter Rachel coming with the sheep.”
29:7	HeThen he said, “BeholdLook, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them.”
29:10	When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother Laban.
29:11	Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and liftedraised his voice and wept.
29:13	So when Laban heard the news ofabout Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Then he relatedtold to Laban all these things.
29:14	And Laban said to him, “SurelyYou youcertainly are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.
29:17	And Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful ofin formfigure and faceappearance.
29:20	So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him butlike only a few days because of his love for her.
29:21	Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may gohave inrelations towith her.”
29:22	So Laban gathered all the menpeople of the place and madeheld a feast.
29:23	Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah, and brought her to him; and Jacob wenthad inrelations towith her.
29:24	Laban also gave his maidfemale slave Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maidslave.
29:25	So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”
29:27	Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me, for another seven years.”
29:29	Laban also gave his maidfemale slave Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidslave.
29:30	So Jacob wenthad inrelations towith Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.
29:31	Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barrenunable to have children.
29:32	Leah conceived and boregave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”
29:33	Then she conceived again and boregave birth to a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.
29:34	SheAnd she conceived again and boregave birth to a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.
29:35	And she conceived again and boregave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearinghaving children.
30:1	Now when Rachel saw that she borehad not borne Jacob noany children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I am going to die.”
30:3	SheThen she said, “Here is my maidfemale slave Bilhah,: gohave inrelations towith her that she may beargive birth on my knees, so that throughby her I too may haveobtain childrena child.”
30:4	So she gave him her maidslave Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob wenthad inrelations towith her.
30:7	And Rachel’s maidslave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
30:8	So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlingswrestling I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.
30:9	When Leah saw that she had stopped bearinghaving children, she took her maidslave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
30:10	And Leah’s maidslave Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
30:12	And Leah’s maidslave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
30:14	Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakesmandrake fruits in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
30:15	But she said to her, “Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Therefore he may liesleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”
30:16	When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must comehave inrelations towith me, for I have surelyindeed hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he layslept with her that night.
30:17	God gavelistened heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
30:18	Then Leah said, “God has given me my wagesreward, because I gave my maidslave to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
30:19	And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
30:20	Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; nowfinally my husband will dwellacknowledge withme meas his wife, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.
30:21	Afterward she boregave birth to a daughter, and named her Dinah.
30:22	Then God remembered Rachel, and God gavelistened heed to her and opened her womb.
30:23	So she conceived and boregave birth to a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproachdisgrace.”
30:24	SheAnd she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me another son.”
30:25	Now it came about, when Rachel had bornegiven birth to Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and to my own country.
30:26	Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me departgo; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.”
30:27	But Laban said to him, “If now it pleases you at all, stay with me; I have divineddetermined by divination that the Lord has blessed me on your account.”
30:28	He continued, “Name me your wages, and I will give itthem.”
30:29	But heJacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your cattlelivestock have fared with me.
30:30	For you had little before I came, and it has increased to a multitude, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?”
30:32	let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled andor spotted sheep and every black onesheep among the lambs, and the spotted andor speckled among the goats; and suchthose shall be my wages.
30:33	So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled andor spotted among the goats, andor black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”
30:35	So he removed on that day the striped andor spotted male goats, and all the speckled andor spotted female goats, every one with white inon it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gaveput them intoin the care of his sons.
30:37	Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar, and almond, and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white whichthat was in the rods.
30:38	He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the guttersdrinking troughs, eventhat is, in the watering troughs,channels where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
30:39	So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks broughtdelivered forth striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.
30:40	Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
30:41	Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the guttersdrinking troughs, so that they mightwould mate by the rods;
30:42	but when the flock was feeblesickly, he did not put them in; so the feeblersickly were Laban’s, and the stronger were Jacob’s.
30:43	So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
31:2	And Jacob saw the attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerlyit had been before.
31:4	So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
31:5	and said to them, “I see your father’s attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as formerlyit was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
31:7	Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurtdo me harm.
31:8	If he spokesaid thus,this: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock broughtdelivered forth speckled; and if he spokesaid thus,this: ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock broughtdelivered forth striped.
31:9	ThusSo God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
31:10	And it came about at the time when the flock werewas matingbreeding that I liftedraised up my eyes and saw in a dream, —and behold, —the male goats whichthat were mating were striped, speckled, andor mottled.
31:11	Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’’; and I said, ‘Here I am.’
31:12	He said, ‘LiftNow upraise now your eyes and see that all the male goats whichthat are mating are striped, speckled, andor mottled; for I have seen alleverything that Laban has been doing to you.
31:13	I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillarmemorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
31:14	Rachel and Leah said to him, “Do we still have any portionshare or inheritance in our father’s house?
31:15	Are we not reckonedregarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.
31:16	Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has saidtold to you.”
31:17	Then Jacob arosestood up and put his children and his wives uponon camels;
31:18	and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had gatheredacquired, histhe acquired livestock he possessed which he had gatheredacquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
31:19	When Laban had gone to shear his flock, thenand Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.
31:21	So he fled with all that he had; and he arosegot up and crossed the Euphrates River, and set hisout facefor toward the hill country of Gilead.
31:22	When itLaban was toldinformed Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
31:23	then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
31:24	However, God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, “Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
31:25	And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.
31:27	Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbreltambourine and with lyre;
31:28	and did not allow me to kiss my sonsgrandchildren and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.
31:32	The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmenrelatives point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself.” ForNow Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
31:33	So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maidsslave women, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
31:34	Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlesaddlebag, and she sat on them. AndSo Laban feltsearched through all the tent, but did not find them.
31:35	SheAnd she said to her father, “LetMay not my lord not be angry that I cannot risestand beforein youyour presence, forbecause the mannerway of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household idols.
31:36	Then Jacob became angry and contendedargued with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgressionoffense? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?
31:37	Though you have feltsearched through all my goodsproperty, what have you found of all your household goodsproperty? Set it here beforein front of my kinsmenrelatives and your kinsmenrelatives, so that they may decide between usthe two of us.
31:38	TheseFor these twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
31:39	ThatI whichdid wasnot torneven ofbring beaststo Iyou didthat notwhich bringwas totorn youby wild animals; I boretook the loss of it myself. You requireddemanded it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
31:40	ThusThis is how I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
31:41	TheseFor these twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.
31:42	If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toillabor of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”
31:43	Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my childrengrandchildren, and the flocks are my flocks, and alleverything that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters of mine or to their children to whom they have bornegiven birth?
31:44	So now come, let’s us make a covenant, you and I, and let it shall be a witness between you and me.”
31:45	Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillarmemorial stone.
31:46	Jacob said to his kinsmenrelatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
31:49	and Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.
31:50	If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no manone is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”
31:51	Laban also said to Jacob, “Behold this heap and behold the pillarmemorial stone which I have set between you and me.
31:52	This heap is a witness, and the pillarmemorial stone is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillarmemorial stone to me, for harm.
31:54	Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmenrelatives to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
31:55	EarlyThen early in the morning Laban arosegot up, and kissed his sonsgrandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.
32:2	JacobAnd said when he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
32:3	Then Jacob sent messengers beforeahead himof himself to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
32:4	He also commanded them, saying, “ThusThis is what you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘ThusYour servant Jacob says yourthe servantfollowing: Jacob, “I have sojournedresided with Laban, and stayed until now;
32:5	and I have oxen, and donkeys, and flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent messengers to tell my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.” ’ ”
32:6	TheAnd the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
32:7	Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
32:9	Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prospermake you prosper,’
32:10	I am unworthy of all the lovingkindnessfavor and of all the faithfulness, which You have shown to Your servant; for with only my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.
32:11	DeliverSave me, I prayplease, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.
32:12	For You said, ‘I will surelyassuredly prospermake you prosper and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numberedcounted.’ ”
32:13	So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a presentgift for his brother Esau:
32:15	thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
32:16	HeThen deliveredhe placed them intoin the handcare of his servants, every droveflock by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on beforeahead of me, and put a space between drovesflocks.”
32:17	HeAnd he commanded the one in front, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’
32:18	then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a presentgift sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’ ”
32:19	Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the drovesflocks, saying, “AfterIn this mannerway you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
32:20	and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the presentgift that goes beforeahead of me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”
32:21	So the presentgift passed on beforeahead of him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.
32:22	Now he arosegot up that same night and took his two wives, and his two maidsfemale slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the fordshallow place of the Jabbok.
32:25	When hethe man saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of hisJacob’s thighhip; soand the socket of Jacob’s thighhip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
32:28	HeThen he said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have strivencontended with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
32:29	ThenAnd Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.
32:30	So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preservedspared.”
32:31	Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thighhip.
32:32	Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinewtendon of the hip which is on the socket of the thighhip, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thighhip in the sinewtendon of the hip.
33:1	Then Jacob liftedraised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel, and the two maidsslave women.
33:2	He put the maidsslave women and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
33:5	He liftedraised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
33:6	Then the maidsslave women came nearforward with their children, and they bowed down.
33:7	And Leah likewise came nearforward with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came nearforward with Rachel, and they bowed down.
33:10	Jacob said, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then takeaccept my presentgift from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
33:11	Please takeaccept my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty.” ThusSo he urged him, and he tookaccepted it.
33:12	Then Esau said, “Let’s usjourney takeon our journey and go, and I will go beforeahead of you.”
33:13	But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds whichthat are nursing are a carematter of concern to me. And if they are driven hard just one day, all the flocks will die.
33:14	Please let my lord pass on beforeahead of his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, accordingat to the pace of the cattle that are beforeahead of me and accordingat to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
33:15	Then Esau said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
33:17	But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.
33:19	He bought the pieceplot of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for onea hundred pieces of money.
34:2	When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her byand forceraped her.
34:3	HeBut he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.
34:4	So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this young girlwoman foras a wife.”
34:5	Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob keptsaid silentnothing until they came in.
34:7	Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard about it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lyingsleeping with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
34:9	IntermarryAnd intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.
34:10	ThusSo you shallwill live with us, and the land shall be open beforeto you; live and trade in it and acquire property in it.”
34:11	Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “IfLet Ime find favor in your sight, thenand I will give whatever you saytell to me.
34:12	AskDemand of me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give accordingwhatever as you saytell to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”
34:13	But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister Dinah.
34:14	They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, tothat is, give our sister to onea man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
34:15	Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you will be circumcised,
34:17	But if you willdo not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”
34:19	The young man did not delay to do the thingthis, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.
34:20	So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the menpeople of their city, saying,
34:21	“These men are friendly withto us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. LetWe uswill take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them.
34:22	Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
34:23	Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals not be ours? OnlyLet’s letjust us consent to them, and they will live with us.”
34:25	Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, —Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, —each took his sword and came upon the city unawaresundetected, and killed every male.
34:26	They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went forthleft.
34:27	Jacob’s sons came upon thethose slainkilled and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.
34:28	They took their flocks, and their herds, and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;
34:29	and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even alleverything that was in the houses.
34:30	Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odiousrepulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since my men beingare few in number, they will gatherband together against me and attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”!”
34:31	But they said, “Should he treat our sister aslike a harlotprostitute?”
35:2	So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “PutRemove away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;
35:3	and let’s us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me inon the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
35:4	So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
35:7	HeThen he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.
35:8	Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.
35:10	God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name.” ThusSo He called him Israel.
35:11	God also said to him, “I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a companymultitude of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.
35:12	TheAnd the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
35:13	Then God went up from him inat the place where He had spoken with him.
35:14	So Jacob set up a pillarmemorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillarmemorial of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
35:15	SoAnd Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
35:16	Then they journeyed on from Bethel; andbut when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.
35:17	WhenAnd when she was insuffering severe difficulties in her labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”!”
35:18	ItAnd it came about, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
35:20	And Jacob set up a pillarmemorial stone over her grave; that is the pillarmemorial stone of Rachel’s grave to this day.
35:22	ItAnd it came about, while Israel was dwellingliving in that land, that Reuben went and layslept with Bilhah his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard ofabout it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob—
35:23	the sons of Leah: were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
35:24	the sons of Rachel: were Joseph and Benjamin;
35:25	and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid:female slave, were Dan and Naphtali;
35:26	and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid:female slave, were Gad and Asher. These arewere the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
35:27	Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojournedresided.
35:28	Now the days of Isaac were one180 hundred and eighty years.
35:29	Then Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
36:2	Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, and the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
36:4	Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath boregave birth to Reuel,
36:5	and Oholibamah boregave birth to Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
36:6	Then Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all his household, and his livestock and all his cattle, and all his goodsproperty which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.
36:7	For their propertypossessions had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojournedresided could not sustainsupport them because of their livestock.
36:10	These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel the son of Esau’s wife Basemath.
36:11	The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:12	Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.
36:13	TheseAnd these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
36:14	TheseAnd these were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, and the granddaughter of Zibeon: she bore to Esau, Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
36:16	chief Korah, chief Gatam, and chief Amalek. These are the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
36:17	TheseAnd these are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, and chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
36:18	TheseAnd these are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, and chief Korah. These are the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
36:20	These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
36:21	and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs descended from the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
36:22	TheAnd the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.
36:23	TheseAnd these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
36:24	TheseAnd these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
36:25	TheseAnd these are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
36:26	TheseAnd these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
36:27	These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
36:30	chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan. These are the chiefs descended from the Horites, according to their various chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:43	chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of the Edomites), according to their habitationssettlements in the land of their possession.
37:1	Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojournedlived as a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
37:2	These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
37:3	Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicoloredmulticolored tunic.
37:4	HisAnd his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.
37:7	for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lobehold, my sheaf rosestood up and also stoodremained erectstanding; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
37:9	NowThen he had stillyet another dream, and relatedinformed ithis tobrothers hisof brothersit, and said, “LoBehold, I have had stillyet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
37:10	He relatedalso told it to his father andas well as to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have had? ShallAm I and your mother and your brothers actually going to come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground before you?”
37:11	HisAnd his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the sayingmatter in mind.
37:13	And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers not pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “I will go.”
37:14	Then he said to him, “Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valleyValley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
37:17	Then the man said, “They have moved from here; for I heard them say, ‘Let’s us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
37:18	When they saw him from a distance, and before he came closecloser to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.
37:20	Now then, come and let’s us kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, ‘A wildvicious beastanimal devoured him.’ Then letwe uswill see what will become of his dreams!”
37:21	But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands andby saidsaying, “Let’s us not take his life.”
37:22	Then Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay handsa hand on him”—so that later he might rescue him out of their hands, to restorereturn him to his father.
37:23	So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the varicoloredmulticolored tunic that was on him;
37:25	Then they sat down to eat a meal. AndBut as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearingcarrying aromaticlabdanum gumresin, andbalsam, balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.
37:26	And Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?
37:27	Come, and let’s us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.
37:28	Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him upout and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. ThusSo they brought Joseph into Egypt.
37:31	So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;
37:32	and they sent the varicoloredmulticolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
37:33	Then he examined it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wildvicious beastanimal has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
37:34	So Jacob tore his clothes, and put on a sackcloth onundergarment over his loinswaist, and mourned for his son many days.
37:35	Then all his sons and all his daughters arosegot up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
38:2	Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her as a wife and wenthad inrelations towith her.
38:3	SoAnd she conceived and boregave birth to a son, and he named him Er.
38:4	Then she conceived again and boregave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.
38:5	She boregave stillbirth to yet another son and named him Shelah; and it was at Chezib that she boregave birth to him.
38:8	Then Judah said to Onan, “GoHave inrelations towith your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspringa child for your brother.”
38:9	Now Onan knew that the offspringchild would not be his; so when he wenthad inrelations towith his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground inso orderthat he would not to give offspringa child to his brother.
38:13	ItAnd Tamar was told to Tamar, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
38:15	When Judah saw her, he thoughtassumed she was a harlotprostitute, for she had covered her face.
38:16	So he turned aside to her by the road, and said, “Here now, let me comehave inrelations towith you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me, that you may comehave inrelations towith me?”
38:17	He said, therefore, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She then said, moreover, “Will you give a pledge until you send it?”
38:18	He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” And she said, “Your seal and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and wenthad inrelations towith her, and she conceived by him.
38:19	Then she arosegot up and departed, and removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments.
38:21	He asked the menpeople of her place, saying, “Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no temple prostitute here.”
38:22	So he returned to Judah, and said, “I did not find her; and furthermore, the menpeople of the place said, ‘There has been no temple prostitute here.’ ”
38:24	Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has playedprostituted the harlotherself, and behold, she is also withpregnant child by harlotryprostitution.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and lethave her be burned!”
38:25	It was while she was being brought out that she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, “I am withpregnant child by the man to whom these things belong.” AndShe shealso said, “Please examine and see, whose signet ring and cords and staff are these?”
38:26	And Judah recognized them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, inasmuchsince as I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
38:28	Moreover, it took place while she was giving birth, that one baby put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”
38:29	But it came about as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out. Then she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” So he was named Perez.
39:2	TheAnd the Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.
39:3	Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and howthat the Lord causedmade all that he did to prosper in his hand.
39:4	So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and allput thathim hein ownedcharge heof putall inthat hishe chargeowned.
39:5	It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house on account of Joseph; thusso the Lord’s blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.
39:6	So he left Joseph in charge of everything that he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
39:7	ItAnd it came about after these events that his master’s wife lookedhad withher desireeyes aton Joseph, and she said, “LieSleep with me.”
39:8	But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “BeholdLook, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put me in charge of all that he owns in my charge.
39:9	There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil, and sin against God?”
39:10	AsThough she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.
39:11	Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the menpeople of the household was there inside.
39:12	SheSo caughtshe grabbed him by his garment, saying, “LieSleep with me!” AndBut he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside.
39:14	she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make sportfun of us; he came in to me to liesleep with me, and I screamed.
39:17	Then she spoke to him with these words,: “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sportfun of me;
39:18	andbut aswhen I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”
39:19	Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” his anger burned.
39:20	So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jailprison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jailprison.
39:21	But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the chiefwarden jailerof the prison.
39:22	TheAnd chiefthe jailerwarden committedof tothe prison put Joseph’s in charge of all the prisoners who were in the jailprison; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.
39:23	The chiefwarden jailerof the prison did not supervise anything under Joseph’s chargeauthority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made towhatever he did prosper.
40:1	Then it came about after these things, that the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
40:2	And Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
40:3	So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jailprison, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
40:4	TheAnd the captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time.
40:5	Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jailthe prison, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.
40:6	When Joseph came to them in the morning and observedsaw them, behold, they were dejected.
40:7	HeSo he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”
40:8	ThenAnd they said to him, “We have had a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do interpretations not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”
40:9	So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, andsaying said to him, “In my dream, behold, there was a vine in front of me;
40:13	within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand accordingas toin your former custompractice when you were his cupbearer.
40:14	Only keep me in mind when it goes well withfor you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this houseprison.
40:17	and in the top basket there were some of all sortskinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
40:19	within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a treewooden post, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”
40:20	ThusSo it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he madeheld a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
41:2	And lobehold, from the Nile thereseven cows came up seven cows, sleekfine-looking and fat; and they grazed in the marsh grass.
41:3	Then behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly and gauntthin, and they stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
41:4	TheThen the ugly and gauntthin cows ate up the seven sleekfine-looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.
41:5	HeBut he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.
41:7	TheAnd the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
41:8	Now in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent messengers and called for all the magicianssoothsayer priests of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them tofor Pharaoh.
41:11	WeThen we had a dream onone the same night, he and I; each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.
41:12	Now a Hebrew youth was there with us there, a servant of the captain of the bodyguard, and we relatedtold themhim tothe himdreams, and he interpreted our dreams for us. ToFor each oneman he interpreted according to his own dream.
41:13	And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened; hePharaoh restored me in my office, but he hanged himthe chief baker.”
41:14	Then Pharaoh sent word and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.
41:16	Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It ishas notnothing into do with me; God will give Pharaoh aan favorableanswer answerfor his own good.”
41:17	So Pharaoh spokesaid to Joseph, “In my dream, behold,there I was, standing on the bank of the Nile;
41:18	and behold, seven cows, fat and sleekfine-looking came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the marsh grass.
41:19	LoThen behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gauntthin, such as I had never seen for ugliness in all the land of Egypt;
41:20	and the leanthin and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
41:22	I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears of grain, full and good, came up on a single stalk;
41:23	and lobehold, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;
41:24	and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. Then I told it to the magicianssoothsayer priests, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
41:25	NowAnd Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same; God has told to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
41:27	The seven leanthin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.
41:28	It is as I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
41:32	Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determinedconfirmed by God, and God will quickly bring it about.
41:33	NowSo now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and setappoint him over the land of Egypt.
41:34	Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exacttake a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt as a tax in the seven years of abundance.
41:35	Then lethave them gathercollect all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and lethave them guard it.
41:36	Let the food becomebe used as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”
41:38	Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom there is a divine spirit?”
41:39	So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one soas discerning and wise as you are.
41:40	You shall be overin charge of my house, and according to your command all my people shall dobe homageobedient to you; only inregarding the throne will I will be greater than you.”
41:41	Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “See, I have setplaced you over all the land of Egypt.”
41:42	Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen, and put the gold necklace around his neck.
41:43	HeAnd he had him ride in his second chariot; and they proclaimed beforeahead of him, “Bow the knee!” And he setplaced him over all the land of Egypt.
41:45	Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, asto be his wife. And Joseph went forthout over the land of Egypt.
41:46	Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood beforein the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
41:47	During the seven years of plenty the land broughtproduced forth abundantly.
41:48	So he gatheredcollected all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placedput the food in the cities; he placedput in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.
41:49	Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
41:50	Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
41:51	Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh,; “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s household.”
41:52	HeAnd he named the second Ephraim,; “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
41:53	When the seven years of plenty which had beentaken place in the land of Egypt came to an end,
41:54	and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands,; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55	So when all the land of Egypt wassuffered famishedfamine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.”
41:56	When the famine was spread over all the entire face of the earth, then Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
41:57	TheThen the people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
42:2	HeThen he said, “BeholdLook, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die.”
42:3	ThenSo ten brothers of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
42:4	But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm may befallhappen to him.”
42:5	So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who were coming, forbecause the famine was also in the land of Canaan also.
42:6	Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
42:7	When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke to them harshly. AndHe he said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
42:9	And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to look at the undefended parts of our land.”
42:10	ThenAnd they said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
42:14	Yet Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies;
42:15	by this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not goleave from this place unless your youngest brother comes here!
42:16	Send one of you thatand hehave mayhim get your brother, while you remain confined, so that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are certainly spies.”!”
42:20	and bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.
42:21	Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; thereforefor that reason this distress has comehappened uponto us.”
42:22	Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comesjustice the reckoning for his blood is required.”
42:24	HeThen he turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
42:25	Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, andbut also to restorereturn every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And thusthat itis what was done for them.
42:27	AsBut when one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodderfeed at the lodgingovernight placecampsite, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the mouthopening of his sack.!
42:28	ThenSo he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned, and beholdlook, it is evenright in my sack.”!” AndThen their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”
42:29	When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him alleverything that had happened to them, saying,
42:33	TheBut the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.
42:34	But bring your youngest brother to me so that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’ ”
42:35	Now it came about, as they were emptying their sacks, that behold, every man’s bundlebag of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundlesbags of money, they were dismayedafraid.
42:36	TheirAnd their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaveddeprived me of my childrensons: Joseph is no moregone, and Simeon is no moregone, and now you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”
42:38	But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befallhappen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
43:2	So it came about, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”
43:3	Judah spoke to him, however, saying, “The man solemnlysternly warned us, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’
43:6	Then Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, by telling the man whether you still had another brother?”
43:7	But they said, “The man questionedspecifically particularlyasked about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ So we answered his questions. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
43:8	So Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the ladboy with me and we will arise and go, so that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.
43:9	I myself will betake suretyresponsibility for him;! youYou may holddemand mehim responsibleback forfrom himme. If I do not bring him back to you and setpresent him beforeto you, then you can let me beartake the blame before you forever.
43:11	Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a presentgift, a little balmbalsam and a little honey, aromaticlabdanum gumresin and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
43:12	TakeAnd take double the money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouthopening of your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake.
43:14	and may God Almighty grant you compassion in the sight of the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my childrensons, I am bereaved.”!”
43:15	So the men took this presentgift, and they took double the money in their hand, and Benjamin; then they aroseset out and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
43:16	When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his house steward, “Bring the men into the house, and slayslaughter an animal and make readypreparations; for the men are to dine with me at noon.”
43:18	Now the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time that we are being brought in, so that he may seekattack occasion against us and falloverpower upon us, and take us foras slaves with our donkeys.”
43:19	So they cameapproached near to Joseph’s house steward, and spoke to him at the entrance of the house,
43:21	and it camehappened about when we came to the lodging placecampsite, that we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouthopening of his sack, our money in full. So we have brought it back in our hand.
43:23	HeBut he said, “BePeace atbe easeto you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks; Iyour hadmoney yourwas moneyin my possession.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
43:24	Then the man brought the men into Joseph’s house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys fodderfeed.
43:25	So they prepared the presentgift for Joseph’s comingarrival at noon; for they had heard that they were to eat a meal there.
43:26	When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the presentgift which was in their hand, and they bowed down to the ground before him.
43:28	TheyAnd they said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” TheyThen they bowed down again in homage.
43:29	AsAnd as he liftedraised his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” AndThen he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
43:30	Joseph then hurried out, for he was deeply stirred over his brother, and he soughtlooked for a place to weep; andso he entered his chamber and wept there.
43:32	SoThen they served him by himself, and themJoseph’s brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves,; because the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is loathsomean abomination to the Egyptians.
43:33	Now they were seated before him, from the firstborn according to his birthright andto the youngest according to his youth, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.
43:34	HeThen he took portions to them from his own table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
44:1	Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouthopening of his sack.
44:2	PutAnd put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouthopening of the sack of the youngest, and his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph had told him.
44:4	They had just goneleft out of the city, and were not far offaway, when Joseph said to his house steward, “Up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?
44:5	Is not this thenot onethat from which my lord drinks, and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’!’ ”
44:7	TheyAnd they said to him, “Why does my lord speaksay such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.!
44:8	Behold, the money which we found in the mouthopening of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?
44:9	With whomever of your servants it is found, lethe himshall die, and we also willshall be my lord’s slaves.”
44:10	So he said, “Now let it alsoindeed be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, andbut the rest of you shall be considered innocent.”
44:12	HeAnd he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest,; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
44:13	Then they tore their clothes in grief, and when each man had loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.
44:14	When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell down to the ground before him.
44:15	Joseph said to them, “What is this deedthing that you have done? Do you not know that such a man aswho Iis like me can indeed practice divination?”
44:16	So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What words can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquityguilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found.”
44:18	Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.
44:20	WeAnd we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little childboy ofborn hisin our father’s old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
44:21	Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.’
44:22	But we said to my lord, ‘The ladboy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
44:24	ThusSo it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
44:25	OurAnd our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’
44:27	YourThen your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;
44:28	and the one wentleft out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn into pieces,” and I have not seen him since.
44:29	If you also take this one also from me, and harm befallshappens to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
44:30	Now,So thereforenow, when I come to your servant, my father, and the ladboy is not with us, —since hisour father’s life is boundso upattached into the ladboy’s life,—
44:31	when he sees that the ladboy is not with us, he will die. ThusSo your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant, our father, down to Sheol in sorrow.
44:32	For your servant becameaccepted suretyresponsibility for the ladboy tofrom my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then my father can let me beartake the blame before my father forever.’
44:33	Now,So thereforenow, please let your servant remain insteadas of the lad a slave to my lord instead of the boy, and let the ladboy go up with his brothers.
44:34	For how shall I go up to my father if the ladboy is not with me—for? I fear that I may see the evil that would overtake my father?”.”
45:1	Then Joseph could not control himself beforein allfront thoseof whoeveryone stoodstanding bybefore him, and he criedshouted, “Have everyone goleave out from me.”!” So there was no manone with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
45:2	HeThen he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard ofabout it.
45:3	ThenAnd Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayedterrified atin his presence.
45:4	Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come closer to me.” And they came closer. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold intoto Egypt.
45:5	Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me beforeahead of you to preservesave lifelives.
45:7	So God sent me beforeahead of you to preserveensure for you a remnant inon the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
45:8	Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
45:9	Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘ThusThis saysis what your son Joseph, says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.
45:10	YouFor you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’sgrandchildren, children and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.
45:15	HeAnd he kissed all his brothers and wept on them, and afterward his brothers talked with him.
45:17	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beastslivestock and go to the land of Canaan,
45:18	and take your father and your households and come to me,; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
45:20	DoAnd do not concern yourselves with your goodsproperty, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’ ”
45:23	ToAnd to his father he sent asthe followsfollowing: ten male donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread, and sustenance for his father on the journey.
45:25	Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.
45:26	TheyAnd they told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and indeed he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” But he was stunned, for he did not believe them.
45:27	When they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
46:2	And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”
46:3	Then He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
46:4	I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surelyassuredly bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”
46:5	Then Jacob aroseleft from Beersheba;, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6	They also took their livestock and their propertypossessions, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him:
46:8	Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
46:9	TheAnd the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10	TheAnd the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
46:11	TheAnd the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
46:12	TheAnd the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13	TheAnd the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
46:14	TheAnd the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
46:16	TheAnd the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
46:17	TheAnd the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
46:21	TheAnd the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
46:23	TheAnd the sons of Dan: Hushim.
46:24	TheAnd the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
46:26	All the personspeople belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,
46:27	and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the personspeople of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
46:28	Now heJacob sent Judah beforeahead of him to Joseph, to pointguide out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
46:29	And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared beforeto him, heJoseph fellthrew himself on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.
46:31	But Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;
46:33	When Pharaoh calls for you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’
46:34	you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock fromsince our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsomean abomination to the Egyptians.”
47:2	HeAnd he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
47:4	They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojournreside in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
47:8	And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”
47:9	So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourningliving abroad are one hundred and thirty130; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourningliving abroad.”
47:10	AndSo Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his presence.
47:11	SoNow Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them aproperty possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
47:12	Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their little ones.
47:14	And Joseph gatheredcollected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in payment for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
47:15	When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and saidsaying, “Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”
47:18	WhenBut when that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the cattlelivestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
47:19	Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
47:20	So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. ThusSo the land became Pharaoh’s.
47:21	As for the people, he removedrelocated them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s border to the other.
47:22	Only the land of the priests he did not buy, forbecause the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they lived off the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.
47:23	Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, today I have todaypurchased bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.
47:24	At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food, and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
47:26	Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, valid to this day, that Pharaoh shouldwas to have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
47:28	And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was one147 hundred and forty-seven years.
47:29	When the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh now and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness.: Pleaseplease do not bury me in Egypt,
47:31	HeAnd he said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.
48:4	and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a companymultitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you foras an everlasting possession.’
48:6	But your offspringchildren that you have beenfathered born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.
48:7	Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath;. and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
48:9	And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” So he said, “Bring them to me, please, so that I may bless them.”
48:10	Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see. ThenAnd Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
48:11	And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your children as well.”!”
48:13	And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.
48:14	But Israel stretchedreached out his right hand and laidplaced it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
48:15	HeAnd he blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
48:16	The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the ladsboys; And may my name live on in them, And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
48:17	When Joseph saw that his father laidplaced his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to removemove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
48:18	And Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.”
48:20	HeSo he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’ ” ThusAnd so he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:22	And I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
49:1	Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves, so that I may tell you what will befallhappen to you in the days to come.
49:2	Gather together and hearlisten, O sons of Jacob; AndYes, listen to Israel your father.
49:3	“Reuben, you are my firstborn;, My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
49:4	Uncontrolled Uncontrollable as water, you shall not have preeminence, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.
49:6	LetMay my soul not enter into their council; LetMay not my glory not be united with their assembly; BecauseFor in their anger they slewkilled men, And in their self-will they lamed oxen.
49:7	Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel. I will dispersescatter them in Jacob, And scatterdisperse them inamong Israel.
49:8	“As for you, Judah, your brothers shall praise you; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
49:9	Judah is a lion’s whelpcub; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couchescrouches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouseto stir him up?
49:10	The scepter shallwill not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
49:13	“Zebulun will dwellreside at the seashore; And he shall be a havenharbor for ships, And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
49:15	When he saw that a resting place was good And that the land was pleasant, He bowed his shoulder to bearcarry burdens, And became a slave at forced labor.
49:17	Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snakeviper in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, So that hisits rider falls backward.
49:18	For Your salvation I wait, O Lord.
49:19	“As for Gad, a band of raiders shall raidattack him, But he will raidattack at their heels.
49:20	“As for Asher, his food shall be rich, And he will yield royal daintiesdelicacies.
49:21	“Naphtali is a doe let loose,; He givesutters beautiful words.
49:22	“Joseph is a fruitful boughbranch, A fruitful boughbranch by a spring; Its branches runhang over a wall.
49:23	The archers bitterlyprovoked attacked him, And shot at him and harassedwere hostile toward him;
49:26	The blessings of your father Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors Up to the utmostfurthest boundboundary of the everlasting hills; May they be on the head of Joseph, And on the crowntop of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
49:27	“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he devours the prey, And in the evening he divides the spoilspoils.”
49:29	Then he chargedcommanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
49:30	in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is beforeopposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite foras a burial site.
49:33	When Jacob finished chargingcommanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
50:5	‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now thereforethen, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”
50:9	ThereChariots with teams of horses also went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.
50:10	When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamentedmourned there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
50:12	ThusAnd so his sons did for him as he had chargedcommanded them;
50:13	for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah beforeopposite Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field foras a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
50:14	AfterAnd after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
50:15	When Joseph’s brothers sawhad seen that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bearsholds a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”
50:16	So they sent ainstructions message to Joseph, saying, “Your father chargedcommanded us before he died, saying,
50:17	‘ThusThis is what you shall say to Joseph,: “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgressionoffense of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.” ’ And now, please forgive the transgressionoffense of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
50:20	As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preservekeep many people alive.
50:22	Now Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one110 hundred and ten years.
50:24	Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surelyassuredly take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
50:25	Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surelyassuredly take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”
50:26	So Joseph died at the age of one110 hundred and ten years; and hethey was embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.