1:1 |
At the first God
made the heaven and the earth. |
1:2 |
And
the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the
deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. |
1:3 |
And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light. |
1:4 |
And
God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division
between the light and the dark, |
1:5 |
Naming
the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was
morning, the first day. |
1:6 |
And
God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the
waters from the waters. |
1:7 |
And
God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch
and those which were over it: and it was so. |
1:8 |
And
God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was
morning, the second day. |
1:9 |
And
God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let
the dry land be seen: and it was so. |
1:10 |
And
God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their
place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good. |
1:11 |
And
God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and
fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it
was so. |
1:12 |
And
grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and
every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw
that it was good. |
1:13 |
And
there was evening and there was morning, the third day. |
1:14 |
And
God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between
the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes
of the year, and for days and for years: |
1:15 |
And
let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and
it was so. |
1:16 |
And
God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day,
and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the
stars. |
1:17 |
And
God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth; |
1:18 |
To
have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light
and the dark: and God saw that it was good. |
1:19 |
And
there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. |
1:20 |
And
God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight
over the earth under the arch of heaven. |
1:21 |
And
God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with
which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that
it was good. |
1:22 |
And
God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all
the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the
earth. |
1:23 |
And
there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. |
1:24 |
And
God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and
all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and
it was so. |
1:25 |
And
God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their
sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God
saw that it was good. |
1:26 |
And
God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and
over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth. |
1:27 |
And
God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female
he made them. |
1:28 |
And
God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase,
and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the
sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the
earth. |
1:29 |
And
God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of
all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be
for your food: |
1:30 |
And
to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living
thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for
food: and it was so. |
1:31 |
And
God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was
evening and there was morning, the sixth day. |
2:1 |
And
the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete. |
2:2 |
And
on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh
day he took his rest from all the work which he had done. |
2:3 |
And
God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that
day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done. |
2:4 |
These
are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made. |
2:5 |
In
the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the
field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent
rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land. |
2:6 |
But
a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land. |
2:7 |
And
the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the
breath of life: and man became a living soul. |
2:8 |
And
the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had made. |
2:9 |
And
out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and
good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil. |
2:10 |
And
a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was
parted and became four streams. |
2:11 |
The
name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah
where there is gold. |
2:12 |
And
the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. |
2:13 |
And
the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of
Cush. |
2:14 |
And
the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And
the fourth river is Euphrates. |
2:15 |
And
the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it
and take care of it. |
2:16 |
And
the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of
every tree of the garden: |
2:17 |
But
of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take;
for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you. |
2:18 |
And
the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make
one like himself as a help to him |
2:19 |
And
from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of
the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and
whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name. |
2:20 |
And
the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every
beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help. |
2:21 |
And
the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his
side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: |
2:22 |
And
the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and
took her to the man. |
2:23 |
And
the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name
be Woman because she was taken out of Man. |
2:24 |
For
this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to
his wife; and they will be one flesh. |
2:25 |
And
the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of
shame. |
3:1 |
Now
the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the
fruit of any tree in the garden? |
3:2 |
And
the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden: |
3:3 |
But
of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you
take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you. |
3:4 |
And the
snake said, Death will not certainly come to you: |
3:5 |
For
God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open,
and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil. |
3:6 |
And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the
eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it
to her husband. |
3:7 |
And
their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and
they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together. |
3:8 |
And
there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees
of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God. |
3:9 |
And
the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you? |
3:10 |
And
he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was
without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes. |
3:11 |
And
he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you
taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take? |
3:12 |
And
the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of
the tree and I took it. |
3:13 |
And
the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was
tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it. |
3:14 |
And
the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed
more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the
earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life: |
3:15 |
And
there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her
seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be
wounded. |
3:16 |
To
the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your
children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he
will be your master. |
3:17 |
And
to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of
the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed
on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. |
3:18 |
Thorns
and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your
food; |
3:19 |
With
the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the
earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go
back. |
3:20 |
And
the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who
have life. |
3:21 |
And
the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their
clothing. |
3:22 |
And
the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of
good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the
tree of life, he will go on living for ever. |
3:23 |
So
the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth
from which he was taken. |
3:24 |
So
he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones
and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of
life. |
4:1 |
And
the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave
birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord. |
4:2 |
Then
again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was
a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer. |
4:3 |
And
after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the
earth. |
4:4 |
And
Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And
the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering; |
4:5 |
But
in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face
became sad. |
4:6 |
And
the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad? |
4:7 |
If
you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at
the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master. |
4:8 |
And
Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the
field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. |
4:9 |
And
the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no
idea: am I my brother's keeper? |
4:10 |
And
he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to
me from the earth. |
4:11 |
And
now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's
blood from your hand; |
4:12 |
No
longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will
be a wanderer in flight over the earth. |
4:13 |
And Cain
said, My punishment is greater than my strength. |
4:14 |
You
have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your
face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will
put me to death. |
4:15 |
And
the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for
his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to
death. |
4:16 |
And
Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in
the land of Nod on the east of Eden. |
4:17 |
And
Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to
Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his
son. |
4:18 |
And
Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael
became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of
Lamech. |
4:19 |
And
Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other
Zillah. |
4:20 |
And
Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents
and keep cattle. |
4:21 |
And
his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments
of music. |
4:22 |
And
Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting
instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. |
4:23 |
And
Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of
Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a
wound, and a young man for a blow; |
4:24 |
If
seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven
will be taken for Lamech's. |
4:25 |
And
Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom
she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in
place of Abel, whom Cain put to death. |
4:26 |
And
Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first
made use of the name of the Lord in worship. |
5:1 |
This
is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made
him in the image of God; |
5:2 |
Male
and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the
day when they were made. |
5:3 |
Adam
had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like
himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth: |
5:4 |
And
after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had
sons and daughters: |
5:5 |
And
all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his
end. |
5:6 |
And
Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of
Enosh: |
5:7 |
And
he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years,
and had sons and daughters: |
5:8 |
And
all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his
end. |
5:9 |
And
Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan: |
5:10 |
And
after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen
years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:11 |
And
all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his
end. |
5:12 |
And
Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel: |
5:13 |
And
after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and
forty years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:14 |
And
all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his
end. |
5:15 |
And
Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared: |
5:16 |
And
after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and
thirty years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:17 |
And
all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he
came to his end. |
5:18 |
And
Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of
Enoch: |
5:19 |
And
Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and
had sons and daughters: |
5:20 |
And
all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to
his end. |
5:21 |
And
Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah: |
5:22 |
And
after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred
years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:23 |
And
all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five: |
5:24 |
And
Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took
him. |
5:25 |
And
Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father
of Lamech: |
5:26 |
And
after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and
eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:27 |
And
all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he
came to his end. |
5:28 |
And
Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son: |
5:29 |
And
he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our
trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed
by God. |
5:30 |
And
after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and
ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters: |
5:31 |
And
all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he
came to his end. |
5:32 |
And
when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. |
6:1 |
And
after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters, |
6:2 |
The
sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for
themselves from those who were pleasing to them. |
6:3 |
And
the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh;
so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. |
6:4 |
There
were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after
that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they
gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of
great name. |
6:5 |
And
the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the
thoughts of his heart were evil. |
6:6 |
And
the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in
his heart. |
6:7 |
And
the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the
earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of
the air; for I have sorrow for having made them. |
6:8 |
But Noah
had grace in the eyes of God. |
6:9 |
These
are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his
generation: he went in the ways of God. |
6:10 |
And
Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. |
6:11 |
And
the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways. |
6:12 |
And
God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had
become evil on the earth. |
6:13 |
And
God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their
violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth. |
6:14 |
Make
for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from
the water inside and out. |
6:15 |
And
this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long,
fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. |
6:16 |
You
are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side
of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors. |
6:17 |
For
truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction
from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything
on the earth will come to an end. |
6:18 |
But
with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and
your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. |
6:19 |
And
you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and
keep them safe with you; they will be male and female. |
6:20 |
Two
of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes
on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction. |
6:21 |
And
make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them. |
6:22 |
And all these
things Noah did; as God said, so he did. |
7:1 |
And
the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only
in this generation have I seen to be upright. |
7:2 |
Of
every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the
beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female; |
7:3 |
And
of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed
may still be living on the face of the earth. |
7:4 |
For
after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty
nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the
face of the earth. |
7:5 |
And Noah
did everything which the Lord said he was to do. |
7:6 |
And
Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the
earth. |
7:7 |
And
Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark
because of the flowing of the waters. |
7:8 |
Of
clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of
everything which goes on the earth, |
7:9 |
In
twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had
said. |
7:10 |
And
after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. |
7:11 |
In
the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came
bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; |
7:12 |
And
rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. |
7:13 |
On
the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and
his sons' wives, went into the ark; |
7:14 |
And
with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes
on the earth, and every sort of bird. |
7:15 |
They
went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath
of life. |
7:16 |
Male
and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the
Lord. |
7:17 |
And
for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were
increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth. |
7:18 |
And
the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and
the ark was resting on the face of the waters. |
7:19 |
And
the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under
heaven were covered. |
7:20 |
The
waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered. |
7:21 |
And
destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle
and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. |
7:22 |
Everything
on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. |
7:23 |
Every
living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving
on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only
Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death. |
7:24 |
And the
waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days. |
8:1 |
And
God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were
with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went
down. |
8:2 |
And
the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain
from heaven was stopped. |
8:3 |
And
the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and
fifty days the waters were lower. |
8:4 |
And
on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the
mountains of Ararat. |
8:5 |
And
still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month
the tops of the mountains were seen. |
8:6 |
Then,
after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made, |
8:7 |
Noah
sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from
the earth. |
8:8 |
And
he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the
earth; |
8:9 |
But
the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the
waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her
into the ark. |
8:10 |
And
after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again; |
8:11 |
And
the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off:
so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth. |
8:12 |
And
after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back
to him. |
8:13 |
And
in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the
waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw
that the face of the earth was dry. |
8:14 |
And
on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. |
8:15 |
And God said to Noah, |
8:16 |
Go
out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. |
8:17 |
Take
out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and
everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be
fertile and be increased on the earth. |
8:18 |
And
Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives; |
8:19 |
And
every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the
earth, went out of the ark. |
8:20 |
And
Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made
burned offerings on the altar. |
8:21 |
And
when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not
again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's
heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on
all living things as I have done. |
8:22 |
While
the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end. |
9:1 |
And
God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have
increase, and make the earth full. |
9:2 |
And
the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of
the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea,
are given into your hands. |
9:3 |
Every
living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as
before I gave you all green things. |
9:4 |
But
flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food. |
9:5 |
And
for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I
will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his
brother-man. |
9:6 |
Whoever
takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in
his image. |
9:7 |
And
now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become
great in number. |
9:8 |
And God
said to Noah and to his sons, |
9:9 |
Truly,
I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you, |
9:10 |
And
with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the
earth which comes out of the ark with you. |
9:11 |
And
I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by
the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its
destruction. |
9:12 |
And
God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you
and every living thing with you, for all future generations: |
9:13 |
I
will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement
between me and the earth. |
9:14 |
And
whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the
cloud, |
9:15 |
And
I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing;
and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to
all flesh. |
9:16 |
And
the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the
eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth. |
9:17 |
And
God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between
me and all flesh on the earth. |
9:18 |
And
the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham
is the father of Canaan. |
9:19 |
These
three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled. |
9:20 |
In
those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. |
9:21 |
And
he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in
his tent. |
9:22 |
And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to
his two brothers outside. |
9:23 |
And
Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with
their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not
see him unclothed. |
9:24 |
And,
awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he
said, |
9:25 |
Cursed
be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers. |
9:26 |
And
he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant. |
9:27 |
May
God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and
let Canaan be his servant. |
9:28 |
And
Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of
waters; |
9:29 |
all
the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his
end. |
10:1 |
Now
these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these
are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters |
10:2 |
The
sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech
and Tiras. |
10:3 |
And the
sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. |
10:4 |
And
the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim. |
10:5 |
From
these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and
languages. |
10:6 |
And the
sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. |
10:7 |
And
the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the
sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. |
10:8 |
And
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the
earth. |
10:9 |
He
was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great
bowman. |
10:10 |
And
at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the
land of Shinar. |
10:11 |
From
that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets
and Calah, |
10:12 |
And
Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town. |
10:13 |
And
Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and
Naphtuhim; |
10:14 |
And
Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines. |
10:15 |
And
Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, 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; after that the families of
the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions; |
10:19 |
Their
country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to
Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim. |
10:20 |
All
these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the
offspring of Ham. |
10:21 |
And
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had
other sons in addition. |
10:22 |
These
are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. |
10:23 |
And the sons
of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. |
10:24 |
And
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of
Eber. |
10:25 |
And
Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the
peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan. |
10:26 |
And
Joktan was 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 these were the sons of Joktan. |
10:30 |
And
their country was from Mesha, in the direction of Sephar, the mountain of the
east. |
10:31 |
These,
with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations,
are the offspring of Shem. |
10:32 |
These
are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and
their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great
flow of waters. |
11:1 |
And
all the earth had one language and one tongue. |
11:2 |
And
it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch
of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their
living-place. |
11:3 |
And
they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And
they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. |
11:4 |
And
they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high
as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be
wanderers over the face of the earth. |
11:5 |
And
the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men
were building. |
11:6 |
And
the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and
this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible
to keep them from any purpose of theirs. |
11:7 |
Come,
let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will
not be able to make themselves clear to one another. |
11:8 |
So
the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up
building their town. |
11:9 |
So
it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all
languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the
earth. |
11:10 |
These
are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the
father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; |
11:11 |
And
after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years,
and had sons and daughters: |
11:12 |
And
Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of
Shelah: |
11:13 |
And
after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and
three years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:14 |
And
Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: |
11:15 |
And
after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three
years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:16 |
And
Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: |
11:17 |
And
after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty
years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:18 |
And
Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: |
11:19 |
And
after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years,
and had sons and daughters: |
11:20 |
And
Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: |
11:21 |
And
after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years,
and had sons and daughters: |
11:22 |
And
Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: |
11:23 |
And
after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had
sons and daughters: |
11:24 |
And
Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: |
11:25 |
And
after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen
years, and had sons and daughters: |
11:26 |
And
Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and
Haran. |
11:27 |
These
are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and
Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. |
11:28 |
And
death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his
birth, Ur of the Chaldees. |
11:29 |
And
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 |
And Sarai had no
child. |
11:31 |
And
Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his
daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there
for some time. |
11:32 |
And
all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to
his end in Haran. |
12:1 |
Now
the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and
from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: |
12:2 |
And
I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great;
and you will be a blessing: |
12:3 |
To
them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong
will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the
families of the earth. |
12:4 |
So
Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was
seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran. |
12:5 |
And
Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods
and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the
land of Canaan. |
12:6 |
And
Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of
Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land. |
12:7 |
And
the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed;
then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by
him. |
12:8 |
And
moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his
tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an
altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord. |
12:9 |
And
he went on, journeying still to the South. |
12:10 |
And
because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into
Egypt. |
12:11 |
Now
when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair
woman and beautiful to the eye; |
12:12 |
And
I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his
wife: and they will put me to death and keep you. |
12:13 |
Say,
then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you,
and my life will be kept safe on your account. |
12:14 |
And
so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the
woman, saw that she was fair. |
12:15 |
And
Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh,
and she was taken into Pharaoh's house. |
12:16 |
And
because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses,
and men-servants and women-servants, and camels. |
12:17 |
And
the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's
wife. |
12:18 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not
say that she was your wife? |
12:19 |
Why
did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now,
take your wife and go on your way. |
12:20 |
And
Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife
and all he had. |
13:1 |
And
Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him,
and they came in to the South. |
13:2 |
Now Abram
had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold. |
13:3 |
And
travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent
had been before, between Beth-el and Ai; |
13:4 |
To
the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to
the name of the Lord. |
13:5 |
And Lot,
who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; |
13:6 |
So
that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so
great that there was not room for them together. |
13:7 |
And
there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers
of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living
in the land. |
13:8 |
Then
Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between
my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. |
13:9 |
Is
not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to
the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the
left. |
13:10 |
And
Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was
well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and
Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the
way to Zoar. |
13:11 |
So
Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they
were parted from one another. |
13:12 |
Abram
went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns,
moving his tent as far as Sodom. |
13:13 |
Now
the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord. |
13:14 |
And
the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place
where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to
the west: |
13:15 |
For
all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever. |
13:16 |
And
I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of
the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered. |
13:17 |
Come,
go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to
you. |
13:18 |
And
Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of
Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord. |
14:1 |
Now
in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, |
14:2 |
They
made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab,
king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is
Zoar). |
14:3 |
All
these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea). |
14:4 |
For
twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth
year they put off his control. |
14:5 |
And
in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were on his side,
overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim
in Shaveh-kiriathaim, |
14:6 |
And
the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is
near the waste land. |
14:7 |
Then
they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country
of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar. |
14:8 |
And
the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the
king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their
forces in position in the valley 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 the five. |
14:10 |
Now
the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the
rest got away to the mountain. |
14:11 |
And
the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went
on their way. |
14:12 |
And
in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom,
and all his goods. |
14:13 |
And
one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the
Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of
Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram. |
14:14 |
And
Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band
of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house,
and went after them as far as Dan. |
14:15 |
And
separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and
going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of
Damascus. |
14:16 |
And
he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the
women and the people. |
14:17 |
And
when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other
kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that
is, the King's Valley. |
14:18 |
And
Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and
wine, |
14:19 |
And
blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven
and earth, be on Abram: |
14:20 |
And
let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who
were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had
taken. |
14:21 |
And
the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for
yourself. |
14:22 |
But
Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most
High God, maker of heaven and earth, |
14:23 |
That
I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that
you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram: |
14:24 |
Give
me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but
let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods. |
15:1 |
After
these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no
fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward. |
15:2 |
And
Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of
Damascus will have all my wealth after me. |
15:3 |
And
Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get
the heritage. |
15:4 |
Then
said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body
will have your property after you. |
15:5 |
And
he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted
to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed
be. |
15:6 |
And
he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as
righteousness. |
15:7 |
And
he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give
you this land for your heritage. |
15:8 |
And
he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? |
15:9 |
And
he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years
old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. |
15:10 |
All
these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other,
but not cutting the birds in two. |
15:11 |
And
evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away. |
15:12 |
Now
when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of
fear. |
15:13 |
And
he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not
theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred
years; |
15:14 |
But
I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will
come out from among them with great wealth. |
15:15 |
As
for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you
will be put in your last resting-place. |
15:16 |
And
in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of
the Amorite is not full. |
15:17 |
Then
when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming
light which went between the parts of the bodies. |
15:18 |
In
that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I
given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river
Euphrates: |
15:19 |
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 given him no children; and she had a servant, a
woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar. |
16:2 |
And
Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my
servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai
said. |
16:3 |
So
after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took
Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife. |
16:4 |
And
he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was
with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife. |
16:5 |
And
Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your
wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect
for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me. |
16:6 |
And
Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to
you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her. |
16:7 |
And
an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by
the fountain on the way to Shur. |
16:8 |
And
he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you
going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife. |
16:9 |
And
the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority. |
16:10 |
And
the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it
may not be numbered. |
16:11 |
And
the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a
son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord
were open to your sorrow. |
16:12 |
And
he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man
and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his
brothers. |
16:13 |
And
to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is
seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of
God and am still living? |
16:14 |
So
that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh
and Bered. |
16:15 |
And
Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of
Ishmael. |
16:16 |
Abram
was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. |
17:1 |
When
Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God,
Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things, |
17:2 |
And
I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be
greatly increased. |
17:3 |
And
Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking
with him, and said, |
17:4 |
As
for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations
without end. |
17:5 |
No
longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father
of a number of nations. |
17:6 |
I
will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will
be your offspring. |
17:7 |
And
I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all
generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after
you. |
17:8 |
And
to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are
living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their
God. |
17:9 |
And
God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and
your seed after you through all generations. |
17:10 |
And
this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after
you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision. |
17:11 |
In
the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the
agreement between me and you. |
17:12 |
Every
male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision
when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your
house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of
your seed. |
17:13 |
He
who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all
are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your
flesh, an agreement for all time. |
17:14 |
And
any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people:
my agreement has been broken by him. |
17:15 |
And
God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but
Sarah. |
17:16 |
And
I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my
blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of
peoples will be her offspring. |
17:17 |
Then
Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a
hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give
birth? |
17:18 |
And
Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care! |
17:19 |
And
God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give
him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with
his seed after him. |
17:20 |
As
for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my
blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be
the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. |
17:21 |
But
my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from
this time. |
17:22 |
And having
said these words, God went up from Abraham. |
17:23 |
And
Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his
house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of
his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of
their private parts as God had said to him. |
17:24 |
Abraham
was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision. |
17:25 |
And
Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision. |
17:26 |
Abraham
and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day. |
17:27 |
And
all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and
those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent
circumcision with him. |
18:1 |
Now
the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the
doorway of his tent in the middle of the day; |
18:2 |
And
lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went
quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the
earth; |
18:3 |
And
said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your
servant: |
18:4 |
Let
me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree: |
18:5 |
And
let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go
on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said,
Let it be so. |
18:6 |
Then
Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of
meal straight away and make cakes. |
18:7 |
And
running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the
servant and he quickly made it ready; |
18:8 |
And
he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it
before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food. |
18:9 |
And
they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the
tent. |
18:10 |
And
he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife
will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back
of the tent-door. |
18:11 |
Now
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving
birth. |
18:12 |
And
Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have
pleasure, my husband himself being old? |
18:13 |
And
the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me,
being old, to give birth to a child? |
18:14 |
Is
there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the
spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child. |
18:15 |
Then
Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No,
but you were laughing. |
18:16 |
And
the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with
them on their way. |
18:17 |
And
the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I
do; |
18:18 |
Seeing
that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name
will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing? |
18:19 |
For
I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of
his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and
right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said. |
18:20 |
And
the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great,
and their sin is very evil, |
18:21 |
I
will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the
outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see. |
18:22 |
And
the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still
waiting before the Lord. |
18:23 |
And
Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright
with the sinners? |
18:24 |
If
by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to
destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? |
18:25 |
Let
such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner:
will not the judge of all the earth do right? |
18:26 |
And
the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy
on it because of them. |
18:27 |
And
Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my
thoughts before the Lord: |
18:28 |
If
by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all
the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give
it to destruction if there are forty-five. |
18:29 |
And
again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will
not do it if there are forty. |
18:30 |
And
he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty
there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. |
18:31 |
And
he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what
if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the
twenty. |
18:32 |
And
he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by
chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the
ten. |
18:33 |
And
the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham
went back to his place. |
19:1 |
And
at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into
the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down
on his face to the earth. |
19:2 |
And
he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest
there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning
you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's
rest in the street. |
19:3 |
But
he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and
he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they
took. |
19:4 |
But
before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came
round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; |
19:5 |
And
crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this
night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. |
19:6 |
And
Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. |
19:7 |
And
he said, My brothers, do not this evil. |
19:8 |
See
now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you
may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for
this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. |
19:9 |
And
they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange
country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to
them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door
broken in. |
19:10 |
But
the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the
door again. |
19:11 |
But
the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and
great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. |
19:12 |
Then
the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or
sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; |
19:13 |
For
we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry
against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to
put an end to the town. |
19:14 |
And
Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters,
Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction
on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. |
19:15 |
And
when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying,
Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and
go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. |
19:16 |
But
while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the
hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. |
19:17 |
And
when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back
or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to
destruction. |
19:18 |
And Lot
said to them, Not so, O my Lord; |
19:19 |
See
now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in
keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the
mountain before evil overtakes me and death; |
19:20 |
This
town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a
little one?) so that my life may be safe. |
19:21 |
And
he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will
not send destruction on this town. |
19:22 |
Go
there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For
this reason, the town was named Zoar. |
19:23 |
The sun was
up when Lot came to Zoar. |
19:24 |
Then
the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and
Gomorrah. |
19:25 |
And
he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people
of those towns and every green thing in the land. |
19:26 |
But Lot's
wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. |
19:27 |
And
Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been
talking with the Lord: |
19:28 |
And
looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the
smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. |
19:29 |
So
it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he
kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the
towns where he was living. |
19:30 |
Then
Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two
daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters
made their living-place in a hole in the rock. |
19:31 |
And
the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man
to be a husband to us in the natural way: |
19:32 |
Come,
let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may
have offspring by our father, |
19:33 |
And
that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went
into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went
away. |
19:34 |
And
on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was
with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you
go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father. |
19:35 |
And
that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger
daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or
when she went away. |
19:36 |
And
so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. |
19:37 |
And
the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the
father of the Moabites to this day. |
19:38 |
And
the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the
children of Ammon to this day. |
20:1 |
And
Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living
between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar. |
20:2 |
And
Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of
Gerar, sent and took Sarah. |
20:3 |
But
God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are
a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's
wife. |
20:4 |
Now
Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an
upright nation? |
20:5 |
Did
he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my
brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this. |
20:6 |
And
God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright
heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not
let you come near her. |
20:7 |
So
now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a
prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be
certain that death will come to you and all your house. |
20:8 |
So
Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave
them word of these things, and they were full of fear. |
20:9 |
Then
Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong
have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You
have done to me things which are not to be done. |
20:10 |
And
Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing? |
20:11 |
And
Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this
place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife. |
20:12 |
And,
in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of
my mother; and she became my wife: |
20:13 |
And
when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be
the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my
brother. |
20:14 |
Then
Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants,
and gave him back his wife Sarah. |
20:15 |
And
Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems
good to you. |
20:16 |
And
he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver
so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of
all. |
20:17 |
Then
Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife
and his women-servants, so that they had children. |
20:18 |
For
the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having
children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. |
21:1 |
And
the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had
undertaken. |
21:2 |
And
Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time
named by God. |
21:3 |
And
Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac. |
21:4 |
And
when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision,
as God had said to him. |
21:5 |
Now
Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place. |
21:6 |
And
Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of
it will be laughing with me. |
21:7 |
And
she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her
breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old. |
21:8 |
And
when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a
great feast. |
21:9 |
And
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac. |
21:10 |
So
she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that
woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. |
21:11 |
And this
was a great grief to Abraham because of his son. |
21:12 |
But
God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his
mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that
your seed will take its name. |
21:13 |
And
I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your
seed. |
21:14 |
And
early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a
water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went,
wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba. |
21:15 |
And
when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a
tree. |
21:16 |
And
she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on
the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death
of my child. |
21:17 |
And
the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar
from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry
has come to the ears of God. |
21:18 |
Come,
take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation. |
21:19 |
Then
God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the
skin and gave the boy a drink. |
21:20 |
And
God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman,
living in the waste land. |
21:21 |
And
while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the
land of Egypt. |
21:22 |
Now
at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham,
I see that God is with you in all you do. |
21:23 |
Now,
then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be False to me
or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be
to me and to this land where you have been living. |
21:24 |
And
Abraham said, I will give you my oath. |
21:25 |
But
Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's
servants had taken by force. |
21:26 |
But
Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me
word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day. |
21:27 |
And
Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them
made an agreement together. |
21:28 |
And
Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves. |
21:29 |
Then
Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one
side? |
21:30 |
And
he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this
water-hole. |
21:31 |
So
he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had
given their oaths. |
21:32 |
So
they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain
of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines. |
21:33 |
And
Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name
of the Lord, the Eternal God. |
21:34 |
And
Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange
country. |
22:1 |
Now
after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham;
and he said, Here am I. |
22:2 |
And
he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to
the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains
of which I will give you knowledge. |
22:3 |
And
Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with
him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the
burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God
had given him word. |
22:4 |
And
on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way
off. |
22:5 |
Then
he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go
on and give worship and come back again to you. |
22:6 |
And
Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he
himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on
together. |
22:7 |
Then
Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he
said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned
offering? |
22:8 |
And
Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they
went on together. |
22:9 |
And
they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there
Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight
the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar. |
22:10 |
And
stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death. |
22:11 |
But
the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham,
Abraham: and he said, Here am I. |
22:12 |
And
he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to
him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you
have not kept back your son, your only son, from me. |
22:13 |
And
lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood:
and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his
son. |
22:14 |
And
Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In
the mountain the Lord is seen. |
22:15 |
And
the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from
heaven, |
22:16 |
Saying,
I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this
and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son, |
22:17 |
That
I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like
the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land
of those who are against them; |
22:18 |
And
your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you
have done what I gave you orders to do. |
22:19 |
Then
Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the
place where Abraham was living. |
22:20 |
After
these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor,
had given birth to children; |
22:21 |
Uz
the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram, |
22:22 |
And Chesed
and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel. |
22:23 |
Bethuel
was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor,
Abraham's brother. |
22:24 |
And
his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah. |
23:1 |
Now
the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven. |
23:2 |
And
Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of
Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for
Sarah. |
23:3 |
And
Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth, |
23:4 |
I
am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as
my property, so that I may put my dead to rest. |
23:5 |
And in answer
the children of Heth said to Abraham, |
23:6 |
My
lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our
resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place
where you may put your dead to rest. |
23:7 |
And
Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that
land. |
23:8 |
And
he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request
for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar, |
23:9 |
That
he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property
at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a
resting-place for my dead among you. |
23:10 |
Now
Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave
Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those
who came into his town, saying, |
23:11 |
No,
my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all
the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your
dead. |
23:12 |
And
Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land. |
23:13 |
And
Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you
will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let
me put my dead to rest there. |
23:14 |
So Ephron said to
Abraham, |
23:15 |
My
lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is
that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there. |
23:16 |
And
Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children
of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money. |
23:17 |
So
Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all
the trees in the field and round it, |
23:18 |
Became
the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all
who came into the town. |
23:19 |
Then
Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of
Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan. |
23:20 |
And
the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by
the children of Heth. |
24:1 |
Now
Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in
full measure. |
24:2 |
And
Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now,
put your hand under my leg: |
24:3 |
And
take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that
you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites
among whom I am living; |
24:4 |
But
that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for
my son Isaac. |
24:5 |
And
the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this
land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came? |
24:6 |
And
Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. |
24:7 |
The
Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of
my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land:
he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that
land. |
24:8 |
And
if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only
do not take my son back there. |
24:9 |
And
the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about
this thing. |
24:10 |
And
the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of
his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor. |
24:11 |
And
he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in
the evening, at the time when the women came to get water. |
24:12 |
And
he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have
undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham. |
24:13 |
See,
I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are
coming out to get water: |
24:14 |
Now,
may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who
says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels:
may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be
certain that you have been good to my master Abraham. |
24:15 |
And
even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son
of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her
water-vessel on her arm. |
24:16 |
She
was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and
she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel. |
24:17 |
And
the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your
vessel. |
24:18 |
And
she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her
hand, she gave him a drink. |
24:19 |
And
having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had
enough. |
24:20 |
And
after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she
went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels. |
24:21 |
And
the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given
his journey a good outcome. |
24:22 |
And
when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel
in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold; |
24:23 |
And
said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for
us? |
24:24 |
And
she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's
wife. |
24:25 |
And
she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is
room for you. |
24:26 |
And with bent
head the man gave worship to the Lord; |
24:27 |
And
said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a
sign that he is good and True to my master, by guiding me straight to the
house of my master's family. |
24:28 |
So
the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's
house |
24:29 |
Now
Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the
water-spring. |
24:30 |
And
when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when
she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the
man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring. |
24:31 |
And
he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you
waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the
camels. |
24:32 |
Then
the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and
gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with
him water for washing their feet. |
24:33 |
And
meat was put before him, but he said, I will not take food till I have made
my business clear to you. And they said, Do so. |
24:34 |
And he said,
I am Abraham's servant. |
24:35 |
The
Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has
given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and
women-servants and camels and asses. |
24:36 |
And
when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he
has given all he has. |
24:37 |
And
my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the
daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living; |
24:38 |
But
go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son. |
24:39 |
And
I said to my master, What if the woman will not come with me? |
24:40 |
And
he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with
you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my
relations and my father's house; |
24:41 |
And
you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they
will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath. |
24:42 |
And
I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master
Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey, |
24:43 |
Let
it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl
comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel,
and she says, |
24:44 |
Take
a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked
out by the Lord for my master's son. |
24:45 |
And
even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on
her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her,
Give me a drink. |
24:46 |
And
straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink,
and I will get water for your camels. |
24:47 |
And
questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter
of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her
nose and the ornaments on her hands. |
24:48 |
And
with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master
Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of
my master's brother for his son. |
24:49 |
And
now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order
that it may be clear to me what I have to do. |
24:50 |
Then
Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us
to say Yes or No to you. |
24:51 |
See,
here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as
the Lord has said. |
24:52 |
And
at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to
the Lord. |
24:53 |
Then
he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to
Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother. |
24:54 |
Then
he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest
there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back
to my master. |
24:55 |
But
her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days,
and then she may go. |
24:56 |
And
he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let
me now go back to my master. |
24:57 |
And
they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision. |
24:58 |
And
they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready to go with this man? And
she said, I am ready. |
24:59 |
So
they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his
men. |
24:60 |
And
they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of
thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make
war against them. |
24:61 |
So
Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so
the servant took Rebekah and went on his way. |
24:62 |
Now
Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in
the South. |
24:63 |
And
when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting
up his eyes he saw camels coming. |
24:64 |
And
when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel, |
24:65 |
And
said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the
servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with
it. |
24:66 |
Then the
servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done. |
24:67 |
And
Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for
her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death. |
25:1 |
And
Abraham took another wife named Keturah. |
25:2 |
She
became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and
Shuah. |
25:3 |
And
Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the
Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. |
25:4 |
And
from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these
were the offspring of Keturah. |
25:5 |
Now
Abraham gave all his property to Isaac; |
25:6 |
But
to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while
he was still living, into the east country. |
25:7 |
Now
the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five. |
25:8 |
And
Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest
with his people. |
25:9 |
And
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah,
in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre; |
25:10 |
The
same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put
to rest with Sarah, his wife. |
25:11 |
Now
after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son. |
25:12 |
Now
these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was
Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah: |
25:13 |
These
are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first
son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam |
25:14 |
And Mishma and
Dumah and Massa, |
25:15 |
Hadad
and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: |
25:16 |
These
are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their
tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples. |
25:17 |
And
the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to
his end, and was put to rest with his people. |
25:18 |
And
their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took
their place to the east of all their brothers. |
25:19 |
Now these are
the generations of Abraham's son Isaac: |
25:20 |
Isaac
was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the
Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his
wife. |
25:21 |
Isaac
made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the
Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child. |
25:22 |
And
the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be
so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord. |
25:23 |
And
the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come
to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older
will be the servant of the younger. |
25:24 |
And
when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her
body. |
25:25 |
And
the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave
him the name of Esau. |
25:26 |
And
after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named
Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them. |
25:27 |
And
the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an
expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. |
25:28 |
Now
Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but
Rebekah had more love for Jacob. |
25:29 |
And
one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in
great need of food; |
25:30 |
And
Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome
with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom. |
25:31 |
And Jacob
said, First of all give me your birthright. |
25:32 |
And
Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright
to me? |
25:33 |
And
Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing
over his birthright to Jacob. |
25:34 |
Then
Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away,
caring little for his birthright. |
26:1 |
Then
came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the
days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at
Gerar. |
26:2 |
And
the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in
the land of which I will give you knowledge: |
26:3 |
Keep
in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and
to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I
made to your father Abraham; |
26:4 |
I
will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them
all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the
earth; |
26:5 |
Because
Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my
laws. |
26:6 |
So Isaac went
on living in Gerar; |
26:7 |
And
when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She
is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the
place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very
beautiful. |
26:8 |
And
when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines,
looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife. |
26:9 |
And
he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say,
She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death
because of her. |
26:10 |
Then
Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have
had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours. |
26:11 |
And
Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife
was to be put to death. |
26:12 |
Now
Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times
as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him. |
26:13 |
And his
wealth became very great, increasing more and more; |
26:14 |
For
he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so
that the Philistines were full of envy. |
26:15 |
Now
all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of
Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines. |
26:16 |
And
Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we
are. |
26:17 |
So
Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar,
making his living-place there. |
26:18 |
And
he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his
father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them
the names which his father had given them. |
26:19 |
Now
Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing
water. |
26:20 |
But
the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The
spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a
fight about it. |
26:21 |
Then
they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it
the name of Sitnah. |
26:22 |
Then
he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was
no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord
has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land. |
26:23 |
And from
there he went on to Beer-sheba. |
26:24 |
That
night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father
Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be
increased because of my servant Abraham. |
26:25 |
Then
he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put
up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole. |
26:26 |
And
Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol,
the captain of his army. |
26:27 |
And
Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me
you sent me away from you? |
26:28 |
And
they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there
be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you; |
26:29 |
That
you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing
but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on
you. |
26:30 |
Then
he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink. |
26:31 |
And
early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them
away and they went on their way in peace. |
26:32 |
And
that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole
which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water. |
26:33 |
And
he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this
day. |
26:34 |
And
when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of
Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite: |
26:35 |
And Isaac
and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them. |
27:1 |
Now
when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to
see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said,
Here am I. |
27:2 |
And
he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time: |
27:3 |
So
take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for
me; |
27:4 |
And
make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before
me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to
me. |
27:5 |
Now
Isaac's words to his son were said in Rebekah's hearing. Then Esau went out
to get the meat. |
27:6 |
And
Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to your brother Esau in my
hearing, |
27:7 |
Go
and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and
give you my blessing before the Lord before my death. |
27:8 |
Now, my son, do what
I say. |
27:9 |
Go
to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal
to your father's taste: |
27:10 |
And
you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his
blessing before his death. |
27:11 |
And
Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair,
while I am smooth: |
27:12 |
If
by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am
tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing. |
27:13 |
And
his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and
get them for me. |
27:14 |
So
he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his
father's taste. |
27:15 |
And
Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the
house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son: |
27:16 |
And
she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of
his neck: |
27:17 |
And
she gave into the hand of Jacob, her son, the meat and the bread which she
had made ready. |
27:18 |
And
he came to his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I: who are
you, my son? |
27:19 |
And
Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as you said: come now, be
seated and take of my meat, so that you may give me a blessing. |
27:20 |
And
Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said,
Because the Lord your God made it come my way. |
27:21 |
And
Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if
you are truly my son Esau or not. |
27:22 |
And
Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said,
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. |
27:23 |
And
he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like
his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing. |
27:24 |
And he
said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am. |
27:25 |
And
he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may
give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him
wine, and he had a drink. |
27:26 |
And
his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss. |
27:27 |
And
he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he
gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of
a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come: |
27:28 |
May
God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain
and wine in full measure: |
27:29 |
Let
peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your
brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on
everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a
blessing. |
27:30 |
And
when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone
away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field. |
27:31 |
And
he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it to his father, and said
to him, Let my father get up and take of his son's meat, so that you may give
me a blessing. |
27:32 |
And
Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your oldest son,
Esau. |
27:33 |
And
in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me,
and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will
be? |
27:34 |
And
hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said
to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father! |
27:35 |
And
he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away your blessing. |
27:36 |
And
he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place?
for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he
said, Have you not kept a blessing for me? |
27:37 |
And
Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all
his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what
then am I to do for you, my son? |
27:38 |
And
Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give
a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping. |
27:39 |
Then
Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of
the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place
be: |
27:40 |
By
your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant;
but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your
neck. |
27:41 |
So
Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said
in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my
brother Jacob to death. |
27:42 |
Then
Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and
said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to
death. |
27:43 |
So
now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban; |
27:44 |
And
be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned
away; |
27:45 |
Till
the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry:
then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken
from me in one day? |
27:46 |
Then
Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters
of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as
these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me? |
28:1 |
Then
Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among
the women of Canaan; |
28:2 |
But
go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there
get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. |
28:3 |
And
may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and
increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. |
28:4 |
And
may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that
the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your
heritage. |
28:5 |
So
Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel
the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. |
28:6 |
So
when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to
Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him,
Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan; |
28:7 |
And
that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to
Paddan-aram; |
28:8 |
It
was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan, |
28:9 |
So
Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son
Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he
had. |
28:10 |
So
Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran. |
28:11 |
And
coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for
the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and
putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place. |
28:12 |
And
he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to
heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them. |
28:13 |
And
he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your
father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land
on which you are sleeping. |
28:14 |
Your
seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west
and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a
name of blessing to all the families of the earth. |
28:15 |
And
truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you
back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I
have said to you. |
28:16 |
And
Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I
was not conscious of it. |
28:17 |
And
fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less
than the house of God and the doorway of heaven. |
28:18 |
And
early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and
put it up as a pillar and put oil on it. |
28:19 |
And
he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was
named Luz. |
28:20 |
Then
Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my
journey, and give me food and clothing to put on, |
28:21 |
So
that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to
be my God, |
28:22 |
And
this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all
you give me, I will give a tenth part to you. |
29:1 |
Then
Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the
East. |
29:2 |
And
there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of
sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the
water-hole there was a great stone. |
29:3 |
And
all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled
away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its
place on the mouth of the water-hole. |
29:4 |
Then
Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they
said, From Haran. |
29:5 |
And
he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they
said, We have. |
29:6 |
And
he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel
his daughter coming with the sheep. |
29:7 |
Then
Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle
together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food. |
29:8 |
And
they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together
and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we
will get water for the sheep. |
29:9 |
While
he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she
took care of them. |
29:10 |
Then
when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming
with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth
of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock. |
29:11 |
And
weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss. |
29:12 |
And
Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was
the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it. |
29:13 |
And
Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob
in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave
him news of everything. |
29:14 |
And
Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob
with him for the space of a month. |
29:15 |
Then
Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for
nothing? say now, what is your payment to be? |
29:16 |
Now
Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the
younger was Rachel. |
29:17 |
And
Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form. |
29:18 |
And
Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven
years for Rachel, your younger daughter. |
29:19 |
And
Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living
here with me. |
29:20 |
And
Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it
seemed to him only a very little time. |
29:21 |
Then
Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may have her, for the days are
ended. |
29:22 |
And
Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast. |
29:23 |
And
in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went
in to her. |
29:24 |
And
Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman. |
29:25 |
And
in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have
you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why
have you been False to me? |
29:26 |
And
Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married
before the older. |
29:27 |
Let
the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the
other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years. |
29:28 |
And
Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel
for his wife. |
29:29 |
And
Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman. |
29:30 |
Then
Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love
for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years. |
29:31 |
Now
the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had
no children. |
29:32 |
And
Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name
Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have
love for me. |
29:33 |
Then
she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it
has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in
addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. |
29:34 |
And
she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my
husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was
named Levi. |
29:35 |
And
she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I
will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no
more children for a time. |
30:1 |
Now
Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she
said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living. |
30:2 |
But
Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept
your body from having fruit? |
30:3 |
Then
she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a
child on my knees, and I may have a family by her. |
30:4 |
So
she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. |
30:5 |
And Bilhah
became with child, and gave birth to a son. |
30:6 |
Then
Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has
given me a son; so he was named Dan. |
30:7 |
And
again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second
son. |
30:8 |
And
Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome
her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. |
30:9 |
When
it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she
gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. |
30:10 |
And
Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. |
30:11 |
And
Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. |
30:12 |
And Zilpah,
Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. |
30:13 |
And
Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she
gave him the name Asher. |
30:14 |
Now
at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field,
and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of
your son's love-fruits. |
30:15 |
But
Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me?
and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have
him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits. |
30:16 |
In
the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and
said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as
a price for you. And he went in to her that night. |
30:17 |
And
God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth
son. |
30:18 |
Then
Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my
husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar. |
30:19 |
And
again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son. |
30:20 |
And
she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my
husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the
name Zebulun. |
30:21 |
After
that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name Dinah. |
30:22 |
Then
God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile. |
30:23 |
And
she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away
my shame. |
30:24 |
And
she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son. |
30:25 |
Now
after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place
and my country. |
30:26 |
Give
me my wives and my children, for whom I have been your servant, and let me
go: for you have knowledge of all the work I have done for you. |
30:27 |
And
Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the
signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you. |
30:28 |
Say then
what your payment is to be and I will give it. |
30:29 |
Then
Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have
done well under my care. |
30:30 |
For
before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord
has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do
something for my family? |
30:31 |
And
Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything;
but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for
me: |
30:32 |
Let
me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep
which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats:
these will be my payment. |
30:33 |
And
so you will be able to put my honour to the test in time to come; if you see
among my flocks any goats which are not marked or coloured, or any sheep
which is not black, you may take me for a thief. |
30:34 |
And Laban
said, Let it be as you say. |
30:35 |
So
that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the
she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black
sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons; |
30:36 |
And
sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of
Laban's flock. |
30:37 |
Then
Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the skin so that the white
wood was seen in bands. |
30:38 |
And
he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get
water; and they became with young when they came to the water. |
30:39 |
And
because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands
of colour. |
30:40 |
These
lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and
not with Laban's flock. |
30:41 |
And
whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the
sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become
with young when they saw the sticks. |
30:42 |
But
when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that
the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's. |
30:43 |
So
Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants
and men-servants and camels and asses. |
31:1 |
Now
it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken
away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this
wealth. |
31:2 |
And
Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been
before. |
31:3 |
Then
the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your
relations, and I will be with you. |
31:4 |
And
Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his
flock. |
31:5 |
And
he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer
what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me |
31:6 |
And
you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father, |
31:7 |
But
your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in
my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage. |
31:8 |
If
he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all
the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are
to be yours, then all the flock had banded young. |
31:9 |
So
God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me. |
31:10 |
And
at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the
he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and
coloured. |
31:11 |
And
in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am
I. |
31:12 |
And
he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I
have seen what Laban has done to you. |
31:13 |
I
am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to
me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your
birth. |
31:14 |
Then
Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us
in our father's house? |
31:15 |
Are
we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us
and now it is all used up. |
31:16 |
For
the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now,
whatever God has said to you, do. |
31:17 |
Then
Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels; |
31:18 |
And
sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got
together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land
of Canaan. |
31:19 |
Now
Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel
secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house. |
31:20 |
And
Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the
Aramaean. |
31:21 |
So
he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of
the hill-country of Gilead. |
31:22 |
And on the
third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight. |
31:23 |
And
taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and
overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead. |
31:24 |
Then
God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you
say nothing good or bad to Jacob. |
31:25 |
Now
when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and
Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead. |
31:26 |
And
Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away
like prisoners of war? |
31:27 |
Why
did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I
might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music? |
31:28 |
You
did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a
foolish thing to do. |
31:29 |
It
is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this
night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob. |
31:30 |
And
now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's
house; but why have you taken my gods? |
31:31 |
And
Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your
daughters from me by force. |
31:32 |
As
for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search
before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that
Rachel had taken them. |
31:33 |
So
Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the
two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent
and went into Rachel's. |
31:34 |
Now
Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was
seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come
across them. |
31:35 |
And
she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up
before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his
searching, he did not come across the images. |
31:36 |
Then
Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you
have come after me with such passion? |
31:37 |
Now
that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is
yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may
be judges between us. |
31:38 |
These
twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young
without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food. |
31:39 |
Anything
which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the
loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day
or by night. |
31:40 |
This
was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night;
and sleep went from my eyes. |
31:41 |
These
twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years
because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times
was my payment changed. |
31:42 |
If
the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been
with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has
seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back. |
31:43 |
Then
Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my
children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my
daughters and for their children? |
31:44 |
Come,
let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between
us. |
31:45 |
Then
Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar. |
31:46 |
And
Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had
a meal there by the stones. |
31:47 |
And
the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of
Galeed. |
31:48 |
And
Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this
reason its name was Galeed, |
31:49 |
And
Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see
one another's doings. |
31:50 |
If
you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my
daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness
between us. |
31:51 |
And
Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and
me; |
31:52 |
They
will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not
go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose. |
31:53 |
May
the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our
judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac. |
31:54 |
And
Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take
food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain. |
31:55 |
And
early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on
his way back to his country. |
32:1 |
And
on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God. |
32:2 |
And
when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the
name of Mahanaim. |
32:3 |
Now
Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the
country of Edom; |
32:4 |
And
he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till
now I have been living with Laban: |
32:5 |
And
I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I
have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in
his eyes. |
32:6 |
When
the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is
coming out to you, and four hundred men with him. |
32:7 |
Then
Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and
the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups; |
32:8 |
And
said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will
get away safely. |
32:9 |
Then
Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord
who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to
you: |
32:10 |
I
am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me
your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now
I have become two armies. |
32:11 |
Be
my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will
make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child. |
32:12 |
And
you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of
the sea which may not be numbered. |
32:13 |
Then
he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as
an offering for his brother Esau, |
32:14 |
Two
hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males
from the sheep, |
32:15 |
Thirty
camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten
young asses. |
32:16 |
These
he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants,
Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another. |
32:17 |
And
he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and
says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these
herds? |
32:18 |
Then
say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord,
for Esau; and he himself is coming after us. |
32:19 |
And
he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were
with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see
him; |
32:20 |
And
you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said
to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on,
and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his
eyes. |
32:21 |
So
the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his
rest that night in the tents with his people. |
32:22 |
And
in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two
servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok. |
32:23 |
He took
them and sent them over the stream with all he had. |
32:24 |
Then
Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn. |
32:25 |
But
when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow
in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged. |
32:26 |
And
he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will
not let you go till you have given me your blessing. |
32:27 |
Then he said,
What is your name? And he said, Jacob. |
32:28 |
And
he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight
with God and with men you have overcome. |
32:29 |
Then
Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he
gave him a blessing. |
32:30 |
And
Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to
face, and still I am living. |
32:31 |
And
while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal
steps because of his damaged leg. |
32:32 |
For
this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the
hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was
touched. |
33:1 |
Then
Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he
made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two
women-servants. |
33:2 |
He
put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after
them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back. |
33:3 |
And
he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times
till he came near his brother. |
33:4 |
Then
Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss:
and the two of them were overcome with weeping. |
33:5 |
Then
Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are
these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to
your servant. |
33:6 |
Then
the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces. |
33:7 |
And
Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did
the same. |
33:8 |
And
he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said,
They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes. |
33:9 |
But
Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself. |
33:10 |
And
Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of
my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you
have been pleased with me. |
33:11 |
Take
my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I
have enough: so at his strong request, he took it. |
33:12 |
And
he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front. |
33:13 |
But
Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are
young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the
destruction of all the flock. |
33:14 |
Do
you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate
at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord
at Seir. |
33:15 |
And
Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there
for that, if my lord is pleased with me? |
33:16 |
So Esau,
turning back that day, went on his way to Seir. |
33:17 |
And
Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents
for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth. |
33:18 |
So
Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of
Canaan, and put up his tents near the town. |
33:19 |
And
for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of
Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents. |
33:20 |
And
there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel. |
34:1 |
Now
Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that
country. |
34:2 |
And
when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw
her, he took her by force and had connection with her. |
34:3 |
Then
his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said
comforting words to her. |
34:4 |
And
Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife. |
34:5 |
Now
Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in
the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came. |
34:6 |
Then
Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob. |
34:7 |
Now
the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they
were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by
having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not
to be done. |
34:8 |
But
Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter:
will you then give her to him for a wife? |
34:9 |
And
let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take
our daughters for yourselves. |
34:10 |
Go
on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get
property there. |
34:11 |
And
Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my
request, whatever you say I will give to you. |
34:12 |
However
great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have
the girl for my wife. |
34:13 |
But
the sons of Jacob gave a False answer to Shechem and Hamor his father,
because of what had been done to Dinah their sister. |
34:14 |
And
they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without
circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us: |
34:15 |
But
on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male
among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision; |
34:16 |
Then
we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on
living with you as one people. |
34:17 |
But
if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our
daughter and go. |
34:18 |
And
their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem. |
34:19 |
And
without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight
in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house. |
34:20 |
Then
Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said
to the men of the town, |
34:21 |
It
is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living
in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before
them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our
daughters. |
34:22 |
But
these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to
become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes
circumcision as they have done. |
34:23 |
Then
will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us
come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us. |
34:24 |
Then
all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son;
and every male in the town underwent circumcision. |
34:25 |
But
on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of
Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the
town by surprise and put all the males to death. |
34:26 |
And
Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from
Shechem's house and went away. |
34:27 |
And
the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town
because of what had been done to their sister; |
34:28 |
They
took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their
town and in their fields, |
34:29 |
And
all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in
their houses they took and made them waste. |
34:30 |
And
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a
bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the
Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together
against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my
people. |
34:31 |
But
they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman? |
35:1 |
And
God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and
put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from
your brother Esau. |
35:2 |
Then
Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you,
and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: |
35:3 |
And
let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me
an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went. |
35:4 |
Then
they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which
were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at
Shechem. |
35:5 |
So
they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about,
so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob. |
35:6 |
And
Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he
and all his people. |
35:7 |
And
there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he
had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother. |
35:8 |
And
Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to
her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave
it the name of Allon-bacuth. |
35:9 |
Now
when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and,
blessing him, said, |
35:10 |
Jacob
is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel;
so he was named Israel. |
35:11 |
And
God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a
nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your
offspring; |
35:12 |
And
the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your
seed after you I will give the land. |
35:13 |
Then
God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him. |
35:14 |
And
Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and
put a drink offering on it, and oil. |
35:15 |
And
he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of
Beth-el. |
35:16 |
So
they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from
Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time. |
35:17 |
And
when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no
fear; for now you will have another son. |
35:18 |
And
in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the
child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin. |
35:19 |
So
Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is
Beth-lehem). |
35:20 |
And
Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the
resting-place of Rachel, to this day. |
35:21 |
And
Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower
of the flock. |
35:22 |
Now
while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah,
his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it. |
35:23 |
Now
Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and
Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; |
35:24 |
The sons
of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; |
35:25 |
The sons of
Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; |
35:26 |
The
sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob
had in Paddan-aram. |
35:27 |
And
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron,
where Abraham and Isaac had been living. |
35:28 |
And
Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old. |
35:29 |
Then
Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old
man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last
resting-place. |
36:1 |
Now
these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom. |
36:2 |
Esau's
wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and
Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, |
36:3 |
And
Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. |
36:4 |
Adah
had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel; |
36:5 |
Oholibamah
was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose
birth took place in the land of Canaan. |
36:6 |
Esau
took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his
house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got
together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his
brother Jacob. |
36:7 |
For
their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of
them and all their cattle. |
36:8 |
So
Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom). |
36:9 |
And
these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the
hill-country of Seir: |
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, Gatam, and Kenaz. |
36:12 |
And
Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave
birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah. |
36:13 |
And
these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: they were
the children of Esau's wife Basemath. |
36:14 |
And
these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the
daughter of Zibeon: she was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. |
36:15 |
These
were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first
son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, |
36:16 |
Korah,
Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of
Eliphaz, the seed of Adah. |
36:17 |
And
these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these
were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife
Basemath. |
36:18 |
And
these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these
were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah. |
36:19 |
These
were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs. |
36:20 |
These
are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan,
Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, |
36:21 |
Dishon,
Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in
the land of Edom. |
36:22 |
The
children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna. |
36:23 |
And
these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and
Onam. |
36:24 |
And
these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the
discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after
the asses of his father Zibeon. |
36:25 |
And
these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah his daughter. |
36:26 |
These
are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. |
36:27 |
These are
the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. |
36:28 |
These
are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. |
36:29 |
These
were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, |
36:30 |
Dishon,
Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of
Seir. |
36:31 |
And
these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any
king over the children of Israel. |
36:32 |
Bela,
son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his chief town was
Dinhabah. |
36:33 |
At
his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. |
36:34 |
And
at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king
in his place. |
36:35 |
And
at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in
the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith. |
36:36 |
And at
the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king. |
36:37 |
And
at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his
place. |
36:38 |
And
at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, became king. |
36:39 |
And
at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town
was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. |
36:40 |
These
are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their
places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, |
36:41 |
Oholibamah, Elah,
Pinon, |
36:42 |
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, |
36:43 |
Magdiel,
Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this
is Esau, the father of the Edomites. |
37:1 |
Now
Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself,
in the land of Canaan. |
37:2 |
These
are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking
after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah,
his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them. |
37:3 |
Now
the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his
other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long
coat made for him. |
37:4 |
And
because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the
others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to
him. |
37:5 |
Now
Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made
their hate greater than ever. |
37:6 |
And he
said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream. |
37:7 |
We
were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept
upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine. |
37:8 |
And
his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority
over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became
greater than ever. |
37:9 |
Then
he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have
had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to
me. |
37:10 |
And
he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting
said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to
go down on our faces to the earth before you? |
37:11 |
And
his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind. |
37:12 |
Now
his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem. |
37:13 |
And
Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come,
I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I. |
37:14 |
And
he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock
is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of
Hebron, and he came to Shechem. |
37:15 |
And
a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking
for? |
37:16 |
And
he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are
keeping their flock. |
37:17 |
And
the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let
us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at
Dothan. |
37:18 |
But
they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they
made a secret design against him to put him to death; |
37:19 |
Saying to one
another, See, here comes this dreamer. |
37:20 |
Let
us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will
say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his
dreams. |
37:21 |
But
Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not
take his life. |
37:22 |
Do
not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes;
this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking
him back to his father again. |
37:23 |
So
when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had
on; |
37:24 |
And
they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it. |
37:25 |
Then
seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a
travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt,
with spices and perfumes on their camels. |
37:26 |
And
Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to
death and covering up his blood? |
37:27 |
Let
us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent
hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to
him. |
37:28 |
And
some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they
gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to
Egypt. |
37:29 |
Now
when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of
grief, |
37:30 |
He
went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do? |
37:31 |
Then
they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat
which they had put to death, |
37:32 |
And
they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your
son's coat or not? |
37:33 |
And
he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him
to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end. |
37:34 |
Then
Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his
son day after day. |
37:35 |
And
all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not
be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my
son. So great was his father's sorrow for him. |
37:36 |
And
in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of
high position in Pharaoh's house. |
38:1 |
Now
at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a
man of Adullam named Hirah. |
38:2 |
And
there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her
as his wife. |
38:3 |
And she
gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er. |
38:4 |
And
again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan. |
38:5 |
Then
she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when
the birth took place. |
38:6 |
And
Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar. |
38:7 |
Now
Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him
to death. |
38:8 |
Then
Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for
a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your
brother. |
38:9 |
But
Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's
wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring
for his brother. |
38:10 |
And
what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death,
like his brother. |
38:11 |
Then
Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and
keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his
mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers.
So Tamar went back to her father's house. |
38:12 |
And
after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was
comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool
of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him. |
38:13 |
And
when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the
wool-cutting, |
38:14 |
She
took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took
her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a
man, but she had not been made his wife. |
38:15 |
When
Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face
was covered. |
38:16 |
And
turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he
had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you
give me as my price? |
38:17 |
And
he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will
you give me as a sign till you send it? |
38:18 |
And
he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the
stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became
with child by him. |
38:19 |
Then
she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's
clothing. |
38:20 |
Then
Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which
he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there. |
38:21 |
And
he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman
who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman
there. |
38:22 |
So
he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the
place say that there is no such woman there. |
38:23 |
And
Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the
young goat, but you did not see the woman. |
38:24 |
Now
about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his
daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And
Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned. |
38:25 |
And
while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying,
The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then,
whose are this ring and this cord and this stick? |
38:26 |
Then
Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I
am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection
with her. |
38:27 |
And
when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two
children in her body. |
38:28 |
And
while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and
the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one
came out first. |
38:29 |
But
then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and
the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named
Perez. |
38:30 |
And
then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was
named Zerah. |
39:1 |
Now
Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high
position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had
taken him there. |
39:2 |
And
the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of
his master the Egyptian. |
39:3 |
And
his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go
well. |
39:4 |
And
having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of
his house and gave him control over all he had. |
39:5 |
And
from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his
property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph;
the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field. |
39:6 |
And
he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything,
but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in
form and face. |
39:7 |
And
after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him,
Be my lover. |
39:8 |
But
he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of
what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control; |
39:9 |
So
that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing
back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great
wrong, sinning against God? |
39:10 |
And
day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover,
but he would not give ear to her. |
39:11 |
Now
one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the
house was inside. |
39:12 |
And
pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat,
he went running away. |
39:13 |
And
when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat, |
39:14 |
She
sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come
here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry; |
39:15 |
And hearing it
he went running out without his coat. |
39:16 |
And she
kept his coat by her, till his master came back. |
39:17 |
Then
she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken
into our house came in to make sport of me; |
39:18 |
And
when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat. |
39:19 |
And
hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very
angry. |
39:20 |
And
Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's
prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house. |
39:21 |
But
the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the
prison his friend. |
39:22 |
And
the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he
was responsible for whatever was done there. |
39:23 |
And
the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his
care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go
well. |
40:1 |
Now
after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the
chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's
orders; |
40:2 |
And
Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the
chief bread-maker; |
40:3 |
And
he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same
prison where Joseph himself was shut up. |
40:4 |
And
the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what was needed for them;
and they were kept in prison for some time. |
40:5 |
And
these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief
bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had
dreams with a special sense. |
40:6 |
And
in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking
sad. |
40:7 |
And
he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you
looking so sad? |
40:8 |
Then
they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the
sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was
your dream? |
40:9 |
Then
the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my
dream I saw a vine before me; |
40:10 |
And
on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and
flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting. |
40:11 |
And
Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and crushing them into
Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. |
40:12 |
Then
Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three
days; |
40:13 |
After
three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place,
and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his
wine-servant. |
40:14 |
But
keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good
word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison: |
40:15 |
For
truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done
nothing for which I might be put in prison. |
40:16 |
Now
when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said
to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white
bread on my head; |
40:17 |
And
in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds
were taking them out of the baskets on my head. |
40:18 |
Then
Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three
days; |
40:19 |
After
three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so
that your flesh will be food for birds. |
40:20 |
Now
the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his
servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief
bread-maker among the others. |
40:21 |
And
he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand. |
40:22 |
But
the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said. |
40:23 |
But
the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him. |
41:1 |
Now
after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by
the side of the Nile; |
41:2 |
And
out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the
river-grass. |
41:3 |
And
after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and
they were by the side of the other cows. |
41:4 |
And
the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out
of his sleep. |
41:5 |
But
he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of
grain, full and good, all on one stem. |
41:6 |
And
after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind. |
41:7 |
And
the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was
awake he saw it was a dream. |
41:8 |
And
in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of
Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was
able to give him the sense of it. |
41:9 |
Then
the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me
now; |
41:10 |
Pharaoh
had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of
the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker; |
41:11 |
And
we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special
sense. |
41:12 |
And
there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our
dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them. |
41:13 |
And
it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was
put to death by hanging. |
41:14 |
Then
Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when
his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh. |
41:15 |
And
Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the
sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense
of a dream when it is put before you. |
41:16 |
Then
Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh. |
41:17 |
Then
Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile: |
41:18 |
And
out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the
river-grass; |
41:19 |
Then
after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any
I ever saw in the land of Egypt; |
41:20 |
And
the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; |
41:21 |
And
even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I
came out of my sleep. |
41:22 |
And
again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one
stem: |
41:23 |
And
then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming
up after them: |
41:24 |
And
the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this
dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense
of it. |
41:25 |
Then
Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to
Pharaoh what he is about to do. |
41:26 |
The
seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven
years: the two have the same sense. |
41:27 |
The
seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and
the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years
when there will be no food. |
41:28 |
As
I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to
do. |
41:29 |
Seven
years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt; |
41:30 |
And
after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the
memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made
waste by the bad years; |
41:31 |
And
men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come
after, for it will be very bitter. |
41:32 |
And
this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will
quickly make it come about. |
41:33 |
And
now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him
in authority over the land of Egypt. |
41:34 |
Let
Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in
store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years. |
41:35 |
And
let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of
grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep
it. |
41:36 |
And
let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which
are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through
need of food. |
41:37 |
And this
seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants. |
41:38 |
Then
Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in
whom is the spirit of God? |
41:39 |
And
Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there
is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you: |
41:40 |
You,
then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word:
only as king will I be greater than you. |
41:41 |
And
Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt. |
41:42 |
Then
Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he
had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his
neck; |
41:43 |
And
he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went
before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of
Egypt. |
41:44 |
Then
Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do
anything in all the land of Egypt. |
41:45 |
And
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath,
the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went
through all the land of Egypt. |
41:46 |
Now
Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And
Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land
of Egypt. |
41:47 |
Now in
the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses. |
41:48 |
And
Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of
food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up
in the town. |
41:49 |
So
he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store
that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured. |
41:50 |
And
before the time of need, Joseph had two sons, to whom Asenath, the daughter
of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth. |
41:51 |
And
to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from
me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house. |
41:52 |
And
to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit
in the land of my sorrow. |
41:53 |
And so the
seven good years in Egypt came to an end. |
41:54 |
Then
came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every
other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was
bread. |
41:55 |
And
when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to
Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever
he says to you, do it. |
41:56 |
And
everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his
store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need
of food in the land of Egypt. |
41:57 |
And
all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over
all the earth. |
42:1 |
Now
Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you
looking at one another? |
42:2 |
And
he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get
grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours. |
42:3 |
So
Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt. |
42:4 |
But
Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he
said, that some evil might come to him. |
42:5 |
And
the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very
short of food in the land of Canaan. |
42:6 |
Now
Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to
all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went
down on their faces to the earth. |
42:7 |
And
when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made
himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come
from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food. |
42:8 |
Now
though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he
was. |
42:9 |
Then
the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them,
You have come secretly to see how poor the land is. |
42:10 |
And
they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get
food. |
42:11 |
We
are all one man's sons, we are True men; we have not come with any secret
purpose. |
42:12 |
And
he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is. |
42:13 |
Then
they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land
of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead. |
42:14 |
And
Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose; |
42:15 |
But
in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not
go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here. |
42:16 |
Send
one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in
prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by
the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret. |
42:17 |
So he
put them in prison for three days. |
42:18 |
And
on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives:
for I am a god-fearing man: |
42:19 |
If
you are True men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take
grain for the needs of your families; |
42:20 |
And
come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to
be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do. |
42:21 |
And
they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his
grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this
trouble has come on us. |
42:22 |
And
Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you
gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood. |
42:23 |
They
were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he
had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their
language. |
42:24 |
And
turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking
to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes. |
42:25 |
Then
Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every
man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for
the journey: which was done. |
42:26 |
Then
they put the bags of grain on their asses and went away. |
42:27 |
Now
at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass
some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag. |
42:28 |
And
he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then
their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What
is this which God has done to us? |
42:29 |
So
when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an
account of all their experiences, saying, |
42:30 |
The
man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison,
saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose. |
42:31 |
And we
said to him, We are True men, we have no evil designs; |
42:32 |
We
are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now
with our father in the land of Canaan. |
42:33 |
And
the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are True
men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the
needs of your families; |
42:34 |
And
come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you
are True men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade
in the land. |
42:35 |
And
when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's
parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money,
they were full of fear. |
42:36 |
And
Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph
is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these
things have come on me. |
42:37 |
And
Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him;
let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you. |
42:38 |
And
he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and
he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will
my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow. |
43:1 |
Now the
land was in bitter need of food. |
43:2 |
And
when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said
to them, Go again and get us a little food. |
43:3 |
And
Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come
before me again without your brother. |
43:4 |
If
you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food: |
43:5 |
But
if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You
are not to come before me if your brother is not with you. |
43:6 |
And
Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a
brother? |
43:7 |
And
they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our
family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we
had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come
back with your brother? |
43:8 |
Then
Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and
going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to
destruction. |
43:9 |
Put
him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely
back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. |
43:10 |
Truly,
if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now. |
43:11 |
Then
their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of
the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and
honey and spices and nuts: |
43:12 |
And
take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which
was put in your bags, for it may have been an error; |
43:13 |
And
take your brother and go back to the man: |
43:14 |
And
may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give
you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from
me; there is no help for it. |
43:15 |
So
they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in
their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came
before Joseph. |
43:16 |
And
when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into
my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the
middle of the day. |
43:17 |
And
the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into Joseph's house. |
43:18 |
Now
the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and
they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the
first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down
on us and take us and our asses for his use. |
43:19 |
So
they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house, |
43:20 |
And
said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food; |
43:21 |
And
when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that
every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight:
and we have it with us to give it back; |
43:22 |
As
well as more money, with which to get food: we have no idea who put our money
in our bags. |
43:23 |
Then
the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of
your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he
let Simeon come out to them. |
43:24 |
And
the servant took them into Joseph's house, and gave them water for washing
their feet; and he gave their asses food. |
43:25 |
And
they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day:
for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there. |
43:26 |
And
when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and
went down to the earth before him. |
43:27 |
And
he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were
talking to me? is he still living? |
43:28 |
And
they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they
went down on their faces before him. |
43:29 |
Then,
lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he
said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said,
God be good to you, my son. |
43:30 |
Then
Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room,
for he was overcome with weeping. |
43:31 |
Then,
after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put
food before us. |
43:32 |
And
they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for
the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not
take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean. |
43:33 |
And
they were all given their seats before him in order of birth, from the oldest
to the youngest: so that they were looking at one another in wonder. |
43:34 |
And
Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to
Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him. |
44:1 |
Then
he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much
food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in
the mouth of his bag; |
44:2 |
And
put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he
did as Joseph said. |
44:3 |
And at dawn
the men, with their asses, were sent away. |
44:4 |
And
when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the
servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them,
say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good? |
44:5 |
Is
not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge
of the future? Truly, you have done evil. |
44:6 |
So
he overtook them and said these words to them. |
44:7 |
And
they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from
your servants to do such a thing: |
44:8 |
See,
the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came
again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's
house? |
44:9 |
If
it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to
death, and we will be your lord's servants. |
44:10 |
And
he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my
servant; and you will not be responsible. |
44:11 |
Then every man
quickly got his bag down and undid it. |
44:12 |
And
he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and
the cup was in Benjamin's bag. |
44:13 |
Then
in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the
town. |
44:14 |
So
Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and
they went down on their faces before him. |
44:15 |
And
Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that
such a man as I would have power to see what is secret? |
44:16 |
And
Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in
his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your
hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen. |
44:17 |
Then
he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my
servant; and you may go back to your father in peace. |
44:18 |
Then
Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears,
and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the
place of Pharaoh to us. |
44:19 |
My
lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother? |
44:20 |
And
we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when
he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is
very dear to his father. |
44:21 |
And
you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may
see him. |
44:22 |
And
we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his
father would come to his death. |
44:23 |
But
you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you,
you will not see my face again. |
44:24 |
And
when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my
lord's words. |
44:25 |
And our
father said, Go again and get us a little food. |
44:26 |
And
we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we
may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us. |
44:27 |
And
our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons; |
44:28 |
The
one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and
from that time I have not seen him, |
44:29 |
If
now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my
grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld. |
44:30 |
If
then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life
and the boy's life are one, |
44:31 |
When
he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our
father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld. |
44:32 |
For
I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give
him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. |
44:33 |
So
now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back
with his brothers. |
44:34 |
For
how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will
come on my father? |
45:1 |
Then
Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave
orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made
clear to his brothers who he was. |
45:2 |
And
so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all
Pharaoh's house. |
45:3 |
And
Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his
brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before
him. |
45:4 |
Then
Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he
said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt. |
45:5 |
Now
do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God
sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives. |
45:6 |
For
these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years
to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain. |
45:7 |
God
sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might
become a great nation. |
45:8 |
So
now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father
to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of
Egypt. |
45:9 |
Now
go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made
me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away: |
45:10 |
The
land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and
your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all
you have: |
45:11 |
And
there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in
need, for there are still five bad years to come. |
45:12 |
Now
truly, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my
mouth which says these things to you. |
45:13 |
Give
my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come
back quickly with my father. |
45:14 |
Then,
weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on
Joseph's neck. |
45:15 |
Then
he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his
brothers had no fear of talking to him. |
45:16 |
And
news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and it was said that
Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed good to Pharaoh and his
servants. |
45:17 |
And
Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts
and go back to the land of Canaan; |
45:18 |
And
get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you
all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food. |
45:19 |
And
say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your
little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back. |
45:20 |
And
take no thought for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is
yours. |
45:21 |
And
the children of Israel did as he said; and Joseph gave them carts as had been
ordered by Pharaoh, and food for their journey. |
45:22 |
To
every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing. |
45:23 |
And
to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs,
and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the
journey. |
45:24 |
And
he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no
argument on the road. |
45:25 |
So
they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father
Jacob. |
45:26 |
And
they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt.
And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it. |
45:27 |
And
they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he
saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to
him: |
45:28 |
And
Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see
him before my death. |
46:1 |
And
Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he
made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. |
46:2 |
And
God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am
I. |
46:3 |
And
he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for
I will make a great nation of you there: |
46:4 |
I
will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and
at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes. |
46:5 |
Then
Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and
their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for
them. |
46:6 |
And
they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of
Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: |
46:7 |
His
sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his
family he took with him into Egypt. |
46:8 |
And
these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob
and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; |
46:9 |
And
the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi; |
46:10 |
And
the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul,
the son of a woman of Canaan; |
46:11 |
And
the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; |
46:12 |
And
the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and
Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez
were Hezron and Hamul. |
46:13 |
And the
sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; |
46:14 |
And the sons of
Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel; |
46:15 |
All
these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom
Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number. |
46:16 |
And
the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and
Areli; |
46:17 |
And
the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their
sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. |
46:18 |
These
are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob
had these sixteen children by her. |
46:19 |
The sons of
Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. |
46:20 |
And
Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the
daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. |
46:21 |
And
the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi
and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. |
46:22 |
All
these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen
persons. |
46:23 |
And the son of Dan
was Hushim. |
46:24 |
And
the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. |
46:25 |
These
were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven
persons. |
46:26 |
All
the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were
sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons. |
46:27 |
And
the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the
family of Jacob came into Egypt. |
46:28 |
Now
he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they
came to the land of Goshen. |
46:29 |
And
Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his
father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck,
weeping. |
46:30 |
And
Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for
death. |
46:31 |
And
Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give
the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from
the land of Canaan, have come to me; |
46:32 |
And
these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their
flocks and their herds and all they have. |
46:33 |
Now
when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business? |
46:34 |
You
are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up
to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of
Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of
the Egyptians. |
47:1 |
Then
Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks
and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the
land of Goshen. |
47:2 |
And
he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh. |
47:3 |
And
Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are
keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us. |
47:4 |
And
they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we
have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants
make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen. |
47:5 |
And
Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are
any able men among them, put them over my cattle. |
47:6 |
And
Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the
ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers
have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and
your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place. |
47:7 |
Then
Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his
blessing. |
47:8 |
And
Pharaoh said to him, How old are you? |
47:9 |
And
Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small
in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than
the years of the wanderings of my fathers. |
47:10 |
And
Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him. |
47:11 |
And
Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage
in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as
Pharaoh had given orders. |
47:12 |
And
Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people,
giving them food for the needs of their families. |
47:13 |
Now
there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan
were wasted from need of food. |
47:14 |
And
all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for
grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house. |
47:15 |
And
when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to
Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before
your eyes? for we have no more money. |
47:16 |
And
Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your
cattle if your money is all gone. |
47:17 |
So
they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their
horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in
exchange for their cattle. |
47:18 |
And
when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We
may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all
the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but
our bodies and our land; |
47:19 |
Are
we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our
land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and
give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste. |
47:20 |
So
Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his
land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land
became Pharaoh's. |
47:21 |
And
as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of
Egypt to the other. |
47:22 |
Only
he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given
them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give
up their land. |
47:23 |
Then
Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the
property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields. |
47:24 |
And
when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four
parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little
ones. |
47:25 |
And
they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in
your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. |
47:26 |
Then
Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the
fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his. |
47:27 |
And
so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got
property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth. |
47:28 |
And
Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of
his life were a hundred and forty-seven. |
47:29 |
And
the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to
him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath
that you will not put me to rest in Egypt; |
47:30 |
But
when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest
in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so. |
47:31 |
And
he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave
worship on the bed's head. |
48:1 |
Now
after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took
with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim. |
48:2 |
And
when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel,
getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed. |
48:3 |
And
Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in
the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, |
48:4 |
And
said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will
make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed
after you to be their heritage for ever. |
48:5 |
And
now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are
mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon
are. |
48:6 |
And
any other offspring which you have after them, will be yours, and will be
named after their brothers in their heritage. |
48:7 |
And
as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we
were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the
road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. |
48:8 |
Then
Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these? |
48:9 |
And
Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this
land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a
blessing. |
48:10 |
Now
because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to
see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them
in his arms. |
48:11 |
And
Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in
his mercy has let me see you and your children. |
48:12 |
Then
Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the
earth. |
48:13 |
Then
taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and
with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near
him. |
48:14 |
And
Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the
younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on
purpose, for Manasseh was the older. |
48:15 |
And
he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham
and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till
this day, |
48:16 |
The
angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these
children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be
given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth. |
48:17 |
Now
when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of
Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would
have put it on the head of Manasseh. |
48:18 |
And
Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your
right hand on his head. |
48:19 |
But
his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will
certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be
greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations. |
48:20 |
So
he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing
in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and
he put Ephraim before Manasseh. |
48:21 |
Then
Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you,
guiding you back to the land of your fathers. |
48:22 |
And
I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage,
which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow. |
49:1 |
And
Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may
give you news of your fate in future times. |
49:2 |
Come
near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. |
49:3 |
Reuben,
you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and
first in power: |
49:4 |
But
because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you
went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. |
49:5 |
Simeon
and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. |
49:6 |
Take
no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their
meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure
even oxen were wounded. |
49:7 |
A
curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was
cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from
their places in Israel. |
49:8 |
To
you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of
your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. |
49:9 |
Judah
is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now
he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom
will his sleep be broken? |
49:10 |
The
rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a
law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put
themselves under his rule. |
49:11 |
Knotting
his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his
robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: |
49:12 |
His
eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk. |
49:13 |
The
resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for
ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon. |
49:14 |
Issachar is
a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: |
49:15 |
And
he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put
weights on his back and became a servant. |
49:16 |
Dan
will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. |
49:17 |
May
Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's
foot so that the horseman has a fall. |
49:18 |
I
have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord. |
49:19 |
Gad,
an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their
flight. |
49:20 |
Asher's
bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings. |
49:21 |
Naphtali is a
roe let loose, giving fair young ones. |
49:22 |
Joseph
is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; |
49:23 |
He
was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly
wounding him: |
49:24 |
But
their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut
by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: |
49:25 |
Even
by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all,
who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the
deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the
fertile body: |
49:26 |
Blessings
of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and
the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the
crown of him who was separate from his brothers. |
49:27 |
Benjamin
is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the
evening he makes division of what he has taken. |
49:28 |
These
are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to
them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing. |
49:29 |
And
he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my
fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, |
49:30 |
In
the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which
Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. |
49:31 |
There
Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and
Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest. |
49:32 |
In
the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth. |
49:33 |
And
when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself
on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people. |
50:1 |
And
Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him. |
50:2 |
And
Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make
his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did
so. |
50:3 |
And
the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was
weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. |
50:4 |
And
when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of
Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: |
50:5 |
My
father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the
place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go
and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. |
50:6 |
And
Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to
him. |
50:7 |
So
Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went
all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the
chiefs of the land of Egypt, |
50:8 |
And
all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only
their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from
the land of Goshen. |
50:9 |
And
carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. |
50:10 |
And
they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there
they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping
for their father for seven days. |
50:11 |
And
when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of
Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the
place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan. |
50:12 |
So
his sons did as he had given them orders to do: |
50:13 |
For
they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock
in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a
resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre. |
50:14 |
And
when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had
gone with him, went back to Egypt. |
50:15 |
Now
after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may
be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us
punishment for all the evil which we did to him. |
50:16 |
So
they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us
orders, saying, |
50:17 |
You
are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and
the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the
servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph
was overcome with weeping. |
50:18 |
Then
his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your
servants. |
50:19 |
And Joseph
said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God? |
50:20 |
As
for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy
outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today. |
50:21 |
So
now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he
gave them comfort with kind words. |
50:22 |
Now
Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of
Joseph's life were a hundred and ten. |
50:23 |
And
Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees. |
50:24 |
Then
Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep
you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his
oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. |
50:25 |
Then
Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly
give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here. |
50:26 |
So
Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made
his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt. |
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