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11 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth .

12 And the earth was without form and void and darkness was
upon the face of the deep And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters .

13 And God said Let there be light and there was light .

14 And God saw the light that it was good and God divided the
light from the darkness .

15 And God called the light Day and the darkness he called
Night And the evening and the morning were the first day .

16 And God said Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters and let it divide the waters from the waters .

17 And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament and it was so .

18 And God called the firmament Heaven And the evening and the
morning were the second day .

19 And God said Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was
so .

110 And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas and God saw that it was
good .

111 And God said Let the earth bring forth grass the herb
yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind
whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so .

112 And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed
after his kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in
itself after his kind and God saw that it was good .

113 And the evening and the morning were the third day .

114 And God said Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for
signs and for seasons and for days and years .

115 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth and it was so .

116 And God made two great lights the greater light to rule the
day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars
also .

117 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth .

118 And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide
the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good .

119 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day .

120 And God said Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven .

121 And God created great whales and every living creature that
moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their
kind and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it
was good .

122 And God blessed them saying Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the waters in the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth .

123 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day .

124 And God said Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth
after his kind and it was so .

125 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and
cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind and God saw that it was good .

126 And God said Let us make man in our image after our
likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the
earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
.

127 So God created man in his own image in the image of God
created he him male and female created he them .

128 And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth .

129 And God said Behold I have given you every herb bearing
seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in
the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall
be for meat .

130 And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the
air and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein
there is life I have given every green herb for meat and it was
so .

131 And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was
very good And the evening and the morning were the sixth day .

* 21 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the
host of them .

22 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made .

23 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made .

24 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the
earth and the heavens .

25 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and
every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till
the ground .

26 But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the
whole face of the ground .

27 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a
living soul .

28 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there
he put the man whom he had formed .

29 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil .

210 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from
thence it was parted and became into four heads .

211 The name of the first is Pison that is it which compasseth
the whole land of Havilah where there is gold .

212 And the gold of that land is good there is bdellium and the
onyx stone .

213 And the name of the second river is Gihon the same is it
that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia .

214 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel that is it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria And the fourth river is
Euphrates .

215 And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it .

216 And the LORD God commanded the man saying Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat .

217 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou
shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die .

218 And the LORD God said It is not good that the man should be
alone I will make him an help meet for him .

219 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of
the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam
to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every
living creature that was the name thereof .

220 And Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the
air and to every beast of the field but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him .

221 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and
he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh
instead thereof .

222 And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man made he a
woman and brought her unto the man .

223 And Adam said This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man
.

224 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and
shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh .

225 And they were both naked the man and his wife and were not
ashamed .

* 31 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the
field which the LORD God had made And he said unto the woman Yea
hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden .

32 And the woman said unto the serpent We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden .

33 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye
touch it lest ye die .

34 And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die
.

35 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your
eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and
evil .

36 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and
that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to
make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave
also unto her husband with her and he did eat .

37 And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that
they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made
themselves aprons .

38 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees
of the garden .

39 And the LORD God called unto Adam and said unto him Where
art thou .

310 And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and I was
afraid because I was naked and I hid myself .

311 And he said Who told thee that thou wast naked Hast thou
eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest
not eat .

312 And the man said The woman whom thou gavest to be with me
she gave me of the tree and I did eat .

313 And the LORD God said unto the woman What is this that thou
hast done And the woman said The serpent beguiled me and I did
eat .

314 And the LORD God said unto the serpent Because thou hast
done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast
of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou
eat all the days of thy life .

315 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and
between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou
shalt bruise his heel .

316 Unto the woman he said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and
thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee .

317 And unto Adam he said Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I
commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the
ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life .

318 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field .

319 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou
return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust
thou art and unto dust shalt thou return .

320 And Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the
mother of all living .

321 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats
of skins and clothed them .

322 And the LORD God said Behold the man is become as one of us
to know good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and
take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever .

323 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken .

324 So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every
way to keep the way of the tree of life .

* 41 And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bare Cain
and said I have gotten a man from the LORD .

42 And she again bare his brother Abel And Abel was a keeper of
sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground .

43 And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD .

44 And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
offering .

45 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect And
Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell .

46 And the LORD said unto Cain Why art thou wroth and why is
thy countenance fallen .

47 If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou
doest not well sin lieth at the door And unto thee shall be his
desire and thou shalt rule over him .

48 And Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass
when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his
brother and slew him .

49 And the LORD said unto Cain Where is Abel thy brother And he
said I know not Am I my brother's keeper .

410 And he said What hast thou done the voice of thy brother's
blood crieth unto me from the ground .

411 And now art thou cursed from the earth which hath opened
her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand .

412 When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be
in the earth .

413 And Cain said unto the LORD My punishment is greater than I
can bear .

414 Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the earth and from thy face shall I be hid and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to pass
that every one that findeth me shall slay me .

415 And the LORD said unto him Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold And the LORD set a
mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him .

416 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt
in the land of Nod on the east of Eden .

417 And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bare Enoch and
he builded a city and called the name of the city after the name
of his son Enoch .

418 And unto Enoch was born Irad and Irad begat Mehujael and
Mehujael begat Methusael and Methusael begat Lamech .

419 And Lamech took unto him two wives the name of the one was
Adah and the name of the other Zillah .

420 And Adah bare Jabal he was the father of such as dwell in
tents and of such as have cattle .

421 And his brother's name was Jubal he was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ .

422 And Zillah she also bare Tubalcain an instructor of every
artificer in brass and iron and the sister of Tubalcain was
Naamah .

423 And Lamech said unto his wives Adah and Zillah Hear my
voice ye wives of Lamech hearken unto my speech for I have slain
a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt .

424 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold .

425 And Adam knew his wife again and she bare a son and called
his name Seth For God said she hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel whom Cain slew .

426 And to Seth to him also there was born a son and he called
his name Enos then began men to call upon the name of the LORD .

* 51 This is the book of the generations of Adam In the day
that God created man in the likeness of God made he him .

52 Male and female created he them and blessed them and called
their name Adam in the day when they were created .

53 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and begat a son
in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth .

54 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years and he begat sons and daughters .

55 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years and he died .

56 And Seth lived an hundred and five years and begat Enos .

57 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years and begat sons and daughters .

58 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years
and he died .

59 And Enos lived ninety years and begat Cainan .

510 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and
fifteen years and begat sons and daughters .

511 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years
and he died .

512 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel .

513 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred
and forty years and begat sons and daughters .

514 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years
and he died .

515 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years and begat Jared .

516 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years and begat sons and daughters .

517 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety
and five years and he died .

518 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years and he begat
Enoch .

519 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years
and begat sons and daughters .

520 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
years and he died .

521 And Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat Methuselah .

522 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years and begat sons and daughters .

523 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
years .

524 And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him .

525 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years and
begat Lamech .

526 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years and begat sons and daughters .

527 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
nine years and he died .

528 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years and begat
a son .

529 And he called his name Noah saying This same shall comfort
us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the
ground which the LORD hath cursed .

530 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety
and five years and begat sons and daughters .

531 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years and he died .

532 And Noah was five hundred years old and Noah begat Shem Ham
and Japheth .

* 61 And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth and daughters were born unto them .

62 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
fair and they took them wives of all which they chose .

63 And the LORD said My spirit shall not always strive with man
for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years .

64 There were giants in the earth in those days and also after
that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and
they bare children to them the same became mighty men which were
of old men of renown .

65 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually .

66 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth
and it grieved him at his heart .

67 And the LORD said I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping
thing and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have
made them .

68 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD .

69 These are the generations of Noah Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God .

610 And Noah begat three sons Shem Ham and Japheth .

611 The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was
filled with violence .

612 And God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth .

613 And God said unto Noah The end of all flesh is come before
me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold
I will destroy them with the earth .

614 Make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shalt thou make in
the ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch .

615 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of The
length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits the breadth of
it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits .

616 A window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt
thou finish it above and the door of the ark shalt thou set in
the side thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou
make it .

617 And behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from
under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die .

618 But with thee will I establish my covenant and thou shalt
come into the ark thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons'
wives with thee .

619 And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee they
shall be male and female .

620 Of fowls after their kind and of cattle after their kind of
every creeping thing of the earth after his kind two of every
sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive .

621 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten and thou
shalt gather it to thee and it shall be for food for thee and
for them .

622 Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him so
did he .

* 71 And the LORD said unto Noah Come thou and all thy house
into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation .

72 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the
male and his female and of beasts that are not clean by two the
male and his female .

73 Of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and the female
to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth .

74 For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights and every living substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth .

75 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him
.

76 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth .

77 And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons'
wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood .

78 Of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and of
fowls and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth .

79 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark the male
and the female as God had commanded Noah .

710 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the
flood were upon the earth .

711 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life in the second
month the seventeenth day of the month the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven
were opened .

712 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights
.

713 In the selfsame day entered Noah and Shem and Ham and
Japheth the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of
his sons with them into the ark .

714 They and every beast after his kind and all the cattle
after their kind and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind and every fowl after his kind every bird of
every sort .

715 And they went in unto Noah into the ark two and two of all
flesh wherein is the breath of life .

716 And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh
as God had commanded him and the LORD shut him in .

717 And the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters
increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth
.

718 And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon
the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters .

719 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all
the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered .

720 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail and the
mountains were covered .

721 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth both of fowl
and of cattle and of beast and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth and every man .

722 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life of all that
was in the dry land died .

723 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground both man and cattle and the creeping things
and the fowl of the heaven and they were destroyed from the
earth and Noah only remained alive and they that were with him
in the ark .

724 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and
fifty days .

* 81 And God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the
cattle that was with him in the ark and God made a wind to pass
over the earth and the waters asswaged .

82 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained .

83 And the waters returned from off the earth continually and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated .

84 And the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth
day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat .

85 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month
in the tenth month on the first day of the month were the tops
of the mountains seen .

86 And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made .

87 And he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until
the waters were dried up from off the earth .

88 Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground .

89 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she
returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face
of the whole earth then he put forth his hand and took her and
pulled her in unto him into the ark .

810 And he stayed yet other seven days and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark .

811 And the dove came in to him in the evening and lo in her
mouth was an olive leaf plucked off so Noah knew that the waters
were abated from off the earth .

812 And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove
which returned not again unto him any more .

813 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year in
the first month the first day of the month the waters were dried
up from off the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark
and looked and behold the face of the ground was dry .

814 And in the second month on the seven and twentieth day of
the month was the earth dried .

815 And God spake unto Noah saying .

816 Go forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy
sons' wives with thee .

817 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee
of all flesh both of fowl and of cattle and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth that they may breed
abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the
earth .

818 And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons'
wives with him .

819 Every beast every creeping thing and every fowl and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds went forth
out of the ark .

820 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every
clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings
on the altar .

821 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and the LORD said in
his heart I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth
neither will I again smite any more every thing living as I have
done .

822 While the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest and cold and
heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease .

* 91 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them Be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth .

92 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air upon all that
moveth upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into
your hand are they delivered .

93 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as
the green herb have I given you all things .

94 But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof
shall ye not eat .

95 And surely your blood of your lives will I require at the
hand of every beast will I require it and at the hand of man at
the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man .

96 Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed
for in the image of God made he man .

97 And you be ye fruitful and multiply bring forth abundantly
in the earth and multiply therein .

98 And God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him saying .

99 And I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your
seed after you .

910 And with every living creature that is with you of the fowl
of the cattle and of every beast of the earth with you from all
that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth .

911 And I will establish my covenant with you neither shall all
flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood neither shall
there any more be a flood to destroy the earth .

912 And God said This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you
for perpetual generations .

913 I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of
a covenant between me and the earth .

914 And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the
earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud .

915 And I will remember my covenant which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh and the waters shall no
more become a flood to destroy all flesh .

916 And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth .

917 And God said unto Noah This is the token of the covenant
which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth .

918 And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem
and Ham and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan .

919 These are the three sons of Noah and of them was the whole
earth overspread .

920 And Noah began to be an husbandman and he planted a
vineyard .

921 And he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was
uncovered within his tent .

922 And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his
father and told his two brethren without .

923 And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both
their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of
their father and their faces were backward and they saw not
their father's nakedness .

924 And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son
had done unto him .

925 And he said Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren .

926 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Shem and Canaan
shall be his servant .

927 God shall enlarge Japheth and he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant .

928 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
years .

929 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years
and he died .

* 101 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah Shem
Ham and Japheth and unto them were sons born after the flood .

102 The sons of Japheth Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and
Tubal and Meshech and Tiras .

103 And the sons of Gomer Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah .

104 And the sons of Javan Elishah and Tarshish Kittim and
Dodanim .

105 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands every one after his tongue after their families in their
nations .

106 And the sons of Ham Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan .

107 And the sons of Cush Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah
and Sabtechah and the sons of Raamah Sheba and Dedan .

108 And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the
earth .

109 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD wherefore it is said
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD .

1010 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and
Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar .

1011 Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded Nineveh and
the city Rehoboth and Calah .

1012 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah the same is a great
city .

1013 And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and
Naphtuhim .

1014 And Pathrusim and Casluhim out of whom came Philistim and
Caphtorim .

1015 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn and Heth .

1016 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgasite .

1017 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite .

1018 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad .

1019 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as thou
comest to Gerar unto Gaza as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah
and Admah and Zeboim even unto Lasha .

1020 These are the sons of Ham after their families after their
tongues in their countries and in their nations .

1021 Unto Shem also the father of all the children of Eber the
brother of Japheth the elder even to him were children born .

1022 The children of Shem Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud
and Aram .

1023 And the children of Aram Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash .

1024 And Arphaxad begat Salah and Salah begat Eber .

1025 And unto Eber were born two sons the name of one was Peleg
for in his days was the earth divided and his brother's name was
Joktan .

1026 And Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and
Jerah .

1027 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah .

1028 And Obal and Abimael and Sheba .

1029 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab all these were the sons of
Joktan .

1030 And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto
Sephar a mount of the east .

1031 These are the sons of Shem after their families after
their tongues in their lands after their nations .

1032 These are the families of the sons of Noah after their
generations in their nations and by these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood .

* 111 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech
.

112 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there .

113 And they said one to another Go to let us make brick and
burn them thoroughly And they had brick for stone and slime had
they for mortar .

114 And they said Go to let us build us a city and a tower
whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth .

115 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which
the children of men builded .

116 And the LORD said Behold the people is one and they have
all one language and this they begin to do and now nothing will
be restrained from them which they have imagined to do .

117 Go to let us go down and there confound their language that
they may not understand one another's speech .

118 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth and they left off to build the city .

119 Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence
did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth
.

1110 These are the generations of Shem Shem was an hundred
years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood .

1111 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years
and begat sons and daughters .

1112 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begat Salah .

1113 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and
three years and begat sons and daughters .

1114 And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber .

1115 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years and begat sons and daughters .

1116 And Eber lived four and thirty years and begat Peleg .

1117 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years and begat sons and daughters .

1118 And Peleg lived thirty years and begat Reu .

1119 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years and begat sons and daughters .

1120 And Reu lived two and thirty years and begat Serug .

1121 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years and begat sons and daughters .

1122 And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor .

1123 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years and
begat sons and daughters .

1124 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begat Terah .

1125 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen years and begat sons and daughters .

1126 And Terah lived seventy years and begat Abram Nahor and
Haran .

1127 Now these are the generations of Terah Terah begat Abram
Nahor and Haran and Haran begat Lot .

1128 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity in Ur of the Chaldees .

1129 And Abram and Nahor took them wives the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah the daughter
of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah .

1130 But Sarai was barren she had no child .

1131 And Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran his
son's son and Sarai his daughter in law his son Abram's wife and
they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the
land of Canaan and they came unto Haran and dwelt there .

1132 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years and
Terah died in Haran .

* 121 Now the LORD had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy
country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a
land that I will show thee .

122 And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless
thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing .

123 And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that
curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed .

124 So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken unto him and Lot
went with him and Abram was seventy and five years old when he
departed out of Haran .

125 And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and
all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran and they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan and into the land of Canaan they came .

126 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem
unto the plain of Moreh And the Canaanite was then in the land .

127 And the LORD appeared unto Abram and said Unto thy seed
will I give this land and there builded he an altar unto the
LORD who appeared unto him .

128 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel and pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Hai on
the east and there he builded an altar unto the LORD and called
upon the name of the LORD .

129 And Abram journeyed going on still toward the south .

1210 And there was a famine in the land and Abram went down
into Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was grievous in the
land .

1211 And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into
Egypt that he said unto Sarai his wife Behold now I know that
thou art a fair woman to look upon .

1212 Therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall
see thee that they shall say This is his wife and they will kill
me but they will save thee alive .

1213 Say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well
with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee .

1214 And it came to pass that when Abram was come into Egypt
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .

1215 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her and commended her
before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house .

1216 And he entreated Abram well for her sake and he had sheep
and oxen and he asses and menservants and maidservants and she
asses and camels .

1217 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife .

1218 And Pharaoh called Abram and said What is this that thou
hast done unto me why didst thou not tell me that she was thy
wife .

1219 Why saidst thou She is my sister so I might have taken her
to me to wife now therefore behold thy wife take her and go thy
way .

1220 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent
him away and his wife and all that he had .

* 131 And Abram went up out of Egypt he and his wife and all
that he had and Lot with him into the south .

132 And Abram was very rich in cattle in silver and in gold .

133 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning between
Bethel and Hai .

134 Unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the
first and there Abram called on the name of the LORD .

135 And Lot also which went with Abram had flocks and herds and
tents .

136 And the land was not able to bear them that they might
dwell together for their substance was great so that they could
not dwell together .

137 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's
cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then in the land .

138 And Abram said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee
between me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen for
we be brethren .

139 Is not the whole land before thee separate thyself I pray
thee from me if thou wilt take the left hand then I will go to
the right or if thou depart to the right hand then I will go to
the left .

1310 And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of
Jordan that it was well watered every where before the LORD
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah even as the garden of the LORD like
the land of Egypt as thou comest unto Zoar .

1311 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan and Lot
journeyed east and they separated themselves the one from the
other .

1312 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan and Lot dwelled in the
cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom .

1313 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the
LORD exceedingly .

1314 And the LORD said unto Abram after that Lot was separated
from him Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where
thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward .

1315 For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it
and to thy seed for ever .

1316 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed
also be numbered .

1317 Arise walk through the land in the length of it and in the
breadth of it for I will give it unto thee .

1318 Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the
plain of Mamre which is in Hebron and built there an altar unto
the LORD .

* 141 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of
Shinar Arioch king of Ellasar Chedorlaomer king of Elam and
Tidal king of nations .

142 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah Shinab king of Admah and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim and the king of Bela which is Zoar .

143 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim which
is the salt sea .

144 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled .

145 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings
that were with him and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim
and the Zuzims in Ham and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim .

146 And the Horites in their mount Seir unto Elparan which is
by the wilderness .

147 And they returned and came to Enmishpat which is Kadesh and
smote all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites
that dwelt in Hazezontamar .

148 And there went out the king of Sodom and the king of
Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the
king of Bela the same is Zoar and they joined battle with them
in the vale of Siddim .

149 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam and with Tidal king of
nations and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar
four kings with five .

1410 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits and the kings
of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there and they that remained
fled to the mountain .

1411 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all
their victuals and went their way .

1412 And they took Lot Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom
and his goods and departed .

1413 And there came one that had escaped and told Abram the
Hebrew for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite brother of
Eshcol and brother of Aner and these were confederate with Abram
.

1414 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive he
armed his trained servants born in his own house three hundred
and eighteen and pursued them unto Dan .

1415 And he divided himself against them he and his servants by
night and smote them and pursued them unto Hobah which is on the
left hand of Damascus .

1416 And he brought back all the goods and also brought again
his brother Lot and his goods and the women also and the people
.

1417 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his
return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that
were with him at the valley of Shaveh which is the king's dale .

1418 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine
and he was the priest of the most high God .

1419 And he blessed him and said Blessed be Abram of the most
high God possessor of heaven and earth .

1420 And blessed be the most high God which hath delivered
thine enemies into thy hand And he gave him tithes of all .

1421 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram Give me the persons
and take the goods to thyself .

1422 And Abram said to the king of Sodom I have lift up mine
hand unto the LORD the most high God the possessor of heaven and
earth .

1423 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet
and that I will not take any thing that is thine lest thou
shouldest say I have made Abram rich .

1424 Save only that which the young men have eaten and the
portion of the men which went with me Aner Eshcol and Mamre let
them take their portion .

* 151 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram
in a vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield and thy
exceeding great reward .

152 And Abram said Lord GOD what wilt thou give me seeing I go
childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus .

153 And Abram said Behold to me thou hast given no seed and lo
one born in my house is mine heir .

154 And behold the word of the LORD came unto him saying This
shall not be thine heir but he that shall come forth out of
thine own bowels shall be thine heir .

155 And he brought him forth abroad and said Look now toward
heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them and he
said unto him So shall thy seed be .

156 And he believed in the LORD and he counted it to him for
righteousness .

157 And he said unto him I am the LORD that brought thee out of
Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it .

158 And he said Lord GOD whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it .

159 And he said unto him Take me an heifer of three years old
and a she goat of three years old and a ram of three years old
and a turtledove and a young pigeon .

1510 And he took unto him all these and divided them in the
midst and laid each piece one against another but the birds
divided he not .

1511 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases Abram drove
them away .

1512 And when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon
Abram and lo an horror of great darkness fell upon him .

1513 And he said unto Abram Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve
them and they shall afflict them four hundred years .

1514 And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge
and afterward shall they come out with great substance .

1515 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be
buried in a good old age .

1516 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full .

1517 And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was
dark behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces .

1518 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram saying
Unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt
unto the great river the river Euphrates .

1519 The Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites .

1520 And the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaims .

1521 And the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites
and the Jebusites .

* 161 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children and she had
an handmaid an Egyptian whose name was Hagar .

162 And Sarai said unto Abram Behold now the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing I pray thee go in unto my maid it may
be that I may obtain children by her And Abram hearkened to the
voice of Sarai .

163 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan and gave
her to her husband Abram to be his wife .

164 And he went in unto Hagar and she conceived and when she
saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes
.

165 And Sarai said unto Abram My wrong be upon thee I have
given my maid into thy bosom and when she saw that she had
conceived I was despised in her eyes the LORD judge between me
and thee .

166 But Abram said unto Sarai Behold thy maid is in thy hand do
to her as it pleaseth thee And when Sarai dealt hardly with her
she fled from her face .

167 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water
in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to Shur .

168 And he said Hagar Sarai's maid whence camest thou and
whither wilt thou go And she said I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai .

169 And the angel of the LORD said unto her Return to thy
mistress and submit thyself under her hands .

1610 And the angel of the LORD said unto her I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude
.

1611 And the angel of the LORD said unto her Behold thou art
with child and shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ishmael
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction .

1612 And he will be a wild man his hand will be against every
man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren .

1613 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her
Thou God seest me for she said Have I also here looked after him
that seeth me .

1614 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi behold it is
between Kadesh and Bered .

1615 And Hagar bare Abram a son and Abram called his son's name
which Hagar bare Ishmael .

1616 And Abram was fourscore and six years old when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram .

* 171 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine the LORD
appeared to Abram and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk
before me and be thou perfect .

172 And I will make my covenant between me and thee and will
multiply thee exceedingly .

173 And Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying .

174 As for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be
a father of many nations .

175 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram but thy
name shall be Abraham for a father of many nations have I made
thee .

176 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful and I will make
nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee .

177 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and
thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee .

178 And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the
land wherein thou art a stranger all the land of Canaan for an
everlasting possession and I will be their God .

179 And God said unto Abraham Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore thou and thy seed after thee in their generations .

1710 This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you
and thy seed after thee Every man child among you shall be
circumcised .

1711 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you .

1712 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you every man child in your generations he that is born in the
house or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy
seed .

1713 He that is born in thy house and he that is bought with
thy money must needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in
your flesh for an everlasting covenant .

1714 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised that soul shall be cut off from his
people he hath broken my covenant .

1715 And God said unto Abraham As for Sarai thy wife thou shalt
not call her name Sarai but Sarah shall her name be .

1716 And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her yea I
will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations kings of
people shall be of her .

1717 Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in
his heart Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred
years old and shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear .

1718 And Abraham said unto God O that Ishmael might live before
thee .

1719 And God said Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed
and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed
after him .

1720 And as for Ishmael I have heard thee Behold I have blessed
him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly
twelve princes shall he beget and I will make him a great nation
.

1721 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac which Sarah
shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year .

1722 And he left off talking with him and God went up from
Abraham .

1723 And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in
his house and all that were bought with his money every male
among the men of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of
their foreskin in the selfsame day as God had said unto him .

1724 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .

1725 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .

1726 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael
his son .

1727 And all the men of his house born in the house and bought
with money of the stranger were circumcised with him .

* 181 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre and
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day .

182 And he lift up his eyes and looked and lo three men stood
by him and when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent
door and bowed himself toward the ground .

183 And said My Lord if now I have found favour in thy sight
pass not away I pray thee from thy servant .

184 Let a little water I pray you be fetched and wash your feet
and rest yourselves under the tree .

185 And I will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort ye your
hearts after that ye shall pass on for therefore are ye come to
your servant And they said So do as thou hast said .

186 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah and said Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal knead it and make
cakes upon the hearth .

187 And Abraham ran unto the herd and fetched a calf tender and
good and gave it unto a young man and he hasted to dress it .

188 And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had
dressed and set it before them and he stood by them under the
tree and they did eat .

189 And they said unto him Where is Sarah thy wife And he said
Behold in the tent .

1810 And he said I will certainly return unto thee according to
the time of life and lo Sarah thy wife shall have a son And
Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him .

1811 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age
and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women .

1812 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself saying After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure my lord being old also .

1813 And the LORD said unto Abraham Wherefore did Sarah laugh
saying Shall I of a surety bear a child which am old .

1814 Is any thing too hard for the LORD At the time appointed I
will return unto thee according to the time of life and Sarah
shall have a son .

1815 Then Sarah denied saying I laughed not for she was afraid
And he said Nay but thou didst laugh .

1816 And the men rose up from thence and looked toward Sodom
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way .

1817 And the LORD said Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do .

1818 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him
.

1819 For I know him that he will command his children and his
household after him and they shall keep the way of the LORD to
do justice and judgment that the LORD may bring upon Abraham
that which he hath spoken of him .

1820 And the LORD said Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
great and because their sin is very grievous .

1821 I will go down now and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and
if not I will know .

1822 And the men turned their faces from thence and went toward
Sodom but Abraham stood yet before the LORD .

1823 And Abraham drew near and said Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked .

1824 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city wilt
thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein .

1825 That be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the
righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as
the wicked that be far from thee Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right .

1826 And the LORD said If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city then I will spare all the place for their sakes
.

1827 And Abraham answered and said Behold now I have taken upon
me to speak unto the Lord which am but dust and ashes .

1828 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous
wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five And he said If I
find there forty and five I will not destroy it .

1829 And he spake unto him yet again and said Peradventure
there shall be forty found there And he said I will not do it
for forty's sake .

1830 And he said unto him Oh let not the Lord be angry and I
will speak Peradventure there shall thirty be found there And he
said I will not do it if I find thirty there .

1831 And he said Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto
the Lord Peradventure there shall be twenty found there And he
said I will not destroy it for twenty's sake .

1832 And he said Oh let not the Lord be angry and I will speak
yet but this once Peradventure ten shall be found there And he
said I will not destroy it for ten's sake .

1833 And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham and Abraham returned unto his place .

* 191 And there came two angels to Sodom at even and Lot sat in
the gate of Sodom and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them and
he bowed himself with his face toward the ground .

192 And he said Behold now my lords turn in I pray you into
your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet and
ye shall rise up early and go on your ways And they said Nay but
we will abide in the street all night .

193 And he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto
him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did
bake unleavened bread and they did eat .

194 But before they lay down the men of the city even the men
of Sodom compassed the house round both old and young all the
people from every quarter .

195 And they called unto Lot and said unto him Where are the
men which came in to thee this night bring them out unto us that
we may know them .

196 And Lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door
after him .

197 And said I pray you brethren do not so wickedly .

198 Behold now I have two daughters which have not known man
let me I pray you bring them out unto you and do ye to them as
is good in your eyes only unto these men do nothing for
therefore came they under the shadow of my roof .

199 And they said Stand back And they said again This one
fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a judge now will
we deal worse with thee than with them And they pressed sore
upon the man even Lot and came near to break the door .

1910 But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the
house to them and shut to the door .

1911 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house
with blindness both small and great so that they wearied
themselves to find the door .

1912 And the men said unto Lot Hast thou here any besides son
in law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast
in the city bring them out of this place .

1913 For we will destroy this place because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of the LORD and the LORD hath sent
us to destroy it .

1914 And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in law which
married his daughters and said Up get you out of this place for
the LORD will destroy this city But he seemed as one that mocked
unto his sons in law .

1915 And when the morning arose then the angels hastened Lot
saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here
lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city .

1916 And while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand and
upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters
the LORD being merciful unto him and they brought him forth and
set him without the city .

1917 And it came to pass when they had brought them forth
abroad that he said Escape for thy life look not behind thee
neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest
thou be consumed .

1918 And Lot said unto them Oh not so my Lord .

1919 Behold now thy servant hath found grace in thy sight and
thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast showed unto me in
saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain lest some
evil take me and I die .

1920 Behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a
little one Oh let me escape thither is it not a little one and
my soul shall live .

1921 And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also that I will not overthrow this city for the
which thou hast spoken .

1922 Haste thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till
thou be come thither Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar .

1923 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into
Zoar .

1924 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven .

1925 And he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all
the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the
ground .

1926 But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a
pillar of salt .

1927 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where
he stood before the LORD .

1928 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the
land of the plain and beheld and lo the smoke of the country
went up as the smoke of a furnace .

1929 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the
plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst
of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot
dwelt .

1930 And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountain and
his two daughters with him for he feared to dwell in Zoar and he
dwelt in a cave he and his two daughters .

1931 And the firstborn said unto the younger Our father is old
and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the
manner of all the earth .

1932 Come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie
with him that we may preserve seed of our father .

1933 And they made their father drink wine that night and the
firstborn went in and lay with her father and he perceived not
when she lay down nor when she arose .

1934 And it came to pass on the morrow that the firstborn said
unto the younger Behold I lay yesternight with my father let us
make him drink wine this night also and go thou in and lie with
him that we may preserve seed of our father .

1935 And they made their father drink wine that night also and
the younger arose and lay with him and he perceived not when she
lay down nor when she arose .

1936 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
father .

1937 And the firstborn bare a son and called his name Moab the
same is the father of the Moabites unto this day .

1938 And the younger she also bare a son and called his name
Benammi the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day .

* 201 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south
country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in
Gerar .

202 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife She is my sister and
Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah .

203 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to
him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast
taken for she is a man's wife .

204 But Abimelech had not come near her and he said Lord wilt
thou slay also a righteous nation .

205 Said he not unto me She is my sister and she even she
herself said He is my brother in the integrity of my heart and
innocency of my hands have I done this .

206 And God said unto him in a dream Yea I know that thou didst
this in the integrity of thy heart for I also withheld thee from
sinning against me therefore suffered I thee not to touch her .

207 Now therefore restore the man his wife for he is a prophet
and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live and if thou
restore her not know thou that thou shalt surely die thou and
all that are thine .

208 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning and called
all his servants and told all these things in their ears and the
men were sore afraid .

209 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him What hast
thou done unto us and what have I offended thee that thou hast
brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin thou hast done deeds
unto me that ought not to be done .

2010 And Abimelech said unto Abraham What sawest thou that thou
hast done this thing .

2011 And Abraham said Because I thought Surely the fear of God
is not in this place and they will slay me for my wife's sake .

2012 And yet indeed she is my sister she is the daughter of my
father but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife
.

2013 And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my
father's house that I said unto her This is thy kindness which
thou shalt show unto me at every place whither we shall come say
of me He is my brother .

2014 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen and menservants and
womenservants and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah
his wife .

2015 And Abimelech said Behold my land is before thee dwell
where it pleaseth thee .

2016 And unto Sarah he said Behold I have given thy brother a
thousand pieces of silver behold he is to thee a covering of the
eyes unto all that are with thee and with all other thus she was
reproved .

2017 So Abraham prayed unto God and God healed Abimelech and
his wife and his maidservants and they bare children .

2018 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house
of Abimelech because of Sarah Abraham's wife .

* 211 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said and the LORD
did unto Sarah as he had spoken .

212 For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son in his old age
at the set time of which God had spoken to him .

213 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto
him whom Sarah bare to him Isaac .

214 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old
as God had commanded him .

215 And Abraham was an hundred years old when his son Isaac was
born unto him .

216 And Sarah said God hath made me to laugh so that all that
hear will laugh with me .

217 And she said Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah
should have given children suck for I have born him a son in his
old age .

218 And the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .

219 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had
born unto Abraham mocking .

2110 Wherefore she said unto Abraham Cast out this bondwoman
and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with
my son even with Isaac .

2111 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because
of his son .

2112 And God said unto Abraham Let it not be grievous in thy
sight because of the lad and because of thy bondwoman in all
that Sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called .

2113 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation
because he is thy seed .

2114 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread
and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar putting it on her
shoulder and the child and sent her away and she departed and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba .

2115 And the water was spent in the bottle and she cast the
child under one of the shrubs .

2116 And she went and sat her down over against him a good way
off as it were a bowshot for she said Let me not see the death
of the child And she sat over against him and lift up her voice
and wept .

2117 And God heard the voice of the lad and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her What aileth thee
Hagar fear not for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he
is .

2118 Arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand for I
will make him a great nation .

2119 And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and
she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the lad drink
.

2120 And God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the
wilderness and became an archer .

2121 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and his mother
took him a wife out of the land of Egypt .

2122 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and
Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham saying
God is with thee in all that thou doest .

2123 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not
deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son but
according to the kindness that I have done unto thee thou shalt
do unto me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned .

2124 And Abraham said I will swear .

2125 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water
which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away .

2126 And Abimelech said I wot not who hath done this thing
neither didst thou tell me neither yet heard I of it but to day
.

2127 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto
Abimelech and both of them made a covenant .

2128 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves
.

2129 And Abimelech said unto Abraham What mean these seven ewe
lambs which thou hast set by themselves .

2130 And he said For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of
my hand that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged
this well .

2131 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba because there
they sware both of them .

2132 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba then Abimelech rose
up and Phichol the chief captain of his host and they returned
into the land of the Philistines .

2133 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba and called there
on the name of the LORD the everlasting God .

2134 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days .

* 221 And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt
Abraham and said unto him Abraham and he said Behold here I am .

222 And he said Take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou
lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there
for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell
thee of .

223 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his
ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and
clave the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto
the place of which God had told him .

224 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw
the place afar off .

225 And Abraham said unto his young men Abide ye here with the
ass and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again
to you .

226 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it
upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife
and they went both of them together .

227 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said My father
and he said Here am I my son And he said Behold the fire and the
wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering .

228 And Abraham said My son God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering so they went both of them together .

229 And they came to the place which God had told him of and
Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and
bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood .

2210 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to
slay his son .

2211 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven
and said Abraham Abraham and he said Here am I .

2212 And he said Lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do
thou any thing unto him for now I know that thou fearest God
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me .

2213 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold
behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and Abraham
went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son .

2214 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh as
it is said to this day In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen
.

2215 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of
heaven the second time .

2216 And said By myself have I sworn saith the LORD for because
thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son thine
only son .

2217 That in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the
sand which is upon the sea shore and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies .

2218 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice .

2219 So Abraham returned unto his young men and they rose up
and went together to Beersheba and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba .

2220 And it came to pass after these things that it was told
Abraham saying Behold Milcah she hath also born children unto
thy brother Nahor .

2221 Huz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the
father of Aram .

2222 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel .

2223 And Bethuel begat Rebekah these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor Abraham's brother .

2224 And his concubine whose name was Reumah she bare also
Tebah and Gaham and Thahash and Maachah .

* 231 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old
these were the years of the life of Sarah .

232 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep
for her .

233 And Abraham stood up from before his dead and spake unto
the sons of Heth saying .

234 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a
possession of a buryingplace with you that I may bury my dead
out of my sight .

235 And the children of Heth answered Abraham saying unto him .

236 Hear us my lord thou art a mighty prince among us in the
choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead none of us shall withhold
from thee his sepulchre but that thou mayest bury thy dead .

237 And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the
land even to the children of Heth .

238 And he communed with them saying If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and entreat for me
to Ephron the son of Zohar .

239 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he hath
which is in the end of his field for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you .

2310 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth and Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth
even of all that went in at the gate of his city saying .

2311 Nay my lord hear me the field give I thee and the cave
that is therein I give it thee in the presence of the sons of my
people give I it thee bury thy dead .

2312 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the
land .

2313 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of
the land saying But if thou wilt give it I pray thee hear me I
will give thee money for the field take it of me and I will bury
my dead there .

2314 And Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him .

2315 My lord hearken unto me the land is worth four hundred
shekels of silver what is that betwixt me and thee bury
therefore thy dead .

2316 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons
of Heth four hundred shekels of silver current money with the
merchant .

2317 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah which was
before Mamre the field and the cave which was therein and all
the trees that were in the field that were in all the borders
round about were made sure .

2318 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of Heth before all that went in at the gate of his city
.

2319 And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
of the field of Machpelah before Mamre the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan .

2320 And the field and the cave that is therein were made sure
unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of
Heth .

* 241 And Abraham was old and well stricken in age and the LORD
had blessed Abraham in all things .

242 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house that
ruled over all that he had Put I pray thee thy hand under my
thigh .

243 And I will make thee swear by the LORD the God of heaven
and the God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my
son of the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell .

244 But thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred and
take a wife unto my son Isaac .

245 And the servant said unto him Peradventure the woman will
not be willing to follow me unto this land must I needs bring
thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest .

246 And Abraham said unto him Beware thou that thou bring not
my son thither again .

247 The LORD God of heaven which took me from my father's house
and from the land of my kindred and which spake unto me and that
sware unto me saying Unto thy seed will I give this land he
shall send his angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto
my son from thence .

248 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee then
thou shalt be clear from this my oath only bring not my son
thither again .

249 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master and sware to him concerning that matter .

2410 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his
master and departed for all the goods of his master were in his
hand and he arose and went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nahor
.

2411 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a
well of water at the time of the evening even the time that
women go out to draw water .

2412 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham I pray thee
send me good speed this day and show kindness unto my master
Abraham .

2413 Behold I stand here by the well of water and the daughters
of the men of the city come out to draw water .

2414 And let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I shall
say Let down thy pitcher I pray thee that I may drink and she
shall say Drink and I will give thy camels drink also let the
same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac and
thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my
master .

2415 And it came to pass before he had done speaking that
behold Rebekah came out who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah
the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother with her pitcher upon her
shoulder .

2416 And the damsel was very fair to look upon a virgin neither
had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled
her pitcher and came up .

2417 And the servant ran to meet her and said Let me I pray
thee drink a little water of thy pitcher .

2418 And she said Drink my lord and she hasted and let down her
pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink .

2419 And when she had done giving him drink she said I will
draw water for thy camels also until they have done drinking .

2420 And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough and
ran again unto the well to draw water and drew for all his
camels .

2421 And the man wondering at her held his peace to wit whether
the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not .

2422 And it came to pass as the camels had done drinking that
the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold .

2423 And said Whose daughter art thou tell me I pray thee is
there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in .

2424 And she said unto him I am the daughter of Bethuel the son
of Milcah which she bare unto Nahor .

2425 She said moreover unto him We have both straw and
provender enough and room to lodge in .

2426 And the man bowed down his head and worshipped the LORD .

2427 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham
who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth
I being in the way the LORD led me to the house of my master's
brethren .

2428 And the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house
these things .

2429 And Rebekah had a brother and his name was Laban and Laban
ran out unto the man unto the well .

2430 And it came to pass when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's hands and when he heard the words of Rebekah
his sister saying Thus spake the man unto me that he came unto
the man and behold he stood by the camels at the well .

2431 And he said Come in thou blessed of the LORD wherefore
standest thou without for I have prepared the house and room for
the camels .

2432 And the man came into the house and he ungirded his camels
and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash
his feet and the men's feet that were with him .

2433 And there was set meat before him to eat but he said I
will not eat until I have told mine errand And he said Speak on
.

2434 And he said I am Abraham's servant .

2435 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly and he is
become great and he hath given him flocks and herds and silver
and gold and menservants and maidservants and camels and asses .

2436 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when
she was old and unto him hath he given all that he hath .

2437 And my master made me swear saying Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land
I dwell .

2438 But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred
and take a wife unto my son .

2439 And I said unto my master Peradventure the woman will not
follow me .

2440 And he said unto me The LORD before whom I walk will send
his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a
wife for my son of my kindred and of my father's house .

2441 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath when thou
comest to my kindred and if they give not thee one thou shalt be
clear from my oath .

2442 And I came this day unto the well and said O LORD God of
my master Abraham if now thou do prosper my way which I go .

2443 Behold I stand by the well of water and it shall come to
pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and I say
to her Give me I pray thee a little water of thy pitcher to
drink .

2444 And she say to me Both drink thou and I will also draw for
thy camels let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath
appointed out for my master's son .

2445 And before I had done speaking in mine heart behold
Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went
down unto the well and drew water and I said unto her Let me
drink I pray thee .

2446 And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her
shoulder and said Drink and I will give thy camels drink also so
I drank and she made the camels drink also .

2447 And I asked her and said Whose daughter art thou And she
said The daughter of Bethuel Nahor's son whom Milcah bare unto
him and I put the earring upon her face and the bracelets upon
her hands .

2448 And I bowed down my head and worshipped the LORD and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had led me in
the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his
son .

2449 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master
tell me and if not tell me that I may turn to the right hand or
to the left .

2450 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said The thing
proceedeth from the LORD we cannot speak unto thee bad or good .

2451 Behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her
be thy master's son's wife as the LORD hath spoken .

2452 And it came to pass that when Abraham's servant heard
their words he worshipped the LORD bowing himself to the earth .

2453 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver and jewels
of gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekah he gave also to her
brother and to her mother precious things .

2454 And they did eat and drink he and the men that were with
him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he
said Send me away unto my master .

2455 And her brother and her mother said Let the damsel abide
with us a few days at the least ten after that she shall go .

2456 And he said unto them Hinder me not seeing the LORD hath
prospered my way send me away that I may go to my master .

2457 And they said We will call the damsel and inquire at her
mouth .

2458 And they called Rebekah and said unto her Wilt thou go
with this man And she said I will go .

2459 And they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse and
Abraham's servant and his men .

2460 And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her Thou art our
sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy
seed possess the gate of those which hate them .

2461 And Rebekah arose and her damsels and they rode upon the
camels and followed the man and the servant took Rebekah and
went his way .

2462 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi for he
dwelt in the south country .

2463 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide and he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold the camels
were coming .

2464 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and when she saw Isaac she
lighted off the camel .

2465 For she had said unto the servant What man is this that
walketh in the field to meet us And the servant had said It is
my master therefore she took a veil and covered herself .

2466 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done .

2467 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and
took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac
was comforted after his mother's death .

* 251 Then again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah .

252 And she bare him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian
and Ishbak and Shuah .

253 And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan And the sons of Dedan
were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim .

254 And the sons of Midian Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and
Abidah and Eldaah All these were the children of Keturah .

255 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac .

256 But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had
Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son while
he yet lived eastward unto the east country .

257 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which
he lived an hundred threescore and fifteen years .

258 Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age
an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people .

259 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite
which is before Mamre .

2510 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth
there was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife .

2511 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God
blessed his son Isaac and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi .

2512 Now these are the generations of Ishmael Abraham's son
whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarah's handmaid bare unto Abraham .

2513 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their
names according to their generations the firstborn of Ishmael
Nebajoth and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam .

2514 And Mishma and Dumah and Massa .

2515 Hadar and Tema Jetur Naphish and Kedemah .

2516 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by
their towns and by their castles twelve princes according to
their nations .

2517 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael an hundred
and thirty and seven years and he gave up the ghost and died and
was gathered unto his people .

2518 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt
as thou goest toward Assyria and he died in the presence of all
his brethren .

2519 And these are the generations of Isaac Abraham's son
Abraham begat Isaac .

2520 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram the sister to
Laban the Syrian .

2521 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife because she was
barren and the LORD was entreated of him and Rebekah his wife
conceived .

2522 And the children struggled together within her and she
said If it be so why am I thus And she went to inquire of the
LORD .

2523 And the LORD said unto her Two nations are in thy womb and
two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the
one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder
shall serve the younger .

2524 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold
there were twins in her womb .

2525 And the first came out red all over like an hairy garment
and they called his name Esau .

2526 And after that came his brother out and his hand took hold
on Esau's heel and his name was called Jacob and Isaac was
threescore years old when she bare them .

2527 And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning hunter a man of
the field and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents .

2528 And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison but
Rebekah loved Jacob .

2529 And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from the field and he
was faint .

2530 And Esau said to Jacob Feed me I pray thee with that same
red pottage for I am faint therefore was his name called Edom .

2531 And Jacob said Sell me this day thy birthright .

2532 And Esau said Behold I am at the point to die and what
profit shall this birthright do to me .

2533 And Jacob said Swear to me this day and he sware unto him
and he sold his birthright unto Jacob .

2534 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he
did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus Esau
despised his birthright .

* 261 And there was a famine in the land beside the first
famine that was in the days of Abraham And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar .

262 And the LORD appeared unto him and said Go not down into
Egypt dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of .

263 Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and will bless
thee for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these
countries and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham
thy father .

264 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven
and will give unto thy seed all these countries and in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed .

265 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my
commandments my statutes and my laws .

266 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar .

267 And the men of the place asked him of his wife and he said
She is my sister for he feared to say She is my wife lest said
he the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah because she
was fair to look upon .

268 And it came to pass when he had been there a long time that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw
and behold Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife .

269 And Abimelech called Isaac and said Behold of a surety she
is thy wife and how saidst thou She is my sister And Isaac said
unto him Because I said Lest I die for her .

2610 And Abimelech said What is this thou hast done unto us one
of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us .

2611 And Abimelech charged all his people saying He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death .

2612 Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same
year an hundredfold and the LORD blessed him .

2613 And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he
became very great .

2614 For he had possession of flocks and possession of herds
and great store of servants and the Philistines envied him .

2615 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged
in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stopped
them and filled them with earth .

2616 And Abimelech said unto Isaac Go from us for thou art much
mightier than we .

2617 And Isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar and dwelt there .

2618 And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father for the Philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham and he called their
names after the names by which his father had called them .

2619 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley and found there
a well of springing water .

2620 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen
saying The water is ours and he called the name of the well Esek
because they strove with him .

2621 And they digged another well and strove for that also and
he called the name of it Sitnah .

2622 And he removed from thence and digged another well and for
that they strove not and he called the name of it Rehoboth and
he said For now the LORD hath made room for us and we shall be
fruitful in the land .

2623 And he went up from thence to Beersheba .

2624 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night and said I
am the God of Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee and
will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's
sake .

2625 And he builded an altar there and called upon the name of
the LORD and pitched his tent there and there Isaac's servants
digged a well .

2626 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuzzath one of
his friends and Phichol the chief captain of his army .

2627 And Isaac said unto them Wherefore come ye to me seeing ye
hate me and have sent me away from you .

2628 And they said We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee
and we said Let there be now an oath betwixt us even betwixt us
and thee and let us make a covenant with thee .

2629 That thou wilt do us no hurt as we have not touched thee
and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent
thee away in peace thou art now the blessed of the LORD .

2630 And he made them a feast and they did eat and drink .

2631 And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to
another and Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in
peace .

2632 And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants
came and told him concerning the well which they had digged and
said unto him We have found water .

2633 And he called it Shebah therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba unto this day .

2634 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith
the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Bashemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite .

2635 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah .

* 271 And it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes
were dim so that he could not see he called Esau his eldest son
and said unto him My son and he said unto him Behold here am I .

272 And he said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my
death .

273 Now therefore take I pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and
thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison .

274 And make me savoury meat such as I love and bring it to me
that I may eat that my soul may bless thee before I die .

275 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it .

276 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son saying Behold I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying .

277 Bring me venison and make me savoury meat that I may eat
and bless thee before the LORD before my death .

278 Now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which
I command thee .

279 Go now to the flock and fetch me from thence two good kids
of the goats and I will make them savoury meat for thy father
such as he loveth .

2710 And thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and
that he may bless thee before his death .

2711 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother Behold Esau my
brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man .

2712 My father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a
blessing .

2713 And his mother said unto him Upon me be thy curse my son
only obey my voice and go fetch me them .

2714 And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and
his mother made savoury meat such as his father loved .

2715 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau
which were with her in the house and put them upon Jacob her
younger son .

2716 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands and upon the smooth of his neck .

2717 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread which she had
prepared into the hand of her son Jacob .

2718 And he came unto his father and said My father and he said
Here am I who art thou my son .

2719 And Jacob said unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn I
have done according as thou badest me arise I pray thee sit and
eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me .

2720 And Isaac said unto his son How is it that thou hast found
it so quickly my son And he said Because the LORD thy God
brought it to me .

2721 And Isaac said unto Jacob Come near I pray thee that I may
feel thee my son whether thou be my very son Esau or not .

2722 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father and he felt him
and said The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands
of Esau .

2723 And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as
his brother Esau's hands so he blessed him .

2724 And he said Art thou my very son Esau And he said I am .

2725 And he said Bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's
venison that my soul may bless thee And he brought it near to
him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank .

2726 And his father Isaac said unto him Come near now and kiss
me my son .

2727 And he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell
of his raiment and blessed him and said See the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed .

2728 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven and the
fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine .

2729 Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be lord
over thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee
cursed be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that
blesseth thee .

2730 And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from
his hunting .

2731 And he also had made savoury meat and brought it unto his
father and said unto his father Let my father arise and eat of
his son's venison that thy soul may bless me .

2732 And Isaac his father said unto him Who art thou And he
said I am thy son thy firstborn Esau .

2733 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said Who where is
he that hath taken venison and brought it me and I have eaten of
all before thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall be
blessed .

2734 And when Esau heard the words of his father he cried with
a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father Bless
me even me also O my father .

2735 And he said Thy brother came with subtlety and hath taken
away thy blessing .

2736 And he said Is not he rightly named Jacob for he hath
supplanted me these two times he took away my birthright and
behold now he hath taken away my blessing And he said Hast thou
not reserved a blessing for me .

2737 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau Behold I have made
him thy lord and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants and with corn and wine have I sustained him and what
shall I do now unto thee my son .

2738 And Esau said unto his father Hast thou but one blessing
my father bless me even me also O my father And Esau lifted up
his voice and wept .

2739 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him Behold thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of the dew of
heaven from above .

2740 And by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy
brother and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck .

2741 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him and Esau said in his heart The days of
mourning for my father are at hand then will I slay my brother
Jacob .

2742 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah
and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said unto him
Behold thy brother Esau as touching thee doth comfort himself
purposing to kill thee .

2743 Now therefore my son obey my voice and arise flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran .

2744 And tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury
turn away .

2745 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he
forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and
fetch thee from thence why should I be deprived also of you both
in one day .

2746 And Rebekah said to Isaac I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Heth if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of
Heth such as these which are of the daughters of the land what
good shall my life do me .

* 281 And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him
and said unto him Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan .

282 Arise go to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of
Laban thy mother's brother .

283 And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and
multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people .

284 And give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy
seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham .

285 And Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian the brother of Rebekah Jacob's
and Esau's mother .

286 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him
away to Padanaram to take him a wife from thence and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge saying Thou shalt not take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan .

287 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was
gone to Padanaram .

288 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father .

289 Then went Esau unto Ishmael and took unto the wives which
he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son the sister
of Nebajoth to be his wife .

2810 And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran .

2811 And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all
night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that
place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to
sleep .

2812 And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and
the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it .

2813 And behold the LORD stood above it and said I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac the land whereon
thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed .

2814 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north
and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed .

2815 And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for
I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken
to thee of .

2816 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said Surely the
LORD is in this place and I knew it not .

2817 And he was afraid and said How dreadful is this place this
is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of
heaven .

2818 And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and
poured oil upon the top of it .

2819 And he called the name of that place Bethel but the name
of that city was called Luz at the first .

2820 And Jacob vowed a vow saying If God will be with me and
will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat
and raiment to put on .

2821 So that I come again to my father's house in peace then
shall the LORD be my God .

2822 And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be
God's house and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely
give the tenth unto thee .

* 291 Then Jacob went on his journey and came into the land of
the people of the east .

292 And he looked and behold a well in the field and lo there
were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well they
watered the flocks and a great stone was upon the well's mouth .

293 And thither were all the flocks gathered and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place .

294 And Jacob said unto them My brethren whence be ye And they
said Of Haran are we .

295 And he said unto them Know ye Laban the son of Nahor And
they said We know him .

296 And he said unto them Is he well And they said He is well
and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep .

297 And he said Lo it is yet high day neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together water ye the sheep and go
and feed them .

298 And they said We cannot until all the flocks be gathered
together and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth then
we water the sheep .

299 And while he yet spake with them Rachel came with her
father's sheep for she kept them .

2910 And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's
brother that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother
.

2911 And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept .

2912 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and
that he was Rebekah's son and she ran and told her father .

2913 And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and
kissed him and brought him to his house And he told Laban all
these things .

2914 And Laban said to him Surely thou art my bone and my flesh
And he abode with him the space of a month .

2915 And Laban said unto Jacob Because thou art my brother
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall
thy wages be .

2916 And Laban had two daughters the name of the elder was Leah
and the name of the younger was Rachel .

2917 Leah was tender eyed but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured .

2918 And Jacob loved Rachel and said I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter .

2919 And Laban said It is better that I give her to thee than
that I should give her to another man abide with me .

2920 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed
unto him but a few days for the love he had to her .

2921 And Jacob said unto Laban Give me my wife for my days are
fulfilled that I may go in unto her .

2922 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and
made a feast .

2923 And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his
daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her .

2924 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for
an handmaid .

2925 And it came to pass that in the morning behold it was Leah
and he said to Laban What is this thou hast done unto me did not
I serve with thee for Rachel wherefore then hast thou beguiled
me .

2926 And Laban said It must not be so done in our country to
give the younger before the firstborn .

2927 Fulfil her week and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years .

2928 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also .

2929 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid
to be her maid .

2930 And he went in also unto Rachel and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah and served with him yet seven other years .

2931 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated he opened her
womb but Rachel was barren .

2932 And Leah conceived and bare a son and she called his name
Reuben for she said Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction now therefore my husband will love me .

2933 And she conceived again and bare a son and said Because
the LORD hath heard that I was hated he hath therefore given me
this son also and she called his name Simeon .

2934 And she conceived again and bare a son and said Now this
time will my husband be joined unto me because I have born him
three sons therefore was his name called Levi .

2935 And she conceived again and bare a son and she said Now
will I praise the LORD therefore she called his name Judah and
left bearing .

* 301 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children
Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob Give me children or
else I die .

302 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel and he said Am
I in God's stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
womb .

303 And she said Behold my maid Bilhah go in unto her and she
shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children by her .

304 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife and Jacob went
in unto her .

305 And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son .

306 And Rachel said God hath judged me and hath also heard my
voice and hath given me a son therefore called she his name Dan
.

307 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again and bare Jacob a
second son .

308 And Rachel said With great wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister and I have prevailed and she called his name Naphtali
.

309 When Leah saw that she had left bearing she took Zilpah her
maid and gave her Jacob to wife .

3010 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son .

3011 And Leah said A troop cometh and she called his name Gad .

3012 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son .

3013 And Leah said Happy am I for the daughters will call me
blessed and she called his name Asher .

3014 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found
mandrakes in the field and brought them unto his mother Leah
Then Rachel said to Leah Give me I pray thee of thy son's
mandrakes .

3015 And she said unto her Is it a small matter that thou hast
taken my husband and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes
also And Rachel said Therefore he shall lie with thee to night
for thy son's mandrakes .

3016 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening and Leah
went out to meet him and said Thou must come in unto me for
surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes And he lay with
her that night .

3017 And God hearkened unto Leah and she conceived and bare
Jacob the fifth son .

3018 And Leah said God hath given me my hire because I have
given my maiden to my husband and she called his name Issachar .

3019 And Leah conceived again and bare Jacob the sixth son .

3020 And Leah said God hath endued me with a good dowry now
will my husband dwell with me because I have born him six sons
and she called his name Zebulun .

3021 And afterwards she bare a daughter and called her name
Dinah .

3022 And God remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and
opened her womb .

3023 And she conceived and bare a son and said God hath taken
away my reproach .

3024 And she called his name Joseph and said The LORD shall add
to me another son .

3025 And it came to pass when Rachel had born Joseph that Jacob
said unto Laban Send me away that I may go unto mine own place
and to my country .

3026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served
thee and let me go for thou knowest my service which I have done
thee .

3027 And Laban said unto him I pray thee if I have found favour
in thine eyes tarry for I have learned by experience that the
LORD hath blessed me for thy sake .

3028 And he said Appoint me thy wages and I will give it .

3029 And he said unto him Thou knowest how I have served thee
and how thy cattle was with me .

3030 For it was little which thou hadst before I came and it is
now increased unto a multitude and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming and now when shall I provide for mine own house
also .

3031 And he said What shall I give thee And Jacob said Thou
shalt not give me any thing if thou wilt do this thing for me I
will again feed and keep thy flock .

3032 I will pass through all thy flock to day removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle and all the brown
cattle among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the
goats and of such shall be my hire .

3033 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come
when it shall come for my hire before thy face every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the
sheep that shall be counted stolen with me .

3034 And Laban said Behold I would it might be according to thy
word .

3035 And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted and every one that had some white in it and
all the brown among the sheep and gave them into the hand of his
sons .

3036 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks .

3037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar and of the hazel
and chestnut tree and pilled white streaks in them and made the
white appear which was in the rods .

3038 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks
in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink that they should conceive when they came to drink .

3039 And the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth
cattle ringstreaked speckled and spotted .

3040 And Jacob did separate the lambs and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the brown in the flock of
Laban and he put his own flocks by themselves and put them not
unto Laban's cattle .

3041 And it came to pass whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle
in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods .

3042 But when the cattle were feeble he put them not in so the
feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's .

3043 And the man increased exceedingly and had much cattle and
maidservants and menservants and camels and asses .

* 311 And he heard the words of Laban's sons saying Jacob hath
taken away all that was our father's and of that which was our
father's hath he gotten all this glory .

312 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban and behold it was
not toward him as before .

313 And the LORD said unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy
fathers and to thy kindred and I will be with thee .

314 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock .

315 And said unto them I see your father's countenance that it
is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been
with me .

316 And ye know that with all my power I have served your
father .

317 And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten
times but God suffered him not to hurt me .

318 If he said thus The speckled shall be thy wages then all
the cattle bare speckled and if he said thus The ringstreaked
shall be thy hire then bare all the cattle ringstreaked .

319 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father and
given them to me .

3110 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived
that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the
rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstreaked speckled and
grisled .

3111 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying Jacob
And I said Here am I .

3112 And he said Lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstreaked speckled and grisled
for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee .

3113 I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar
and where thou vowedst a vow unto me now arise get thee out from
this land and return unto the land of thy kindred .

3114 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him Is there
yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house .

3115 Are we not counted of him strangers for he hath sold us
and hath quite devoured also our money .

3116 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father
that is ours and our children's now then whatsoever God hath
said unto thee do .

3117 Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon
camels .

3118 And he carried away all his cattle and all his goods which
he had gotten the cattle of his getting which he had gotten in
Padanaram for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan .

3119 And Laban went to shear his sheep and Rachel had stolen
the images that were her father's .

3120 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian in that
he told him not that he fled .

3121 So he fled with all that he had and he rose up and passed
over the river and set his face toward the mount Gilead .

3122 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled
.

3123 And he took his brethren with him and pursued after him
seven days' journey and they overtook him in the mount Gilead .

3124 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and
said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good
or bad .

3125 Then Laban overtook Jacob Now Jacob had pitched his tent
in the mount and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead .

3126 And Laban said to Jacob What hast thou done that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me and carried away my daughters as
captives taken with the sword .

3127 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly and steal away
from me and didst not tell me that I might have sent thee away
with mirth and with songs with tabret and with harp .

3128 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing .

3129 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt but the God
of your father spake unto me yesternight saying Take thou heed
that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .

3130 And now though thou wouldest needs be gone because thou
sore longedst after thy father's house yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods .

3131 And Jacob answered and said to Laban Because I was afraid
for I said Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me .

3132 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take
it to thee For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them .

3133 And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and
into the two maidservants' tents but he found them not Then went
he out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent .

3134 Now Rachel had taken the images and put them in the
camel's furniture and sat upon them And Laban searched all the
tent but found them not .

3135 And she said to her father Let it not displease my lord
that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is
upon me And he searched but found not the images .

3136 And Jacob was wroth and chided with Laban and Jacob
answered and said to Laban What is my trespass what is my sin
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me .

3137 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff what hast thou
found of all thy household stuff set it here before my brethren
and thy brethren that they may judge betwixt us both .

3138 This twenty years have I been with thee thy ewes and thy
she goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock
have I not eaten .

3139 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee I
bare the loss of it of my hand didst thou require it whether
stolen by day or stolen by night .

3140 Thus I was in the day the drought consumed me and the
frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes .

3141 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy
cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times .

3142 Except the God of my father the God of Abraham and the
fear of Isaac had been with me surely thou hadst sent me away
now empty God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my
hands and rebuked thee yesternight .

3143 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob These daughters are
my daughters and these children are my children and these cattle
are my cattle and all that thou seest is mine and what can I do
this day unto these my daughters or unto their children which
they have born .

3144 Now therefore come thou let us make a covenant I and thou
and let it be for a witness between me and thee .

3145 And Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar .

3146 And Jacob said unto his brethren Gather stones and they
took stones and made an heap and they did eat there upon the
heap .

3147 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha but Jacob called it
Galeed .

3148 And Laban said This heap is a witness between me and thee
this day Therefore was the name of it called Galeed .

3149 And Mizpah for he said The LORD watch between me and thee
when we are absent one from another .

3150 If thou shalt afflict my daughters or if thou shalt take
other wives beside my daughters no man is with us see God is
witness betwixt me and thee .

3151 And Laban said to Jacob Behold this heap and behold this
pillar which I have cast betwixt me and thee .

3152 This heap be witness and this pillar be witness that I
will not pass over this heap to thee and that thou shalt not
pass over this heap and this pillar unto me for harm .

3153 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor the God of their
father judge betwixt us And Jacob sware by the fear of his
father Isaac .

3154 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his
brethren to eat bread and they did eat bread and tarried all
night in the mount .

3155 And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons
and his daughters and blessed them and Laban departed and
returned unto his place .

* 321 And Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him .

322 And when Jacob saw them he said This is God's host and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim .

323 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir the country of Edom .

324 And he commanded them saying Thus shall ye speak unto my
lord Esau Thy servant Jacob saith thus I have sojourned with
Laban and stayed there until now .

325 And I have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and
womenservants and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find
grace in thy sight .

326 And the messengers returned to Jacob saying We came to thy
brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred
men with him .

327 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided
the people that was with him and the flocks and herds and the
camels into two bands .

328 And said If Esau come to the one company and smite it then
the other company which is left shall escape .

329 And Jacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my
father Isaac the LORD which saidst unto me Return unto thy
country and to thy kindred and I will deal well with thee .

3210 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all
the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant for with my
staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands .

3211 Deliver me I pray thee from the hand of my brother from
the hand of Esau for I fear him lest he will come and smite me
and the mother with the children .

3212 And thou saidst I will surely do thee good and make thy
seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for
multitude .

3213 And he lodged there that same night and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother .

3214 Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats two hundred ewes
and twenty rams .

3215 Thirty milch camels with their colts forty kine and ten
bulls twenty she asses and ten foals .

3216 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants every
drove by themselves and said unto his servants Pass over before
me and put a space betwixt drove and drove .

3217 And he commanded the foremost saying When Esau my brother
meeteth thee and asketh thee saying Whose art thou and whither
goest thou and whose are these before thee .

3218 Then thou shalt say They be thy servant Jacob's it is a
present sent unto my lord Esau and behold also he is behind us .

3219 And so commanded he the second and the third and all that
followed the droves saying On this manner shall ye speak unto
Esau when ye find him .

3220 And say ye moreover Behold thy servant Jacob is behind us
For he said I will appease him with the present that goeth
before me and afterward I will see his face peradventure he will
accept of me .

3221 So went the present over before him and himself lodged
that night in the company .

3222 And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his
two womenservants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford
Jabbok .

3223 And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent
over that he had .

3224 And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day .

3225 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him he
touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was out of joint as he wrestled with him .

3226 And he said Let me go for the day breaketh And he said I
will not let thee go except thou bless me .

3227 And he said unto him What is thy name And he said Jacob .

3228 And he said Thy name shall be called no more Jacob but
Israel for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and
hast prevailed .

3229 And Jacob asked him and said Tell me I pray thee thy name
And he said Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name And
he blessed him there .

3230 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel for I have
seen God face to face and my life is preserved .

3231 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him and he
halted upon his thigh .

3232 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew
which shrank which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that
shrank .

* 331 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked and behold Esau
came and with him four hundred men And he divided the children
unto Leah and unto Rachel and unto the two handmaids .

332 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost and
Leah and her children after and Rachel and Joseph hindermost .

333 And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the
ground seven times until he came near to his brother .

334 And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his
neck and kissed him and they wept .

335 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the
children and said Who are those with thee And he said The
children which God hath graciously given thy servant .

336 Then the handmaidens came near they and their children and
they bowed themselves .

337 And Leah also with her children came near and bowed
themselves and after came Joseph near and Rachel and they bowed
themselves .

338 And he said What meanest thou by all this drove which I met
And he said These are to find grace in the sight of my lord .

339 And Esau said I have enough my brother keep that thou hast
unto thyself .

3310 And Jacob said Nay I pray thee if now I have found grace
in thy sight then receive my present at my hand for therefore I
have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God and thou
wast pleased with me .

3311 Take I pray thee my blessing that is brought to thee
because God hath dealt graciously with me and because I have
enough And he urged him and he took it .

3312 And he said Let us take our journey and let us go and I
will go before thee .

3313 And he said unto him My lord knoweth that the children are
tender and the flocks and herds with young are with me and if
men should overdrive them one day all the flock will die .

3314 Let my lord I pray thee pass over before his servant and I
will lead on softly according as the cattle that goeth before me
and the children be able to endure until I come unto my lord
unto Seir .

3315 And Esau said Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
that are with me And he said What needeth it let me find grace
in the sight of my lord .

3316 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir .

3317 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built him an house and
made booths for his cattle therefore the name of the place is
called Succoth .

3318 And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem which is in the
land of Canaan when he came from Padanaram and pitched his tent
before the city .

3319 And he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his
tent at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechem's father for
an hundred pieces of money .

3320 And he erected there an altar and called it Elelohe-Israel
.

* 341 And Dinah the daughter of Leah which she bare unto Jacob
went out to see the daughters of the land .

342 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite prince of the
country saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her .

343 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob and he
loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damsel .

344 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor saying Get me this
damsel to wife .

345 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter now
his sons were with his cattle in the field and Jacob held his
peace until they were come .

346 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to
commune with him .

347 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
it and the men were grieved and they were very wroth because he
had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter which
thing ought not to be done .

348 And Hamor communed with them saying The soul of my son
Shechem longeth for your daughter I pray you give her him to
wife .

349 And make ye marriages with us and give your daughters unto
us and take our daughters unto you .

3410 And ye shall dwell with us and the land shall be before
you dwell and trade ye therein and get you possessions therein .

3411 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren Let
me find grace in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me I will
give .

3412 Ask me never so much dowry and gift and I will give
according as ye shall say unto me but give me the damsel to wife
.

3413 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his
father deceitfully and said because he had defiled Dinah their
sister .

3414 And they said unto them We cannot do this thing to give
our sister to one that is uncircumcised for that were a reproach
unto us .

3415 But in this will we consent unto you If ye will be as we
be that every male of you be circumcised .

3416 Then will we give our daughters unto you and we will take
your daughters to us and we will dwell with you and we will
become one people .

3417 But if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised then
will we take our daughter and we will be gone .

3418 And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem Hamor's son .

3419 And the young man deferred not to do the thing because he
had delight in Jacob's daughter and he was more honourable than
all the house of his father .

3420 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city and communed with the men of their city saying .

3421 These men are peaceable with us therefore let them dwell
in the land and trade therein for the land behold it is large
enough for them let us take their daughters to us for wives and
let us give them our daughters .

3422 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with
us to be one people if every male among us be circumcised as
they are circumcised .

3423 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast
of theirs be ours only let us consent unto them and they will
dwell with us .

3424 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city and every male was circumcised
all that went out of the gate of his city .

3425 And it came to pass on the third day when they were sore
that two of the sons of Jacob Simeon and Levi Dinah's brethren
took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew
all the males .

3426 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of
the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went out .

3427 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and spoiled the city
because they had defiled their sister .

3428 They took their sheep and their oxen and their asses and
that which was in the city and that which was in the field .

3429 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their
wives took they captive and spoiled even all that was in the
house .

3430 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi Ye have troubled me to
make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites and I being few in number they
shall gather themselves together against me and slay me and I
shall be destroyed I and my house .

3431 And they said Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot .

* 351 And God said unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell
there and make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee
when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother .

352 Then Jacob said unto his household and to all that were
with him Put away the strange gods that are among you and be
clean and change your garments .

353 And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there
an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and
was with me in the way which I went .

354 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears and
Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem .

355 And they journeyed and the terror of God was upon the
cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after
the sons of Jacob .

356 So Jacob came to Luz which is in the land of Canaan that is
Bethel he and all the people that were with him .

357 And he built there an altar and called the place Elbethel
because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face
of his brother .

358 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak and the name of it was called Allonbachuth .

359 And God appeared unto Jacob again when he came out of
Padanaram and blessed him .

3510 And God said unto him Thy name is Jacob thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob but Israel shall be thy name and he
called his name Israel .

3511 And God said unto him I am God Almighty be fruitful and
multiply a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and
kings shall come out of thy loins .

3512 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac to thee I will
give it and to thy seed after thee will I give the land .

3513 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him .

3514 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked
with him even a pillar of stone and he poured a drink offering
thereon and he poured oil thereon .

3515 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake
with him Bethel .

3516 And they journeyed from Bethel and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath and Rachel travailed and she had hard
labour .

3517 And it came to pass when she was in hard labour that the
midwife said unto her Fear not thou shalt have this son also .

3518 And it came to pass as her soul was in departing for she
died that she called his name Benoni but his father called him
Benjamin .

3519 And Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath which
is Bethlehem .

3520 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave that is the pillar
of Rachel's grave unto this day .

3521 And Israel journeyed and spread his tent beyond the tower
of Edar .

3522 And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine and
Israel heard it Now the sons of Jacob were twelve .

3523 The sons of Leah Reuben Jacob's firstborn and Simeon and
Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun .

3524 The sons of Rachel Joseph and Benjamin .

3525 And the sons of Bilhah Rachel's handmaid Dan and Naphtali
.

3526 And the sons of Zilpah Leah's handmaid Gad and Asher these
are the sons of Jacob which were born to him in Padanaram .

3527 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre unto the
city of Arbah which is Hebron where Abraham and Isaac sojourned
.

3528 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years
.

3529 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto
his people being old and full of days and his sons Esau and
Jacob buried him .

* 361 Now these are the generations of Esau who is Edom .

362 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite .

363 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter sister of Nebajoth .

364 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz and Bashemath bare Reuel .

365 And Aholibamah bare Jeush and Jaalam and Korah these are
the sons of Esau which were born unto him in the land of Canaan
.

366 And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and
all the persons of his house and his cattle and all his beasts
and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan and
went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob .

367 For their riches were more than that they might dwell
together and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear
them because of their cattle .

368 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir Esau is Edom .

369 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir .

3610 These are the names of Esau's sons Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau .

3611 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman Omar Zepho and Gatam
and Kenaz .

3612 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son and she bare
to Eliphaz Amalek these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife .

3613 And these are the sons of Reuel Nahath and Zerah Shammah
and Mizzah these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife .

3614 And these were the sons of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon Esau's wife and she bare to Esau Jeush
and Jaalam and Korah .

3615 These were dukes of the sons of Esau the sons of Eliphaz
the firstborn son of Esau duke Teman duke Omar duke Zepho duke
Kenaz .

3616 Duke Korah duke Gatam and duke Amalek these are the dukes
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom these were the sons of
Adah .

3617 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son duke Nahath
duke Zerah duke Shammah duke Mizzah these are the dukes that
came of Reuel in the land of Edom these are the sons of
Bashemath Esau's wife .

3618 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife duke
Jeush duke Jaalam duke Korah these were the dukes that came of
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah Esau's wife .

3619 These are the sons of Esau who is Edom and these are their
dukes .

3620 These are the sons of Seir the Horite who inhabited the
land Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah .

3621 And Dishon and Ezer and Dishan these are the dukes of the
Horites the children of Seir in the land of Edom .

3622 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam and Lotan's
sister was Timna .

3623 And the children of Shobal were these Alvan and Manahath
and Ebal Shepho and Onam .

3624 And these are the children of Zibeon both Ajah and Anah
this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness as he
fed the asses of Zibeon his father .

3625 And the children of Anah were these Dishon and Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah .

3626 And these are the children of Dishon Hemdan and Eshban and
Ithran and Cheran .

3627 The children of Ezer are these Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan
.

3628 The children of Dishan are these Uz and Aran .

3629 These are the dukes that came of the Horites duke Lotan
duke Shobal duke Zibeon duke Anah .

3630 Duke Dishon duke Ezer duke Dishan these are the dukes that
came of Hori among their dukes in the land of Seir .

3631 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel .

3632 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom and the name of
his city was Dinhabah .

3633 And Bela died and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned
in his stead .

3634 And Jobab died and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in
his stead .

3635 And Husham died and Hadad the son of Bedad who smote
Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his stead and the name of
his city was Avith .

3636 And Hadad died and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead
.

3637 And Samlah died and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned
in his stead .

3638 And Saul died and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his stead .

3639 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died and Hadar reigned in
his stead and the name of his city was Pau and his wife's name
was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab .

3640 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau
according to their families after their places by their names
duke Timnah duke Alvah duke Jetheth .

3641 Duke Aholibamah duke Elah duke Pinon .

3642 Duke Kenaz duke Teman duke Mibzar .

3643 Duke Magdiel duke Iram these be the dukes of Edom
according to their habitations in the land of their possession
he is Esau the father of the Edomites .

* 371 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a
stranger in the land of Canaan .

372 These are the generations of Jacob Joseph being seventeen
years old was feeding the flock with his brethren and the lad
was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah his
father's wives and Joseph brought unto his father their evil
report .

373 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because
he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many
colours .

374 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren they hated him and could not speak
peaceably unto him .

375 And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and
they hated him yet the more .

376 And he said unto them Hear I pray you this dream which I
have dreamed .

377 For behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my
sheaf arose and also stood upright and behold your sheaves stood
round about and made obeisance to my sheaf .

378 And his brethren said to him Shalt thou indeed reign over
us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us And they hated him
yet the more for his dreams and for his words .

379 And he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren
and said Behold I have dreamed a dream more and behold the sun
and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me .

3710 And he told it to his father and to his brethren and his
father rebuked him and said unto him What is this dream that
thou hast dreamed Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth .

3711 And his brethren envied him but his father observed the
saying .

3712 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in
Shechem .

3713 And Israel said unto Joseph Do not thy brethren feed the
flock in Shechem come and I will send thee unto them And he said
to him Here am I .

3714 And he said to him Go I pray thee see whether it be well
with thy brethren and well with the flocks and bring me word
again So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron and he came to
Shechem .

3715 And a certain man found him and behold he was wandering in
the field and the man asked him saying What seekest thou .

3716 And he said I seek my brethren tell me I pray thee where
they feed their flocks .

3717 And the man said They are departed hence for I heard them
say Let us go to Dothan And Joseph went after his brethren and
found them in Dothan .

3718 And when they saw him afar off even before he came near
unto them they conspired against him to slay him .

3719 And they said one to another Behold this dreamer cometh .

3720 Come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into
some pit and we will say Some evil beast hath devoured him and
we shall see what will become of his dreams .

3721 And Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their
hands and said Let us not kill him .

3722 And Reuben said unto them Shed no blood but cast him into
this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that
he might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father
again .

3723 And it came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren
that they stripped Joseph out of his coat his coat of many
colours that was on him .

3724 And they took him and cast him into a pit and the pit was
empty there was no water in it .

3725 And they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their
eyes and looked and behold a company of Ishmeelites came from
Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh
going to carry it down to Egypt .

3726 And Judah said unto his brethren What profit is it if we
slay our brother and conceal his blood .

3727 Come and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites and let not
our hand be upon him for he is our brother and our flesh And his
brethren were content .

3728 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen and they drew
and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the
Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver and they brought Joseph
into Egypt .

3729 And Reuben returned unto the pit and behold Joseph was not
in the pit and he rent his clothes .

3730 And he returned unto his brethren and said The child is
not and I whither shall I go .

3731 And they took Joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats
and dipped the coat in the blood .

3732 And they sent the coat of many colours and they brought it
to their father and said This have we found know now whether it
be thy son's coat or no .

3733 And he knew it and said It is my son's coat an evil beast
hath devoured him Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces .

3734 And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his
loins and mourned for his son many days .

3735 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort
him but he refused to be comforted and he said For I will go
down into the grave unto my son mourning Thus his father wept
for him .

3736 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar an
officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the guard .

* 381 And it came to pass at that time that Judah went down
from his brethren and turned in to a certain Adullamite whose
name was Hirah .

382 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose
name was Shuah and he took her and went in unto her .

383 And she conceived and bare a son and he called his name Er
.

384 And she conceived again and bare a son and she called his
name Onan .

385 And she yet again conceived and bare a son and called his
name Shelah and he was at Chezib when she bare him .

386 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn whose name was
Tamar .

387 And Er Judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of the
LORD and the LORD slew him .

388 And Judah said unto Onan Go in unto thy brother's wife and
marry her and raise up seed to thy brother .

389 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came
to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled
it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother .

3810 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD wherefore
he slew him also .

3811 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law Remain a
widow at thy father's house till Shelah my son be grown for he
said Lest peradventure he die also as his brethren did And Tamar
went and dwelt in her father's house .

3812 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife
died and Judah was comforted and went up unto his sheepshearers
to Timnath he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite .

3813 And it was told Tamar saying Behold thy father in law
goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep .

3814 And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered
her with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in an open place
which is by the way to Timnath for she saw that Shelah was grown
and she was not given unto him to wife .

3815 When Judah saw her he thought her to be an harlot because
she had covered her face .

3816 And he turned unto her by the way and said Go to I pray
thee let me come in unto thee for he knew not that she was his
daughter in law And she said What wilt thou give me that thou
mayest come in unto me .

3817 And he said I will send thee a kid from the flock And she
said Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it .

3818 And he said What pledge shall I give thee And she said Thy
signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand And
he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him .

3819 And she arose and went away and laid by her veil from her
and put on the garments of her widowhood .

3820 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
Adullamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand but he
found her not .

3821 Then he asked the men of that place saying Where is the
harlot that was openly by the way side And they said There was
no harlot in this place .

3822 And he returned to Judah and said I cannot find her and
also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this
place .

3823 And Judah said Let her take it to her lest we be shamed
behold I sent this kid and thou hast not found her .

3824 And it came tnd let thy seed possess the gate of those
which hate them .

2461 And Rebekah arose and her damsels and they rode upon the
camels and followed the man and the servant took Rebekah and
went his way .

2462 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi for he
dwelt in the south country .

2463 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide and he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold the camels
were coming .

2464 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and when she saw Isaac she
lighted off the camel .

2465 For she had said unto the servant What man is this that
walketh in the field to meet us And the servant had said It is
my master therefore she took a veil and covered herself .

2466 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done .

2467 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and
took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac
was comforted after his mother's death .

* 251 Then again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah .

252 And she bare him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian
and Ishbak and Shuah .

253 And Jokshan begat Sheba and Dedan And the sons of Dedan
were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim .

254 And the sons of Midian Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and
Abidah and Eldaah All these were the children of Keturah .

255 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac .

256 But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had
Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son while
he yet lived eastward unto the east country .

257 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which
he lived an hundred threescore and fifteen years .

258 Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age
an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people .

259 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite
which is before Mamre .

2510 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth
there was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife .

2511 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God
blessed his son Isaac and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi .

2512 Now these are the generations of Ishmael Abraham's son
whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarah's handmaid bare unto Abraham .

2513 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their
names according to their generations the firstborn of Ishmael
Nebajoth and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam .

2514 And Mishma and Dumah and Massa .

2515 Hadar and Tema Jetur Naphish and Kedemah .

2516 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by
their towns and by their castles twelve princes according to
their nations .

2517 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael an hundred
and thirty and seven years and he gave up the ghost and died and
was gathered unto his people .

2518 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt
as thou goest toward Assyria and he died in the presence of all
his brethren .

2519 And these are the generations of Isaac Abraham's son
Abraham begat Isaac .

2520 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram the sister to
Laban the Syrian .

2521 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife because she was
barren and the LORD was entreated of him and Rebekah his wife
conceived .

2522 And the children struggled together within her and she
said If it be so why am I thus And she went to inquire of the
LORD .

2523 And the LORD said unto her Two nations are in thy womb and
two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the
one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder
shall serve the younger .

2524 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold
there were twins in her womb .

2525 And the first came out red all over like an hairy garment
and they called his name Esau .

2526 And after that came his brother out and his hand took hold
on Esau's heel and his name was called Jacob and Isaac was
threescore years old when she bare them .

2527 And the boys grew and Esau was a cunning hunter a man of
the field and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents .

2528 And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison but
Rebekah loved Jacob .

2529 And Jacob sod pottage and Esau came from the field and he
was faint .

2530 And Esau said to Jacob Feed me I pray thee with that same
red pottage for I am faint therefore was his name called Edom .

2531 And Jacob said Sell me this day thy birthright .

2532 And Esau said Behold I am at the point to die and what
profit shall this birthright do to me .

2533 And Jacob said Swear to me this day and he sware unto him
and he sold his birthright unto Jacob .

2534 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he
did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus Esau
despised his birthright .

* 261 And there was a famine in the land beside the first
famine that was in the days of Abraham And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar .

262 And the LORD appeared unto him and said Go not down into
Egypt dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of .

263 Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and will bless
thee for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these
countries and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham
thy father .

264 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven
and will give unto thy seed all these countries and in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed .

265 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my
commandments my statutes and my laws .

266 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar .

267 And the men of the place asked him of his wife and he said
She is my sister for he feared to say She is my wife lest said
he the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah because she
was fair to look upon .

268 And it came to pass when he had been there a long time that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw
and behold Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife .

269 And Abimelech called Isaac and said Behold of a surety she
is thy wife and how saidst thou She is my sister And Isaac said
unto him Because I said Lest I die for her .

2610 And Abimelech said What is this thou hast done unto us one
of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us .

2611 And Abimelech charged all his people saying He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death .

2612 Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same
year an hundredfold and the LORD blessed him .

2613 And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he
became very great .

2614 For he had possession of flocks and possession of herds
and great store of servants and the Philistines envied him .

2615 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged
in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stopped
them and filled them with earth .

2616 And Abimelech said unto Isaac Go from us for thou art much
mightier than we .

2617 And Isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar and dwelt there .

2618 And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father for the Philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham and he called their
names after the names by which his father had called them .

2619 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley and found there
a well of springing water .

2620 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen
saying The water is ours and he called the name of the well Esek
because they strove with him .

2621 And they digged another well and strove for that also and
he called the name of it Sitnah .

2622 And he removed from thence and digged another well and for
that they strove not and he called the name of it Rehoboth and
he said For now the LORD hath made room for us and we shall be
fruitful in the land .

2623 And he went up from thence to Beersheba .

2624 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night and said I
am the God of Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee and
will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's
sake .

2625 And he builded an altar there and called upon the name of
the LORD and pitched his tent there and there Isaac's servants
digged a well .

2626 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuzzath one of
his friends and Phichol the chief captain of his army .

2627 And Isaac said unto them Wherefore come ye to me seeing ye
hate me and have sent me away from you .

2628 And they said We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee
and we said Let there be now an oath betwixt us even betwixt us
and thee and let us make a covenant with thee .

2629 That thou wilt do us no hurt as we have not touched thee
and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent
thee away in peace thou art now the blessed of the LORD .

2630 And he made them a feast and they did eat and drink .

2631 And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to
another and Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in
peace .

2632 And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants
came and told him concerning the well which they had digged and
said unto him We have found water .

2633 And he called it Shebah therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba unto this day .

2634 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith
the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Bashemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite .

2635 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah .

* 271 And it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes
were dim so that he could not see he called Esau his eldest son
and said unto him My son and he said unto him Behold here am I .

272 And he said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my
death .

273 Now therefore take I pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and
thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison .

274 And make me savoury meat such as I love and bring it to me
that I may eat that my soul may bless thee before I die .

275 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it .

276 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son saying Behold I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying .

277 Bring me venison and make me savoury meat that I may eat
and bless thee before the LORD before my death .

278 Now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which
I command thee .

279 Go now to the flock and fetch me from thence two good kids
of the goats and I will make them savoury meat for thy father
such as he loveth .

2710 And thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and
that he may bless thee before his death .

2711 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother Behold Esau my
brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man .

2712 My father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a
blessing .

2713 And his mother said unto him Upon me be thy curse my son
only obey my voice and go fetch me them .

2714 And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and
his mother made savoury meat such as his father loved .

2715 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau
which were with her in the house and put them upon Jacob her
younger son .

2716 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands and upon the smooth of his neck .

2717 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread which she had
prepared into the hand of her son Jacob .

2718 And he came unto his father and said My father and he said
Here am I who art thou my son .

2719 And Jacob said unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn I
have done according as thou badest me arise I pray thee sit and
eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me .

2720 And Isaac said unto his son How is it that thou hast found
it so quickly my son And he said Because the LORD thy God
brought it to me .

2721 And Isaac said unto Jacob Come near I pray thee that I may
feel thee my son whether thou be my very son Esau or not .

2722 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father and he felt him
and said The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands
of Esau .

2723 And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as
his brother Esau's hands so he blessed him .

2724 And he said Art thou my very son Esau And he said I am .

2725 And he said Bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's
venison that my soul may bless thee And he brought it near to
him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank .

2726 And his father Isaac said unto him Come near now and kiss
me my son .

2727 And he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell
of his raiment and blessed him and said See the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed .

2728 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven and the
fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine .

2729 Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be lord
over thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee
cursed be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that
blesseth thee .

2730 And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from
his hunting .

2731 And he also had made savoury meat and brought it unto his
father and said unto his father Let my father arise and eat of
his son's venison that thy soul may bless me .

2732 And Isaac his father said unto him Who art thou And he
said I am thy son thy firstborn Esau .

2733 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said Who where is
he that hath taken venison and brought it me and I have eaten of
all before thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall be
blessed .

2734 And when Esau heard the words of his father he cried with
a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father Bless
me even me also O my father .

2735 And he said Thy brother came with subtlety and hath taken
away thy blessing .

2736 And he said Is not he rightly named Jacob for he hath
supplanted me these two times he took away my birthright and
behold now he hath taken away my blessing And he said Hast thou
not reserved a blessing for me .

2737 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau Behold I have made
him thy lord and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants and with corn and wine have I sustained him and what
shall I do now unto thee my son .

2738 And Esau said unto his father Hast thou but one blessing
my father bless me even me also O my father And Esau lifted up
his voice and wept .

2739 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him Behold thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of the dew of
heaven from above .

2740 And by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy
brother and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck .

2741 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him and Esau said in his heart The days of
mourning for my father are at hand then will I slay my brother
Jacob .

2742 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah
and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said unto him
Behold thy brother Esau as touching thee doth comfort himself
purposing to kill thee .

2743 Now therefore my son obey my voice and arise flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran .

2744 And tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury
turn away .

2745 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he
forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and
fetch thee from thence why should I be deprived also of you both
in one day .

2746 And Rebekah said to Isaac I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Heth if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of
Heth such as these which are of the daughters of the land what
good shall my life do me .

* 281 And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him
and said unto him Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan .

282 Arise go to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of
Laban thy mother's brother .

283 And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and
multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people .

284 And give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy
seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham .

285 And Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian the brother of Rebekah Jacob's
and Esau's mother .

286 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him
away to Padanaram to take him a wife from thence and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge saying Thou shalt not take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan .

287 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was
gone to Padanaram .

288 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father .

289 Then went Esau unto Ishmael and took unto the wives which
he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son the sister
of Nebajoth to be his wife .

2810 And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran .

2811 And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all
night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that
place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to
sleep .

2812 And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and
the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it .

2813 And behold the LORD stood above it and said I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac the land whereon
thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed .

2814 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north
and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed .

2815 And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for
I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken
to thee of .

2816 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said Surely the
LORD is in this place and I knew it not .

2817 And he was afraid and said How dreadful is this place this
is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of
heaven .

2818 And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and
poured oil upon the top of it .

2819 And he called the name of that place Bethel but the name
of that city was called Luz at the first .

2820 And Jacob vowed a vow saying If God will be with me and
will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat
and raiment to put on .

2821 So that I come again to my father's house in peace then
shall the LORD be my God .

2822 And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be
God's house and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely
give the tenth unto thee .

* 291 Then Jacob went on his journey and came into the land of
the people of the east .

292 And he looked and behold a well in the field and lo there
were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well they
watered the flocks and a great stone was upon the well's mouth .

293 And thither were all the flocks gathered and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place .

294 And Jacob said unto them My brethren whence be ye And they
said Of Haran are we .

295 And he said unto them Know ye Laban the son of Nahor And
they said We know him .

296 And he said unto them Is he well And they said He is well
and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep .

297 And he said Lo it is yet high day neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together water ye the sheep and go
and feed them .

298 And they said We cannot until all the flocks be gathered
together and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth then
we water the sheep .

299 And while he yet spake with them Rachel came with her
father's sheep for she kept them .

2910 And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother and the sheep of Laban his mother's
brother that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother
.

2911 And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept .

2912 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and
that he was Rebekah's son and she ran and told her father .

2913 And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and
kissed him and brought him to his house And he told Laban all
these things .

2914 And Laban said to him Surely thou art my bone and my flesh
And he abode with him the space of a month .

2915 And Laban said unto Jacob Because thou art my brother
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall
thy wages be .

2916 And Laban had two daughters the name of the elder was Leah
and the name of the younger was Rachel .

2917 Leah was tender eyed but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured .

2918 And Jacob loved Rachel and said I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter .

2919 And Laban said It is better that I give her to thee than
that I should give her to another man abide with me .

2920 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed
unto him but a few days for the love he had to her .

2921 And Jacob said unto Laban Give me my wife for my days are
fulfilled that I may go in unto her .

2922 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and
made a feast .

2923 And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his
daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her .

2924 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for
an handmaid .

2925 And it came to pass that in the morning behold it was Leah
and he said to Laban What is this thou hast done unto me did not
I serve with thee for Rachel wherefore then hast thou beguiled
me .

2926 And Laban said It must not be so done in our country to
give the younger before the firstborn .

2927 Fulfil her week and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years .

2928 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also .

2929 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid
to be her maid .

2930 And he went in also unto Rachel and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah and served with him yet seven other years .

2931 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated he opened her
womb but Rachel was barren .

2932 And Leah conceived and bare a son and she called his name
Reuben for she said Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction now therefore my husband will love me .

2933 And she conceived again and bare a son and said Because
the LORD hath heard that I was hated he hath therefore given me
this son also and she called his name Simeon .

2934 And she conceived again and bare a son and said Now this
time will my husband be joined unto me because I have born him
three sons therefore was his name called Levi .

2935 And she conceived again and bare a son and she said Now
will I praise the LORD therefore she called his name Judah and
left bearing .

* 301 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children
Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob Give me children or
else I die .

302 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel and he said Am
I in God's stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
womb .

303 And she said Behold my maid Bilhah go in unto her and she
shall bear upon my knees that I may also have children by her .

304 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife and Jacob went
in unto her .

305 And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son .

306 And Rachel said God hath judged me and hath also heard my
voice and hath given me a son therefore called she his name Dan
.

307 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again and bare Jacob a
second son .

308 And Rachel said With great wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister and I have prevailed and she called his name Naphtali
.

309 When Leah saw that she had left bearing she took Zilpah her
maid and gave her Jacob to wife .

3010 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son .

3011 And Leah said A troop cometh and she called his name Gad .

3012 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son .

3013 And Leah said Happy am I for the daughters will call me
blessed and she called his name Asher .

3014 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found
mandrakes in the field and brought them unto his mother Leah
Then Rachel said to Leah Give me I pray thee of thy son's
mandrakes .

3015 And she said unto her Is it a small matter that thou hast
taken my husband and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes
also And Rachel said Therefore he shall lie with thee to night
for thy son's mandrakes .

3016 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening and Leah
went out to meet him and said Thou must come in unto me for
surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes And he lay with
her that night .

3017 And God hearkened unto Leah and she conceived and bare
Jacob the fifth son .

3018 And Leah said God hath given me my hire because I have
given my maiden to my husband and she called his name Issachar .

3019 And Leah conceived again and bare Jacob the sixth son .

3020 And Leah said God hath endued me with a good dowry now
will my husband dwell with me because I have born him six sons
and she called his name Zebulun .

3021 And afterwards she bare a daughter and called her name
Dinah .

3022 And God remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and
opened her womb .

3023 And she conceived and bare a son and said God hath taken
away my reproach .

3024 And she called his name Joseph and said The LORD shall add
to me another son .

3025 And it came to pass when Rachel had born Joseph that Jacob
said unto Laban Send me away that I may go unto mine own place
and to my country .

3026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served
thee and let me go for thou knowest my service which I have done
thee .

3027 And Laban said unto him I pray thee if I have found favour
in thine eyes tarry for I have learned by experience that the
LORD hath blessed me for thy sake .

3028 And he said Appoint me thy wages and I will give it .

3029 And he said unto him Thou knowest how I have served thee
and how thy cattle was with me .

3030 For it was little which thou hadst before I came and it is
now increased unto a multitude and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming and now when shall I provide for mine own house
also .

3031 And he said What shall I give thee And Jacob said Thou
shalt not give me any thing if thou wilt do this thing for me I
will again feed and keep thy flock .

3032 I will pass through all thy flock to day removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle and all the brown
cattle among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the
goats and of such shall be my hire .

3033 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come
when it shall come for my hire before thy face every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the
sheep that shall be counted stolen with me .

3034 And Laban said Behold I would it might be according to thy
word .

3035 And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted and all the she goats that were
speckled and spotted and every one that had some white in it and
all the brown among the sheep and gave them into the hand of his
sons .

3036 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks .

3037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar and of the hazel
and chestnut tree and pilled white streaks in them and made the
white appear which was in the rods .

3038 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks
in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink that they should conceive when they came to drink .

3039 And the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth
cattle ringstreaked speckled and spotted .

3040 And Jacob did separate the lambs and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the brown in the flock of
Laban and he put his own flocks by themselves and put them not
unto Laban's cattle .

3041 And it came to pass whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle
in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods .

3042 But when the cattle were feeble he put them not in so the
feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's .

3043 And the man increased exceedingly and had much cattle and
maidservants and menservants and camels and asses .

* 311 And he heard the words of Laban's sons saying Jacob hath
taken away all that was our father's and of that which was our
father's hath he gotten all this glory .

312 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban and behold it was
not toward him as before .

313 And the LORD said unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy
fathers and to thy kindred and I will be with thee .

314 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock .

315 And said unto them I see your father's countenance that it
is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been
with me .

316 And ye know that with all my power I have served your
father .

317 And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten
times but God suffered him not to hurt me .

318 If he said thus The speckled shall be thy wages then all
the cattle bare speckled and if he said thus The ringstreaked
shall be thy hire then bare all the cattle ringstreaked .

319 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father and
given them to me .

3110 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived
that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the
rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstreaked speckled and
grisled .

3111 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying Jacob
And I said Here am I .

3112 And he said Lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstreaked speckled and grisled
for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee .

3113 I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar
and where thou vowedst a vow unto me now arise get thee out from
this land and return unto the land of thy kindred .

3114 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him Is there
yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house .

3115 Are we not counted of him strangers for he hath sold us
and hath quite devoured also our money .

3116 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father
that is ours and our children's now then whatsoever God hath
said unto thee do .

3117 Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon
camels .

3118 And he carried away all his cattle and all his goods which
he had gotten the cattle of his getting which he had gotten in
Padanaram for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan .

3119 And Laban went to shear his sheep and Rachel had stolen
the images that were her father's .

3120 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian in that
he told him not that he fled .

3121 So he fled with all that he had and he rose up and passed
over the river and set his face toward the mount Gilead .

3122 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled
.

3123 And he took his brethren with him and pursued after him
seven days' journey and they overtook him in the mount Gilead .

3124 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and
said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good
or bad .

3125 Then Laban overtook Jacob Now Jacob had pitched his tent
in the mount and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead .

3126 And Laban said to Jacob What hast thou done that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me and carried away my daughters as
captives taken with the sword .

3127 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly and steal away
from me and didst not tell me that I might have sent thee away
with mirth and with songs with tabret and with harp .

3128 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing .

3129 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt but the God
of your father spake unto me yesternight saying Take thou heed
that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad .

3130 And now though thou wouldest needs be gone because thou
sore longedst after thy father's house yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods .

3131 And Jacob answered and said to Laban Because I was afraid
for I said Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me .

3132 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take
it to thee For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them .

3133 And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and
into the two maidservants' tents but he found them not Then went
he out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent .

3134 Now Rachel had taken the images and put them in the
camel's furniture and sat upon them And Laban searched all the
tent but found them not .

3135 And she said to her father Let it not displease my lord
that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is
upon me And he searched but found not the images .

3136 And Jacob was wroth and chided with Laban and Jacob
answered and said to Laban What is my trespass what is my sin
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me .

3137 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff what hast thou
found of all thy household stuff set it here before my brethren
and thy brethren that they may judge betwixt us both .

3138 This twenty years have I been with thee thy ewes and thy
she goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock
have I not eaten .

3139 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee I
bare the loss of it of my hand didst thou require it whether
stolen by day or stolen by night .

3140 Thus I was in the day the drought consumed me and the
frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes .

3141 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy
cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times .

3142 Except the God of my father the God of Abraham and the
fear of Isaac had been with me surely thou hadst sent me away
now empty God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my
hands and rebuked thee yesternight .

3143 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob These daughters are
my daughters and these children are my children and these cattle
are my cattle and all that thou seest is mine and what can I do
this day unto these my daughters or unto their children which
they have born .

3144 Now therefore come thou let us make a covenant I and thou
and let it be for a witness between me and thee .

3145 And Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar .

3146 And Jacob said unto his brethren Gather stones and they
took stones and made an heap and they did eat there upon the
heap .

3147 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha but Jacob called it
Galeed .

3148 And Laban said This heap is a witness between me and thee
this day Therefore was the name of it called Galeed .

3149 And Mizpah for he said The LORD watch between me and thee
when we are absent one from another .

3150 If thou shalt afflict my daughters or if thou shalt take
other wives beside my daughters no man is with us see God is
witness betwixt me and thee .

3151 And Laban said to Jacob Behold this heap and behold this
pillar which I have cast betwixt me and thee .

3152 This heap be witness and this pillar be witness that I
will not pass over this heap to thee and that thou shalt not
pass over this heap and this pillar unto me for harm .

3153 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor the God of their
father judge betwixt us And Jacob sware by the fear of his
father Isaac .

3154 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his
brethren to eat bread and they did eat bread and tarried all
night in the mount .

3155 And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons
and his daughters and blessed them and Laban departed and
returned unto his place .

* 321 And Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him .

322 And when Jacob saw them he said This is God's host and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim .

323 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir the country of Edom .

324 And he commanded them saying Thus shall ye speak unto my
lord Esau Thy servant Jacob saith thus I have sojourned with
Laban and stayed there until now .

325 And I have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and
womenservants and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find
grace in thy sight .

326 And the messengers returned to Jacob saying We came to thy
brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred
men with him .

327 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided
the people that was with him and the flocks and herds and the
camels into two bands .

328 And said If Esau come to the one company and smite it then
the other company which is left shall escape .

329 And Jacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my
father Isaac the LORD which saidst unto me Return unto thy
country and to thy kindred and I will deal well with thee .

3210 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all
the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant for with my
staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands .

3211 Deliver me I pray thee from the hand of my brother from
the hand of Esau for I fear him lest he will come and smite me
and the mother with the children .

3212 And thou saidst I will surely do thee good and make thy
seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for
multitude .

3213 And he lodged there that same night and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother .

3214 Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats two hundred ewes
and twenty rams .

3215 Thirty milch camels with their colts forty kine and ten
bulls twenty she asses and ten foals .

3216 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants every
drove by themselves and said unto his servants Pass over before
me and put a space betwixt drove and drove .

3217 And he commanded the foremost saying When Esau my brother
meeteth thee and asketh thee saying Whose art thou and whither
goest thou and whose are these before thee .

3218 Then thou shalt say They be thy servant Jacob's it is a
present sent unto my lord Esau and behold also he is behind us .

3219 And so commanded he the second and the third and all that
followed the droves saying On this manner shall ye speak unto
Esau when ye find him .

3220 And say ye moreover Behold thy servant Jacob is behind us
For he said I will appease him with the present that goeth
before me and afterward I will see his face peradventure he will
accept of me .

3221 So went the present over before him and himself lodged
that night in the company .

3222 And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his
two womenservants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford
Jabbok .

3223 And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent
over that he had .

3224 And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day .

3225 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him he
touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was out of joint as he wrestled with him .

3226 And he said Let me go for the day breaketh And he said I
will not let thee go except thou bless me .

3227 And he said unto him What is thy name And he said Jacob .

3228 And he said Thy name shall be called no more Jacob but
Israel for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and
hast prevailed .

3229 And Jacob asked him and said Tell me I pray thee thy name
And he said Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name And
he blessed him there .

3230 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel for I have
seen God face to face and my life is preserved .

3231 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him and he
halted upon his thigh .

3232 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew
which shrank which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that
shrank .

* 331 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked and behold Esau
came and with him four hundred men And he divided the children
unto Leah and unto Rachel and unto the two handmaids .

332 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost and
Leah and her children after and Rachel and Joseph hindermost .

333 And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the
ground seven times until he came near to his brother .

334 And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his
neck and kissed him and they wept .

335 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the
children and said Who are those with thee And he said The
children which God hath graciously given thy servant .

336 Then the handmaidens came near they and their children and
they bowed themselves .

337 And Leah also with her children came near and bowed
themselves and after came Joseph near and Rachel and they bowed
themselves .

338 And he said What meanest thou by all this drove which I met
And he said These are to find grace in the sight of my lord .

339 And Esau said I have enough my brother keep that thou hast
unto thyself .

3310 And Jacob said Nay I pray thee if now I have found grace
in thy sight then receive my present at my hand for therefore I
have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God and thou
wast pleased with me .

3311 Take I pray thee my blessing that is brought to thee
because God hath dealt graciously with me and because I have
enough And he urged him and he took it .

3312 And he said Let us take our journey and let us go and I
will go before thee .

3313 And he said unto him My lord knoweth that the children are
tender and the flocks and herds with young are with me and if
men should overdrive them one day all the flock will die .

3314 Let my lord I pray thee pass over before his servant and I
will lead on softly according as the cattle that goeth before me
and the children be able to endure until I come unto my lord
unto Seir .

3315 And Esau said Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
that are with me And he said What needeth it let me find grace
in the sight of my lord .

3316 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir .

3317 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built him an house and
made booths for his cattle therefore the name of the place is
called Succoth .

3318 And Jacob came to Shalem a city of Shechem which is in the
land of Canaan when he came from Padanaram and pitched his tent
before the city .

3319 And he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his
tent at the hand of the children of Hamor Shechem's father for
an hundred pieces of money .

3320 And he erected there an altar and called it Elelohe-Israel
.

* 341 And Dinah the daughter of Leah which she bare unto Jacob
went out to see the daughters of the land .

342 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite prince of the
country saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her .

343 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob and he
loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damseles of Israel
were dim for age so that he could not see And he brought them
near unto him and he kissed them and embraced them .

4811 And Israel said unto Joseph I had not thought to see thy
face and lo God hath showed me also thy seed .

4812 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he
bowed himself with his face to the earth .

4813 And Joseph took them both Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's
right hand and brought them near unto him .

4814 And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon
Ephraim's head who was the younger and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head guiding his hands wittingly for Manasseh was the
firstborn .

4815 And he blessed Joseph and said God before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk the God which fed me all my life long
unto this day .

4816 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads
and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the
midst of the earth .

4817 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand
upon the head of Ephraim it displeased him and he held up his
father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head .

4818 And Joseph said unto his father Not so my father for this
is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head .

4819 And his father refused and said I know it my son I know it
he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but
truly his younger brother shall be greater than he and his seed
shall become a multitude of nations .

4820 And he blessed them that day saying In thee shall Israel
bless saying God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh and he set
Ephraim before Manasseh .

4821 And Israel said unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be
with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers .

4822 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy
brethren which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow .

* 491 And Jacob called unto his sons and said Gather yourselves
together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the
last days .

492 Gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of Jacob and
hearken unto Israel your father .

493 Reuben thou art my firstborn my might and the beginning of
my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of
power .

494 Unstable as water thou shalt not excel because thou wentest
up to thy father's bed then defiledst thou it he went up to my
couch .

495 Simeon and Levi are brethren instruments of cruelty are in
their habitations .

496 O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their
assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they
slew a man and in their selfwill they digged down a wall .

497 Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for
it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in
Israel .

498 Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies thy father's children
shall bow down before thee .

499 Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey my son thou art gone
up he stooped down he couched as a lion and as an old lion who
shall rouse him up .

4910 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver
from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be .

4911 Binding his foal unto the vine and his ass's colt unto the
choice vine he washed his garments in wine and his clothes in
the blood of grapes .

4912 His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with
milk .

4913 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall
be for an haven of ships and his border shall be unto Zidon .

4914 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens
.

4915 And he saw that rest was good and the land that it was
pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant
unto tribute .

4916 Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel
.

4917 Dan shall be a serpent by the way an adder in the path
that biteth the horse heels so that his rider shall fall
backward .

4918 I have waited for thy salvation O LORD .

4919 Gad a troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome at
the last .

4920 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat and he shall yield
royal dainties .

4921 Naphtali is a hind let loose he giveth goodly words .

4922 Joseph is a fruitful bough even a fruitful bough by a well
whose branches run over the wall .

4923 The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and
hated him .

4924 But his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob from
thence is the shepherd the stone of Israel .

4925 Even by the God of thy father who shall help thee and by
the Almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above
blessings of the deep that lieth under blessings of the breasts
and of the womb .

4926 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph and on the
crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren .

4927 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf in the morning he shall
devour the prey and at night he shall divide the spoil .

4928 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel and this is it
that their father spake unto them and blessed them every one
according to his blessing he blessed them .

4929 And he charged them and said unto them I am to be gathered
unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in
the field of Ephron the Hittite .

4930 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is
before Mamre in the land of Canaan which Abraham bought with the
field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace .

4931 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife and there I buried Leah .

4932 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein
was from the children of Heth .

4933 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he
gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and
was gathered unto his people .

* 501 And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him
and kissed him .

502 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father and the physicians embalmed Israel .

503 And forty days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled
the days of those which are embalmed and the Egyptians mourned
for him threescore and ten days .

504 And when the days of his mourning were past Joseph spake
unto the house of Pharaoh saying If now I have found grace in
your eyes speak I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh saying .

505 My father made me swear saying Lo I die in my grave which I
have digged for me in the land of Canaan there shalt thou bury
me Now therefore let me go up I pray thee and bury my father and
I will come again .

506 And Pharaoh said Go up and bury thy father according as he
made thee swear .

507 And Joseph went up to bury his father and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh the elders of his house and all the
elders of the land of Egypt .

508 And all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his
father's house only their little ones and their flocks and their
herds they left in the land of Goshen .

509 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen and
it was a very great company .

5010 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad which is
beyond Jordan and there they mourned with a great and very sore
lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven days .

5011 And when the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites saw
the mourning in the floor of Atad they said This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians wherefore the name of it was called
Abelmizraim which is beyond Jordan .

5012 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them .

5013 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and
buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham
bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of
Ephron the Hittite before Mamre .

5014 And Joseph returned into Egypt he and his brethren and all
that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his
father .

5015 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead
they said Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly
requite us all the evil which we did unto him .

5016 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph saying Thy father
did command before he died saying .

5017 So shall ye say unto Joseph Forgive I pray thee now the
trespass of thy brethren and their sin for they did unto thee
evil and now we pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants
of the God of thy father And Joseph wept when they spake unto
him .

5018 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face
and they said Behold we be thy servants .

5019 And Joseph said unto them Fear not for am I in the place
of God .

5020 But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it
unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people
alive .

5021 Now therefore fear ye not I will nourish you and your
little ones And he comforted them and spake kindly unto them .

5022 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt he and his father's house and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years .

5023 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation
the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up
upon Joseph's knees .

5024 And Joseph said unto his brethren I die and God will
surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob .

5025 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying
God will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from
hence .

5026 So Joseph died being an hundred and ten years old and they
embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt







  
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