In the beginning God
created
the heaven
and the earth.
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.
And God said,
Let there be light:
and there was light.
And God
saw the light,
that it
was good:
and God
divided
the light
from the darkness.
And God
called the light Day,
and the darkness
he called Night.
And the evening
and the morning
were the first day.
And God said,
Let there be
a firmament
in the midst
of the waters,
and let
it divide
the waters
from the waters.
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.
And God
called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening
and the morning
were the second day.
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.
And God
called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together
of the waters
called
he Seas:
and God
saw
that it
was good.
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.
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.
And the evening
and the morning
were the third day.
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:
And let them
be for lights
in the firmament
of the heaven
to give
light
upon the earth:
and it
was so.
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.
And God set them
in the firmament
of the heaven
to give
light
upon the earth,
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.
And the evening
and the morning
were the fourth day.
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.
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.
And God
blessed them,
saying,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and fill
the waters
in the seas,
and let
fowl multiply
in the earth.
And the evening
and the morning
were the fifth day.
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.
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.
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.
So God
created man
in his own image,
in the image
of God
created
he him;
male
and female created
he them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus
the heavens
and the earth
were finished,
and all
the host
of them.
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.
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.
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,
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.
But there went
up a mist
from the earth,
and watered
the whole face
of the ground.
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.
And the LORD God
planted
a garden
eastward in Eden;
and there
he put
the man whom
he had formed.
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.
And a river
went out of Eden
to water
the garden;
and from thence
it was parted,
and became
into four heads.
The name
of the first is Pison:
that is
it which
compasseth the whole land
of Havilah,
where there is gold;
And
the gold
of that land
is good:
there is bdellium
and the onyx stone.
And
the name
of the second river
is Gihon:
the same
is it
that compasseth
the whole land
of Ethiopia.
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.
And the LORD God
took the man,
and put him
into the garden
of Eden
to dress it and
to keep it.
And the LORD God
commanded
the man,
saying,
Of every tree
of the garden
thou mayest freely eat:
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.
And the LORD God said,
It is not good
that the man
should be alone;
I will make him
an help meet
for him.
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.
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.
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;
And the rib,
which the LORD God
had taken
from man,
made he a woman,
and brought her
unto the man.
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.
Therefore shall
a man
leave his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave
unto his wife:
and
they shall be
one flesh.
And
they were both naked,
the man
and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
Now the serpent
was more subtil
than any beast
of the field
which the LORD God
had made.
And he
said
unto the woman,
Yea,
hath
God said,
Ye shall not eat
of every tree
of the garden?
And the woman
said
unto the serpent,
We may eat
of the fruit
of the trees
of the garden:
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.
And the serpent
said
unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the LORD God
called
unto Adam,
and
said unto him,
Where art thou?
And he said,
I heard
thy voice
in the garden,
and I
was afraid,
because
I was naked;
and I hid myself.
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?
And the man said,
The woman
whom thou
gavest to be with me,
she gave me
of the tree,
and I
did eat.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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;
Thorns also
and thistles
shall
it bring forth
to thee;
and
thou shalt eat
the herb
of the field;
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.
And Adam
called his wife's name Eve;
because
she was the mother
of all living.
Unto Adam
also and
to his wife
did
the LORD God
make
coats of skins,
and clothed them.
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:
Therefore the LORD God
sent
him forth
from the garden
of Eden,
to till the ground
from whence he was taken.
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.
And Adam
knew Eve
his wife;
and
she conceived,
and bare Cain,
and said,
I have gotten a man
from the LORD.
And
she again bare
his brother Abel.
And Abel
was a keeper
of sheep,
but Cain
was a tiller
of the ground.
And in process
of time
it came to pass,
that Cain
brought
of the fruit
of the ground
an offering
unto the LORD.
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:
But unto Cain
and to his offering
he had not respect.
And Cain
was very wroth,
and his countenance fell.
And the LORD
said
unto Cain,
Why art
thou wroth?
and why
is
thy countenance fallen?
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.
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.
And the LORD
said
unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said,
I know not:
Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said,
What
hast
thou done?
the voice of thy
brother's blood
crieth unto me
from the ground.
And now art
thou cursed
from the earth,
which hath opened
her mouth
to receive
thy brother's blood
from thy hand;
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.
And Cain
said
unto the LORD,
My punishment
is greater than
I can bear.
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.
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.
And Cain
went out
from the presence
of the LORD,
and dwelt
in the land
of Nod,
on the east
of Eden.
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.
And unto Enoch
was born Irad:
and Irad
begat Mehujael:
and Mehujael
begat Methusael:
and Methusael
begat Lamech.
And Lamech
took unto him two wives:
the name
of the one
was Adah,
and the name
of the other Zillah.
And Adah
bare Jabal:
he was the father
of such as dwell
in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
And his brother's name
was Jubal:
he was the father
of all such as handle the harp
and organ.
And Zillah,
she also bare
Tubalcain,
an instructer
of every artificer
in brass
and iron:
and
the sister
of Tubalcain
was Naamah.
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.
If Cain
shall be avenged
sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.
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.
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.
This is the book
of the generations
of Adam.
In the day
that God
created man,
in the likeness
of God
made
he him;
Male
and female created
he them;
and blessed them,
and called
their name Adam,
in the day
when
they were created.
And Adam
lived
an hundred
and thirty years,
and begat
a son
in his own likeness,
and
after his image;
and called
his name Seth:
And the days
of Adam after he
had begotten
Seth were eight hundred years:
and he
begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days that Adam
lived
were nine hundred
and thirty years:
and he died.
And Seth
lived
an hundred
and five years,
and begat Enos:
And Seth
lived
after he
begat Enos eight hundred
and seven years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Seth
were nine hundred
and twelve years:
and he died.
And Enos lived ninety years,
and begat Cainan:
And Enos
lived
after he
begat Cainan eight hundred
and fifteen years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Enos
were nine hundred
and five years:
and he died.
And Cainan
lived seventy years
and begat Mahalaleel:
And Cainan
lived
after he
begat Mahalaleel eight hundred
and forty years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Cainan
were nine hundred
and ten years:
and he died.
And Mahalaleel
lived sixty
and five years,
and begat Jared:
And Mahalaleel
lived
after he
begat Jared eight hundred
and thirty years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Mahalaleel
were eight hundred ninety
and five years:
and he died.
And Jared
lived
an hundred sixty
and two years,
and
he begat Enoch:
And Jared
lived
after he
begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Jared
were nine hundred sixty
and two years:
and he died.
And Enoch
lived sixty
and five years,
and begat Methuselah:
And Enoch
walked
with God after he
begat Methuselah three hundred years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Enoch
were three hundred sixty
and five years:
And Enoch
walked
with God:
and he was not;
for God
took him.
And Methuselah
lived
an hundred eighty
and seven years,
and begat Lamech.
And Methuselah
lived
after he
begat Lamech seven hundred eighty
and two years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Methuselah
were nine hundred sixty
and nine years:
and he died.
And Lamech
lived
an hundred eighty
and two years,
and begat a son:
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.
And Lamech
lived
after he
begat Noah five hundred ninety
and five years,
and begat sons
and daughters:
And all
the days
of Lamech
were seven hundred seventy
and seven years:
and he died.
And Noah
was
five hundred years old:
and Noah
begat Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
And it
came
to pass,
when men
began
to multiply
on the face
of the earth,
and daughters
were born unto them,
That the sons
of God
saw the daughters
of men
that they were fair;
and
they took them wives
of all which
they chose.
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.
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.
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.
And it
repented
the LORD that
he had made man
on the earth,
and it
grieved him
at his heart.
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.
But Noah
found
grace in the eyes
of the LORD.
These are the generations
of Noah:
Noah was a
just man
and perfect
in his generations,
and Noah
walked
with God.
And Noah
begat three sons,
Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
The earth
also was
corrupt
before God,
and the earth
was filled
with violence.
And God
looked
upon the earth,
and,
behold,
it was corrupt;
for all flesh
had corrupted
his way
upon the earth.
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.
Make
thee an ark
of gopher wood;
rooms
shalt
thou make
in the ark,
and shalt pitch
it within and without
with pitch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thus did Noah;
according to all
that God
commanded him,
so did he.
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.
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.
Of fowls
also of the air
by sevens,
the male
and the female;
to keep
seed alive
upon the face
of all the earth.
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.
And Noah
did
according
unto all
that the LORD
commanded him.
And Noah
was
six hundred years old
when the flood
of waters
was upon the earth.
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.
Of clean beasts,
and of beasts
that are not clean,
and of fowls,
and
of every thing
that creepeth
upon the earth,
There went in two
and two
unto Noah
into the ark,
the male
and the female,
as God
had commanded Noah.
And it
came
to pass
after seven days,
that the waters
of the flood
were upon the earth.
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.
And the rain
was upon the earth forty days
and forty nights.
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;
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.
And
they went in
unto Noah
into the ark,
two and two
of all flesh,
wherein is
the breath
of life.
And
they
that went in,
went in male
and female
of all flesh,
as God
had commanded him:
and the LORD
shut him in.
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.
And the waters prevailed,
and were increased greatly
upon the earth;
and the ark
went upon the face
of the waters.
And the waters
prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth;
and all
the high hills,
that were under the whole heaven,
were covered.
Fifteen cubits
upward did
the waters prevail;
and the mountains
were covered.
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:
All in whose nostrils
was the breath
of life,
of all
that was in the dry land,
died.
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.
And the waters
prevailed
upon the earth
an hundred
and fifty days.
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;
The fountains
also of the deep
and the windows
of heaven
were stopped,
and
the rain
from heaven
was restrained;
And the waters
returned from
off the earth continually:
and
after the end
of the hundred
and fifty days the waters
were abated.
And the ark
rested
in the seventh month,
on the seventeenth day
of the month,
upon the mountains
of Ararat.
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.
And it
came
to pass
at the end
of forty days,
that Noah
opened the window
of the ark
which he
had made:
And he
sent
forth a raven,
which went forth
to and fro,
until the waters
were dried up from
off the earth.
Also he
sent
forth a dove
from him,
to see
if the waters
were abated from
off the face
of the ground;
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.
And
he stayed yet
other seven days;
and
again
he sent
forth the dove
out of the ark;
And the dove
came in
to him
in the evening;
and,
lo,
in her mouth
was
an olive leaf
pluckt off:
so Noah
knew
that the waters
were abated from
off the earth.
And
he stayed yet
other seven days;
and sent
forth the dove;
which returned not
again unto him any more.
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.
And
in the second month,
on the seven
and twentieth day
of the month,
was the earth dried.
And God
spake unto Noah,
saying,
Go forth
of the ark,
thou,
and thy wife,
and thy sons,
and thy
sons' wives
with thee.
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.
And Noah
went forth,
and his sons,
and his wife,
and his sons' wives
with him:
Every beast,
every creeping thing,
and every fowl,
and whatsoever creepeth
upon the earth,
after their kinds,
went forth
out of the ark.
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.
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.
While the earth remaineth,
seedtime
and harvest,
and cold
and heat,
and summer
and winter,
and day and night shall not cease.
And God
blessed Noah
and his sons,
and
said unto them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and replenish
the earth.
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.
Every moving thing
that liveth
shall be meat
for you;
even as
the green herb
have
I given
you all things.
But flesh
with the life
thereof,
which is
the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
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.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood,
by man
shall
his blood
be shed:
for in the image
of God
made he man.
And you,
be ye fruitful,
and multiply;
bring forth abundantly
in the earth,
and multiply
therein.
And God
spake unto Noah,
and
to his sons
with him,
saying,
And I,
behold,
I establish my covenant
with you,
and
with your seed
after you;
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.
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.
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:
I do set
my bow
in the cloud,
and it
shall be
for a token
of a covenant
between me and the earth.
And it
shall come
to pass,
when
I bring
a cloud
over the earth,
that the bow
shall be seen
in the cloud:
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.
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.
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.
And the sons
of Noah,
that went forth
of the ark,
were Shem,
and Ham,
and Japheth:
and Ham
is the father
of Canaan.
These are
the three sons
of Noah:
and of them was
the whole earth overspread.
And Noah
began to be
an husbandman,
and
he planted
a vineyard:
And
he drank of the wine,
and was drunken;
and
he was uncovered
within his tent.
And Ham,
the father
of Canaan,
saw the nakedness
of his father,
and told
his two brethren
without.
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.
And Noah
awoke from his wine,
and knew
what his younger son
had done unto him.
And he said,
Cursed
be Canaan;
a servant
of servants
shall
he be
unto his brethren.
And he said,
Blessed
be the LORD God
of Shem;
and Canaan
shall be
his servant.
God shall enlarge
Japheth,
and
he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem;
and Canaan
shall be
his servant.
And Noah
lived
after the flood three hundred
and fifty years.
And all
the days
of Noah
were nine hundred
and fifty years:
and he died.
Now these
are the generations
of the sons
of Noah, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth:
and
unto them were
sons born
after the flood.
The sons
of Japheth;
Gomer,
and Magog,
and Madai,
and Javan,
and Tubal,
and Meshech,
and Tiras.
And the sons
of Gomer;
Ashkenaz,
and Riphath,
and Togarmah.
And the sons
of Javan;
Elishah,
and Tarshish, Kittim,
and Dodanim.
By these
were the isles
of the Gentiles divided
in their lands;
every one
after his tongue,
after their families,
in their nations.
And the sons
of Ham;
Cush,
and Mizraim,
and Phut,
and Canaan.
And the sons
of Cush;
Seba,
and Havilah,
and Sabtah,
and Raamah,
and Sabtechah:
and the sons
of Raamah;
Sheba,
and Dedan.
And Cush
begat Nimrod:
he began
to be a mighty one
in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter
before the LORD:
wherefore
it is said,
Even as Nimrod
the mighty hunter
before the LORD.
And the beginning
of his kingdom
was Babel,
and Erech,
and Accad,
and Calneh,
in the land
of Shinar.
Out of that land
went forth Asshur,
and builded
Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth,
and Calah,
And Resen
between Nineveh
and Calah:
the same
is a great city.
And Mizraim
begat Ludim,
and Anamim,
and Lehabim,
and Naphtuhim,
And Pathrusim,
and Casluhim,
(out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.
And Canaan
begat Sidon
his first born,
and Heth,
And the Jebusite,
and the Amorite,
and the Girgasite,
And the Hivite,
and the Arkite,
and the Sinite,
And the Arvadite,
and the Zemarite,
and the Hamathite:
and afterward were
the families
of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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.
These are the sons
of Ham,
after their families,
after their tongues,
in their countries,
and
in their nations.
Unto Shem also,
the father
of all the children
of Eber,
the brother
of Japheth the elder,
even to him
were children born.
The children
of Shem;
Elam,
and Asshur,
and Arphaxad,
and Lud,
and Aram.
And the children
of Aram;
Uz,
and Hul,
and Gether,
and Mash.
And Arphaxad
begat Salah;
and Salah
begat Eber.
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.
And Joktan
begat Almodad,
and Sheleph,
and Hazarmaveth,
and Jerah,
And Hadoram,
and Uzal,
and Diklah,
And Obal,
and Abimael,
and Sheba,
And Ophir,
and Havilah,
and Jobab:
all these
were the sons
of Joktan.
And their dwelling
was from Mesha,
as thou
goest
unto Sephar
a mount
of the east.
These are the sons
of Shem,
after their families,
after their tongues,
in their lands,
after their nations.
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.
And the whole earth
was of one language,
and
of one speech.
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.
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 morter.
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.
And the LORD
came down to see
the city
and the tower,
which the children
of men builded.
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.
Go to,
let us go down,
and there confound
their language,
that they
may not understand
one another's speech.
So the LORD
scattered them
abroad from
thence upon the face
of all the earth:
and they
left off
to build
the city.
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.
These are the generations
of Shem:
Shem was an hundred years old,
and begat Arphaxad two years
after the flood:
And Shem
lived
after he
begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Arphaxad
lived five
and thirty years,
and begat Salah:
And Arphaxad
lived
after he
begat Salah four hundred
and three years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Salah lived thirty years,
and begat Eber:
And Salah
lived
after he
begat Eber four hundred
and three years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Eber
lived four
and thirty years,
and begat Peleg:
And Eber
lived
after he
begat Peleg four hundred
and thirty years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years,
and begat Reu:
And Peleg
lived
after he
begat Reu two hundred
and nine years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Reu
lived two
and thirty years,
and begat Serug:
And Reu
lived
after he
begat Serug two hundred
and seven years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years,
and begat Nahor:
And Serug
lived
after he
begat Nahor two hundred years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Nahor
lived nine
and twenty years,
and begat Terah:
And Nahor
lived
after he
begat Terah
an hundred
and nineteen years,
and begat sons
and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years,
and begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran.
Now these
are the generations
of Terah:
Terah begat Abram, Nahor,
and Haran;
and Haran
begat Lot.
And Haran
died
before his father Terah
in the land
of his nativity,
in Ur
of the Chaldees.
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.
But Sarai
was barren;
she had
no child.
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.
And the days
of Terah
were two hundred
and five years:
and Terah
died
in Haran.
Now the LORD
had said
unto Abram,
Get thee
out of thy country,
and from thy kindred,
and from thy father's house,
unto a land
that I
will shew thee:
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:
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.
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.
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.
And Abram
passed
through the land
unto the place
of Sichem,
unto the plain
of Moreh.
And the Canaanite
was
then
in the land.
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.
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.
And Abram journeyed,
going on still toward
the south.
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.
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:
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.
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.
And it
came
to pass,
that,
when Abram
was come
into Egypt,
the Egyptians
beheld the woman that
she was very fair.
The princes
also of Pharaoh
saw her,
and commended her
before Pharaoh:
and the woman
was taken
into Pharaoh's house.
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.
And the LORD
plagued Pharaoh
and his house
with great plagues
because
of Sarai Abram's wife.
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?
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.
And Pharaoh
commanded
his men
concerning him:
and
they sent him away,
and his wife,
and all that
he had.
And Abram
went up out of Egypt,
he,
and his wife,
and all that
he had,
and Lot with him,
into the south.
And Abram
was very rich in cattle,
in silver,
and in gold.
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;
Unto the place
of the altar,
which he
had make
there
at the first:
and
there Abram
called on
the name
of the LORD.
And Lot also,
which went with Abram,
had flocks,
and herds,
and tents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then Lot
chose him all
the plain
of Jordan;
and Lot
journeyed east:
and
they separated themselves
the one
from the other.
Abram
dwelled
in the land
of Canaan,
and Lot
dwelled
in the cities
of the plain,
and pitched
his tent
toward Sodom.
But the men
of Sodom
were wicked
and sinners
before the LORD exceedingly.
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:
For all the land which
thou seest,
to thee
will
I give it,
and to thy
seed for ever.
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.
Arise,
walk
through the land
in the length
of it
and in the breadth of it;
for I will give it
unto thee.
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.
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;
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.
All these
were joined together
in the vale
of Siddim,
which is the salt sea.
Twelve years
they served
Chedorlaomer,
and
in the thirteenth year
they rebelled.
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 Emins
in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
And the Horites
in their mount Seir,
unto Elparan,
which is by the wilderness.
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.
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;
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.
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.
And they
took all
the goods
of Sodom
and Gomorrah,
and all
their victuals,
and went their way.
And
they took Lot,
Abram's brother's son,
who dwelt
in Sodom,
and his goods,
and departed.
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.
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.
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.
And
he brought back all
the goods,
and also brought again
his brother Lot,
and his goods,
and the women also,
and the people.
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.
And
Melchizedek king
of Salem
brought forth bread
and wine:
and
he was the priest
of the most high God.
And
he blessed him,
and said,
Blessed
be Abram
of the most high God,
possessor
of heaven
and earth:
And blessed
be the most high God,
which hath delivered
thine enemies
into thy hand.
And he
gave him tithes of all.
And
the king
of Sodom
said unto Abram,
Give me
the persons,
and take
the goods
to thyself.
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,
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:
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.
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.
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?
And Abram said,
Behold,
to me
thou hast given
no seed:
and,
lo,
one born
in my house is mine heir.
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.
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.
And he
believed
in the LORD;
and he
counted it
to him
for righteousness.
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.
And he said,
LORD God,
whereby shall
I know
that I
shall inherit it?
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.
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.
And
when the fowls
came down
upon the carcases,
Abram drove them away.
And
when the sun
was going down,
a deep sleep
fell upon Abram;
and,
lo,
an horror
of great darkness
fell upon him.
And he
said
unto Abram,
Know
of a surety
that thy
seed
shall be
a stranger
in a land
that is not their's,
and shall serve them;
and
they shall afflict them
four hundred years;
And
also that nation,
whom
they shall serve,
will
I judge:
and afterward shall
they come out
with great substance.
And
thou shalt go
to thy
fathers in peace;
thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation
they shall come hither again:
for the iniquity
of the Amorites
is not yet full.
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.
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:
The Kenites,
and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites,
And the Hittites,
and the Perizzites,
and the Rephaims,
And the Amorites,
and the Canaanites,
and the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites.
Now Sarai Abram's wife
bare him
no children:
and
she had
an handmaid,
an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar.
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.
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.
And he
went in
unto Hagar,
and
she conceived:
and
when she
saw that
she had conceived,
her mistress
was despised
in her eyes.
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.
But Abram
said
unto Sarai, Behold,
thy maid
is in thine hand;
do to her as it
pleaseth thee.
And
when Sarai
dealt hardly
with her,
she fled
from her face.
And the angel
of the LORD
found her
by a fountain
of water
in the wilderness,
by the fountain
in the way
to Shur.
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.
And
the angel
of the LORD
said unto her,
Return to thy mistress,
and submit thyself
under her hands.
And
the angel
of the LORD
said unto her,
I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly,
that it
shall not be numbered
for multitude.
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.
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.
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?
Wherefore
the well was called
Beerlahairoi;
behold,
it is between Kadesh
and Bered.
And Hagar
bare Abram a son:
and Abram
called his son's name,
which Hagar bare,
Ishmael.
And Abram
was fourscore
and six years old,
when Hagar
bare Ishmael
to Abram.
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.
And I
will make
my covenant
between me and thee,
and will multiply
thee exceedingly.
And Abram
fell
on his face:
and God
talked with him,
saying,
As for me,
behold,
my covenant
is with thee,
and thou
shalt be
a father
of many nations.
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.
And
I will make
thee exceeding fruitful,
and
I will make nations
of thee,
and kings
shall come out of thee.
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.
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.
And God
said
unto Abraham,
Thou
shalt keep
my covenant
therefore,
thou,
and thy
seed
after thee
in their generations.
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.
And
ye shall circumcise
the flesh
of your foreskin;
and it
shall be a token
of the covenant
betwixt me and you.
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.
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.
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.
And God
said
unto Abraham,
As for Sarai
thy wife,
thou shalt not call
her name Sarai,
but Sarah
shall her name be.
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.
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?
And Abraham
said
unto God,
O that Ishmael
might live
before thee!
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.
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.
But my covenant
will
I establish
with Isaac,
which Sarah
shall bear
unto thee
at this
set
time
in the next year.
And
he left off
talking with him,
and God
went up
from Abraham.
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.
And Abraham
was
ninety years old
and nine,
when
he was circumcised in the flesh
of his foreskin.
And Ishmael
his son
was
thirteen years old,
when
he was circumcised in the flesh
of his foreskin.
In the selfsame day
was
Abraham circumcised,
and Ishmael
his son.
And all
the men
of his house,
born
in the house,
and bought
with money
of the stranger,
were circumcised with him.
And the LORD
appeared
unto him
in the plains
of Mamre:
and
he sat
in the tent door
in the heat
of the day;
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,
And said,
My LORD,
if now
I have found
favour in thy sight,
pass not away,
I pray thee,
from thy servant:
Let a little water,
I pray you,
be fetched,
and wash
your feet,
and rest yourselves
under the tree:
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.
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.
And Abraham
ran unto the herd,
and fetcht a calf
tender
and good,
and gave it
unto a young man;
and
he hasted
to dress it.
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.
And
they
said unto him,
Where is Sarah thy wife?
And he said,
Behold,
in the tent.
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.
Now Abraham
and Sarah
were
old
and well stricken
in age;
and it
ceased
to be with Sarah
after the manner
of women.
Therefore Sarah
laughed
within herself,
saying,
After I
am waxed old
shall
I have pleasure,
my lord
being old also?
And the LORD
said
unto Abraham,
Wherefore
did
Sarah laugh,
saying,
Shall I
of a surety
bear
a child,
which am old?
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.
Then Sarah denied,
saying,
I laughed not;
for she
was afraid.
And he said,
Nay;
but
thou didst laugh.
And the men
rose up
from thence,
and looked toward Sodom:
and Abraham
went with them
to bring them
on the way.
And the LORD said,
Shall I
hide
from Abraham that thing
which I do;
Seeing
that Abraham
shall surely become
a great
and mighty nation,
and all
the nations
of the earth
shall be blessed in him?
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.
And the LORD said,
Because the cry
of Sodom
and Gomorrah
is great,
and
because
their sin
is very grievous;
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.
And the men
turned
their faces
from thence,
and went toward Sodom:
but Abraham
stood yet
before the LORD.
And Abraham drew near,
and said,
Wilt thou
also destroy the righteous
with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city:
wilt thou
also destroy
and not spare the place
for the fifty righteous
that are
therein?
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?
And the LORD said,
If I
find
in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city,
then I
will spare
all the place
for their sakes.
And Abraham
answered
and said,
Behold now,
I have taken
upon me
to speak
unto the LORD,
which am
but dust
and ashes:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the LORD
went his way,
as soon as he
had left
communing
with Abraham:
and Abraham
returned
unto his place.
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;
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.
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.
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:
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.
And Lot
went out
at the door
unto them,
and shut
the door
after him,
And said,
I pray you,
brethren,
do not
so wickedly.
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.
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.
But the men
put forth
their hand,
and pulled Lot
into the house
to them,
and shut
to the door.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Lot
said unto them,
Oh,
not so,
my LORD:
Behold now,
thy servant
hath found
grace in thy sight,
and
thou hast magnified
thy mercy,
which thou
hast shewed
unto me
in saving my life;
and
I cannot escape
to the mountain,
lest some evil
take me,
and I die:
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.
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.
Haste thee,
escape thither;
for I
cannot do
anything
till thou
be come thither.
Therefore the name
of the city
was called Zoar.
The sun
was risen
upon the earth
when Lot
entered
into Zoar.
Then the LORD
rained
upon Sodom
and upon Gomorrah brimstone
and fire
from the LORD
out of heaven;
And
he overthrew those cities,
and all
the plain,
and all
the inhabitants
of the cities,
and
that which
grew upon the ground.
But his wife
looked
back from behind him,
and she
became
a pillar
of salt.
And Abraham gat
up early
in the morning
to the place
where he
stood
before the LORD:
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.
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.
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.
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:
Come,
let us
make our father drink wine,
and
we will lie with him,
that we
may preserve
seed
of our father.
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.
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.
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.
Thus were both
the daughters
of Lot with child
by their father.
And the first born
bare a son,
and called
his name Moab:
the same
is the father
of the Moabites
unto this day.
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.
And Abraham
journeyed from
thence toward the south country,
and dwelled
between Kadesh
and Shur,
and sojourned
in Gerar.
And Abraham
said
of Sarah
his wife,
She is my sister:
and
Abimelech king
of Gerar sent,
and took Sarah.
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.
But Abimelech
had not come
near her:
and he said,
LORD,
wilt thou
slay also
a righteous nation?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Abimelech
said
unto Abraham,
What sawest thou,
that thou
hast done
this thing?
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.
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.
And it
came
to pass,
when God
caused me
to wander
from my father's house,
that I
said
unto her,
This is thy kindness which
thou
shalt shew unto me;
at every
place whither
we shall come,
say of me,
He is my brother.
And Abimelech
took sheep,
and oxen,
and menservants,
and womenservants,
and gave them
unto Abraham,
and restored him Sarah
his wife.
And Abimelech said,
Behold,
my land
is before thee:
dwell
where it
pleaseth thee.
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.
So Abraham
prayed
unto God:
and God
healed Abimelech,
and his wife,
and his maidservants;
and
they bare children.
For the LORD
had fast
closed
up all the wombs
of the house
of Abimelech,
because
of Sarah Abraham's wife.
And the LORD
visited
Sarah as he
had said,
and the LORD
did unto Sarah as he
had spoken.
For Sarah conceived,
and bare
Abraham a son
in his old age,
at the set
time
of which God
had spoken
to him.
And Abraham
called the name
of his son
that was born unto him,
whom Sarah
bare
to him,
Isaac.
And Abraham
circumcised
his son Isaac
being eight days old,
as God
had commanded him.
And Abraham
was an hundred years old,
when his son Isaac
was born unto him.
And Sarah said,
God hath made me
to laugh,
so that
all that
hear
will laugh with me.
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.
And the child grew,
and was weaned:
and Abraham
made
a great
feast the same day
that Isaac
was weaned.
And Sarah
saw
the son
of Hagar
the Egyptian,
which she
had born
unto Abraham,
mocking.
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.
And the thing
was very grievous
in Abraham's sight
because
of his son.
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.
And
also of the son
of the bondwoman
will
I make a nation,
because
he
is thy seed.
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.
And the water
was spent
in the bottle,
and she cast
the child
under one
of the shrubs.
And she went,
and sat
her down over
against him a good way off,
as it were a bow shot:
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.
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.
Arise,
lift up the lad,
and hold him
in thine hand;
for I
will make him
a great nation.
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.
And God
was with the lad;
and he grew,
and dwelt
in the wilderness,
and became
an archer.
And
he dwelt
in the wilderness
of Paran:
and his mother
took him
a wife
out of the land
of Egypt.
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:
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.
And Abraham said,
I will swear.
And Abraham
reproved Abimelech
because of a well of water,
which Abimelech's servants
had violently taken away.
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.
And Abraham
took sheep
and oxen,
and gave them
unto Abimelech;
and both
of them made
a covenant.
And Abraham set
seven ewe lambs
of the flock
by themselves.
And Abimelech
said
unto Abraham,
What
mean
these seven ewe lambs
which thou
hast set
by themselves?
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.
Wherefore
he called
that place Beersheba;
because there
they sware both
of them.
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.
And Abraham
planted
a grove
in Beersheba,
and called there
on the name
of the LORD,
the everlasting God.
And Abraham
sojourned
in the Philistines' land many days.
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.
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.
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.
Then on the third day Abraham
lifted
up his eyes,
and saw
the place
afar off.
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.
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.
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?
And Abraham said,
My son,
God will provide himself
a lamb
for a burnt offering:
so they
went both
of them
together.
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.
And Abraham
stretched
forth his hand,
and took
the knife
to slay his son.
And
the angel
of the LORD
called
unto him
out of heaven,
and said,
Abraham, Abraham:
and he said,
Here am I.
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.
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.
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.
And
the angel
of the LORD
called
unto Abraham
out of heaven the second time,
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:
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;
And in thy
seed
shall all
the nations
of the earth
be blessed;
because
thou hast obeyed
my voice.
So Abraham
returned
unto his young men,
and they
rose
up and went together
to Beersheba;
and Abraham
dwelt
at Beersheba.
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;
Huz his firstborn,
and Buz
his brother,
and Kemuel
the father
of Aram,
And Chesed,
and Hazo,
and Pildash,
and Jidlaph,
and Bethuel.
And Bethuel
begat Rebekah:
these eight Milcah
did bear
to Nahor,
Abraham's brother.
And his concubine,
whose name
was Reumah,
she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham,
and Thahash,
and Maachah.
And Sarah
was an hundred
and seven
and twenty years old:
these were the years
of the life
of Sarah.
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.
And Abraham
stood up from
before his dead,
and spake unto the sons
of Heth,
saying,
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.
And the children
of Heth
answered Abraham,
saying unto him,
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.
And Abraham stood up,
and bowed himself
to the people
of the land,
even to
the children
of Heth.
And
he communed with them,
saying,
If it
be your mind that
I should bury
my dead
out of my sight;
hear me,
and intreat
for me
to Ephron
the son
of Zohar,
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.
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,
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.
And Abraham
bowed
down himself
before the people
of the land.
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.
And Ephron
answered Abraham,
saying unto him,
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.
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.
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
Unto Abraham
for a possession
in the presence
of the children
of Heth,
before all
that went in
at the gate
of his city.
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.
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.
And Abraham
was old,
and well stricken
in age:
and the LORD
had blessed Abraham
in all things.
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:
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:
But
thou shalt go
unto my country,
and to my kindred,
and take
a wife
unto my son Isaac.
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?
And Abraham
said unto him,
Beware
thou
that thou
bring not my son thither again.
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.
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.
And the servant
put
his hand
under the thigh
of Abraham
his master,
and sware
to him concerning that matter.
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.
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.
And he
said
O LORD God
of my master Abraham,
I pray thee,
send me good
speed this day,
and shew kindness
unto my master Abraham.
Behold,
I stand here
by the well of water;
and the daughters
of the men
of the city
come out
to draw water:
And let it
come to pass,
that the damsel
to whom
I shall say,
Let down thy pitcher,
I pray thee,
that I
may drink;
and
she shall say,
Drink,
and I
will give
thy camels
drink also:
let the same
be
she
that thou
hast appointed
for thy servant Isaac;
and thereby shall
I know that
thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master.
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.
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.
And the servant
ran to meet her,
and said,
Let me,
I pray thee,
drink a little water
of thy pitcher.
And she said,
Drink,
my lord:
and she hasted,
and let down
her pitcher
upon her hand,
and gave him drink.
And
when she
had done
giving him drink,
she said,
I will draw
water
for thy camels also,
until they
have done drinking.
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.
And the man
wondering
at her
held
his peace,
to wit
whether the LORD
had made
his journey prosperous
or not.
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;
And said,
Whose daughter art thou?
tell me,
I pray thee:
is there room
in thy father's house
for us
to lodge in?
And
she
said unto him,
I am the daughter
of Bethuel
the son
of Milcah,
which she
bare
unto Nahor.
She said moreover unto him,
We have both straw
and provender enough,
and room
to lodge in.
And the man
bowed
down his head,
and worshipped
the LORD.
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.
And the damsel ran,
and told them
of her mother's house these things.
And Rebekah
had a brother,
and his name
was Laban:
and Laban
ran out
unto the man,
unto the well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And he said,
I am Abraham's servant.
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.
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.
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:
But
thou shalt go
unto my father's house,
and to my kindred,
and take
a wife
unto my son.
And I
said
unto my master,
Peradventure the woman
will not follow me.
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:
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.
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:
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Then Laban
and Bethuel
answered
and said,
The thing
proceedeth
from the LORD:
we cannot speak
unto thee bad
or good.
Behold,
Rebekah
is before thee,
take her,
and go,
and let
her be
thy master's son's wife,
as the LORD
hath spoken.
And it
came
to pass,
that,
when Abraham's servant heard
their words,
he worshipped
the LORD,
bowing himself
to the earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And they said,
We will call
the damsel,
and enquire
at her mouth.
And
they called
Rebekah,
and said
unto her,
Wilt
thou go
with this man?
And she said,
I will go.
And
they sent away Rebekah
their sister,
and her nurse,
and Abraham's servant,
and his men.
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.
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.
And Isaac
came
from the way
of the well Lahairoi;
for he dwelt
in the south country.
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.
And Rebekah
lifted
up her eyes,
and
when
she saw Isaac,
she lighted
off the camel.
For she
had said
unto the servant,
What man
is this
that walketh
in the field
to meet us?
And the servant
had said,
It is my master:
therefore she
took a vail,
and covered herself.
And the servant
told Isaac all things
that he had done.
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.
Then
again Abraham
took a wife,
and her name
was Keturah.
And
she bare him
Zimran,
and Jokshan,
and Medan,
and Midian,
and Ishbak,
and Shuah.
And Jokshan
begat Sheba,
and Dedan.
And
the sons
of Dedan
were Asshurim,
and Letushim,
and Leummim.
And the sons
of Midian;
Ephah,
and Epher,
and Hanoch,
and Abidah,
and Eldaah.
All these
were the children
of Keturah.
And Abraham
gave all
that he
had
unto Isaac.
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.
And these
are the days
of the years
of Abraham's life
which he lived,
an hundred threescore
and fifteen years.
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.
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;
The field which Abraham
purchased
of the sons
of Heth:
there was
Abraham buried,
and Sarah
his wife.
And it
came
to pass
after the death
of Abraham,
that God
blessed his son Isaac;
and Isaac
dwelt
by the well Lahairoi.
Now these
are the generations
of Ishmael,
Abraham's son,
whom Hagar
the Egyptian,
Sarah's handmaid,
bare
unto Abraham:
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,
And Mishma,
and Dumah,
and Massa,
Hadar,
and Tema, Jetur, Naphish,
and Kedemah:
These are the sons
of Ishmael,
and these
are their names,
by their towns,
and
by their castles;
twelve princes
according to their nations.
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.
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.
And these
are the generations
of Isaac,
Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac:
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.
And Isaac
intreated
the LORD
for his wife,
because
she was barren:
and the LORD
was intreated of him,
and Rebekah
his wife conceived.
And the children
struggled together
within her;
and she said,
If it
be so,
why am I thus?
And
she went
to enquire
of the LORD.
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.
And
when her days
to be delivered
were fulfilled,
behold,
there were twins
in her womb.
And the first came
out red,
all over like
an hairy garment;
and
they called
his name Esau.
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.
And the boys grew:
and Esau
was a cunning hunter,
a man
of the field;
and Jacob
was a plain man,
dwelling
in tents.
And Isaac
loved Esau,
because
he did eat
of his venison:
but Rebekah
loved Jacob.
And Jacob
sod pottage:
and Esau
came
from the field,
and
he was faint:
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.
And Jacob said,
Sell me this day
thy birthright.
And Esau said,
Behold,
I am at the point
to die:
and
what profit
shall
this birthright
do to me?
And Jacob said,
Swear
to me this day;
and
he sware unto him:
and he
sold
his birthright
unto Jacob.
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.
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.
And the LORD
appeared unto him,
and said,
Go not down
into Egypt;
dwell in the land
which I
shall tell thee of:
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;
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;
Because
that Abraham
obeyed my voice,
and kept
my charge,
my commandments,
my statutes,
and my laws.
And Isaac
dwelt
in Gerar:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Abimelech
charged all
his people,
saying,
He that
toucheth this man
or his wife
shall surely be put
to death.
Then Isaac
sowed
in that land,
and received
in the same year an hundredfold:
and the LORD
blessed him.
And the man
waxed great,
and went forward,
and grew until
he became very great:
For he
had possession
of flocks,
and possession
of herds,
and great store
of servants:
and the Philistines
envied him.
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.
And Abimelech
said
unto Isaac,
Go from us;
for thou art much mightier
than we.
And Isaac
departed thence,
and pitched
his tent
in the valley
of Gerar,
and dwelt there.
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.
And Isaac's servants
digged
in the valley,
and found there a
well of springing water.
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.
And they
digged
another well,
and strove
for that also:
and he
called
the name
of it Sitnah.
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.
And
he went up from
thence to Beersheba.
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.
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.
Then Abimelech
went
to him
from Gerar,
and Ahuzzath one
of his friends,
and Phichol
the chief captain
of his army.
And Isaac
said unto them,
Wherefore
come
ye to me,
seeing
ye hate me,
and have sent me away
from you?
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;
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.
And
he made them
a feast,
and they
did eat and drink.
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.
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.
And
he called
it Shebah:
therefore the name
of the city
is Beersheba
unto this day.
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:
Which were a grief
of mind
unto Isaac
and to Rebekah.
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.
And he said,
Behold now,
I am old,
I know not
the day
of my death:
Now therefore take,
I pray thee,
thy weapons,
thy quiver
and thy bow,
and go out
to the field,
and take me
some venison;
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.
And Rebekah
heard
when Isaac
spake to Esau
his son.
And Esau
went to the field
to hunt
for venison,
and to bring it.
And Rebekah
spake unto Jacob
her son,
saying,
Behold,
I heard
thy father
speak
unto Esau thy brother,
saying,
Bring me venison,
and make me
savoury meat,
that I
may eat,
and bless thee
before the LORD
before my death.
Now therefore,
my son,
obey my voice
according to
that which
I command thee.
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:
And
thou shalt bring
it to thy father,
that he
may eat,
and
that he
may bless thee
before his death.
And Jacob
said
to Rebekah
his mother,
Behold,
Esau my brother
is a hairy man,
and
I am a smooth man:
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.
And his mother
said unto him,
Upon me
be
thy curse,
my son:
only obey
my voice,
and go
fetch me them.
And he went,
and fetched,
and brought them
to his mother:
and his mother
made savoury meat,
such as
his father loved.
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:
And she put
the skins
of the kids
of the goats
upon his hands,
and
upon the smooth
of his neck:
And
she gave
the savoury meat
and the bread,
which she
had prepared,
into the hand
of her son Jacob.
And he
came
unto his father,
and said,
My father:
and he said,
Here am I;
who art thou,
my son?
And Jacob
said
unto his father,
I am
Esau thy
first born;
I have done
according as thou
badest me:
arise,
I pray thee,
sit and eat
of my venison,
that thy soul
may bless me.
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.
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.
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.
And
he discerned him not,
because
his hands
were hairy,
as his brother Esau's hands:
so he
blessed him.
And he said,
Art
thou my very son Esau?
And he said,
I am.
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.
And his father Isaac
said unto him,
Come near now,
and kiss me,
my son.
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:
Therefore God
give thee
of the dew
of heaven,
and the fatness
of the earth,
and plenty
of corn
and wine:
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.
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.
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.
And Isaac
his father
said unto him,
Who art thou?
And he said,
I am thy son,
thy firstborn Esau.
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.
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.
And he said,
Thy brother
came
with subtilty,
and hath taken away
thy blessing.
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?
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?
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
Now therefore,
my son,
obey my voice;
arise,
flee
thou
to Laban
my brother
to Haran;
And tarry
with him a few days,
until thy brother's fury turn away;
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?
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?
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.
Arise,
go to Padanaram,
to the house
of Bethuel
thy mother's father;
and take thee
a wife
from thence of the daughers
of Laban
thy mother's brother.
And God Almighty
bless thee,
and make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee,
that thou
mayest be
a multitude
of people;
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.
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.
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 daughers
of Canaan;
And that Jacob
obeyed his father
and his mother,
and was gone
to Padanaram;
And Esau
seeing that
the daughters
of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father;
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.
And Jacob
went out
from Beersheba,
and went toward Haran.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
And Jacob awaked
out of his sleep,
and he said,
Surely the LORD
is in this place;
and
I knew it not.
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.
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.
And he
called
the name
of that place Bethel:
but the name
of that city
was called Luz
at the first.
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,
So that
I come again
to my father's house
in peace;
then shall
the LORD
be my God:
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.
Then Jacob
went on
his journey,
and came
into the land
of the people
of the east.
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.
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.
And Jacob
said unto them,
My brethren,
whence be ye?
And they said,
Of Haran are we.
And
he said unto them,
Know
ye Laban
the son
of Nahor?
And they said,
We know him.
And
he said unto them,
Is he well?
And they said,
He is well:
and,
behold,
Rachel his daughter
cometh with the sheep.
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.
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.
And
while he
yet spake with them,
Rachel
came
with her father's sheep;
for she
kept them.
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.
And Jacob
kissed Rachel,
and lifted
up his voice,
and wept.
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.
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.
And Laban
said
to him,
Surely
thou art
my bone and my flesh.
And
he abode
with him the space
of a month.
And Laban
said
unto Jacob,
Because
thou art
my brother,
shouldest thou
therefore serve me
for nought?
tell me,
what shall
thy wages be?
And Laban
had two daughters:
the name
of the elder
was Leah,
and
the name
of the younger
was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed;
but Rachel
was beautiful
and well favoured.
And Jacob
loved Rachel;
and said,
I will serve
thee seven years
for Rachel
thy younger daughter.
And Laban said,
It is
better that
I give her
to thee,
than
that
I should give her
to another man:
abide with me.
And Jacob
served seven years
for Rachel;
and they
seemed
unto him but
a few days,
for the love
he had to her.
And Jacob
said
unto Laban,
Give me
my wife,
for my days
are fulfilled,
that I
may go in
unto her.
And Laban
gathered
together all
the men
of the place,
and made
a feast.
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.
And Laban
gave unto his daughter
Leah Zilpah his maid
for an handmaid.
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?
And Laban said,
It must not be so done
in our country,
to give the younger
before the firstborn.
Fulfil her week,
and
we will give thee this
also for the service
which thou
shalt serve
with me yet seven other years.
And Jacob
did so,
and fulfilled
her week:
and
he gave him Rachel
his daughter
to wife also.
And Laban
gave to Rachel
his daughter Bilhah his handmaid
to be her maid.
And
he went in also
unto Rachel,
and
he loved also
Rachel more than Leah,
and served
with him yet seven other years.
And when the LORD
saw that Leah
was hated,
he opened
her womb:
but Rachel
was barren.
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.
And
she conceived again,
and bare a son;
and said,
Because the LORD
hath heard
I was hated,
he hath therefore given me
this son also:
and
she called
his name Simeon.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
And she
gave him
Bilhah her handmaid
to wife:
and Jacob
went in
unto her.
And Bilhah conceived,
and bare
Jacob a son.
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.
And Bilhah Rachel's maid
conceived again,
and bare
Jacob a second son.
And Rachel said,
With great wrestlings
have
I wrestled
with my sister,
and
I have prevailed:
and
she called
his name Naphtali.
When Leah
saw that
she had left bearing,
she took Zilpah her maid,
and gave
her Jacob
to wife.
And Zilpah Leah's maid
bare Jacob a son.
And Leah said,
A troop cometh:
and
she called
his name Gad.
And Zilpah Leah's maid
bare Jacob a second son.
And Leah said,
Happy am I,
for the daughters
will call me blessed:
and
she called
his name Asher.
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.
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.
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.
And God
hearkened
unto Leah,
and
she conceived,
and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
And Leah said,
God hath given me
my hire,
because
I have given
my maiden
to my husband:
and
she called
his name Issachar.
And Leah
conceived again,
and bare Jacob
the sixth son.
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.
And afterwards
she bare
a daughter,
and called
her name Dinah.
And God
remembered Rachel,
and God
hearkened
to her,
and opened
her womb.
And
she conceived,
and bare a son;
and said,
God hath taken away
my reproach:
And
she called
his name Joseph;
and said,
The LORD
shall add
to me another son.
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.
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.
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.
And he said,
Appoint
me thy wages,
and
I will give it.
And
he said unto him,
Thou knowest how I
have served thee,
and
how thy cattle
was with me.
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?
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.
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.
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.
And Laban said,
Behold,
I would
it might be according to
thy word.
And he
removed
that day
the he goats
that were
ringstraked
and spotted,
and all
the she goats
that were speckled
and spotted,
and every one
that had some white in it,
and all
the brown
among the sheep,
and gave them
into the hand
of his sons.
And he set
three days' journey
betwixt himself
and Jacob:
and Jacob
fed
the rest
of Laban's flocks.
And Jacob
took him rods
of green poplar,
and of the hazel
and chesnut tree;
and pilled white strakes
in them,
and made
the white
appear which
was in the rods.
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.
And the flocks
conceived
before the rods,
and brought forth cattle ringstraked,
speckled,
and spotted.
And Jacob
did separate
the lambs,
and set
the faces
of the flocks
toward the ringstraked,
and all
the brown
in the flock
of Laban;
and
he put
his own
flocks
by themselves,
and put them not
unto Laban's cattle.
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.
But
when the cattle
were feeble,
he put them not in:
so the feebler
were Laban's,
and the stronger Jacob's.
And the man
increased exceedingly,
and had
much cattle,
and maidservants,
and menservants,
and camels,
and asses.
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.
And Jacob
beheld
the countenance
of Laban,
and,
behold,
it was not toward
him as before.
And the LORD
said
unto Jacob,
Return
unto the land
of thy fathers,
and to thy kindred;
and
I will be
with thee.
And Jacob
sent and called Rachel
and Leah
to the field
unto his flock,
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.
And ye
know
that with all
my power
I have served
your father.
And your father
hath deceived me,
and changed
my wages ten times;
but God
suffered him not
to hurt me.
If he
said thus,
The speckled
shall be
thy wages;
then
all the cattle bare speckled:
and
if he
said thus,
The ringstraked
shall be
thy hire;
then bare all
the cattle ringstraked.
Thus God
hath taken away the cattle
of your father,
and given them to me.
And it
came
to pass
at the time
that the cattle conceived,
that I
lifted
up mine eyes,
and saw
in a dream,
and,
behold,
the rams which
leaped
upon the cattle
were ringstraked,
speckled,
and grisled.
And
the angel
of God
spake unto me
in a dream,
saying,
Jacob:
And I said,
Here am I.
And he said,
Lift up now
thine eyes,
and see,
all the rams
which leap
upon the cattle
are ringstraked,
speckled,
and grisled:
for I
have seen all that Laban
doeth unto thee.
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.
And Rachel
and Leah
answered
and
said unto him,
Is there yet any portion
or inheritance
for us
in our father's house?
Are
we not counted
of him strangers?
for he
hath sold us,
and hath quite devoured also
our money.
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.
Then Jacob
rose up,
and set
his sons
and his wives
upon camels;
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.
And Laban
went to shear
his sheep:
and Rachel
had stolen
the images
that were her father's.
And Jacob
stole away
unawares to Laban
the Syrian,
in that
he told him not that
he fled.
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.
And it
was told
Laban on the third day
that Jacob
was fled.
And he
took
his brethren
with him,
and pursued
after him
seven days' journey;
and
they overtook him
in the mount Gilead.
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.
Then Laban
overtook Jacob.
Now Jacob
had pitched
his tent
in the mount:
and Laban
with his brethren
pitched
in the mount
of Gilead.
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?
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?
And hast not suffered me
to kiss
my sons
and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly
in so doing.
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.
And now,
though thou
wouldest needs be gone,
because
thou sore longedst
after thy father's house,
yet wherefore hast
thou stolen
my gods?
And Jacob
answered
and said
to Laban,
Because I
was afraid:
for I said,
Peradventure
thou wouldest take
by force
thy daughters
from me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Jacob
was wroth,
and chode
with Laban:
and Jacob
answered
and said
to Laban,
What is my trespass?
what is my sin,
that thou
hast so hotly pursued
after me?
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.
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.
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.
Thus
I was;
in the day
the drought
consumed me,
and the frost
by night;
and my sleep
departed
from mine eyes.
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.
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.
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?
Now therefore come thou,
let us
make a covenant,
I and thou;
and let
it be
for a witness
between me and thee.
And Jacob
took a stone,
and set it up
for a pillar.
And Jacob
said
unto his brethren,
Gather stones;
and
they took stones,
and made an heap:
and
they did eat there
upon the heap.
And Laban
called it Jegarsahadutha:
but Jacob
called it Galeed.
And Laban said,
This heap
is a witness
between me
and thee
this day.
Therefore was
the name of it
called Galeed;
And Mizpah;
for he said,
The LORD
watch between me and thee,
when
we are absent one
from another.
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.
And Laban
said
to Jacob,
Behold this heap,
and behold
this pillar,
which I
have cast
betwixt me and thee:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Jacob
went on
his way,
and the angels
of God
met him.
And
when Jacob
saw them,
he said,
This
is
God's host:
and he
called
the name
of that place Mahanaim.
And Jacob
sent messengers
before him
to Esau his brother
unto the land
of Seir,
the country
of Edom.
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:
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.
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.
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;
And said,
If Esau
come
to the one company,
and smite it,
then
the other company
which is left
shall escape.
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:
I am not worthy
of the least
of all the mercies,
and
of all the truth,
which thou
hast shewed
unto thy servant;
for with my staff
I passed
over this Jordan;
and
now
I am become
two bands.
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.
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.
And
he lodged there
that same night;
and took
of that
which came
to his hand a present
for Esau his brother;
Two hundred
she goats,
and twenty
he goats,
two hundred ewes,
and twenty rams,
Thirty milch camels
with their colts,
forty kine,
and ten bulls,
twenty she asses,
and ten foals.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
So went
the present over
before him:
and himself
lodged
that night
in the company.
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.
And he
took them,
and sent them
over the brook,
and sent
over that he had.
And Jacob
was left alone;
and there wrestled a man
with him
until the breaking
of the day.
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.
And he said,
Let me go,
for the day breaketh.
And he said,
I will not let
thee go,
except thou
bless me.
And
he said unto him,
What
is thy name?
And he said,
Jacob.
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.
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.
And Jacob
called
the name
of the place Peniel:
for I
have seen God
face to face,
and my life
is preserved.
And as he
passed
over Penuel
the sun
rose upon him,
and he
halted
upon his thigh.
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.
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.
And he put
the handmaids
and their children foremost,
and Leah
and her children after,
and Rachel
and Joseph hindermost.
And
he passed over
before them,
and bowed himself
to the ground seven times,
until he
came near
to his brother.
And Esau
ran to meet him,
and embraced him,
and fell
on his neck,
and kissed him:
and they wept.
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.
Then the handmaidens
came near,
they and their children,
and
they bowed themselves.
And Leah
also with her children
came near,
and bowed themselves:
and
after came Joseph
near and Rachel,
and
they bowed themselves.
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.
And Esau said,
I have enough,
my brother;
keep that thou
hast unto thyself.
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.
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.
And he said,
Let us
take
our journey,
and let us go,
and
I will go
before thee.
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.
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.
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.
So Esau
returned
that day
on his way
unto Seir.
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.
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.
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.
And
he erected there
an altar,
and called
it EleloheIsrael.
And Dinah
the daughter
of Leah,
which she
bare
unto Jacob,
went out
to see the daughters
of the land.
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.
And his soul clave
unto Dinah
the daughter
of Jacob,
and
he loved
the damsel,
and spake kindly
unto the damsel.
And Shechem
spake unto his father Hamor,
saying,
Get me
this damsel
to wife.
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.
And Hamor
the father
of Shechem
went out
unto Jacob
to commune with him.
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.
And Hamor
communed with them,
saying,
The soul
of my son
Shechem
longeth
for your daughter:
I pray you
give her him
to wife.
And make
ye marriages
with us,
and give
your daughters
unto us,
and take
our daughters
unto you.
And
ye shall dwell with us:
and the land
shall be
before you;
dwell
and trade
ye therein,
and get
you possessions
therein.
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.
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.
And the sons
of Jacob answered Shechem
and Hamor
his father deceitfully,
and said,
because
he had defiled Dinah
their sister:
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:
But in this
will
we consent
unto you:
If ye
will be
as we be,
that every male
of you
be circumcised;
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.
But
if ye
will not hearken unto us,
to be circumcised;
then will
we take
our daughter,
and
we will be gone.
And their words
pleased Hamor,
and Shechem Hamor's son.
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.
And Hamor
and Shechem
his son
came
unto the gate
of their city,
and communed
with the men
of their city,
saying,
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.
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.
Shall not
their cattle
and their substance
and every beast
of their's
be our's?
only let us
consent unto them,
and
they
will dwell with us.
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.
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.
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.
The sons of Jacob
came upon
the slain,
and spoiled
the city,
because
they had defiled
their sister.
They took their sheep,
and their oxen,
and their asses,
and
that which
was in the city,
and
that which
was in the field,
And all
their wealth,
and all
their little ones,
and their wives
took
they captive,
and spoiled even all
that
was in the house.
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.
And they said,
Should
he deal with
our sister
as with an harlot?
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
So Jacob
came
to Luz,
which is in the land
of Canaan,
that is,
Bethel,
he and all
the people
that were with him.
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.
But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died,
and
she was buried beneath Bethel
under an oak:
and the name of it
was called
Allonbachuth.
And God
appeared
unto Jacob again,
when
he came out of Padanaram,
and blessed him.
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.
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;
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.
And God
went up
from him
in the place
where he
talked with him.
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.
And Jacob
called
the name
of the place
where God
spake with him,
Bethel.
And
they journeyed
from Bethel;
and there was
but a little way to
come to Ephrath:
and Rachel travailed,
and
she had
hard labour.
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.
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.
And Rachel died,
and was buried
in the way
to Ephrath,
which is Bethlehem.
And Jacob set
a pillar
upon her grave:
that is the pillar
of Rachel's grave
unto this day.
And Israel journeyed,
and spread
his tent
beyond the tower
of Edar.
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:
The sons of Leah;
Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn,
and Simeon,
and Levi,
and Judah,
and Issachar,
and Zebulun:
The sons
of Rachel;
Joseph,
and Benjamin:
And the sons
of Bilhah,
Rachel's handmaid;
Dan,
and Naphtali:
And the sons
of Zilpah,
Leah's handmaid:
Gad,
and Asher:
these are the sons
of Jacob,
which were born
to him
in Padanaram.
And Jacob
came
unto Isaac
his father
unto Mamre,
unto the city
of Arbah,
which is Hebron,
where Abraham
and Isaac sojourned.
And the days
of Isaac
were an hundred
and fourscore years.
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.
Now these
are the generations
of Esau,
who is Edom.
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;
And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter,
sister
of Nebajoth.
And Adah
bare
to Esau Eliphaz;
and Bashemath
bare Reuel;
And Aholibamah
bare Jeush,
and Jaalam,
and Korah:
these are the sons
of Esau,
which were born
unto him
in the land
of Canaan.
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.
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.
Thus dwelt Esau
in mount Seir:
Esau is Edom.
And these
are the generations
of Esau
the father
of the Edomites
in mount Seir:
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.
And
the sons
of Eliphaz
were Teman, Omar, Zepho,
and Gatam,
and Kenaz.
And Timna
was concubine
to Eliphaz Esau's son;
and she
bare
to Eliphaz Amalek:
these were the sons
of Adah Esau's wife.
And these
are the sons
of Reuel;
Nahath,
and Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah:
these were the sons
of Bashemath Esau's wife.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
These are the sons
of Esau,
who is Edom,
and these
are their dukes.
These are the sons
of Seir the Horite,
who inhabited
the land;
Lotan,
and Shobal,
and Zibeon,
and Anah,
And Dishon,
and Ezer,
and Dishan:
these are the dukes
of the Horites,
the children
of Seir
in the land
of Edom.
And the children
of Lotan
were Hori
and Hemam;
and Lotan's sister
was Timna.
And the children
of Shobal
were these;
Alvan,
and Manahath,
and Ebal, Shepho,
and Onam.
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.
And the children
of Anah
were these;
Dishon,
and Aholibamah
the daughter
of Anah.
And these
are the children
of Dishon;
Hemdan,
and Eshban,
and Ithran,
and Cheran.
The children
of Ezer
are these;
Bilhan,
and Zaavan,
and Akan.
The children
of Dishan
are these;
Uz,
and Aran.
These are the dukes
that came
of the Horites;
duke Lotan,
duke Shobal,
duke Zibeon,
duke Anah,
Duke Dishon,
duke Ezer,
duke Dishan:
these are the dukes
that came
of Hori,
among their dukes
in the land
of Seir.
And these
are the kings
that reigned
in the land
of Edom,
before there reigned any king
over the children
of Israel.
And Bela
the son
of Beor
reigned in Edom:
and the name
of his city was Dinhabah.
And Bela died,
and Jobab
the son
of Zerah
of Bozrah
reigned
in his stead.
And Jobab died,
and Husham
of the land
of Temani
reigned
in his stead.
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.
And Hadad died,
and
Samlah
of Masrekah
reigned
in his stead.
And Samlah died,
and Saul
of Rehoboth
by the river
reigned
in his stead.
And Saul died,
and Baalhanan
the son
of Achbor
reigned
in his stead.
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.
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,
Duke Aholibamah,
duke Elah,
duke Pinon,
Duke Kenaz,
duke Teman,
duke Mibzar,
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.
And Jacob
dwelt
in the land
wherein his father
was a stranger,
in the land
of Canaan.
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.
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.
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.
And Joseph
dreamed a dream,
and he
told it
his brethren:
and
they hated him yet
the more.
And
he said unto them,
Hear,
I pray you,
this dream
which I
have dreamed:
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.
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.
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.
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?
And his brethren
envied him;
but his father
observed the saying.
And his brethren
went
to feed
their father's flock
in Shechem.
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.
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.
And a certain man
found him,
and,
behold,
he was wandering
in the field:
and the man
asked him,
saying,
What seekest thou?
And he said,
I seek my brethren:
tell me,
I pray thee,
where they
feed their flocks.
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.
And
when
they
saw him afar off,
even before he came near
unto them,
they conspired
against him to slay him.
And
they said one
to another,
Behold,
this dreamer cometh.
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.
And Reuben
heard it,
and
he delivered him
out of their hands;
and said,
Let us
not kill him.
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.
And it
came
to pass,
when Joseph
was come
unto his brethren,
that they stript Joseph
out of his coat,
his coat
of many
colours
that was on him;
And
they took him,
and cast him
into a pit:
and the pit
was empty,
there was
no water in it.
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.
And Judah
said
unto his brethren,
What
profit
is it
if we
slay our brother,
and conceal
his blood?
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.
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.
And Reuben
returned
unto the pit;
and,
behold,
Joseph
was not
in the pit;
and
he rent
his clothes.
And he
returned
unto his brethren,
and said,
The child
is not;
and I,
whither shall
I go?
And
they took Joseph's coat,
and killed
a kid
of the goats,
and dipped
the coat
in the blood;
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.
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.
And Jacob
rent his clothes,
and put sackcloth
upon his loins,
and mourned
for his son many days.
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.
And the Midianites
sold him
into Egypt
unto Potiphar,
an officer
of Pharaoh's,
and captain
of the guard.
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.
And Judah
saw there
a daughter of a
certain Canaanite,
whose name
was Shuah;
and he
took her,
and went in
unto her.
And
she conceived,
and bare a son;
and
he called
his name Er.
And
she conceived again,
and bare a son;
and
she called
his name Onan.
And
she yet again conceived,
and bare a son;
and called
his name Shelah:
and
he was at Chezib,
when she bare him.
And Judah
took
a wife
for Er
his firstborn,
whose name was Tamar.
And Er,
Judah's firstborn,
was wicked
in the sight
of the LORD;
and the LORD
slew him.
And Judah
said
unto Onan,
Go in
unto thy brother's wife,
and marry her,
and raise
up seed
to thy brother.
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.
And the thing
which he
did displeased
the LORD:
wherefore
he slew him also.
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.
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.
And it
was told Tamar,
saying,
Behold thy
father
in law
goeth
up to Timnath
to shear his sheep.
And she put
her widow's garments off
from her,
and covered her
with a vail,
and wrapped herself,
and sat
in an open place,
which is by the way
to Timnath;
for she
saw that Shelah
was grown,
and
she was not given
unto him
to wife.
When Judah
saw her,
he thought her
to be an harlot;
because
she had covered
her face.
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?
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?
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.
And she arose,
and went away,
and laid
by her vail
from her,
and put on
the garments
of her widowhood.
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.
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.
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.
And Judah said,
Let her take it
to her,
lest
we be shamed:
behold,
I sent this kid,
and
thou hast not found her.
And it
came
to pass
about three months after,
that it
was told Judah,
saying,
Tamar thy daughter
in law
hath played
the harlot;
and also,
behold,
she is with child
by whoredom.
And Judah said,
Bring her forth,
and let
her be burnt.
When
she was brought forth,
she sent
to her father
in law,
saying,
By the man,
whose these are,
am I with child:
and she said,
Discern,
I pray thee,
whose are these,
the signet,
and bracelets,
and staff.
And Judah
acknowledged them,
and said,
She hath been more righteous
than I;
because
that I
gave her
not to Shelah my son.
And he
knew her
again no more.
And it
came
to pass
in the time
of her travail,
that,
behold,
twins were in her womb.
And it
came
to pass,
when
she travailed,
that the one
put out his hand:
and the midwife
took
and bound
upon his hand
a scarlet thread,
saying,
This came
out first.
And it
came
to pass,
as he
drew
back
his hand,
that,
behold,
his brother
came out:
and she said,
How hast
thou
broken forth?
this breach
be upon thee:
therefore his name
was called Pharez.
And afterward came
out his brother,
that had
the scarlet thread
upon his hand:
and his name
was called Zarah.
And Joseph
was brought down
to Egypt;
and Potiphar,
an officer
of Pharaoh,
captain
of the guard,
an Egyptian,
bought him
of the hands
of the Ishmeelites,
which had brought him
down thither.
And the LORD
was with Joseph,
and
he was a prosperous man;
and
he was in the house
of his master
the Egyptian.
And his master
saw
that the LORD
was with him,
and that
the LORD
made all that
he did
to prosper
in his hand.
And Joseph
found
grace
in his sight,
and
he served him:
and
he made him overseer
over his house,
and all that
he had
he put
into his hand.
And it
came to pass
from the time
that
he had made him overseer
in his house,
and over all
that
he had,
that the LORD
blessed
the Egyptian's house
for Joseph's sake;
and the blessing
of the LORD
was upon all
that he
had in the house,
and
in the field.
And he
left all
that he
had
in Joseph's hand;
and he
knew not
ought
he had,
save the bread
which he
did eat.
And Joseph
was a goodly person,
and well favoured.
And it
came
to pass
after these things,
that his master's wife
cast
her eyes
upon Joseph;
and she said,
Lie with me.
But he refused,
and said
unto his master's wife,
Behold,
my master wotteth not
what is with me
in the house,
and
he hath committed all that
he hath
to my hand;
There is none greater
in this house
than I;
neither hath
he kept
back any thing
from me but thee,
because
thou art
his wife:
how then
can
I do
this great wickedness,
and sin
against God?
And it
came
to pass,
as she
spake to Joseph
day by day,
that he
hearkened not
unto her,
to lie by her,
or to be
with her.
And it
came
to pass
about this time,
that Joseph
went into the house
to do his business;
and there was
none of the men
of the house
there within.
And
she caught him
by his garment,
saying,
Lie with me:
and he
left
his garment
in her hand,
and fled,
and
got him out.
And it
came
to pass,
when
she saw
that he
had left
his garment
in her hand,
and
was fled forth,
That she
called
unto the men
of her house,
and
spake unto them,
saying,
See,
he hath brought in
an Hebrew
unto us to mock us;
he came in
unto me
to lie with me,
and I
cried
with a loud voice:
And it
came
to pass,
when
he heard that
I lifted
up my voice
and cried,
that he
left
his garment
with me,
and fled,
and
got him out.
And she
laid up
his garment
by her,
until his lord
came home.
And
she spake unto him according to
these words,
saying,
The Hebrew servant,
which thou
hast brought unto us,
came in
unto me to mock me:
And it
came
to pass,
as I
lifted
up my voice
and cried,
that he
left
his garment
with me,
and fled out.
And it
came
to pass,
when his master
heard
the words
of his wife,
which she
spake unto him,
saying,
After this manner
did thy servant to me;
that his wrath
was kindled.
And Joseph's master
took him,
and put him
into the prison,
a place
where the king's prisoners
were bound:
and
he was there
in the prison.
But the LORD
was with Joseph,
and shewed him mercy,
and gave him
favour
in the sight
of the keeper
of the prison.
And
the keeper
of the prison
committed
to Joseph's hand
all the prisoners
that were in the prison;
and whatsoever
they did there,
he was the doer of it.
The keeper
of the prison
looked not
to any thing
that was under his hand;
because
the LORD
was with him,
and
that which
he did,
the LORD
made it
to prosper.
And it
came
to pass
after these things,
that the butler
of the king
of Egypt
and his baker
had offended
their lord
the king
of Egypt.
And Pharaoh
was wroth
against two
of his officers,
against the chief
of the butlers,
and against the chief
of the bakers.
And
he put them
in ward
in the house
of the captain
of the guard,
into the prison,
the place
where Joseph
was bound.
And the captain
of the guard charged Joseph
with them,
and
he served them:
and
they continued
a season
in ward.
And they
dreamed
a dream both
of them,
each man his dream
in one night,
each man
according to
the interpretation
of his dream,
the butler
and the baker
of the king
of Egypt,
which were bound
in the prison.
And Joseph
came in
unto them
in the morning,
and
looked upon them,
and,
behold,
they were sad.
And
he asked Pharaoh's officers
that were with him
in the ward
of his lord's house,
saying,
Wherefore
look
ye so
sadly to day?
And
they
said unto him,
We have dreamed
a dream,
and there is no interpreter
of it.
And Joseph
said unto them,
Do not interpretations
belong
to God?
tell me them,
I pray you.
And the chief butler
told
his dream
to Joseph,
and said to him,
In my dream,
behold,
a vine
was
before me;
And in the vine
were three branches:
and it
was as
though it budded,
and her blossoms
shot forth;
and the clusters
thereof brought forth
ripe grapes:
And Pharaoh's cup
was in my hand:
and
I took the grapes,
and pressed them
into Pharaoh's cup,
and I
gave
the cup
into Pharaoh's hand.
And Joseph
said unto him,
This is the interpretation of it:
The three branches
are three days:
Yet within three days
shall
Pharaoh lift
up thine head,
and restore thee
unto thy place:
and
thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup
into his hand,
after the former manner
when
thou wast his butler.
But think
on me when
it shall be well
with thee,
and shew kindness,
I pray thee,
unto me,
and make
mention of me
unto Pharaoh,
and bring me
out of this house:
For indeed
I was stolen away
out of the land
of the Hebrews:
and here
also have
I done nothing
that they
should put me
into the dungeon.
When the chief baker
saw
that the interpretation
was good,
he said
unto Joseph,
I also was
in my dream,
and,
behold,
I had three white baskets
on my head:
And
in the uppermost basket
there was
of all manner
of bakemeats
for Pharaoh;
and the birds
did eat them
out of the basket
upon my head.
And Joseph
answered
and said,
This is
the interpretation
thereof:
The three baskets
are three days:
Yet within three days
shall
Pharaoh lift
up thy
head from
off thee,
and shall hang thee
on a tree;
and the birds
shall eat
thy flesh from
off thee.
And it
came
to pass
the third day,
which was Pharaoh's birthday,
that he
made
a feast
unto all his servants:
and he
lifted
up the head
of the chief butler
and of the chief baker
among his servants.
And he
restored
the chief butler
unto his butlership
again;
and he
gave
the cup
into Pharaoh's hand:
But
he hanged
the chief baker:
as Joseph
had interpreted
to them.
Yet did not
the chief butler
remember Joseph,
but forgat him.
And it
came
to pass
at the end
of two full years,
that Pharaoh dreamed:
and,
behold,
he stood by
the river.
And,
behold,
there came up
out of the river
seven well favoured kine
and fatfleshed;
and they
fed in a meadow.
And,
behold,
seven other kine
came up
after them
out of the river,
ill favoured
and leanfleshed;
and stood by
the other kine
upon the brink
of the river.
And the ill favoured
and leanfleshed kine
did eat
up the seven well favoured
and fat kine.
So Pharaoh awoke.
And
he slept
and dreamed
the second time:
and,
behold,
seven ears
of corn
came up
upon one stalk,
rank
and good.
And,
behold,
seven thin ears
and blasted
with the east wind
sprung up
after them.
And the seven thin ears
devoured the seven rank
and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke,
and,
behold,
it was a dream.
And it
came
to pass
in the morning
that his spirit
was troubled;
and
he sent
and called for all
the magicians
of Egypt,
and all
the wise men
thereof:
and Pharaoh
told them
his dream;
but there was none
that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.
Then spake
the chief butler
unto Pharaoh,
saying,
I do remember
my faults
this day:
Pharaoh was wroth
with his servants,
and put me
in ward
in the captain
of the guard's house,
both me
and the chief baker:
And we
dreamed
a dream
in one night,
I and he;
we dreamed each man
according to
the interpretation
of his dream.
And there was there
with us a young man,
an Hebrew,
servant
to the captain
of the guard;
and we
told him,
and
he interpreted
to us our dreams;
to each man
according to
his dream
he did interpret.
And it
came
to pass,
as he
interpreted to us,
so it was;
me he
restored
unto mine office,
and him
he hanged.
Then Pharaoh
sent
and called Joseph,
and
they brought him hastily
out of the dungeon:
and
he shaved himself,
and changed
his raiment,
and came in
unto Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
I have dreamed
a dream,
and there is none
that can interpret it:
and I
have heard
say of thee,
that thou
canst
understand
a dream
to interpret it.
And Joseph
answered Pharaoh,
saying,
It is not in me:
God shall give
Pharaoh an answer
of peace.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
In my dream,
behold,
I stood
upon the bank
of the river:
And,
behold,
there came up
out of the river seven kine,
fatfleshed
and well favoured;
and they
fed
in a meadow:
And,
behold,
seven other kine
came up
after them,
poor
and very ill favoured
and leanfleshed,
such as
I never saw
in all
the land
of Egypt
for badness:
And the lean
and the ill favoured kine
did eat
up the first seven fat kine:
And
when
they
had eaten them up,
it could not be known that
they had eaten them;
but
they were still ill favoured,
as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
And I
saw
in my dream,
and,
behold,
seven ears
came up
in one stalk,
full
and good:
And,
behold,
seven ears,
withered,
thin,
and blasted
with the east wind,
sprung up
after them:
And the thin ears
devoured the seven good ears:
and I
told this
unto the magicians;
but there was none
that could declare it to me.
And Joseph
said
unto Pharaoh,
The dream
of Pharaoh
is one:
God hath shewed Pharaoh
what
he is about to do.
The seven good kine
are seven years;
and the seven good ears
are seven years:
the dream is one.
And the seven thin
and ill favoured kine
that came up
after them
are seven years;
and the seven empty
ears blasted
with the east wind
shall be seven years
of famine.
This is the thing
which I
have spoken
unto Pharaoh:
What God
is about to do
he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
Behold,
there come seven years
of great plenty
throughout all
the land
of Egypt:
And there shall arise
after them seven years
of famine;
and all
the plenty
shall be forgotten
in the land
of Egypt;
and the famine
shall consume
the land;
And the plenty
shall not be known
in the land
by reason
of that famine following;
for it
shall be very grievous.
And for that
the dream
was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice;
it is
because
the thing
is established
by God,
and God
will shortly bring it
to pass.
Now therefore let Pharaoh
look
out a man
discreet
and wise,
and set him
over the land
of Egypt.
Let Pharaoh
do this,
and let him
appoint officers
over the land,
and take up
the fifth part
of the land
of Egypt
in the seven plenteous years.
And let them
gather all the food
of those
good years that come,
and lay up corn
under the hand
of Pharaoh,
and let them
keep food
in the cities.
And that food
shall be
for store
to the land
against the seven years
of famine,
which shall be
in the land
of Egypt;
that the land
perish not
through the famine.
And the thing
was good
in the eyes
of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes
of all his servants.
And Pharaoh
said
unto his servants,
Can we
find
such a one
as this is,
a man in
whom
the Spirit of God is?
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God
hath shewed thee all this,
there is none
so discreet
and wise
as thou art:
Thou shalt be
over my house,
and according
unto thy
word
shall all
my people
be ruled:
only in the throne
will
I be greater than thou.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph, See,
I have set thee
over all
the land
of Egypt.
And Pharaoh
took off
his ring
from his hand,
and put it
upon Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him
in vestures
of fine linen,
and put
a gold chain
about his neck;
And
he made him
to ride
in the second chariot
which he had;
and they
cried
before him,
Bow the knee:
and
he made him ruler
over all
the land
of Egypt.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
I am Pharaoh,
and without thee
shall no man
lift up his hand
or foot
in all the land
of Egypt.
And Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah;
and he
gave him
to wife Asenath
the daughter
of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph
went out
over all
the land
of Egypt.
And Joseph
was
thirty years old
when he
stood
before Pharaoh king
of Egypt.
And Joseph
went out
from the presence
of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all
the land
of Egypt.
And
in the seven plenteous years
the earth
brought forth
by handfuls.
And he
gathered
up all
the food
of the seven years,
which were in the land
of Egypt,
and laid up
the food
in the cities:
the food
of the field,
which was round
about every city,
laid
he up
in the same.
And Joseph
gathered corn
as the sand
of the sea,
very much,
until he left numbering;
for it
was without number.
And unto Joseph
were born
two sons
before the years
of famine came,
which Asenath the daughter
of Potipherah priest
of On
bare unto him.
And Joseph
called
the name
of the firstborn Manasseh:
For God,
said he,
hath made me
forget all
my toil,
and all my father's house.
And the name
of the second called
he Ephraim:
For God
hath caused me
to be fruitful
in the land
of my affliction.
And the seven years
of plenteousness,
that was in the land
of Egypt,
were ended.
And the seven years
of dearth
began
to come,
according
as Joseph
had said:
and the dearth
was in all lands;
but in all
the land
of Egypt
there was bread.
And
when all
the land
of Egypt
was famished,
the people
cried to Pharaoh
for bread:
and Pharaoh
said
unto all
the Egyptians,
Go unto Joseph;
what
he saith to you,
do.
And the famine
was over all
the face
of the earth:
and Joseph
opened all
the storehouses,
and sold
unto the Egyptians;
and the famine
waxed sore
in the land
of Egypt.
And all countries
came
into Egypt
to Joseph for to
buy corn;
because
that the famine
was so sore
in all lands.
Now when Jacob
saw that
there was corn
in Egypt,
Jacob
said
unto his sons,
Why do
ye look one
upon another?
And he said,
Behold,
I have heard that
there is corn
in Egypt:
get you
down thither,
and buy for us
from thence;
that we
may live,
and not die.
And Joseph's ten brethren
went down
to buy corn
in Egypt.
But Benjamin,
Joseph's brother,
Jacob
sent not
with his brethren;
for he said,
Lest peradventure mischief
befall him.
And the sons
of Israel
came to buy
corn among those
that came:
for the famine
was in the land
of Canaan.
And Joseph
was the governor
over the land,
and he it
was that
sold
to all the people
of the land:
and Joseph's brethren came,
and bowed
down themselves
before him
with their faces
to the earth.
And Joseph
saw his brethren,
and he
knew them,
but made himself strange
unto them,
and
spake roughly unto them;
and
he said unto them,
Whence come ye?
And they said,
From the land
of Canaan to buy food.
And Joseph
knew his brethren,
but
they knew not him.
And Joseph
remembered
the dreams
which he
dreamed of them,
and
said unto them,
Ye are spies;
to see the nakedness
of the land ye are come.
And
they
said unto him,
Nay,
my lord,
but to buy
food
are thy servants come.
We are all
one man's sons;
we are true men,
thy servants
are no spies.
And
he said unto them,
Nay,
but
to see the nakedness
of the land ye are come.
And they said,
Thy servants
are twelve brethren,
the sons
of one man
in the land
of Canaan;
and,
behold,
the youngest
is this day
with our father,
and one
is not.
And Joseph
said unto them,
That is it
that I
spake unto you,
saying,
Ye are spies:
Hereby
ye shall be proved:
By the life
of Pharaoh
ye shall not go
forth hence,
except your youngest brother
come hither.
Send one of you,
and let him
fetch your brother,
and
ye shall be kept
in prison,
that your words
may be proved,
whether there be any truth
in you:
or else
by the life
of Pharaoh surely
ye are spies.
And
he put them all
together
into ward three days.
And Joseph
said
unto them the third day,
This do,
and live;
for I fear God:
If ye
be true men,
let one
of your brethren
be bound
in the house
of your prison:
go ye,
carry corn
for the famine
of your houses:
But bring
your youngest brother
unto me;
so shall
your words
be verified,
and
ye shall not die.
And
they did so.
And
they said one
to another,
We are verily
guilty concerning our brother,
in that
we saw
the anguish
of his soul,
when
he besought us,
and
we would not hear;
therefore is
this distress
come upon us.
And Reuben
answered them,
saying,
Spake I
not unto you,
saying,
Do not sin
against the child;
and
ye would not hear?
therefore,
behold,
also his blood
is required.
And they
knew not
that Joseph
understood them;
for he
spake unto them
by an interpreter.
And
he turned himself
about from them,
and wept;
and returned
to them again,
and
communed with them,
and took from them Simeon,
and bound him
before their eyes.
Then Joseph
commanded
to fill their sacks
with corn,
and
to restore
every man's money
into his sack,
and
to give them provision
for the way:
and thus
did he unto them.
And they
laded
their asses
with the corn,
and departed
thence.
And as one
of them opened
his sack
to give
his ass provender
in the inn,
he espied
his money;
for,
behold,
it was in his sack's mouth.
And he
said
unto his brethren,
My money
is restored;
and,
lo,
it is even in my sack:
and their heart
failed them,
and
they were afraid,
saying one
to another,
What
is
this that God
hath done unto us?
And they
came
unto Jacob
their father
unto the land
of Canaan,
and told him all
that befell unto them;
saying,
The man,
who is the lord
of the land,
spake roughly to us,
and took us
for spies
of the country.
And
we said unto him,
We are true men;
we are
no spies:
We be
twelve brethren,
sons
of our father;
one is not,
and the youngest
is this day
with our father
in the land
of Canaan.
And the man,
the lord
of the country,
said unto us,
Hereby
shall
I know that
ye are true men;
leave one
of your brethren here
with me,
and take food
for the famine
of your households,
and be gone:
And bring
your youngest brother
unto me:
then shall
I know
that ye
are no spies,
but that
ye are true men:
so will
I deliver
you your brother,
and
ye shall traffick
in the land.
And it
came
to pass as they
emptied
their sacks,
that,
behold,
every man's bundle
of money
was in his sack:
and
when both
they and their father
saw the bundles
of money,
they were afraid.
And Jacob
their father
said unto them,
Me have
ye bereaved
of my children:
Joseph is not,
and Simeon
is not,
and
ye will take Benjamin away:
all these things
are against me.
And Reuben
spake unto his father,
saying,
Slay my two sons,
if I
bring him not
to thee:
deliver him
into my hand,
and
I will bring him
to thee again.
And he said,
My son
shall not go down
with you;
for his brother
is dead,
and
he is left alone:
if mischief
befall
him
by the way
in the which
ye go,
then shall
ye bring down
my gray hairs
with sorrow
to the grave.
And the famine
was sore
in the land.
And it
came
to pass,
when
they had eaten
up the corn
which they
had brought out of Egypt,
their father said
unto them,
Go again,
buy us
a little food.
And Judah
spake unto him,
saying,
The man
did solemnly protest unto us,
saying,
Ye shall not see
my face,
except your brother
be with you.
If thou
wilt send our brother
with us,
we will go down
and buy
thee food:
But
if thou
wilt not send him,
we will not go down:
for the man
said unto us,
Ye shall not see
my face,
except your brother
be with you.
And Israel said,
Wherefore
dealt
ye so ill
with me,
as to tell
the man
whether ye
had yet
a brother?
And they said,
The man
asked us
straitly of our state,
and of our kindred,
saying,
Is your father yet alive?
have
ye another brother?
and
we told him according to
the tenor
of these words:
could
we certainly know that
he would say,
Bring your brother down?
And Judah
said
unto Israel
his father,
Send the lad
with me,
and we
will arise
and go;
that we
may live,
and not die,
both we,
and thou,
and
also our little ones.
I will be surety
for him;
of my hand
shalt
thou require him:
if I
bring him not
unto thee,
and set him
before thee,
then let me
bear the blame
for ever:
For except
we had lingered,
surely now
we had returned
this second time.
And their father Israel
said unto them,
If it
must be
so now,
do this;
take
of the best fruits
in the land
in your vessels,
and carry
down the man a present,
a little balm,
and a little honey,
spices,
and myrrh,
nuts,
and almonds:
And take
double money
in your hand;
and the money
that was brought again
in the mouth
of your sacks,
carry it
again in your hand;
peradventure it
was an oversight:
Take
also your brother,
and arise,
go again
unto the man:
And God Almighty
give
you mercy
before the man,
that he
may send away
your other brother,
and Benjamin.
If I
be bereaved
of my children,
I am bereaved.
And the men
took that present,
and
they took
double money
in their hand
and Benjamin;
and rose up,
and went down
to Egypt,
and stood
before Joseph.
And
when Joseph
saw Benjamin
with them,
he said
to the ruler
of his house,
Bring these men home,
and slay,
and make ready;
for these men
shall dine
with me
at noon.
And the man
did as Joseph bade;
and the man
brought
the men
into Joseph's house.
And the men
were afraid,
because
they
were brought
into Joseph's house;
and they said,
Because
of the money
that was returned
in our sacks
at the first time
are
we brought in;
that he
may seek
occasion against us,
and fall upon us,
and take us
for bondmen,
and our asses.
And
they came near
to the steward
of Joseph's house,
and they
communed
with him
at the door
of the house,
And said,
O sir,
we came indeed down
at the first time
to buy food:
And it
came
to pass,
when we
came
to the inn,
that we
opened our sacks,
and,
behold,
every man's money
was in the mouth
of his sack,
our money
in full weight:
and
we have brought it
again in our hand.
And other money
have
we brought down
in our hands
to buy food:
we cannot tell
who put our money
in our sacks.
And he said,
Peace be to you,
fear not:
your God,
and the God
of your father,
hath given
you treasure
in your sacks:
I had
your money.
And
he brought Simeon
out unto them.
And the man
brought
the men
into Joseph's house,
and gave them water,
and
they washed
their feet;
and
he gave their asses provender.
And
they
made ready the present
against Joseph
came at noon:
for they
heard that
they should eat bread there.
And
when Joseph
came home,
they brought him
the present
which was in their hand
into the house,
and bowed themselves
to him
to the earth.
And
he asked them
of their welfare,
and said,
Is your father well,
the old man
of whom
ye spake?
Is he yet alive?
And
they answered,
Thy servant our father
is in good health,
he is yet alive.
And they
bowed
down their heads,
and made obeisance.
And he
lifted
up his eyes,
and saw
his brother Benjamin,
his mother's son,
and said,
Is this
your younger brother,
of whom
ye spake unto me?
And he said,
God be gracious
unto thee,
my son.
And Joseph made haste;
for his bowels
did yearn
upon his brother:
and he
sought
where to weep;
and he
entered
into his chamber,
and wept there.
And
he washed
his face,
and went out,
and refrained
himself,
and said,
Set on bread.
And they set on
for him
by himself,
and for them
by themselves,
and
for the Egyptians,
which did eat with him,
by themselves:
because
the Egyptians
might not eat bread
with the Hebrews;
for that is
an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
And they
sat
before him,
the firstborn
according to his birthright,
and the youngest
according to his youth:
and the men
marvelled one
at another.
And he
took
and sent
messes
unto them from
before him:
but Benjamin's mess
was five
times so much as any
of their's.
And they drank,
and were merry
with him.
And he
commanded
the steward
of his house,
saying,
Fill the men's sacks
with food,
as much as
they can carry,
and put
every man's money
in his sack's mouth.
And put my cup,
the silver cup,
in the sack's mouth
of the youngest,
and his corn money.
And
he did according to
the word that Joseph
had spoken.
As soon as the morning
was light,
the men
were sent away,
they and their asses.
And
when
they were gone
out of the city,
and
not yet far off,
Joseph
said unto his steward,
Up,
follow after the men;
and
when
thou dost overtake them,
say unto them,
Wherefore
have
ye rewarded evil
for good?
Is not this it
in which my lord drinketh,
and
whereby indeed
he divineth?
ye have done evil
in so doing.
And
he overtook them,
and he
spake unto them these same words.
And
they
said unto him,
Wherefore
saith
my lord these words?
God forbid
that thy servants
should do according to
this thing:
Behold,
the money,
which we
found
in our sacks' mouths,
we brought again
unto thee
out of the land
of Canaan:
how then
should
we steal
out of thy lord's house silver
or gold?
With whomsoever of thy servants
it be found,
both let him die,
and
we also will be
my lord's bondmen.
And he said,
Now also let
it be according
unto your words:
he with whom it
is found
shall be my servant;
and
ye shall be blameless.
Then
they speedily took
down every man
his sack
to the ground,
and opened every man
his sack.
And he searched,
and began at the eldest,
and left
at the youngest:
and the cup
was found
in Benjamin's sack.
Then
they rent
their clothes,
and laded every man
his ass,
and returned
to the city.
And Judah
and his brethren
came
to Joseph's house;
for he
was yet there:
and they
fell
before him
on the ground.
And Joseph
said unto them,
What deed
is this
that
ye have done?
wot
ye not
that such
a man as I
can certainly divine?
And Judah said,
What
shall
we say
unto my lord?
what shall
we speak?
or how shall
we clear ourselves?
God hath found out
the iniquity
of thy servants:
behold,
we are my lord's servants,
both we,
and he also
with whom the cup
is found.
And he said,
God forbid that
I should do so:
but the man
in whose hand
the cup
is found,
he shall be my servant;
and as for you,
get you up
in peace
unto your father.
Then Judah
came near unto him,
and said,
Oh my lord,
let thy servant,
I pray thee,
speak a word
in my lord's ears,
and let not
thine anger
burn
against thy servant:
for thou art
even as Pharaoh.
My lord
asked his servants,
saying,
Have ye
a father,
or a brother?
And we
said
unto my lord,
We have a father,
an old man,
and a child
of his old age,
a little one;
and his brother
is dead,
and
he alone
is left
of his mother,
and his father
loveth him.
And
thou saidst
unto thy servants,
Bring him down
unto me,
that I
may set
mine
eyes upon him.
And we
said
unto my lord,
The lad
cannot leave
his father:
for if
he should leave
his father,
his father
would die.
And
thou saidst
unto thy servants,
Except your youngest brother
come down
with you,
ye shall see
my face no more.
And it
came to pass
when we
came up
unto thy
servant my father,
we told him the words
of my lord.
And our father said,
Go again,
and buy us
a little food.
And we said,
We cannot go down:
if our youngest brother
be with us,
then will
we go down:
for we
may not see
the man's face,
except our youngest brother
be with us.
And thy
servant my father
said unto us,
Ye know
that my wife
bare me
two sons:
And the one
went out from me,
and I said,
Surely
he is torn
in pieces;
and
I saw him not since:
And
if ye
take
this
also from me,
and mischief
befall him,
ye shall bring down
my gray hairs
with sorrow
to the grave.
Now therefore
when I come
to thy servant my father,
and the lad
be not with us;
seeing
that his life
is bound up
in the lad's life;
It shall come
to pass,
when
he seeth
that the lad
is not with us,
that he
will die:
and thy servants
shall bring down
the gray hairs
of thy
servant our father
with sorrow
to the grave.
For thy servant
became surety
for the lad
unto my father,
saying,
If I
bring him not
unto thee,
then I
shall bear
the blame
to my father
for ever.
Now therefore,
I pray thee,
let thy servant
abide instead
of the lad
a bondman
to my lord;
and let
the lad
go up
with his brethren.
For how shall
I go
up to my father,
and the lad
be not with me?
lest peradventure
I see
the evil
that shall come
on my father.
Then Joseph
could not refrain
himself
before all
them
that stood by him;
and he cried,
Cause every man
to go out
from me.
And there stood no man
with him,
while Joseph
made himself
known
unto his brethren.
And
he wept aloud:
and the Egyptians
and the house
of Pharaoh heard.
And Joseph
said
unto his brethren,
I am Joseph;
doth
my father
yet live?
And his brethren
could not answer him;
for they
were troubled
at his presence.
And Joseph
said
unto his brethren,
Come near to me,
I pray you.
And
they came near.
And he said,
I am Joseph
your brother,
whom
ye sold
into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved,
nor angry
with yourselves,
that ye
sold me hither:
for God
did send me
before you
to preserve life.
For these two years
hath the famine
been in the land:
and yet there are
five years,
in the which
there shall
neither be earing
nor harvest.
And God
sent me
before you
to preserve
you a posterity
in the earth,
and
to save your lives
by a great deliverance.
So now
it was not you
that sent me hither,
but God:
and
he hath made me
a father
to Pharaoh,
and lord
of all his house,
and a ruler
throughout all
the land
of Egypt.
Haste ye,
and go
up to my father,
and say unto him,
Thus saith thy son Joseph,
God hath made me
lord
of all Egypt:
come down unto me,
tarry not:
And
thou shalt dwell
in the land
of Goshen,
and
thou
shalt be near unto me,
thou,
and thy children,
and thy children's children,
and thy flocks,
and thy herds,
and all
that thou hast:
And there will
I nourish thee;
for yet there are five years
of famine;
lest thou,
and thy household,
and all
that thou hast,
come
to poverty.
And,
behold,
your eyes see,
and the eyes
of my brother Benjamin,
that it
is my mouth
that speaketh unto you.
And ye
shall tell
my father
of all
my glory
in Egypt,
and of all
that
ye have seen;
and
ye shall haste
and bring down
my father hither.
And he
fell
upon his brother Benjamin's neck,
and wept;
and Benjamin
wept
upon his neck.
Moreover he
kissed all
his brethren,
and
wept upon them:
and after that
his brethren
talked with him.
And the fame
thereof was heard
in Pharaoh's house,
saying,
Joseph's brethren
are come:
and it
pleased Pharaoh well,
and his servants.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
Say unto thy brethren,
This do ye;
lade your beasts,
and go,
get you
unto the land
of Canaan;
And take
your father
and your households,
and come unto me:
and I
will give
you the good
of the land
of Egypt,
and ye
shall eat
the fat
of the land.
Now
thou art commanded,
this do ye;
take you wagons
out of the land
of Egypt
for your little ones,
and
for your wives,
and bring
your father,
and come.
Also regard not
your stuff;
for the good
of all
the land
of Egypt is your's.
And the children
of Israel
did so:
and Joseph
gave them wagons,
according to
the commandment
of Pharaoh,
and gave them provision
for the way.
To all of them
he gave each man
changes
of raiment;
but to Benjamin
he gave
three hundred pieces
of silver,
and five changes
of raiment.
And to his father
he sent
after this manner;
ten asses
laden
with the good things
of Egypt,
and ten
she asses
laden
with corn
and bread
and meat
for his father
by the way.
So he
sent
his brethren away,
and
they departed:
and
he said unto them,
See that
ye fall not out
by the way.
And
they
went up out of Egypt,
and came
into the land
of Canaan
unto Jacob their father,
And told him,
saying,
Joseph is yet alive,
and
he is governor
over all
the land
of Egypt.
And Jacob's heart fainted,
for he
believed them not.
And
they told him all
the words
of Joseph,
which he
had said unto them:
and
when
he saw the wagons
which Joseph
had sent
to carry him,
the spirit
of Jacob
their father revived:
And Israel said,
It is enough;
Joseph my son
is yet alive:
I will go
and see him
before I die.
And Israel
took
his journey
with all
that
he had,
and came
to Beersheba,
and offered
sacrifices
unto the God
of his father Isaac.
And God
spake unto Israel
in the visions
of the night,
and said,
Jacob, Jacob.
And he said,
Here am I.
And he said,
I am God,
the God
of thy father:
fear
not
to go down
into Egypt;
for I
will there make
of thee
a great nation:
I will go down
with thee
into Egypt;
and
I will also surely bring thee
up again:
and Joseph
shall put
his hand
upon thine eyes.
And Jacob
rose up
from Beersheba:
and the sons
of Israel carried Jacob
their father,
and their little ones,
and their wives,
in the wagons
which Pharaoh
had sent
to carry him.
And
they took their cattle,
and their goods,
which they
had gotten
in the land
of Canaan,
and came
into Egypt, Jacob,
and all
his seed
with him:
His sons,
and his sons' sons
with him, his daughters,
and his sons' daughters,
and all
his seed brought
he with him
into Egypt.
And these
are the names
of the children
of Israel,
which came
into Egypt,
Jacob
and his sons:
Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn.
And the sons
of Reuben;
Hanoch,
and Phallu,
and Hezron,
and Carmi.
And the sons
of Simeon;
Jemuel,
and Jamin,
and Ohad,
and Jachin,
and Zohar,
and Shaul
the son
of a Canaanitish woman.
And the sons
of Levi;
Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
And the sons
of Judah;
Er,
and Onan,
and Shelah,
and Pharez,
and Zarah:
but Er
and Onan
died
in the land
of Canaan.
And
the sons
of Pharez
were Hezron
and Hamul.
And the sons
of Issachar;
Tola,
and Phuvah,
and Job,
and Shimron.
And the sons
of Zebulun;
Sered,
and Elon,
and Jahleel.
These be
the sons
of Leah,
which she
bare
unto Jacob
in Padanaram,
with his daughter Dinah:
all the souls
of his sons
and his daughters
were thirty
and three.
And the sons
of Gad;
Ziphion,
and Haggi, Shuni,
and Ezbon, Eri,
and Arodi,
and Areli.
And the sons
of Asher;
Jimnah,
and Ishuah,
and Isui,
and Beriah,
and Serah
their sister:
and the sons
of Beriah;
Heber,
and Malchiel.
These are the sons
of Zilpah,
whom
Laban
gave to Leah
his daughter,
and these
she bare
unto Jacob,
even sixteen souls.
The sons
of Rachel Jacob's wife;
Joseph,
and Benjamin.
And unto Joseph
in the land
of Egypt
were born Manasseh
and Ephraim,
which Asenath the daughter
of Potipherah priest
of On
bare unto him.
And
the sons
of Benjamin
were Belah,
and Becher,
and Ashbel, Gera,
and Naaman, Ehi,
and Rosh, Muppim,
and Huppim,
and Ard.
These are the sons
of Rachel,
which were born
to Jacob:
all the souls
were fourteen.
And the sons
of Dan;
Hushim.
And the sons
of Naphtali;
Jahzeel,
and Guni,
and Jezer,
and Shillem.
These are the sons
of Bilhah,
which Laban
gave unto Rachel
his daughter,
and
she bare these
unto Jacob:
all the souls
were seven.
All the souls
that came
with Jacob
into Egypt,
which came
out of his loins,
besides
Jacob's sons' wives,
all the souls
were threescore
and six;
And the sons
of Joseph,
which were born him
in Egypt,
were two souls:
all the souls
of the house
of Jacob,
which came
into Egypt,
were threescore
and ten.
And he
sent Judah
before him
unto Joseph,
to direct his face
unto Goshen;
and
they came
into the land
of Goshen.
And Joseph
made ready his chariot,
and went
up to meet Israel his father,
to Goshen,
and
presented himself unto him;
and he
fell
on his neck,
and wept
on his neck
a good while.
And Israel
said
unto Joseph,
Now let me die,
since I
have seen
thy face,
because
thou art yet alive.
And Joseph
said
unto his brethren,
and
unto his father's house,
I will go up,
and shew Pharaoh,
and say unto him,
My brethren,
and my father's house,
which were in the land
of Canaan,
are come unto me;
And the men
are shepherds,
for their trade
hath been
to feed cattle;
and
they have brought
their flocks,
and their herds,
and all that
they have.
And it
shall come
to pass,
when Pharaoh
shall call you,
and shall say,
What is your occupation?
That ye
shall say,
Thy servants' trade
hath been
about cattle
from our youth
even until now,
both we,
and
also our fathers:
that ye
may dwell in the land
of Goshen;
for every shepherd
is an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
Then Joseph
came
and told Pharaoh,
and said,
My father
and my brethren,
and their flocks,
and their herds,
and all that
they have,
are come
out of the land
of Canaan;
and,
behold,
they are in the land
of Goshen.
And
he took some of
his brethren,
even five men,
and presented them
unto Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh
said
unto his brethren,
What is your occupation?
And they
said
unto Pharaoh,
Thy servants
are shepherds,
both we,
and
also our fathers.
They said morever
unto Pharaoh,
For to sojourn
in the land
are we come;
for thy servants
have
no pasture
for their flocks;
for the famine
is sore
in the land
of Canaan:
now therefore,
we pray thee,
let thy servants
dwell in the land
of Goshen.
And Pharaoh
spake unto Joseph,
saying,
Thy father
and thy brethren
are come
unto thee:
The land
of Egypt
is before thee;
in the best
of the land
make thy
father
and brethren
to dwell;
in the land
of Goshen
let them dwell:
and
if thou
knowest any men
of activity
among them,
then make them rulers
over my cattle.
And Joseph
brought in Jacob
his father,
and set him
before Pharaoh:
and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh
said
unto Jacob,
How old art thou?
And Jacob
said
unto Pharaoh,
The days
of the years
of my pilgrimage
are an hundred
and thirty years:
few and
evil
have
the days
of the years
of my life been,
and have not attained
unto the days
of the years
of the life
of my fathers
in the days
of their pilgrimage.
And Jacob
blessed Pharaoh,
and went out from
before Pharaoh.
And Joseph
placed his father
and his brethren,
and gave them
a possession
in the land
of Egypt,
in the best
of the land,
in the land
of Rameses,
as Pharaoh
had commanded.
And Joseph
nourished
his father,
and his brethren,
and all
his father's household,
with bread,
according to their families.
And there was no bread
in all the land;
for the famine
was very sore,
so that the land
of Egypt and all
the land
of Canaan
fainted
by reason
of the famine.
And Joseph
gathered
up all
the money
that was found in the land
of Egypt,
and in the land
of Canaan,
for the corn
which they bought:
and Joseph
brought
the money
into Pharaoh's house.
And
when money
failed
in the land
of Egypt,
and in the land
of Canaan,
all the Egyptians
came
unto Joseph,
and said,
Give us bread:
for why
should
we die
in thy presence?
for the money faileth.
And Joseph said,
Give your cattle;
and
I will give you
for your cattle,
if money fail.
And they
brought
their cattle
unto Joseph:
and Joseph
gave them bread
in exchange
for horses,
and
for the flocks,
and
for the cattle
of the herds,
and
for the asses:
and
he fed them
with bread
for all
their cattle
for that year.
When that year
was ended,
they came
unto him the second year,
and
said unto him,
We will not hide
it from my lord,
how that
our money
is spent;
my lord
also hath our herds
of cattle;
there is not
ought
left
in the sight
of my lord,
but our bodies,
and our lands:
Wherefore shall
we die
before thine eyes,
both we
and our land?
buy us
and our land
for bread,
and
we and our land
will be servants
unto Pharaoh:
and give us seed,
that we
may live,
and not die,
that the land
be not desolate.
And Joseph
bought all
the land
of Egypt
for Pharaoh;
for the Egyptians
sold every man
his field,
because
the famine
prevailed over them:
so the land
became Pharaoh's.
And
as for the people,
he removed them
to cities
from one end
of the borders
of Egypt
even to the other end
thereof.
Only the land
of the priests bought
he not;
for the priests
had a portion
assigned them
of Pharaoh,
and did eat
their portion which Pharaoh
gave them:
wherefore
they sold not
their lands.
Then Joseph
said
unto the people,
Behold,
I have bought
you this day
and your land
for Pharaoh:
lo,
here
is
seed for you,
and
ye shall sow
the land.
And it
shall come
to pass
in the increase,
that ye
shall give
the fifth part
unto Pharaoh,
and four
parts
shall be
your own,
for seed
of the field,
and
for your food,
and for them
of your households,
and
for food
for your little ones.
And they said,
Thou
hast saved
our lives:
let us
find
grace
in the sight
of my lord,
and
we will be
Pharaoh's servants.
And Joseph
made it
a law
over the land
of Egypt
unto this day,
that Pharaoh
should have
the fifth part,
except the land
of the priests only,
which became not Pharaoh's.
And Israel
dwelt in the land
of Egypt,
in the country
of Goshen;
and
they had possessions
therein,
and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
And Jacob
lived
in the land
of Egypt seventeen years:
so the whole age
of Jacob
was an hundred forty
and seven years.
And the time
drew nigh
that Israel
must die:
and
he called
his son Joseph,
and
said unto him,
If now
I have found
grace in thy sight,
put,
I pray thee,
thy hand
under my thigh,
and deal kindly
and
truly with me;
bury me not,
I pray thee,
in Egypt:
But I
will lie
with my fathers,
and
thou
shalt carry me out of Egypt,
and bury me
in their buryingplace.
And he said,
I will do
as thou
hast said.
And he said,
Swear unto me.
And
he sware unto him.
And Israel
bowed himself
upon the bed's head.
And it
came
to pass
after these things,
that one
told Joseph, Behold,
thy father
is sick:
and
he took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
And one
told Jacob,
and said,
Behold,
thy son Joseph
cometh unto thee:
and Israel
strengthened himself,
and sat
upon the bed.
And Jacob
said
unto Joseph,
God Almighty
appeared
unto me at Luz
in the land
of Canaan,
and blessed me,
And said unto me,
Behold,
I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee,
and
I will make
of thee
a multitude
of people;
and will give
this land to thy
seed
after thee
for an everlasting possession.
And
now thy two sons,
Ephraim
and Manasseh,
which were born
unto thee
in the land
of Egypt before I
came
unto thee
into Egypt,
are mine;
as Reuben
and Simeon,
they shall be mine.
And thy issue,
which thou
begettest
after them,
shall be thine,
and shall be called
after the name
of their brethren
in their inheritance.
And as for me,
when I
came
from Padan,
Rachel
died
by me
in the land
of Canaan
in the way,
when yet there was
but a little way to
come
unto Ephrath:
and I
buried her
there in the way
of Ephrath;
the same is Bethlehem.
And Israel
beheld Joseph's sons,
and said,
Who are these?
And Joseph
said
unto his father,
They are my sons,
whom God
hath given me
in this place.
And he said,
Bring them,
I pray thee,
unto me,
and
I will bless them.
Now
the eyes
of Israel
were dim for age,
so that
he could not see.
And he
brought
them near
unto him;
and
he kissed them,
and embraced them.
And Israel
said
unto Joseph,
I had not thought
to see
thy face:
and,
lo,
God hath shewed me also
thy seed.
And Joseph
brought
them out from
between his knees,
and
he bowed himself
with his face
to the earth.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
And Joseph
said
unto his father,
Not so,
my father:
for this
is the firstborn;
put thy
right hand
upon his head.
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.
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.
And Israel
said
unto Joseph, Behold,
I die:
but God
shall be
with you,
and bring you
again unto the land
of your fathers.
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.
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.
Gather yourselves together,
and hear,
ye sons of Jacob;
and hearken
unto Israel your father.
Reuben,
thou art
my firstborn,
my might,
and the beginning
of my strength,
the excellency
of dignity,
and the excellency
of power:
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.
Simeon
and Levi
are brethren;
instruments
of cruelty
are in their habitations.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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:
His eyes
shall be red
with wine,
and his teeth white
with milk.
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.
Issachar is
a strong ass
couching down
between two burdens:
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.
Dan shall judge
his people,
as one
of the tribes
of Israel.
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.
I have waited
for thy salvation,
O LORD.
Gad,
a troop
shall overcome him:
but
he shall overcome
at the last.
Out of Asher his bread
shall be fat,
and
he shall yield
royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose:
he giveth goodly words.
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
even a fruitful bough
by a well;
whose branches
run over
the wall:
The archers
have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him,
and hated him:
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:)
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:
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.
Benjamin shall ravin
as a wolf:
in the morning
he shall devour
the prey,
and at night
he shall divide
the spoil.
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.
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,
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.
There
they buried Abraham
and Sarah
his wife;
there
they buried Isaac
and Rebekah
his wife;
and
there
I buried Leah.
The purchase
of the field
and of the cave
that is
therein was
from the children
of Heth.
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.
And Joseph
fell
upon his father's face,
and
wept upon him,
and kissed him.
And Joseph
commanded
his servants the physicians
to embalm his father:
and the physicians
embalmed Israel.
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.
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,
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.
And Pharaoh said,
Go up,
and bury
thy father,
according as he
made thee swear.
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,
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.
And there went up
with him both chariots
and horsemen:
and it
was a very great company.
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.
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.
And his sons
did unto him according as he
commanded them:
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.
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.
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.
And they
sent
a messenger
unto Joseph,
saying,
Thy father
did command
before he died,
saying,
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.
And his brethren
also went
and fell down
before his face;
and they said,
Behold,
we be
thy servants.
And Joseph
said unto them,
Fear not:
for am
I in the place
of God?
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.
Now therefore
fear
ye not:
I will nourish you,
and your little ones.
And
he comforted them,
and
spake kindly unto them.
And Joseph
dwelt
in Egypt,
he,
and his father's house:
and Joseph
lived
an hundred and ten years.
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.
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.
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.
So Joseph died,
being an hundred
and ten years old:
and
they embalmed him,
and
he was put in
a coffin
in Egypt.