Genesis 1

1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the

earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and

darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the

Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was

light.

4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God

divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he

called Night. And the evening and the morning were the

first day.

6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst

of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the

waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters

which [were] under the firmament from the waters which

[were] above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the

evening and the morning were the second day.

9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be

gathered together unto one place, and let the dry

[land] appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the

gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and

God saw that [it was] good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the

herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit

after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the

earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb

yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding

fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and

God saw that [it was] good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third

day.

14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament

of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let

them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and

years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the

heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light

to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the

night: [he made] the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to

give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and

to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that

[it was] good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth

day.

20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth

abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl

[that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of

heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living

creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth

abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl

after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and

multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl

multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth

day.

24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living

creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing,

and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his

kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that

creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw

that [it was] good.

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after

our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish

of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the

cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping

thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the

image of God created he him; male and female created he

them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and

subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air, and over every living

thing that moveth upon the earth.

29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb

bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the

earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a

tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl

of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the

earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every

green herb for meat: and it was so.

31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and,

behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the

morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2

1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and

all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he

had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his

work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work

which God created and made.

4. These [are] the generations of the heavens and of

the earth when they were created, in the day that the

LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the

earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for

the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and

watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the

ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of

life; and man became a living soul.

8. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;

and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow

every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for

food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,

and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;

and from thence it was parted, and became into four

heads.

11 The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it

which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where

[there is] gold;

12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is]

bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the

same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of

Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel:

that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.

And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.

15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into

the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of

every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou

eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18. And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the

man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for

him.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every

beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and

brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call

them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,

that [was] the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl

of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for

Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon

Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and

closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from

man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and

flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because

she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his

mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall

be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife,

and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3

1. Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of

the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto

the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of

every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of

the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the

midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of

it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not

surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,

then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as

gods, knowing good and evil.

6. And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for

food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a

tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the

fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her

husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they

knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves

together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in

the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his

wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God

amongst the trees of the garden.

9. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto

him, Where [art] thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and

I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.

11. And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked?

Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee

that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to

be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is]

this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The

serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because

thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all

cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy

belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the

days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,

and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy

head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply

thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt

bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy

husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened

unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,

of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat

of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow

shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to

thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,

till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast

thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt

thou return.

20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she

was the mother of all living.

21. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God

make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become

as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he

put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life,

and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the

garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was

taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east

of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword

which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of

life.

Genesis 4

1. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and

bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a

keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain

brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the

LORD.

4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his

flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect

unto Abel and to his offering:

5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not

respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance

fell.

6. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth?

and why is thy countenance fallen?

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and

if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto

thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over

him.

8. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came

to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up

against Abel his brother, and slew him.

9. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy

brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's

keeper?

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy

brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which

hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood

from thy hand;

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not

henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and

a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

13. And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is]

greater than I can bear.

14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the

face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid;

and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;

and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that

findeth me shall slay me.

15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever

slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him

sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any

finding him should kill him.

16. And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD,

and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and

bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name

of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat

Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael

begat Lamech.

19. And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of

the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as

dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.

21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the

father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer

of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of

Tubalcain [was] Naamah.

23. And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah,

Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my

speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a

young man to my hurt.

24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech

seventy and sevenfold.

25. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son,

and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath

appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain

slew.

26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and

he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon

the name of the LORD.

Genesis 5

1. This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In

the day that God created man, in the likeness of God

made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them,

and called their name Adam, in the day when they were

created.

3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and

begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and

called his name Seth:

4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth

were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and

daughters:

5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred

and thirty years: and he died.

6. And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat

Enos:

7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred

and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and

twelve years: and he died.

9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred

and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and

five years: and he died.

12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat

Mahalaleel:

13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight

hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and

ten years: and he died.

15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and

begat Jared:

16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight

hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred

ninety and five years: and he died.

18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years,

and he begat Enoch:

19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters:

20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty

and two years: and he died.

21. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat

Methuselah:

22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat

Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and

daughters:

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty

and five years:

24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for

God took him.

25. And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven

years, and begat Lamech:

26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven

hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and

daughters:

27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred

sixty and nine years: and he died.

28. And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years,

and begat a son:

29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same]

shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our

hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath

cursed.

30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred

ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred

seventy and seven years: and he died.

32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah

begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6

1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on

the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto

them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that

they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which

they chose.

3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always

strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his

days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and

also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the

daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the

same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of

renown.

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great

in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the

thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.

6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on

the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have

created from the face of the earth; both man, and

beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the

air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

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

9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a

just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah

walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the

earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was

corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the

earth.

13. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is

come before me; for the earth is filled with violence

through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the

earth.

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou

make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without

with pitch.

15 And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it

[of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred

cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height

of it thirty cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a

cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the

ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower,

second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters

upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the

breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing

that [is] in the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and

thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and

thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of

every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep

[them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after

their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after

his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to

keep [them] alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,

and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for

food for thee, and for them.

22. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded

him, so did he.

Genesis 7

1. And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy

house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous

before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by

sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that

[are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and

the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the

earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain

upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every

living substance that I have made will I destroy from

off the face of the earth.

5. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD

commanded him.

6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood

of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and

his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the

waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not

clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth

upon the earth,

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark,

the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the

waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the

second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the

same day were all the fountains of the great deep

broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and

forty nights.

13. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and

Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife,

and the three wives of his sons with them, into the

ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the

cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that

creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl

after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and

two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of

all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut

him in.

17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and

the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was

lift up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased

greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face

of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the

earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the

whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and

the mountains were covered.

21. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both

of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every

creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every

man:

22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of

all that [was] in the dry [land], died.

23 And every living substance was destroyed which was

upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and

the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and

they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only

remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the

ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred

and fifty days.

Genesis 8

1. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing,

and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and

God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters

asswaged;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of

heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was

restrained;

3 And the waters returned from off the earth

continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty

days the waters were abated.

4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the

seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of

Ararat.

5 And the waters decreased continually until the

tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first [day]

of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that

Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and

fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the

waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her

foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the

waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he

put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in

unto him into the ark.

10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he

sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and,

lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so

Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the

earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth

the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13. And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first

year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the

month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and

Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and,

behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, on the seven and

twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15. And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy

sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is]

with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle,

and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the

earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and

be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife,

and his sons' wives with him:

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl,

[and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their

kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took

of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and

offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD

said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground

any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's

heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again

smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,

and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and

night shall not cease.

Genesis 9

1. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto

them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the

earth.

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be

upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of

the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and

upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they

delivered.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for

you; even as the green herb have I given you all

things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the

blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require;

at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at

the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother

will I require the life of man.

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood

be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth

abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,

saying,

9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,

and with your seed after you;

10 And with every living creature that [is] with you,

of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the

earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to

every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither

shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a

flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to

destroy the earth.

12. And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant

which I make between me and you and every living

creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for

a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud

over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the

cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which [is]

between me and you and every living creature of all

flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to

destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look

upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant

between God and every living creature of all flesh that

[is] upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the

covenant, which I have established between me and all

flesh that [is] upon the earth.

18. And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark,

were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the

father of Canaan.

19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them

was the whole earth overspread.

20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he

planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he

was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness

of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it]

upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and

covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces

[were] backward, and they saw not their father's

nakedness.

24. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his

younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of

servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem;

and Canaan shall be his servant.

27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in

the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

28. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and

fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and

fifty years: and he died.

Genesis 10

1. Now these [are] the generations of the sons of

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons

born after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai,

and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and

Togarmah.

4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish,

Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in

their lands; every one after his tongue, after their

families, in their nations.

6. And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut,

and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and

Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of

Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one

in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore

it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the

LORD.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and

Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded

Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is]

a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim,

and Naphtuhim,

14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came

Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

15. And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the

Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the

Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the

Canaanites spread abroad.

19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon,

as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto

Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto

Lasha.

20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families,

after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their

nations.

21. Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of

Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him

were [children] born.

22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and

Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether,

and Mash.

24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one

[was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and

his brother's name [was] Joktan.

26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and

Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these

[were] the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest

unto Sephar a mount of the east.

31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their

families, after their tongues, in their lands, after

their nations.

32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah,

after their generations, in their nations: and by these

were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one

speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the

east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;

and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make

brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for

stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a

tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us

make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the

face of the whole earth.

5. And the LORD came down to see the city and the

tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and

they have all one language; and this they begin to do:

and now nothing will be restrained from them, which

they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their

language, that they may not understand one another's

speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon

the face of all the earth: and they left off to build

the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because

the LORD did there confound the language of all the

earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad

upon the face of all the earth.

10. These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an

hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after

the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five

hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and

begat Salah:

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four

hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred

and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat

Peleg:

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred

and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and

nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat

Serug:

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and

seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat

Terah:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred

and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,

Nahor, and Haran.

27. Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah

begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land

of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of

Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife,

Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah,

and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.

31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of

Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his

son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur

of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and

they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five

years: and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12

1. Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of

thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy

father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will

bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be

a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse

him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families

of the earth be blessed.

4. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him;

and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five

years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his

brother's son, and all their substance that they had

gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran;

and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and

into the land of Canaan they came.

6. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of

Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite

[was] then in the land.

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto

thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an

altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the

east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel

on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded

an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the

LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the

south.

10. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went

down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was]

grievous in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to

enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife,

Behold now, I know that thou [art] a fair woman to look

upon:

12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the

Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This

[is] his wife: and they will kill me, but they will

save thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it

may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall

live because of thee.

14. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come

into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she

[was] very fair.

15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended

her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into

Pharaoh's house.

16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he

had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and

maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with

great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this

[that] thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell

me that she [was] thy wife?

19 Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might

have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy

wife, take [her], and go thy way.

20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him:

and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he

had.

Genesis 13

1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife,

and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and

in gold.

3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to

Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the

beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made

there at the first: and there Abram called on the name

of the LORD.

5. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks,

and herds, and tents.

6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they

might dwell together: for their substance was great, so

that they could not dwell together.

7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of

Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the

Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I

pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen

and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.

9 [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate

thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the

left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou

depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the

plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every

where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,

[even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of

Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and

Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the

one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot

dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his]

tent toward Sodom.

13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners

before the LORD exceedingly.

14. And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was

separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look

from the place where thou art northward, and southward,

and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I

give it, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:

so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,

[then] shall thy seed also be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it

and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

18 Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt

in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built

there an altar unto the LORD.

Genesis 14

1. And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of

Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of

Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

2 [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and

with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and

Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which

is Zoar.

3 All these were joined together in the vale of

Siddim, which is the salt sea.

4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the

thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and

the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims

in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the

Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,

which [is] by the wilderness.

7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which

[is] Kadesh, and smote all the country of the

Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in

Hazezontamar.

8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king

of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of

Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and

they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal

king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and

Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits;

and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell

there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah,

and all their victuals, and went their way.

12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who

dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

13. And there came one that had escaped, and told

Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre

the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner:

and these [were] confederate with Abram.

14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken

captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his

own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued

[them] unto Dan.

15 And he divided himself against them, he and his

servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them

unto Hobah, which [is] on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the goods, and also

brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the

women also, and the people.

17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after

his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of

the kings that [were] with him, at the valley of

Shaveh, which [is] the king's dale.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread

and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.

19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram

of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath

delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him

tithes of all.

21. And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the

persons, and take the goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift

up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the

possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a

shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that

[is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram

rich:

24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and

the portion of the men which went with me, Aner,

Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Genesis 15

1. After these things the word of the LORD came unto

Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy

shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.

2. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me,

seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is]

this Eliezer of Damascus?

3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no

seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto him,

saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall

come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now

toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to

number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed

be.

6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to

him for righteousness.

7. And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought

thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land

to inherit it.

8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I

shall inherit it?

9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three

years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram

of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young

pigeon.

10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them

in the midst, and laid each piece one against another:

but the birds divided he not.

11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases,

Abram drove them away.

12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell

upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell

upon him.

13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy

seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not

theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict

them four hundred years;

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will

I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great

substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou

shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall come

hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not

yet full.

17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down,

and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a

burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with

Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land,

from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river

Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the

Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the

Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the

Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 16

1. Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and

she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was]

Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD

hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in

unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by

her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the

Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land

of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his

wife.

4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and

when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was

despised in her eyes.

5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee:

I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw

that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the

LORD judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in

thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai

dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

7. And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain

of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way

to Shur.

8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest

thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee

from the face of my mistress Sarai.

9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to

thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

10. And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will

multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be

numbered for multitude.

11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold,

thou [art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt

call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy

affliction.

12 And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be]

against every man, and every man's hand against him;

and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake

unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also

here looked after him that seeth me?

14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi;

behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered.

15. And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his

son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

16 And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when

Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Genesis 17

1. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the

LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the

Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,

and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with

him, saying,

4. As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and

thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,

but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many

nations have I made thee.

6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will

make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7. And I will establish my covenant between me and

thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for

an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to

thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after

thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the

land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I

will be their God.

9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my

covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in

their generations.

10 This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep,

between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man

child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your

foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant

betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised

among you, every man child in your generations, he that

is born in the house, or bought with money of any

stranger, which [is] not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is

bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and

my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting

covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his

foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off

from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

15. And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife,

thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall]

her name [be].

16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of

her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother]

of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and

said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him

that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is

ninety years old, bear?

18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might

live before thee!

19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son

indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will

establish my covenant with him for an everlasting

covenant, [and] with his seed after him.

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I

have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will

multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he

beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which

Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next

year.

22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up

from Abraham.

23. And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that

were born in his house, and all that were bought with

his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house;

and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the

selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when

he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when

he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and

Ishmael his son.

27 And all the men of his house, born in the house,

and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised

with him.

Genesis 18

1. And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of

Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the

day;

2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three

men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to

meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward

the ground,

3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in

thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy

servant:

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and

wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye

your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore

are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as

thou hast said.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and

said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal,

knead [it], and make cakes upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf

tender and good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he

hasted to dress it.

8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he

had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by

them under the tree, and they did eat.

9. And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife?

And he said, Behold, in the tent.

10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee

according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife

shall have a son. And Sarah heard [it] in the tent

door, which [was] behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well

stricken in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after

the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying,

After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord

being old also?

13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did

Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child,

which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time

appointed I will return unto thee, according to the

time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she

was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

16. And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward

Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the

way.

17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that

thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great

and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth

shall be blessed in him?

19 For I know him, that he will command his children

and his household after him, and they shall keep the

way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the

LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken

of him.

20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and

Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very

grievous;

21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done

altogether according to the cry of it, which is come

unto me; and if not, I will know.

22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and

went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the

LORD.

23. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also

destroy the righteous with the wicked?

24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the

city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place

for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?

25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to

slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the

righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from

thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty

righteous within the city, then I will spare all the

place for their sakes.

27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have

taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but]

dust and ashes:

28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty

righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of]

five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I

will not destroy [it].

29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said,

Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he

said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake.

30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be

angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall

thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it],

if I find thirty there.

31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to

speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty

found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for

twenty's sake.

32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I

will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be

found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for

ten's sake.

33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left

communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his

place.

Genesis 19

1. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot

sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up

to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward

the ground;

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray

you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night,

and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go

on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in

the street all night.

3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned

in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made

them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they

did eat.

4. But before they lay down, the men of the city,

[even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round,

both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where

[are] the men which came in to thee this night? bring

them out unto us, that we may know them.

6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut

the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not

known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you,

and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto

these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the

shadow of my roof.

9 And they said, Stand back. And they said [again],

This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs

be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with

them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot,

and came near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot

into the house to them, and shut to the door.

11 And they smote the men that [were] at the door of

the house with blindness, both small and great: so that

they wearied themselves to find the door.

12. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any

besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters,

and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring [them] out

of this place:

13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of

them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and

the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law,

which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out

of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But

he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

15. And when the morning arose, then the angels

hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two

daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the

iniquity of the city.

16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his

hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand

of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him:

and they brought him forth, and set him without the

city.

17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them

forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look

not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain;

escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy

sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou

hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot

escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I

die:

20 Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and

it [is] a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is]

it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee

concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow

this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any

thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of

the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered

into Zoar.

24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah

brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,

and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which

grew upon the ground.

26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she

became a pillar of salt.

27. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the

place where he stood before the LORD:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and

toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo,

the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a

furnace.

29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities

of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot

out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew

the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

30. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the

mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared

to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his

two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our

father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth

to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we

will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our

father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night:

and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and

he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the

firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay

yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine

this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him,

that we may preserve seed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night

also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he

perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by

their father.

37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name

Moab: the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto

this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called

his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the

children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 20

1. And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south

country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and

sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my

sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took

Sarah.

3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and

said to him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the

woman which thou hast taken; for she [is] a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said,

Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

5 Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she,

even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the

integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I

done this.

6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that

thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I

also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore

suffered I thee not to touch her.

7 Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he

[is] a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou

shalt live: and if thou restore [her] not, know thou

that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are]

thine.

8. Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and

called all his servants, and told all these things in

their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him,

What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended

thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a

great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not

to be done.

10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou,

that thou hast done this thing?

11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the

fear of God [is] not in this place; and they will slay

me for my wife's sake.

12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the

daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my

mother; and she became my wife.

13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander

from my father's house, that I said unto her, This [is]

thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every

place whither we shall come, say of me, He [is] my

brother.

14. And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and

menservants, and womenservants, and gave [them] unto

Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before

thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy

brother a thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is]

to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that [are]

with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was reproved.

17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed

Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they

bare [children].

18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of

the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's

wife.

Genesis 21

1. And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the

LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his

old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to

him.

3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was

born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight

days old, as God had commanded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son

Isaac was born unto him.

6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so

that] all that hear will laugh with me.

7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham,

that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have

born [him] a son in his old age.

8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham

made a great feast the [same] day that Isaac was

weaned.

9. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which

she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this

bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman

shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac.

11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight

because of his son.

12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous

in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy

bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,

hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be

called.

13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a

nation, because he [is] thy seed.

14. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took

bread, and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar,

putting [it] on her shoulder, and the child, and sent

her away: and she departed, and wandered in the

wilderness of Beersheba.

15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she

cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16 And she went, and sat her down over against [him]

a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let

me not see the death of the child. And she sat over

against [him], and lift up her voice, and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel

of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto

her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath

heard the voice of the lad where he [is].

18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine

hand; for I will make him a great nation.

19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of

water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water,

and gave the lad drink.

20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt

in the wilderness, and became an archer.

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his

mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

22. And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech

and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto

Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou

doest:

23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou

wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor

with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness that

I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to

the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well

of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently

taken away.

26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this

thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I

[of it], but to day.

27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them

unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by

themselves.

29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these

seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt

thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto

me, that I have digged this well.

31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because

there they sware both of them.

32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then

Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his

host, and they returned into the land of the

Philistines.

33. And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and

called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting

God.

34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land

many days.

Genesis 22

1. And it came to pass after these things, that God

did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he

said, Behold, [here] I [am].

2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son]

Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of

Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon

one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

3. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and

saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with

him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the

burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of

which God had told him.

4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,

and saw the place afar off.

5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here

with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and

worship, and come again to you.

6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering,

and laid [it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire

in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them

together.

7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said,

My father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he

said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where [is] the

lamb for a burnt offering?

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself

a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them

together.

9 And they came to the place which God had told him

of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood

in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the

altar upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the

knife to slay his son.

11. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of

heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here

[am] I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,

neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that

thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy

son, thine only [son] from me.

13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and

behold behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his

horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered

him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

14 And Abraham called the name of that place

Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount

of the LORD it shall be seen.

15. And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out

of heaven the second time,

16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD,

for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not

withheld thy son, thine only [son]:

17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in

multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of

the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea

shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his

enemies;

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth

be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they

rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham

dwelt at Beersheba.

20. And it came to pass after these things, that it

was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also

born children unto thy brother Nahor;

21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel

the father of Aram,

22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph,

and Bethuel.

23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did

bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

24 And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she

bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 23

1. And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years

old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron

in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for

Sarah, and to weep for her.

3. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and

spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me

a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may

bury my dead out of my sight.

5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying

unto him,

6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty prince among

us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none

of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that

thou mayest bury thy dead.

7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the

people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.

8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your

mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear

me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he

hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much

money as it is worth he shall give it me for a

possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and

Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of

the children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the

gate of his city, saying,

11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and

the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the

presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury

thy dead.

12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people

of the land.

13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the

people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it],

I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the

field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.

14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four

hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me

and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

16. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham

weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the

audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of

silver, current [money] with the merchant.

17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah,

which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which

[was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the

field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were

made sure

18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of

the children of Heth, before all that went in at the

gate of his city.

19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in

the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the

same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.

20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein,

were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a

buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

Genesis 24

1. And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age:

and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his

house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray

thee, thy hand under my thigh:

3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of

heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not

take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the

Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my

kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the

woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land:

must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from

whence thou camest?

6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou

bring not my son thither again.

7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my

father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and

which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying,

Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his

angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my

son from thence.

8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow

thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only

bring not my son thither again.

9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of

Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that

matter.

10. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of

his master, and departed; for all the goods of his

master [were] in his hand: and he arose, and went to

Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the

city by a well of water at the time of the evening,

[even] the time that women go out to draw [water].

12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I

pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew

kindness unto my master Abraham.

13 Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and

the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw

water:

14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I

shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I

may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give

thy camels drink also: [let the same be] she [that]

thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby

shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my

master.

15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,

that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to

Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's

brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a

virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went

down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me,

I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and

let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said,

I will draw [water] for thy camels also, until they

have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the

trough, and ran again unto the well to draw [water],

and drew for all his camels.

21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to

wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or

not.

22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done

drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a

shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten

[shekels] weight of gold;

23 And said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I

pray thee: is there room [in] thy father's house for us

to lodge in?

24 And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of

Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and

provender enough, and room to lodge in.

26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped

the LORD.

27 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my

master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master

of his mercy and his truth: I [being] in the way, the

LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

28 And the damsel ran, and told [them of] her

mother's house these things.

29. And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was]

Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and

bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard

the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the

man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he

stood by the camels at the well.

31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD;

wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared

the house, and room for the camels.

32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded

his camels, and gave straw and provender for the

camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet

that [were] with him.

33 And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he

said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.

And he said, Speak on.

34 And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant.

35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and

he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and

herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and

maidservants, and camels, and asses.

36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master

when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that

he hath.

37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt

not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the

Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to

my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman

will not follow me.

40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk,

will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and

thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of

my father's house:

41 Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when

thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee

[one], thou shalt be clear from my oath.

42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O

LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper

my way which I go:

43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall

come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw

[water], and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a

little water of thy pitcher to drink;

44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will

also draw for thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman

whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.

45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart,

behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her

shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew

[water]: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray

thee.

46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from

her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy

camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels

drink also.

47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art]

thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's

son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring

upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD,

and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which

had led me in the right way to take my master's

brother's daughter unto his son.

49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my

master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn

to the right hand, or to the left.

50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The

thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto

thee bad or good.

51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and

go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD

hath spoken.

52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant

heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing

himself] to the earth.

53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver,

and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to

Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother

precious things.

54. And they did eat and drink, he and the men that

[were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose

up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my

master.

55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the

damsel abide with us [a few] days, at the least ten;

after that she shall go.

56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the

LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go

to my master.

57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and

enquire at her mouth.

58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt

thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her

nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou

[art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of

millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those

which hate them.

61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode

upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant

took Rebekah, and went his way.

62. And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi;

for he dwelt in the south country.

63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the

eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and,

behold, the camels [were] coming.

64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw

Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is]

this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the

servant [had] said, It [is] my master: therefore she

took a vail, and covered herself.

66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had

done.

67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's

tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he

loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's

[death].

Genesis 25

1. Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was]

Keturah.

2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan,

and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of

Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and

Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these [were] the

children of Keturah.

5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham

had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac

his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east

country.

7 And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's

life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen

years.

8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good

old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was

gathered to his people.

9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the

cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of

Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;

10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of

Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

11. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham,

that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the

well Lahairoi.

12 Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael,

Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's

handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

13 And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael,

by their names, according to their generations: the

firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel,

and Mibsam,

14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are]

their names, by their towns, and by their castles;

twelve princes according to their nations.

17 And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael,

an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up

the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is]

before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he

died in the presence of all his brethren.

19. And these [are] the generations of Isaac,

Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah

to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of

Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because

she [was] barren: and the LORD was intreated of him,

and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22 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.

23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in

thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated

from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger

than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the

younger.

24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold, [there were] twins in her womb.

25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy

garment; and they called his name Esau.

26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand

took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called

Jacob: and Isaac [was] threescore years old when she

bare them.

27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter,

a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man,

dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his]

venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the

field, and he [was] faint:

30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with

that same red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore

was his name called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die:

and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware

unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of

lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and

went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright.

Genesis 26

1. And there was a famine in the land, beside the

first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac

went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not

down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell

thee of:

3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and

will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I

will give all these countries, and I will perform the

oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars

of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these

countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the

earth be blessed;

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my

charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

7 And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife;

and he said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say,

[She is] my wife; lest, [said he], the men of the place

should kill me for Rebekah; because she [was] fair to

look upon.

8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long

time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out

at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting

with Rebekah his wife.

9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a

surety she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is]

my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said,

Lest I die for her.

10 And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done

unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with

thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness

upon us.

11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He

that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put

to death.

12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the

same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and

grew until he became very great:

14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of

herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines

envied him.

15 For all the wells which his father's servants had

digged in the days of Abraham his father, the

Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with

earth.

16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for

thou art much mightier than we.

17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in

the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which

they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for

the Philistines had stopped them after the death of

Abraham: and he called their names after the names by

which his father had called them.

19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and

found there a well of springing water.

20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's

herdmen, saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the

name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

21 And they digged another well, and strove for that

also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22 And he removed from thence, and digged another

well; and for that they strove not: and he called the

name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath

made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and

said, I [am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not,

for I [am] with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply

thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the

name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there

Isaac's servants digged a well.

26. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and

Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief

captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,

seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was

with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath

betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make

a covenant with thee;

29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not

touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but

good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou [art] now

the blessed of the LORD.

30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and

drink.

31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware

one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they

departed from him in peace.

32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's

servants came, and told him concerning the well which

they had digged, and said unto him, We have found

water.

33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the

city [is] Beersheba unto this day.

34. And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife

Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath

the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to

Rebekah.

Genesis 27

1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and

his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called

Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he

said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.

2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the

day of my death:

3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy

quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take

me [some] venison;

4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring

[it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee

before I die.

5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son.

And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and]

to bring [it].

6. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying,

Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother,

saying,

7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I

may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my

death.

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to

that which I command thee.

9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two

good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury

meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he

may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau

my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:

12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall

seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse

upon me, and not a blessing.

13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy

curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me

[them].

14 And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to

his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as

his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son

Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them

upon Jacob her younger son:

16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats

upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which

she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18. And he came unto his father, and said, My father:

and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?

19 And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy

firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me:

arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy

soul may bless me.

20 And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou

hast found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said,

Because the LORD thy God brought [it] to me.

21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee,

that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very

son Esau or not.

22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he

felt him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but

the hands [are] the hands of Esau.

23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were

hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

24 And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he

said, I [am].

25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat

of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And

he brought [it] near to him, and he did eat: and he

brought him wine, and he drank.

26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now,

and kiss me, my son.

27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled

the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said,

See, the smell of my son [is] as the smell of a field

which the LORD hath blessed:

28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and

the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to

thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's

sons bow down to thee: cursed [be] every one that

curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee.

30. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an

end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone

out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau

his brother came in from his hunting.

31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it

unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my

father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy

soul may bless me.

32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art]

thou? And he said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said,

Who? where [is] he that hath taken venison, and brought

[it] me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest,

and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be blessed.

34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he

cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said

unto his father, Bless me, [even] me also, O my father.

35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and

hath taken away thy blessing.

36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he

hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my

birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my

blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a

blessing for me?

37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I

have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I

given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have

I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my

son?

38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one

blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my

father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,

Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,

and of the dew of heaven from above;

40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve

thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt

have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from

off thy neck.

41. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing

wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his

heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand;

then will I slay my brother Jacob.

42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to

Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son,

and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as

touching thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to

kill thee.

43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise,

flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's

fury turn away;

45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and

he forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I

will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be

deprived also of you both in one day?

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life

because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife

of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of

the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do

me?

Genesis 28

1. And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and

charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a

wife of the daughters of Canaan.

2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy

mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of

the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee

fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a

multitude of people;

4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and

to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the

land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto

Abraham.

5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram

unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of

Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

6. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and

sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from

thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a

charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the

daughters of Canaan;

7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother,

and was gone to Padanaram;

8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan

pleased not Isaac his father;

9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the

wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael

Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

10. And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward

Haran.

11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried

there all night, because the sun was set; and he took

of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his

pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the

earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold

the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I

[am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of

Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give

it, and to thy seed;

14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,

and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the

east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee

and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be

blessed.

15 And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee

in all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee

again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until

I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of.

16. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,

Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is]

this place! this [is] none other but the house of God,

and this [is] the gate of heaven.

18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took

the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it

up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but

the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.

20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with

me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will

give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again to my father's house in

peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

22 And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar,

shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give

me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

Genesis 29

1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the

land of the people of the east.

2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and,

lo, there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for

out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great

stone [was] upon the well's mouth.

3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they

rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the

sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in

his place.

4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be]

ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we.

5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of

Nahor? And they said, We know [him].

6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said,

[He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh

with the sheep.

7 And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is

it] time that the cattle should be gathered together:

water ye the sheep, and go [and] feed [them].

8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be

gathered together, and [till] they roll the stone from

the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

9. And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with

her father's sheep: for she kept them.

10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the

daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep

of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near,

and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered

the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice,

and wept.

12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's

brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran

and told her father.

13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings

of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and

embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his

house. And he told Laban all these things.

14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone

and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a

month.

15. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my

brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought?

tell me, what [shall] thy wages [be]?

16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder

[was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

17 Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful

and well favoured.

18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve

thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

19 And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to

thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide

with me.

20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they

seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had

to her.

21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for

my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the

place, and made a feast.

23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took

Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went

in unto her.

24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his

maid [for] an handmaid.

25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold,

it [was] Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this

thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for

Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our

country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also

for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet

seven other years.

28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he

gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his

handmaid to be her maid.

30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also

Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven

other years.

31. And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he

opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called

his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath

looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband

will love me.

33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath

therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his

name Simeon.

34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Now this time will my husband be joined unto me,

because I have born him three sons: therefore was his

name called Levi.

35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she

said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called

his name Judah; and left bearing.

Genesis 30

1. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no

children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto

Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and

he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from

thee the fruit of the womb?

3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto

her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also

have children by her.

4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and

Jacob went in unto her.

5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also

heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore

called she his name Dan.

7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare

Jacob a second son.

8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I

wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she

called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took

Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his

name Gad.

12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will

call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

14. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and

found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his

mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray

thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

15 And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that

thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away

my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he

shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening,

and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come

in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's

mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived,

and bare Jacob the fifth son.

18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because

I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called

his name Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth

son.

20 And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good

dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I

have born him six sons: and she called his name

Zebulun.

21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her

name Dinah.

22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to

her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God

hath taken away my reproach:

24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD

shall add to me another son.

25. And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,

that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go

unto mine own place, and to my country.

26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I

have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my

service which I have done thee.

27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have

found favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned

by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy

sake.

28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give

[it].

29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have

served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

30 For [it was] little which thou hadst before I

[came], and it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and

the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now

when shall I provide for mine own house also?

31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob

said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do

this thing for me, I will again feed [and] keep thy

flock:

32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing

from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and

all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted

and speckled among the goats: and [of such] shall be my

hire.

33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to

come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face:

every one that [is] not speckled and spotted among the

goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted

stolen with me.

34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be

according to thy word.

35 And he removed that day the he goats that were

ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that

were speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had

[some] white in it, and all the brown among the sheep,

and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.

36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and

Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37. And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of

the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in

them, and made the white appear which [was] in the

rods.

38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the

flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the

flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when

they came to drink.

39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and

brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and

spotted.

40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the

faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the

brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks

by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger

cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before

the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might

conceive among the rods.

42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not

in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger

Jacob's.

43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much

cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels,

and asses.

Genesis 31

1. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying,

Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and

of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten all

this glory.

2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and,

behold, it [was] not toward him as before.

3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land

of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with

thee.

4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the

field unto his flock,

5 And said unto them, I see your father's

countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but

the God of my father hath been with me.

6 And ye know that with all my power I have served

your father.

7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my

wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages;

then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus,

The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the

cattle ringstraked.

9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father,

and given [them] to me.

10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle

conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a

dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the

cattle [were] ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream,

[saying], Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.

12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all

the rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstraked,

speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban

doeth unto thee.

13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst

the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now

arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the

land of thy kindred.

14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him,

[Is there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our

father's house?

15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath

sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our

father, that [is] ours, and our children's: now then,

whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

17. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives

upon camels;

18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his

goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting,

which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac

his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had

stolen the images that [were] her father's.

20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian,

in that he told him not that he fled.

21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up,

and passed over the river, and set his face [toward]

the mount Gilead.

22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob

was fled.

23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued

after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in

the mount Gilead.

24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by

night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not

to Jacob either good or bad.

25. Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched

his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren

pitched in the mount of Gilead.

26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that

thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away

my daughters, as captives [taken] with the sword?

27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal

away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have

sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret,

and with harp?

28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my

daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.

29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but

the God of your father spake unto me yesternight,

saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob

either good or bad.

30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone,

because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,

[yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I

was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take

by force thy daughters from me.

32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not

live: before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine

with me, and take [it] to thee. For Jacob knew not that

Rachel had stolen them.

33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's

tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he

found [them] not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and

entered into Rachel's tent.

34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in

the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban

searched all the tent, but found [them] not.

35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease

my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the

custom of women [is] upon me. And he searched, but

found not the images.

36. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and

Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my

trespass? what [is] my sin, that thou hast so hotly

pursued after me?

37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast

thou found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here

before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may

judge betwixt us both.

38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy

ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and

the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto

thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou

require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by

night.

40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me,

and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine

eyes.

41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I

served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and

six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my

wages ten times.

42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham,

and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou

hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine

affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked

[thee] yesternight.

43. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These]

daughters [are] my daughters, and [these] children

[are] my children, and [these] cattle [are] my cattle,

and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I do

this day unto these my daughters, or unto their

children which they have born?

44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I

and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and

thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a

pillar.

46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones;

and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did

eat there upon the heap.

47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob

called it Galeed.

48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between

me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it

called Galeed;

49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me

and thee, when we are absent one from another.

50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou

shalt take [other] wives beside my daughters, no man

[is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and

thee.

51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and

behold [this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and

thee;

52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be]

witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee,

and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this

pillar unto me, for harm.

53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God

of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by

the fear of his father Isaac.

54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and

called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat

bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed

his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban

departed, and returned unto his place.

Genesis 32

1. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God

met him.

2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's

host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

3. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his

brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak

unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have

sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and

menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell

my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We

came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet

thee, and four hundred men with him.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and

he divided the people that [was] with him, and the

flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and

smite it, then the other company which is left shall

escape.

9. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God

of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me,

Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will

deal well with thee:

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies,

and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy

servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan;

and now I am become two bands.

11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my

brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he

will come and smite me, [and] the mother with the

children.

12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and

make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be

numbered for multitude.

13. And he lodged there that same night; and took of

that which came to his hand a present for Esau his

brother;

14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two

hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine,

and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his

servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his

servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt

drove and drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau

my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose

[art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are]

these before thee?

18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant

Jacob's; it [is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and,

behold, also he [is] behind us.

19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and

all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner

shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob

[is] behind us. For he said, I will appease him with

the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will

see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

21 So went the present over before him: and himself

lodged that night in the company.

22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives,

and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and

passed over the ford Jabbok.

23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook,

and sent over that he had.

24. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man

with him until the breaking of the day.

25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,

he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of

Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with

him.

26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And

he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he

said, Jacob.

28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more

Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with

God and with men, and hast prevailed.

29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray

thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that]

thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for

I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon

him, and he halted upon his thigh.

32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the

sinew which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the

thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of

Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. Genesis 33

1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and,

behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And

he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and

unto the two handmaids.

2 And he put the handmaids and their children

foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel

and Joseph hindermost.

3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself

to the ground seven times, until he came near to his

brother.

4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and

fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

5. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and

the children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And

he said, The children which God hath graciously given

thy servant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their

children, and they bowed themselves.

7 And Leah also with her children came near, and

bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and

Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove

which I met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in

the sight of my lord.

9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that

thou hast unto thyself.

10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have

found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my

hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I

had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with

me.

11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to

thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and

because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took

[it].

12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us

go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the

children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with

young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them

one day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his

servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the

cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to

endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some]

of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What

needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

16. So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an

house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the

name of the place is called Succoth.

18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which

[is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from

Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had

spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor,

Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and called it

Elelohe-Israel.

Genesis 34

1. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto

Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite,

prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay

with her, and defiled her.

3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of

Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto

the damsel.

4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying,

Get me this damsel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his

daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the

field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

6. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob

to commune with him.

7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when

they heard [it]: and the men were grieved, and they

were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel

in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not

to be done.

8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of

my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you

give her him to wife.

9 And make ye marriages with us, [and] give your

daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be

before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you

possessions therein.

11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her

brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye

shall say unto me I will give.

12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will

give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the

damsel to wife.

13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor

his father deceitfully, and said, because he had

defiled Dinah their sister:

14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing,

to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for

that [were] a reproach unto us:

15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will

be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;

16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we

will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with

you, and we will become one people.

17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be

circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we

will be gone.

18. And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's

son.

19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing,

because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he

[was] more honourable than all the house of his father.

20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate

of their city, and communed with the men of their city,

saying,

21 These men [are] peaceable with us; therefore let

them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the

land, behold, [it is] large enough for them; let us

take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give

them our daughters.

22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to

dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us

be circumcised, as they [are] circumcised.

23 [Shall] not their cattle and their substance and

every beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent

unto them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened

all that went out of the gate of his city; and every

male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of

his city.

25. And it came to pass on the third day, when they

were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and

Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and

came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the

edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's

house, and went out.

27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled

the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their

asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which

[was] in the field,

29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones,

and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all

that [was] in the house.

30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have

troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants

of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites:

and I [being] few in number, they shall gather

themselves together against me, and slay me; and I

shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as

with an harlot?

Genesis 35

1. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel,

and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that

appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of

Esau thy brother.

2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that

[were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are]

among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will

make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the

day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I

went.

4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which

[were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which

[were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak

which [was] by Shechem.

5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon

the cities that [were] round about them, and they did

not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6. So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of

Canaan, that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that

[were] with him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called the place

Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he

fled from the face of his brother.

8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was

buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it

was called Allonbachuth.

9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out

of Padanaram, and blessed him.

10 And God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy

name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel

shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty: be

fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of

nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of

thy loins;

12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to

thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I

give the land.

13 And God went up from him in the place where he

talked with him.

14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he

talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he

poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil

thereon.

15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God

spake with him, Bethel.

16. And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but

a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed,

and she had hard labour.

17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour,

that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt

have this son also.

18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing,

(for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his

father called him Benjamin.

19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to

Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.

20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is]

the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

21. And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond

the tower of Edar.

22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that

land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's

concubine: and Israel heard [it]. Now the sons of Jacob

were twelve:

23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and

Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan,

and Naphtali:

26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and

Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born

to him in Padanaram.

27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,

unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where

Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and

fourscore years.

29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was

gathered unto his people, [being] old and full of days:

and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 36

1. Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is]

Edom.

2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan;

Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah

the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of

Nebajoth.

4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare

Reuel;

5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah:

these [are] the sons of Esau, which were born unto him

in the land of Canaan.

6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his

daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his

cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance,

which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into

the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

7 For their riches were more than that they might

dwell together; and the land wherein they were

strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.

9. And these [are] the generations of Esau the father

of the Edomites in mount Seir:

10 These [are] the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the

son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of

Bashemath the wife of Esau.

11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho,

and Gatam, and Kenaz.

12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and

she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of

Adah Esau's wife.

13 And these [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and

Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of

Bashemath Esau's wife.

14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the

daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife:

and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

15 These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons

of Eliphaz the firstborn [son] of Esau; duke Teman,

duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke Amalek: these

[are] the dukes [that came] of Eliphaz in the land of

Edom; these [were] the sons of Adah.

17 And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke

Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these

[are] the dukes [that came] of Reuel in the land of

Edom; these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

18 And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah Esau's

wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were]

the dukes [that came] of Aholibamah the daughter of

Anah, Esau's wife.

19 These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is] Edom, and

these [are] their dukes.

20. These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who

inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and

Anah,

21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these [are] the

dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land

of Edom.

22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and

Lotan's sister [was] Timna.

23 And the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan,

and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

24 And these [are] the children of Zibeon; both Ajah,

and Anah: this [was that] Anah that found the mules in

the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his

father.

25 And the children of Anah [were] these; Dishon, and

Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

26 And these [are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan,

and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

27 The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and

Zaavan, and Akan.

28 The children of Dishan [are] these; Uz, and Aran.

29 These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites;

duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,

30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are]

the dukes [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the

land of Seir.

31. And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land

of Edom, before there reigned any king over the

children of Israel.

32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the

name of his city [was] Dinhabah.

33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of

Bozrah reigned in his stead.

34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani

reigned in his stead.

35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who

smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his

stead: and the name of his city [was] Avith.

36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in

his stead.

37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the

river reigned in his stead.

38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor

reigned in his stead.

39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar

reigned in his stead: and the name of his city [was]

Pau; and his wife's name [was] Mehetabel, the daughter

of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

40 And these [are] the names of the dukes [that came]

of Esau, according to their families, after their

places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke

Jetheth,

41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,

43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [be] the dukes of

Edom, according to their habitations in the land of

their possession: he [is] Esau the father of the

Edomites.

Genesis 37

1. And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was

a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

2 These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph,

[being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with

his brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of

Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's

wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil

report.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,

because he [was] the son of his old age: and he made

him a coat of [many] colours.

4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved

him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and

could not speak peaceably unto him.

5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his

brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream

which I have dreamed:

7 For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the

field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright;

and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made

obeisance to my sheaf.

8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed

reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over

us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and

for his words.

9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his

brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream

more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven

stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told [it] to his father, and to his

brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto

him, What [is] this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall

I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow

down ourselves to thee to the earth?

11 And his brethren envied him; but his father

observed the saying.

12. And his brethren went to feed their father's flock

in Shechem.

13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren

feed [the flock] in Shechem? come, and I will send thee

unto them. And he said to him, Here [am I].

14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether

it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks;

and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale

of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was]

wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying,

What seekest thou?

16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray

thee, where they feed [their flocks].

17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I

heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went

after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he

came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay

him.

19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer

cometh.

20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast

him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast

hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of

his dreams.

21 And Reuben heard [it], and he delivered him out of

their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but]

cast him into this pit that [is] in the wilderness, and

lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of

their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

23. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his

brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat,

[his] coat of [many] colours that [was] on him;

24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and

the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.

25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up

their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of

Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing

spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it] down to

Egypt.

26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit [is

it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and

let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother

[and] our flesh. And his brethren were content.

28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and

they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold

Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of

silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold,

Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The

child [is] not; and I, whither shall I go?

31. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of

the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours, and they

brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we

found: know now whether it [be] thy son's coat or no.

33 And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat;

an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without

doubt rent in pieces.

34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon

his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to

comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he

said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son

mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto

Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the

guard.

Genesis 38

1. And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went

down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain

Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain

Canaanite, whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and

went in unto her.

3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called

his name Er.

4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she

called his name Onan.

5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and

called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she

bare him.

6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose

name [was] Tamar.

7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight

of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's

wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and

it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's

wife, that he spilled [it] on the ground, lest that he

should give seed to his brother.

10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:

wherefore he slew him also.

11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law,

Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my

son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die

also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt

in her father's house.

12. And in process of time the daughter of Shuah

Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up

unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend

Hirah the Adullamite.

13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father

in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and

covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat

in an open place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for

she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given

unto him to wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an

harlot; because she had covered her face.

16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go

to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew

not that she [was] his daughter in law.) And she said,

What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto

me?

17 And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the

flock. And she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till

thou send [it]?

18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And

she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff

that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came

in unto her, and she conceived by him.

19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail

from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend

the Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the

woman's hand: but he found her not.

21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where

[is] the harlot, that [was] openly by the way side? And

they said, There was no harlot in this [place].

22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find

her; and also the men of the place said, [that] there

was no harlot in this [place].

23 And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we

be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not

found her.

24. And it came to pass about three months after, that

it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law

hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with

child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and

let her be burnt.

25 When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her

father in law, saying, By the man, whose these [are,

am] I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee,

whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and

staff.

26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath

been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not

to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail,

that, behold, twins [were] in her womb.

28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the

one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound

upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out

first.

29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand,

that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How

hast thou broken forth? [this] breach [be] upon thee:

therefore his name was called Pharez.

30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the

scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called

Zarah.

Genesis 39

1. And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar,

an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an

Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites,

which had brought him down thither.

2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a

prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master

the Egyptian.

3 And his master saw that the LORD [was] with him,

and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in

his hand.

4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served

him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all

[that] he had he put into his hand.

5 And it came to pass from the time [that] he had

made him overseer in his house, and over all that he

had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for

Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon

all that he had in the house, and in the field.

6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and

he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did

eat. And Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and well

favoured.

7. And it came to pass after these things, that his

master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said,

Lie with me.

8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife,

Behold, my master wotteth not what [is] with me in the

house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my

hand;

9 [There is] none greater in this house than I;

neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee,

because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this

great wickedness, and sin against God?

10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by

day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her,

[or] to be with her.

11 And it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph]

went into the house to do his business; and [there was]

none of the men of the house there within.

12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie

with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled,

and got him out.

13. And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left

his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

14 That she called unto the men of her house, and

spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an

Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie

with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted

up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with

me, and fled, and got him out.

16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord

came home.

17 And she spake unto him according to these words,

saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought

unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and

cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

19. And it came to pass, when his master heard the

words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying,

After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath

was kindled.

20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the

prison, a place where the king's prisoners [were]

bound: and he was there in the prison.

21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him

mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper

of the prison.

22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's

hand all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and

whatsoever they did there, he was the doer [of it].

23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing

[that was] under his hand; because the LORD was with

him, and [that] which he did, the LORD made [it] to

prosper.

Genesis 40

1. And it came to pass after these things, [that] the

butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had

offended their lord the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his

officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against

the chief of the bakers.

3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain

of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph

[was] bound.

4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with

them, and he served them: and they continued a season

in ward.

5. And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his

dream in one night, each man according to the

interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker

of the king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the prison.

6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and

looked upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad.

7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with

him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore

look ye [so] sadly to day?

8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream,

and [there is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said

unto them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] to God?

tell me [them], I pray you.

9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and

said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before

me;

10 And in the vine [were] three branches: and it

[was] as though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot

forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe

grapes:

11 And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the

grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave

the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is] the

interpretation of it: The three branches [are] three

days:

13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine

head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt

deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former

manner when thou wast his butler.

14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee,

and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make

mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this

house:

15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of

the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that

they should put me into the dungeon.

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation

was good, he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my

dream, and, behold, [I had] three white baskets on my

head:

17 And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all

manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat

them out of the basket upon my head.

18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the

interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three

days:

19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy

head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and

the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

20. And it came to pass the third day, [which was]

Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his

servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler

and of the chief baker among his servants.

21 And he restored the chief butler unto his

butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's

hand:

22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had

interpreted to them.

23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but

forgat him.

Genesis 41

1. And it came to pass at the end of two full years,

that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the

river.

2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven

well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a

meadow.

3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them

out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and

stood by the [other] kine upon the brink of the river.

4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat

up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh

awoke.

5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and,

behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank

and good.

6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the

east wind sprung up after them.

7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and

full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a

dream.

8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit

was troubled; and he sent and called for all the

magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and

Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that

could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

9. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I

do remember my faults this day:

10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in

ward in the captain of the guard's house, [both] me and

the chief baker:

11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we

dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his

dream.

12 And [there was] there with us a young man, an

Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we

told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each

man according to his dream he did interpret.

13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so

it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he

hanged.

14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they

brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved

[himself], and changed his raiment, and came in unto

Pharaoh.

15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a

dream, and [there is] none that can interpret it: and I

have heard say of thee, [that] thou canst understand a

dream to interpret it.

16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not

in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold,

I stood upon the bank of the river:

18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven

kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a

meadow:

19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them,

poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I

never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up

the first seven fat kine:

21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be

known that they had eaten them; but they [were] still

ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears

came up in one stalk, full and good:

23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and]

blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears:

and I told [this] unto the magicians; but [there was]

none that could declare [it] to me.

25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh

[is] one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he [is] about to

do.

26 The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the

seven good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.

27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came

up after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty

ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of

famine.

28 This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto

Pharaoh: What God [is] about to do he sheweth unto

Pharaoh.

29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty

throughout all the land of Egypt:

30 And there shall arise after them seven years of

famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the

land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by

reason of that famine following; for it [shall be] very

grievous.

32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh

twice; [it is] because the thing [is] established by

God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

33. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet

and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

34 Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint

officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of

the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

35 And let them gather all the food of those good

years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of

Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

36 And that food shall be for store to the land

against the seven years of famine, which shall be in

the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the

famine.

37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and

in the eyes of all his servants.

38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find

[such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of

God [is]?

39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God

hath shewed thee all this, [there is] none so discreet

and wise as thou [art]:

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto

thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the

throne will I be greater than thou.

41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee

over all the land of Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and

put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures

of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot

which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee:

and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and

without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in

all the land of Egypt.

45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah;

and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of

Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over [all]

the land of Egypt.

46. And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood

before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from

the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the

land of Egypt.

47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought

forth by handfuls.

48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven

years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the

food in the cities: the food of the field, which [was]

round about every city, laid he up in the same.

49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea,

very much, until he left numbering; for [it was]

without number.

50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the

years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of

Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn

Manasseh: For God, [said he], hath made me forget all

my toil, and all my father's house.

52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For

God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my

affliction.

53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in

the land of Egypt, were ended.

54 And the seven years of dearth began to come,

according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all

lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the

people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said

unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith

to you, do.

56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth:

And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto

the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of

Egypt.

57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to

buy [corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in

all lands.

Genesis 42

1. Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt,

Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon

another?

2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is

corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us

from thence; that we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in

Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with

his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief

befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among

those that came: for the famine was in the land of

Canaan.

6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and]

he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land:

and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves

before him [with] their faces to the earth.

7. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but

made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto

them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they

said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not

him.

9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed

of them, and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the

nakedness of the land ye are come.

10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy

food are thy servants come.

11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men],

thy servants are no spies.

12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the

nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren,

the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold,

the youngest [is] this day with our father, and one

[is] not.

14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I

spake unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies:

15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh

ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest

brother come hither.

16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother,

and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be

proved, whether [there be any] truth in you: or else by

the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.

17 And he put them all together into ward three days.

18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do,

and live; [for] I fear God:

19 If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be

bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn

for the famine of your houses:

20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall

your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they

did so.

21. And they said one to another, We [are] verily

guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the

anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would

not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto

you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would

not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is

required.

23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them];

for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept;

and returned to them again, and communed with them, and

took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with

corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack,

and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he

unto them.

26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and

departed thence.

27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass

provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold,

it [was] in his sack's mouth.

28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is

restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their

heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one

to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto

us?

29. And they came unto Jacob their father unto the

land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them;

saying,

30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake

roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men]; we are

no spies:

32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one

[is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our

father in the land of Canaan.

33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto

us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true [men]; leave

one of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food

for] the famine of your households, and be gone:

34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then

shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye

[are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother,

and ye shall traffick in the land.

35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks,

that, behold, every man's bundle of money [was] in his

sack: and when [both] they and their father saw the

bundles of money, they were afraid.

36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye

bereaved [of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon

[is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these

things are against me.

37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my

two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into

my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you;

for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if

mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then

shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the

grave.

Genesis 43

1. And the famine [was] sore in the land.

2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the

corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father

said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did

solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my

face, except your brother [be] with you.

4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go

down and buy thee food:

5 But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go

down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my

face, except your brother [be] with you.

6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye [so] ill with

me, [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our

state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet

alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him

according to the tenor of these words: could we

certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother

down?

8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad

with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live,

and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little

ones.

9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou

require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him

before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had

returned this second time.

11. And their father Israel said unto them, If [it

must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in

the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a

present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and

myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

12 And take double money in your hand; and the money

that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks,

carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an

oversight:

13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto

the man:

14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,

that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin.

If I be bereaved [of my children], I am bereaved.

15. And the men took that present, and they took

double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up,

and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to

the ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home, and

slay, and make ready; for [these] men shall dine with

me at noon.

17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man

brought the men into Joseph's house.

18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought

into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the

money that was returned in our sacks at the first time

are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against

us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our

asses.

19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's

house, and they communed with him at the door of the

house,

20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first

time to buy food:

21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that

we opened our sacks, and, behold, [every] man's money

[was] in the mouth of his sack, our money in full

weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have we brought down in our hands

to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our

sacks.

23 And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: your

God, and the God of your father, hath given you

treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he

brought Simeon out unto them.

24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house,

and gave [them] water, and they washed their feet; and

he gave their asses provender.

25 And they made ready the present against Joseph

came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread

there.

26. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the

present which [was] in their hand into the house, and

bowed themselves to him to the earth.

27 And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said,

[Is] your father well, the old man of whom ye spake?

[Is] he yet alive?

28 And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in

good health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down

their heads, and made obeisance.

29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother

Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your

younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said,

God be gracious unto thee, my son.

30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn

upon his brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he

entered into [his] chamber, and wept there.

31 And he washed his face, and went out, and

refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them

by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat

with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might

not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an

abomination unto the Egyptians.

33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according

to his birthright, and the youngest according to his

youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

34 And he took [and sent] messes unto them from

before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much

as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with

him.

Genesis 44

1. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying,

Fill the men's sacks [with] food, as much as they can

carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth

of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did

according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent

away, they and their asses.

4 [And] when they were gone out of the city, [and]

not [yet] far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up,

follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them,

say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for

good?

5 [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and

whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so

doing.

6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these

same words.

7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord

these words? God forbid that thy servants should do

according to this thing:

8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks'

mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of

Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's

house silver or gold?

9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both

let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto

your words: he with whom it is found shall be my

servant; and ye shall be blameless.

11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to

the ground, and opened every man his sack.

12 And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and

left at the youngest: and the cup was found in

Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man

his ass, and returned to the city.

14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house;

for he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on the

ground.

15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this

that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can

certainly divine?

16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord?

what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves?

God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants:

behold, we [are] my lord's servants, both we, and [he]

also with whom the cup is found.

17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: [but]

the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my

servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your

father.

18. Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my

lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my

lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy

servant: for thou [art] even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a

father, or a brother?

20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old

man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his

brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother,

and his father loveth him.

21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down

unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his

father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his

father] would die.

23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your

youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my

face no more.

24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy

servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a

little food.

26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest

brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may

not see the man's face, except our youngest brother

[be] with us.

27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know

that my wife bare me two [sons]:

28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely

he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief

befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with

sorrow to the grave.

30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my

father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his

life is bound up in the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad

[is] not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants

shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our

father with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my

father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I

shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide

instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the

lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad

[be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that

shall come on my father.

Genesis 45

1. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all

them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man

to go out from me. And there stood no man with him,

while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house

of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] Joseph;

doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not

answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me,

I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I [am]

Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with

yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me

before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the

land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which

[there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.

7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a

posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a

great deliverance.

8 So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but

God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord

of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land

of Egypt.

9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him,

Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all

Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and

thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and

thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds,

and all that thou hast:

11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet [there are]

five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and

all that thou hast, come to poverty.

12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my

brother Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh

unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in

Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste

and bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and

wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon

them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

16. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,

saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased

Pharaoh well, and his servants.

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy

brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you

unto the land of Canaan;

18 And take your father and your households, and come

unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of

Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you

wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones,

and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all

the land of Egypt [is] yours.

21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave

them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh,

and gave them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave each man changes of

raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces]

of silver, and five changes of raiment.

23 And to his father he sent after this [manner]; ten

asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she

asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father

by the way.

24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed:

and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the

way.

25. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the

land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

26 And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and

he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And

Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which

he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which

Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their

father revived:

28 And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son

[is] yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. Genesis 46

1. And Israel took his journey with all that he had,

and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the

God of his father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the

night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am]

I.

3 And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy father:

fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make

of thee a great nation:

4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will

also surely bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall put

his hand upon thine eyes.

5. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of

Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little

ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had

sent to carry him.

6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which

they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into

Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his

daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed

brought he with him into Egypt.

8 And these [are] the names of the children of

Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons:

Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and

Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and

Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a

Canaanitish woman.

11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah,

and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land

of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and

Hamul.

13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and

Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and

Jahleel.

15 These [be] the sons of Leah, which she bare unto

Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the

souls of his sons and his daughters [were] thirty and

three.

16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni,

and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and

Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons

of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to

Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob,

[even] sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and

Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born

Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of

Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

21 And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher,

and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim,

and Huppim, and Ard.

22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to

Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.

23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and

Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave

unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto

Jacob: all the souls [were] seven.

26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt,

which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons'

wives, all the souls [were] threescore and six;

27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in

Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of

Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] threescore and

ten.

28. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to

direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the

land of Goshen.

29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to

meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented

himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on

his neck a good while.

30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since

I have seen thy face, because thou [art] yet alive.

31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his

father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say

unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which

[were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

32 And the men [are] shepherds, for their trade hath

been to feed cattle; and they have brought their

flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call

you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation?

34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been

about cattle from our youth even until now, both we,

[and] also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land

of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination unto

the Egyptians.

Genesis 47

1. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My

father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their

herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land

of Canaan; and, behold, they [are] in the land of

Goshen.

2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men,

and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What [is] your

occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants

[are] shepherds, both we, [and] also our fathers.

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in

the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture

for their flocks; for the famine [is] sore in the land

of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy

servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father

and thy brethren are come unto thee:

6 The land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of

the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the

land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest

[any] men of activity among them, then make them rulers

over my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him

before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old [art] thou?

9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years

of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few

and evil have the days of the years of my life been,

and have not attained unto the days of the years of the

life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from

before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and

gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the

best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh

had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren,

and all his father's household, with bread, according

to [their] families.

13. And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the

famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and

[all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the

famine.

14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was

found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,

for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the

money into Pharaoh's house.

15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in

the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph,

and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy

presence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give

you for your cattle, if money fail.

17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and

Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses, and

for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and

for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their

cattle for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the

second year, and said unto him, We will not hide [it]

from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also

hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in

the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we

and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and

our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us]

seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be

not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for

Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field,

because the famine prevailed over them: so the land

became Pharaoh's.

21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities

from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the

[other] end thereof.

22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for

the priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh,

and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them:

wherefore they sold not their lands.

23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have

bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo,

[here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye

shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four

parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for

your food, and for them of your households, and for

food for your little ones.

25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us

find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be

Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt

unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth

[part]; except the land of the priests only, [which]

became not Pharaoh's.

27. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the

country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein,

and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen

years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty

and seven years.

29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and

he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I

have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy

hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me;

bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt

carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their

buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him.

And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

Genesis 48

1. And it came to pass after these things, that [one]

told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took

with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

2 And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son

Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened

himself, and sat upon the bed.

3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared

unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee

fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a

multitude of people; and will give this land to thy

seed after thee [for] an everlasting possession.

5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which

were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came

unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon,

they shall be mine.

6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them,

shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of

their brethren in their inheritance.

7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died

by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet [there

was] but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I

buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same [is]

Bethlehem.

8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who

[are] these?

9 And Joseph said unto his father, They [are] my

sons, whom God hath given me in this [place]. And he

said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will

bless them.

10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, [so that]

he could not see. And he brought them near unto him;

and he kissed them, and embraced them.

11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to

see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy

seed.

12 And Joseph brought them out from between his

knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right

hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his

left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought

[them] near unto him.

14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid

[it] upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and

his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands

wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the firstborn.

15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom

my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which

fed me all my life long unto this day,

16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless

the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the

name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow

into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right

hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and

he held up his father's hand, to remove it from

Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my

father: for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand

upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my

son, I know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he

also shall be great: but truly his younger brother

shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a

multitude of nations.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee

shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim

and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but

God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the

land of your fathers.

22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above

thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the

Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Genesis 49

1. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather

yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which

shall befall you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of

Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

3 Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the

beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity,

and the excellency of power:

4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because

thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst

thou [it]: he went up to my couch.

5. Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of

cruelty [are in] their habitations.

6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto

their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in

their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they

digged down a wall.

7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and

their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in

Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8. Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall

praise: thy hand [shall be] in the neck of thine

enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before

thee.

9 Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son,

thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a

lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a

lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and

unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt

unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine,

and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

12 His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth

white with milk.

13. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and

he [shall be] for an haven of ships; and his border

[shall be] unto Zidon.

14 Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between

two burdens:

15 And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that

[it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and

became a servant unto tribute.

16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes

of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the

path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider

shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall

overcome at the last.

20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he

shall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly

words.

22. Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful

bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:

23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at

him], and hated him:

24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his

hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God]

of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of

Israel:)

25 [Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help

thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with

blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that

lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above

the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound

of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of

Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was

separate from his brethren.

27 Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning

he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide

the spoil.

28. All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and

this [is it] that their father spake unto them, and

blessed them; every one according to his blessing he

blessed them.

29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to

be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in

the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah,

which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which

Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for

a possession of a buryingplace.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;

there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there

I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that

[is] therein [was] from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his

sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded

up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Genesis 50

1. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept

upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to

embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are

fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the

Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph

spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have

found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the

ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my

grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan,

there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I

pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,

according as he made thee swear.

7. And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him

went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his

house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and

his father's house: only their little ones, and their

flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of

Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and

horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which

[is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great

and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for

his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the

Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they

said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians:

wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which

[is] beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he

commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan,

and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah,

which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of

a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his

brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his

father, after he had buried his father.

15. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father

was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us,

and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did

unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy

father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee

now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for

they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive

the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father.

And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before

his face; and they said, Behold, we [be] thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in

the place of God?

20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but]

God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is]

this day, to save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and

your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake

kindly unto them.

22. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's

house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third

[generation]: the children also of Machir the son of

Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God

will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land

unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and

to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,

saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry

up my bones from hence.

26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years

old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin

in Egypt.

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