 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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