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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a

stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

GE-28:5 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.

GE-28:6 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;

GE-28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was

gone to Padanaram;

GE-28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not

Isaac his father;

GE-28:9 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.

GE-28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward

Haran.

GE-28:11 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.

GE-28:12 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.

GE-28:13 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;

GE-28:14 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.

GE-28:15 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.

GE-28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely

the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.

GE-28:17 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.

GE-28:18 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.

GE-28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the

name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.

GE-28:20 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,

GE-28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace;

then shall the LORD be my God:

GE-28:22 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.

GE-29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land

of the people of the east.

GE-29:2 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.

GE-29:3 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.

GE-29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye?

And they said, Of Haran [are] we.

GE-29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?

And they said, We know [him].

GE-29:6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He

is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

GE-29:7 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].

GE-29:8 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.

GE-29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her

father's sheep: for she kept them.

GE-29:10 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.

GE-29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and

wept.

GE-29:12 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.

GE-29:13 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.

GE-29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my

flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

GE-29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my

brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me,

what [shall] thy wages [be]?

GE-29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder

[was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

GE-29:17 Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and

well favoured.

GE-29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee

seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

GE-29:19 And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee,

than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

GE-29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they

seemed unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.

GE-29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my

days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

GE-29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place,

and made a feast.

GE-29:23 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.

GE-29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid

[for] an handmaid.

GE-29:25 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?

GE-29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country,

to give the younger before the firstborn.

GE-29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for

the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

GE-29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave

him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

GE-29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his

handmaid to be her maid.

GE-29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also

Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

GE-29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened

her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

GE-29:32 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.

GE-29:33 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.

GE-29:34 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.

GE-29:35 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.

GE-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.

GE-30:2 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?

GE-30:3 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.

GE-30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob

went in unto her.

GE-30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

GE-30:6 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.

GE-30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob

a second son.

GE-30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled

with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name

Naphtali.

GE-30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah

her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

GE-30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

GE-30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name

Gad.

GE-30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

GE-30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call

me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

GE-30:14 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.

GE-30:15 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.

GE-30:16 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.

GE-30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and

bare Jacob the fifth son.

GE-30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I

have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name

Issachar.

GE-30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

GE-30:20 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.

GE-30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name

Dinah.

GE-30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,

and opened her womb.

GE-30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath

taken away my reproach:

GE-30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD

shall add to me another son.

GE-30:25 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.

GE-30:26 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.

GE-30:27 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.

GE-30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].

GE-30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served

thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

GE-30:30 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?

GE-30:31 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.

GE-30:32 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.

GE-30:33 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.

GE-30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according

to thy word.

GE-30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were

ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were

speckled and spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in

it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave [them] into the

hand of his sons.

GE-30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and

Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

GE-30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the

hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and

made the white appear which [was] in the rods.

GE-30:38 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.

GE-30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought

forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

GE-30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of

the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the

flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put

them not unto Laban's cattle.

GE-30:41 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.

GE-30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in:

so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. GE-30:43

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and

maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

GE-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.

GE-31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold,

it [was] not toward him as before.

GE-31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of

thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

GE-31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field

unto his flock,

GE-31:5 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.

GE-31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your

father.

GE-31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages

ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

GE-31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then

all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The

ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle

ringstreaked.

GE-31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and

given [them] to me.

GE-31:10 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]

ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled.

GE-31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying],

Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.

GE-31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the

rams which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstreaked, speckled,

and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

GE-31:13 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.

GE-31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is

there] yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's

house?

GE-31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold

us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

GE-31:16 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.

GE-31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon

camels;

GE-31:18 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.

GE-31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had

stolen the images that [were] her father's.

GE-31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in

that he told him not that he fled.

GE-31:21 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.

GE-31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was

fled.

GE-31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after

him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount

Gilead.

GE-31:24 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.

GE-31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his

tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the

mount of Gilead.

GE-31:26 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?

GE-31:27 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?

GE-31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my

daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.

GE-31:29 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.

GE-31:30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because

thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore

hast thou stolen my gods?

GE-31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was

afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy

daughters from me.

GE-31:32 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.

GE-31:33 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.

GE-31:34 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.

GE-31:35 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.

GE-31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chided with Laban: and Jacob

answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my

sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

GE-31:37 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.

GE-31:38 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.

GE-31:39 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.

GE-31:40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and

the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. GE-31:

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.

GE-31:42 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.

GE-31:43 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?

GE-31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and

thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

GE-31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.

GE-31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and

they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon

the heap.

GE-31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it

Galeed.

GE-31:48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and

thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

GE-31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and

thee, when we are absent one from another.

GE-31:50 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.

GE-31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold

[this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

GE-31:52 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.

GE-31:53 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.

GE-31:54 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.

GE-31:55 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.

GE-32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

GE-32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host:

and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

GE-32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother

unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

GE-32:4 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:

GE-32:5 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.

GE-32:6 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.

GE-32:7 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;

GE-32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,

then the other company which is left shall escape.

GE-32:9 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:

GE-32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of

all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with

my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two

bands.

GE-32:11 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.

GE-32:12 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.

GE-32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that

which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

GE-32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred

ewes, and twenty rams,

GE-32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and

ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

GE-32:16 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.

GE-32:17 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?

GE-32:18 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.

GE-32:19 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.

GE-32:20 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.

GE-32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged

that night in the company.

GE-32:22 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.

GE-32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and

sent over that he had.

GE-32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with

him until the breaking of the day.

GE-32:25 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.

GE-32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he

said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

GE-32:27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said,

Jacob.

GE-32:28 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.

GE-32:29 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.

GE-32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I

have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

GE-32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and

he halted upon his thigh.

GE-32:32 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.

GE-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.

GE-33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,

and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph

hindermost.

GE-33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the

ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

GE-33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on

his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

GE-33:5 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.

GE-33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children,

and they bowed themselves.

GE-33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed

themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they

bowed themselves.

GE-33:8 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.

GE-33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou

hast unto thyself.

GE-33:10 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.

GE-33:11 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].

GE-33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go,

and I will go before thee.

GE-33:13 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.

GE-33:14 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.

GE-33:15 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.

GE-33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

GE-33:17 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.

GE-33:18 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.

GE-33:19 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.

GE-33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-

Israel.

GE-34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto

Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

GE-34:2 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.

GE-34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and

he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

GE-34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me

this damsel to wife.

GE-34:5 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.

GE-34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to

commune with him.

GE-34:7 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.

GE-34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son

Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to

wife.

GE-34:9 And make ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters

unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

GE-34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be

before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions

therein.

GE-34:11 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.

GE-34:12 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.

GE-34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his

father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their

sister:

GE-34:14 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:

GE-34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as

we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;

GE-34:16 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.

GE-34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised;

then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

GE-34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

GE-34:19 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.

GE-34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of

their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

GE-34:21 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.

GE-34:22 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.

GE-34:23 [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.

GE-34:24 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.

GE-34:25 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.

GE-34:26 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.

GE-34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the

city, because they had defiled their sister.

GE-34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses,

and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the

field,

GE-34:29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and

their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was]

in the house.

GE-34:30 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.

GE-34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with

an harlot?

GE-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.

GE-35:2 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:

GE-35:3 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.

GE-35:4 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.

GE-35:5 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.

GE-35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan,

that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him.

GE-35:7 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.

GE-35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried

beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called

Allonbachuth.

GE-35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of

Padanaram, and blessed him.

GE-35:10 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.

GE-35:11 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;

GE-35:12 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.

GE-35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked

with him.

GE-35:14 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.

GE-35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake

with him, Bethel.

GE-35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a

little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had

hard labour.

GE-35:17 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.

GE-35:18 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.

GE-35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath,

which [is] Bethlehem.

GE-35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the

pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

GE-35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the

tower of Edar.

GE-35:22 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:

GE-35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon,

and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

GE-35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

GE-35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and

Naphtali:

GE-35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher:

these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in

Padanaram.

GE-35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto

the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac

sojourned.

GE-35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore

years.

GE-35:29 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.

GE-36:1 Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom.

GE-36:2 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;

GE-36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

GE-36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

GE-36:5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these

[are] the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of

Canaan.

GE-36:6 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.

GE-36:7 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.

GE-36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.

GE-36:9 And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of

the Edomites in mount Seir:

GE-36:10 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.

GE-36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and

Gatam, and Kenaz.

GE-36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she

bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau's

wife.

GE-36:13 And these [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah,

Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's

wife.

GE-36:14 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.

GE-36:15 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,

GE-36:16 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.

GE-36:17 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.

GE-36:18 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.

GE-36:19 These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is] Edom, and these

[are] their dukes.

GE-36:20 These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited

the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

GE-36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these [are] the dukes

of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

GE-36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and

Lotan's sister [was] Timna.

GE-36:23 And the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and

Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

GE-36:24 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.

GE-36:25 And the children of Anah [were] these; Dishon, and

Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

GE-36:26 And these [are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and

Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

GE-36:27 The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan,

and Akan.

GE-36:28 The children of Dishan [are] these; Uz, and Aran.

GE-36:29 These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites; duke

Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,

GE-36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are] the

dukes [that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.

GE-36:31 And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of

Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

GE-36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name

of his city [was] Dinhabah.

GE-36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah

reigned in his stead.

GE-36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani

reigned in his stead.

GE-36:35 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.

GE-36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his

stead.

GE-36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river

reigned in his stead.

GE-36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned

in his stead.

GE-36:39 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.

GE-36:40 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,

GE-36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

GE-36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,

GE-36:43 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.

GE-37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a

stranger, in the land of Canaan.

GE-37:2 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.

GE-37:3 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.

GE-37:4 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.

GE-37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his

brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

GE-37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream

which I have dreamed:

GE-37:7 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.

GE-37:8 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.

GE-37:9 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.

GE-37:10 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?

GE-37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed

the saying.

GE-37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in

Shechem.

GE-37:13 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].

GE-37:14 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.

GE-37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was]

wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What

seekest thou?

GE-37:16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee,

where they feed [their flocks].

GE-37:17 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.

GE-37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came

near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

GE-37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer

cometh.

GE-37:20 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.

GE-37:21 And Reuben heard [it], and he delivered him out of

their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

GE-37:22 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.

GE-37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his

brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat

of [many] colours that [was] on him;

GE-37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit

[was] empty, [there was] no water in it.

GE-37:25 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.

GE-37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit [is it]

if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

GE-37:27 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.

GE-37:28 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.

GE-37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph

[was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

GE-37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child

[is] not; and I, whither shall I go?

GE-37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the

goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

GE-37:32 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.

GE-37:33 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.

GE-37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his

loins, and mourned for his son many days.

GE-37:35 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.

GE-37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar,

an officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.

GE-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.

GE-38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,

whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

GE-38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his

name Er.

GE-38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called

his name Onan.

GE-38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called

his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

GE-38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name

[was] Tamar.

GE-38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of

the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

GE-38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife,

and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

GE-38:9 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.

GE-38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD:

wherefore he slew him also.

GE-38:11 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.

GE-38:12 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.

GE-38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law

goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

GE-38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and

covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open

place, which [is] by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah

was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

GE-38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot;

because she had covered her face.

GE-38:16 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?

GE-38:17 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]?

GE-38:18 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.

GE-38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from

her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

GE-38:20 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.

GE-38:21 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].

GE-38:22 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].

GE-38:23 And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be

shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

GE-38:24 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.

GE-38:25 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.

GE-38:26 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.

GE-38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that,

behold, twins [were] in her womb.

GE-38:28 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.

GE-38:29 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.

GE-38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the

scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

GE-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.

GE-39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous

man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

GE-39:3 And his master saw that the LORD [was] with him, and

that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

GE-39:4 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.

GE-39:5 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.

GE-39:6 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.

GE-39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his

master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with

me.

GE-39:8 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;

GE-39:9 [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?

GE-39:10 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.

GE-39:11 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.

GE-39:12 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.

GE-39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his

garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

GE-39:14 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:

GE-39:15 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.

GE-39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came

home.

GE-39:17 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:

GE-39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,

that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

GE-39:19 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.

GE-39:20 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.

GE-39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and

gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

GE-39:22 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].

GE-39:23 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.

GE-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.

GE-40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers,

against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the

bakers.

GE-40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of

the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.

GE-40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them,

and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

GE-40:5 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.

GE-40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked

upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad.

GE-40:7 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?

GE-40:8 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.

GE-40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said

to him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;

GE-40:10 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:

GE-40:11 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.

GE-40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation

of it: The three branches [are] three days:

GE-40:13 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.

GE-40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and

show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto

Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

GE-40:15 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.

GE-40:16 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:

GE-40:17 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.

GE-40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the

interpretation thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:

GE-40:19 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.

GE-40:20 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.

GE-40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership

again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:

GE-40:22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had

interpreted to them.

GE-40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but

forgat him.

GE-41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that

Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

GE-41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well

favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

GE-41:3 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.

GE-41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the

seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

GE-41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold,

seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

GE-41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east

wind sprung up after them.

GE-41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full

ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.

GE-41:8 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.

GE-41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do

remember my faults this day:

GE-41:10 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:

GE-41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we

dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

GE-41:12 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.

GE-41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was;

me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

GE-41:14 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.

GE-41:15 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.

GE-41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me:

God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

GE-41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I

stood upon the bank of the river:

GE-41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,

fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

GE-41:19 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:

GE-41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the

first seven fat kine:

GE-41:21 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.

GE-41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up

in one stalk, full and good:

GE-41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted

with the east wind, sprung up after them:

GE-41:24 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.

GE-41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is]

one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.

GE-41:26 The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven

good ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.

GE-41:27 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.

GE-41:28 This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh:

What God [is] about to do he showeth unto Pharaoh.

GE-41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty

throughout all the land of Egypt:

GE-41:30 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;

GE-41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason

of that famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous.

GE-41:32 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.

GE-41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and

wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

GE-41:34 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.

GE-41:35 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.

GE-41:36 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.

GE-41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in

the eyes of all his servants.

GE-41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a

one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?

GE-41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath

showed thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as

thou [art]:

GE-41:40 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.

GE-41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over

all the land of Egypt.

GE-41:42 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;

GE-41:43 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.

GE-41:44 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.

GE-41:45 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.

GE-41:46 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.

GE-41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought

forth by handfuls.

GE-41:48 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.

GE-41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very

much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.

GE-41:50 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.

GE-41:51 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.

GE-41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God

hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

GE-41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the

land of Egypt, were ended.

GE-41:54 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.

GE-41:55 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.

GE-41:56 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.

GE-41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy

[corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.

GE-42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob

said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

GE-42:2 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.

GE-42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

GE-42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his

brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

GE-42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those

that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

GE-42:6 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.

GE-42:7 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.

GE-42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

GE-42:9 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.

GE-42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food

are thy servants come.

GE-42:11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy

servants are no spies.

GE-42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of

the land ye are come.

GE-42:13 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.

GE-42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake

unto you, saying, Ye [are] spies:

GE-42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye

shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come

hither.

GE-42:16 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.

GE-42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.

GE-42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and

live; [for] I fear God:

GE-42:19 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:

GE-42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your

words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

GE-42:21 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.

GE-42:22 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.

GE-42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them]; for he

spake unto them by an interpreter.

GE-42:24 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.

GE-42:25 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.

GE-42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed

thence.

GE-42:27 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.

GE-42:28 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?

GE-42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of

Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

GE-42:30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly

to us, and took us for spies of the country.

GE-42:31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men]; we are no

spies:

GE-42:32 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.

GE-42:33 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:

GE-42:34 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 traffic in the

land.

GE-42:35 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.

GE-42:36 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.

GE-42:37 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.

GE-42:38 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.

GE-43:1 And the famine [was] sore in the land.

GE-43:2 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.

GE-43:3 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.

GE-43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down

and buy thee food:

GE-43:5 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.

GE-43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye [so] ill with me,

[as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

GE-43:7 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?

GE-43:8 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.

GE-43:9 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:

GE-43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned

this second time.

GE-43:11 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:

GE-43:12 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:

GE-43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the

man:

GE-43:14 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.

GE-43:15 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.

GE-43:16 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.

GE-43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the

men into Joseph's house.

GE-43:18 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.

GE-43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house,

and they communed with him at the door of the house,

GE-43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time

to buy food:

GE-43:21 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.

GE-43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to

buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

GE-43:23 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.

GE-43:24 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.

GE-43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at

noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

GE-43:26 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.

GE-43:27 And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is]

your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet

alive?

GE-43:28 And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good

health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and

made obeisance.

GE-43:29 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.

GE-43:30 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.

GE-43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained

himself, and said, Set on bread.

GE-43:32 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.

GE-43:33 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.

GE-43:34 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.

GE-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.

GE-44:2 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.

GE-44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,

they and their asses.

GE-44:4 [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?

GE-44:5 [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and

whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

GE-44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same

words.

GE-44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these

words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this

thing:

GE-44:8 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?

GE-44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let

him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

GE-44:10 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.

GE-44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the

ground, and opened every man his sack.

GE-44:12 And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left at

the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

GE-44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his

ass, and returned to the city.

GE-44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for

he [was] yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

GE-44:15 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?

GE-44:16 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.

GE-44:17 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.

GE-44:18 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.

GE-44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father,

or a brother?

GE-44:20 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.

GE-44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto

me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

GE-44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his

father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would

die.

GE-44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest

brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

GE-44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my

father, we told him the words of my lord.

GE-44:25 And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a little

food.

GE-44:26 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.

GE-44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my

wife bare me two [sons]:

GE-44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is

torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

GE-44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall

him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

GE-44:30 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;

GE-44:31 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.

GE-44:32 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.

GE-44:33 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.

GE-44:34 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.

GE-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.

GE-45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of

Pharaoh heard.

GE-45:3 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.

GE-45:4 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.

GE-45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves,

that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to

preserve life.

GE-45:6 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.

GE-45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity

in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

GE-45:8 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.

GE-45:9 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:

GE-45:10 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:

GE-45:11 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.

GE-45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother

Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh unto you.

GE-45:13 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.

GE-45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept;

and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

GE-45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them:

and after that his brethren talked with him.

GE-45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,

saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well,

and his servants.

GE-45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren,

This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of

Canaan;

GE-45:18 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.

GE-45:19 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.

GE-45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the

land of Egypt [is] yours.

GE-45:21 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.

GE-45:22 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.

GE-45:23 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.

GE-45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he

said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

GE-45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land

of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

GE-45:26 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.

GE-45:27 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:

GE-45:28 And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet

alive: I will go and see him before I die.

GE-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.

GE-46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night,

and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I.

GE-46:3 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:

GE-46:4 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.

GE-46:5 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.

GE-46:6 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:

GE-46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters,

and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him

into Egypt.

GE-46:8 And these [are] the names of the children of Israel,

which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's

firstborn.

GE-46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron,

and Carmi.

GE-46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad,

and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

GE-46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

GE-46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and

Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

GE-46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job,

and Shimron.

GE-46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

GE-46:15 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.

GE-46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and

Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

GE-46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui,

and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah;

Heber, and Malchiel.

GE-46:18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah

his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen

souls.

GE-46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

GE-46:20 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.

GE-46:21 And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher, and

Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and

Ard.

GE-46:22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to

Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.

GE-46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

GE-46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer,

and Shillem.

GE-46:25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto

Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the

souls [were] seven.

GE-46:26 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;

GE-46:27 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.

GE-46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his

face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

GE-46:29 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.

GE-46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I

have seen thy face, because thou [art] yet alive.

GE-46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his

father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him,

My brethren, and my father's house, which [were] in the land of

Canaan, are come unto me;

GE-46:32 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.

GE-46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,

and shall say, What [is] your occupation?

GE-46:34 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.

GE-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.

GE-47:2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and

presented them unto Pharaoh.

GE-47:3 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.

GE-47:4 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.

GE-47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and

thy brethren are come unto thee:

GE-47:6 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.

GE-47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him

before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

GE-47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old [art] thou?

GE-47:9 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.

GE-47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before

Pharaoh.

GE-47:11 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.

GE-47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and

all his father's household, with bread, according to [their]

families.

GE-47:13 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.

GE-47:14 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.

GE-47:15 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.

GE-47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you

for your cattle, if money fail.

GE-47:17 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.

GE-47:18 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:

GE-47:19 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.

GE-47:20 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.

GE-47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from

[one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end

thereof.

GE-47:22 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.

GE-47:23 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.

GE-47:24 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.

GE-47:25 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.

GE-47:26 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.

GE-47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country

of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and

multiplied exceedingly.

GE-47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years:

so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

GE-47:29 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:

GE-47:30 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.

GE-47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And

Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

GE-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.

GE-48:2 And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph

cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon

the bed.

GE-48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto

me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

GE-48:4 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.

GE-48:5 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.

GE-48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be

thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in

their inheritance.

GE-48:7 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.

GE-48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who [are]

these?

GE-48:9 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.

GE-48:10 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.

GE-48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see

thy face: and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.

GE-48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and

he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

GE-48:13 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.

GE-48:14 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.

GE-48:15 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,

GE-48:16 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.

GE-48:17 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.

GE-48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for

this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

GE-48:19 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.

GE-48:20 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.

GE-48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God

shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your

fathers.

GE-48:22 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.

GE-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.

GE-49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob;

and hearken unto Israel your father.

GE-49:3 Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the

beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the

excellency of power:

GE-49:4 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.

GE-49:5 Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty

[are in] their habitations.

GE-49:6 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.

GE-49:7 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.

GE-49:8 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.

GE-49:9 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?

GE-49:10 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].

GE-49:11 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:

GE-49:12 His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white

with milk.

GE-49:13 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.

GE-49:14 Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two

burdens:

GE-49:15 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.

GE-49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of

Israel.

GE-49:17 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.

GE-49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

GE-49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome

at the last.

GE-49:20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall

yield royal dainties.

GE-49:21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

GE-49:22 Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough

by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:

GE-49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him],

and hated him:

GE-49:24 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:)

GE-49:25 [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:

GE-49:26 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.

GE-49:27 Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he

shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

GE-49:28 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.

GE-49:29 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,

GE-49:30 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.

GE-49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there

they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

GE-49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is]

therein [was] from the children of Heth.

GE-49:33 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.

GE-50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon

him, and kissed him.

GE-50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to

embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

GE-50:3 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. GE-50:4 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,

GE-50:5 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.

GE-50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according

as he made thee swear.

GE-50:7 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,

GE-50:8 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.

GE-50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen:

and it was a very great company.

GE-50:10 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.

GE-50:11 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.

GE-50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded

them:

GE-50:13 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.

GE-50:14 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.

GE-50:15 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.

GE-50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy

father did command before he died, saying,

GE-50:17 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.

GE-50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his

face; and they said, Behold, we [be] thy servants.

GE-50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the

place of God?

GE-50:20 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.

GE-50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your

little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

GE-50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:

and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

GE-50:23 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.

GE-50:24 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.

GE-50:25 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.

GE-50:26 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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