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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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GE-1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

GE-1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness

[was]

upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the

face

of the waters.

GE-1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

GE-1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God

divided the

light from the darkness.

GE-1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called

Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

GE-1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of

the

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

GE-1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which

[were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the

firmament: and it was so.

GE-1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and

the

morning were the second day.

GE-1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered

together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it

was so.

GE-1:10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering

together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was]

good.

GE-1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb

yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his

kind,

whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

GE-1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding

seed

after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in

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

GE-1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

GE-1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of

the

heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for

signs,

and for seasons, and for days, and years:

GE-1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the

heaven to

give light upon the earth: and it was so.

GE-1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to

rule the

day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars

also.

GE-1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give

light

upon the earth,

GE-1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to

divide

the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

GE-1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

GE-1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the

moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the

earth in the open firmament of heaven.

GE-1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature

that

moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their

kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was]

good.

GE-1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,

and

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

GE-1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

GE-1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living

creature

after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the

earth

after his kind: and it was so.

GE-1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and

cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the

earth

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

GE-1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our

likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and

over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the

earth,

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

GE-1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of

God

created he him; male and female created he them.

GE-1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be

fruitful,

and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have

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

and

over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GE-1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb

bearing

seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,

the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it

shall be

for meat.

GE-1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of

the

air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein

[there

is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was

so.

GE-1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,

[it

was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth

day.

GE-2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all

the host

of them.

GE-2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had

made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had

made.

GE-2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because

that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and

made.

GE-2:4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the

earth

when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the

earth

and the heavens,

GE-2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,

and

every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not

caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to

till

the ground.

GE-2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the

whole

face of the ground.

GE-2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground,

and

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a

living

soul.

GE-2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and

there

he put the man whom he had formed.

GE-2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every

tree

that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of

life

also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of

good and

evil.

GE-2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and

from

thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

GE-2:11 The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which

compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;

GE-2:12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is]

bdellium and

the onyx stone.

GE-2:13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same

[is] it

that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

GE-2:14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that

[is] it

which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is]

Euphrates.

GE-2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the

garden of

Eden to dress it and to keep it.

GE-2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every

tree of

the garden thou mayest freely eat:

GE-2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou

shalt

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

surely die.

GE-2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man

should

be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

GE-2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast

of the

field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam

to see

what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living

creature, that [was] the name thereof.

GE-2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of

the

air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not

found

an help meet for him.

GE-2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

and

he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh

instead

thereof;

GE-2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,

made he a

woman, and brought her unto the man.

GE-2:23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and

flesh of

my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out

of Man.

GE-2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,

and

shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

GE-2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and

were not

ashamed.

GE-3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the

field

which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,

hath God

said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

GE-3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the

fruit

of the trees of the garden:

GE-3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of

the

garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye

touch

it, lest ye die.

GE-3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely

die:

GE-3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then

your

eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and

evil.

GE-3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food,

and

that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to

make

[one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave

also

unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

GE-3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew

that they

[were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made

themselves

aprons.

GE-3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the

garden

in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves

from the

presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

GE-3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,

Where

[art] thou?

GE-3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was

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

GE-3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast

thou

eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest

not

eat?

GE-3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be]

with me,

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

GE-3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this

[that]

thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and

I did

eat.

GE-3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou

hast

done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every

beast

of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou

eat

all the days of thy life:

GE-3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and

between

thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt

bruise

his heel.

GE-3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy

sorrow

and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;

and thy

desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

GE-3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto

the

voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I

commanded

thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground

for thy

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

GE-3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;

and

thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

GE-3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou

return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust

thou

[art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

GE-3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the

mother of all living.

GE-3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make

coats of

skins, and clothed them.

GE-3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one

us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,

and

take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

GE-3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of

Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

GE-3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of

the

garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every

way,

to keep the way of the tree of life.

GE-4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare

Cain,

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

GE-4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a

keeper of

sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

GE-4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain

brought of

the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

GE-4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock

and

of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his

offering:

GE-4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

And Cain

was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

GE-4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why

thy countenance fallen?

GE-4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if

thou

doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall be]

his

desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

GE-4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to

pass,

when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his

brother, and slew him.

GE-4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy

brother? And

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

GE-4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy

brother's

blood crieth unto me from the ground.

GE-4:11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath

opened

her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

GE-4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth

yield

unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be

in the

earth.

GE-4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater

than

I can bear.

GE-4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face

of the

earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a

fugitive and

a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every

one

that findeth me shall slay me.

GE-4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth

Cain,

vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a

mark

upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

GE-4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and

dwelt in

the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

GE-4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare

Enoch:

and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after

the name

of his son, Enoch.

GE-4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael:

and

Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

GE-4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one

[was]

Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

GE-4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell

tents, and [of such as have] cattle.

GE-4:21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father

of all

such as handle the harp and organ.

GE-4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of

every

artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was]

Naamah.

GE-4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my

voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have

slain a

man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

GE-4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech

seventy and

sevenfold.

GE-4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and

called

his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another

seed

instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

GE-4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he

called

his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

GE-5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the

day that

God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

GE-5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and

called

their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

GE-5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a

son]

in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

GE-5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were

eight

hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and

thirty

years: and he died.

GE-5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

GE-5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and

seven

years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve

years:

and he died.

GE-5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

GE-5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and

fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five

years:

and he died.

GE-5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

GE-5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight

hundred and

forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten

years:

and he died.

GE-5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat

Jared:

GE-5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred

and

thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred

ninety and

five years: and he died.

GE-5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he

begat

Enoch:

GE-5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred

years, and

begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and

two

years: and he died.

GE-5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat

Methuselah:

GE-5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah

three

hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and

five

years:

GE-5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God

took

him.

GE-5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years,

and

begat Lamech:

GE-5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred

eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty

and

nine years: and he died.

GE-5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and

begat a

son:

GE-5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall

comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of

the

ground which the LORD hath cursed.

GE-5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred

ninety and

five years, and begat sons and daughters:

GE-5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy

and

seven years: and he died.

GE-5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat

Shem,

Ham, and Japheth.

GE-6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the

face of

the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

GE-6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they

[were]

fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

GE-6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive

with man,

for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and

twenty years.

GE-6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also

after

that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,

and they

bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which

[were] of

old, men of renown.

GE-6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the

earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart

[was]

only evil continually.

GE-6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the

earth,

and it grieved him at his heart.

GE-6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have

created from

the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping

thing,

and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made

them.

GE-6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

GE-6:9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man

[and]

perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.

GE-6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

GE-6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was

filled with violence.

GE-6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was

corrupt;

for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

GE-6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come

before

me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,

behold, I

will destroy them with the earth.

GE-6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make

in the

ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

GE-6:15 And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]:

The

length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth

of it

fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

GE-6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit

shalt

thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in

the

side thereof; [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt

thou

make it.

GE-6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon

the

earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life,

from

under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.

GE-6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou

shalt

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

sons'

wives with thee.

GE-6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every

[sort]

shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee;

they

shall be male and female.

GE-6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their

kind, of

every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every

[sort]

shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.

GE-6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and

thou

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

and for

them.

GE-6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him,

did he.

GE-7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house

into

the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this

generation.

GE-7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens,

the

male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two,

the

male and his female.

GE-7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the

female;

to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

GE-7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the

earth

forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I

have

made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

GE-7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded

him.

GE-7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of

waters

was upon the earth.

GE-7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his

sons'

wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

GE-7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and

fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

GE-7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the

male and

the female, as God had commanded Noah.

GE-7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters

of the

flood were upon the earth.

GE-7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second

month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all

the

fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven

were

opened.

GE-7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty

nights.

GE-7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and

Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives

of his

sons with them, into the ark;

GE-7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle

after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the

earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird

every sort.

GE-7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of

all

flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

GE-7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all

flesh,

as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

GE-7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the

waters

increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the

earth.

GE-7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly

upon the

earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

GE-7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;

and all

the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

GE-7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the

mountains were covered.

GE-7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of

fowl,

and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that

creepeth

upon the earth, and every man:

GE-7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all

that

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

GE-7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon

the

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

things, and

the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:

and

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

ark.

GE-7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and

fifty

days.

GE-8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all

the

cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to

pass

over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

GE-8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven

were

stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

GE-8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually:

and

after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were

abated.

GE-8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the

seventeenth

day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

GE-8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth

month: in

the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the

tops of

the mountains seen.

GE-8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah

opened

the window of the ark which he had made:

GE-8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,

until

the waters were dried up from off the earth.

GE-8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters

were

abated from off the face of the ground;

GE-8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and

she

returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the

face of

the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and

pulled

her in unto him into the ark.

GE-8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent

forth

the dove out of the ark;

GE-8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in

her

mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the

waters

were abated from off the earth.

GE-8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the

dove;

which returned not again unto him any more.

GE-8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year,

the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were

dried

up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark,

and

looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

GE-8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day

the month, was the earth dried.

GE-8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

GE-8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons,

and

thy sons' wives with thee.

GE-8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with

thee,

of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every

creeping

thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed

abundantly in

the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

GE-8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his

sons' wives with him:

GE-8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and]

whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went

forth out

of the ark.

GE-8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of

every

clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt

offerings on

the altar.

GE-8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said

in his

heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake;

for

the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither

will

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

GE-8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and

cold and

heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

GE-9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

GE-9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon

every

beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that

moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea;

into your

hand are they delivered.

GE-9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;

even as

the green herb have I given you all things.

GE-9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood

thereof,

shall ye not eat.

GE-9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at

the

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

at the

hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

GE-9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be

shed:

for in the image of God made he man.

GE-9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth

abundantly

in the earth, and multiply therein.

GE-9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,

saying,

GE-9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and

with your

seed after you;

GE-9:10 And with every living creature that [is] with you, of

the

fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you;

from

all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

GE-9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither

shall all

flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall

there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

GE-9:12 And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which

make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with

you,

for perpetual generations:

GE-9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a

token of

a covenant between me and the earth.

GE-9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the

earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

GE-9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me

and

you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall

more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

GE-9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon

it,

that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and

every

living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

GE-9:17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the

covenant,

which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon

the

earth.

GE-9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were

Shem,

and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.

GE-9:19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the

whole

earth overspread.

GE-9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a

vineyard:

GE-9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was

uncovered within his tent.

GE-9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his

father, and told his two brethren without.

GE-9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon

both

their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of

their

father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their

father's nakedness.

GE-9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger

son

had done unto him.

GE-9:25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants

shall

he be unto his brethren.

GE-9:26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and

Canaan

shall be his servant.

GE-9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the

tents of

Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

GE-9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty

years.

GE-9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty

years:

and he died.

GE-10:1 Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah,

Shem,

Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

GE-10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and

Javan,

and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

GE-10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and

Togarmah.

GE-10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim,

and

Dodanim.

GE-10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their

lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their

nations.

GE-10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and

Canaan.

GE-10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and

Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

GE-10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in

the

earth.

GE-10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is

said,

Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

GE-10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech,

and

Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

GE-10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded

Nineveh, and

the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

GE-10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a

great

city.

GE-10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and

Naphtuhim,

GE-10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came

Philistim,)

and Caphtorim.

GE-10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

GE-10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

GE-10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

GE-10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite:

and

afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

GE-10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as

thou

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

Gomorrah,

and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

GE-10:20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families,

after

their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.

GE-10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber,

the

brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.

GE-10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad,

and

Lud, and Aram.

GE-10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and

Mash.

GE-10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

GE-10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was]

Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's

name

[was] Joktan.

GE-10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,

and

Jerah,

GE-10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

GE-10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

GE-10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were]

the sons

of Joktan.

GE-10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto

Sephar

a mount of the east.

GE-10:31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families,

after

their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

GE-10:32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after

their

generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations

divided

in the earth after the flood.

GE-11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one

speech.

GE-11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,

that

they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

GE-11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,

and

burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime

had they

for mortar.

GE-11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a

tower,

whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name,

lest we

be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

GE-11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,

which

the children of men builded.

GE-11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and

they have

all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing

will be

restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

GE-11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their

language,

that they may not understand one another's speech.

GE-11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the

face

of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

GE-11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the

LORD

did there confound the language of all the earth: and from

thence did

the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

GE-11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an

hundred

years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

GE-11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred

years,

and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat

Salah:

GE-11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred

and

three years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

GE-11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and

three

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

GE-11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and

thirty

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

GE-11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

GE-11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and

seven

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

GE-11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,

and

begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

GE-11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and

nineteen

years, and begat sons and daughters.

GE-11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor,

and

Haran.

GE-11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat

Abram,

Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

GE-11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of

his

nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

GE-11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of

Abram's

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

daughter

of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

GE-11:30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.

GE-11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran

his

son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife;

and

they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into

the land

of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

GE-11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years:

and

Terah died in Haran.

GE-12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy

country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto

land that I will show thee:

GE-12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless

thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

GE-12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him

that

curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be

blessed.

GE-12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and

Lot

went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he

departed out of Haran.

GE-12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's

son, and

all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that

they

had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of

Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

GE-12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of

Sichem,

unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the

land.

GE-12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy

seed

will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the

LORD,

who appeared unto him.

GE-12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east

Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and

Hai on

the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and

called upon

the name of the LORD.

GE-12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

GE-12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went

down into

Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the

land.

GE-12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter

into

Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that

thou

[art] a fair woman to look upon:

GE-12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians

shall

see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his wife: and they will

kill

me, but they will save thee alive.

GE-12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be

well

with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

GE-12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into

Egypt,

the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.

GE-12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her

before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

GE-12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had

sheep,

and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and

she

asses, and camels.

GE-12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great

plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

GE-12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this

[that]

thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she

[was] thy

wife?

GE-12:19 Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might have

taken

her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take [her],

and go

thy way.

GE-12:20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and

they

sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

GE-13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and

all

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

GE-13:2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in

gold.

GE-13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to

Bethel,

unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between

Bethel and Hai;

GE-13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at

the

first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

GE-13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and

herds,

and tents.

GE-13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might

dwell

together: for their substance was great, so that they could not

dwell

together.

GE-13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's

cattle

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

Perizzite

dwelled then in the land.

GE-13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray

thee,

between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for

[be] brethren.

GE-13:9 [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself,

I pray

thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go

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

the left.

GE-13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of

Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD

destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD,

like

the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

GE-13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot

journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the

other.

GE-13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled

in the

cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.

GE-13:13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before

the

LORD exceedingly.

GE-13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was

separated

from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where

thou

art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

GE-13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give

it,

and to thy seed for ever.

GE-13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so

that

if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed

also

be numbered.

GE-13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and

in the

breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

GE-13:18 Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in

the

plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar

unto

the LORD.

GE-14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of

Shinar,

Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal

king of

nations;

GE-14:2 [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with

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

Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

GE-14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim,

which

is the salt sea.

GE-14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the

thirteenth

year they rebelled.

GE-14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the

kings

that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth

Karnaim, and

the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

GE-14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan,

which [is]

by the wilderness.

GE-14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which [is]

Kadesh,

and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the

Amorites,

that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

GE-14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of

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

the king

of Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with them

in the

vale of Siddim;

GE-14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king

nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar;

four

kings with five.

GE-14:10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the

kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that

remained fled to the mountain.

GE-14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and

all

their victuals, and went their way.

GE-14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in

Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

GE-14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the

Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother

Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate with

Abram.

GE-14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken

captive, he

armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three

hundred and

eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.

GE-14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his

servants, by

night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is]

on the

left hand of Damascus.

GE-14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought

again

his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the

people.

GE-14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his

return

from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that [were]

with

him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's dale.

GE-14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and

wine:

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

GE-14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of

the most

high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

GE-14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered

thine

enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

GE-14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the

persons,

and take the goods to thyself.

GE-14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up

mine

hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven

and

earth,

GE-14:23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a

shoelatchet,

and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou

shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

GE-14:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the

portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre;

let

them take their portion.

GE-15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram

in a

vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy

exceeding great reward.

GE-15:2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me,

seeing I go

childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of

Damascus?

GE-15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:

and,

lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

GE-15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto him,

saying,

This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of

thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

GE-15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now

toward

heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and

said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

GE-15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him

for

righteousness.

GE-15:7 And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee

out

of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

GE-15:8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall

inherit it?

GE-15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years

old,

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

and a

turtledove, and a young pigeon.

GE-15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the

midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds

divided

he not.

GE-15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram

drove

them away.

GE-15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon

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

GE-15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed

shall

be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve

them;

and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

GE-15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I

judge:

and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

GE-15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt

buried in a good old age.

GE-15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither

again:

for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

GE-15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and

was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that

passed

between those pieces.

GE-15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,

saying,

Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt

unto the

great river, the river Euphrates:

GE-15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

GE-15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

GE-15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the

Girgashites,

and the Jebusites.

GE-16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she

had an

handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.

GE-16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath

restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it

may be

that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the

voice of

Sarai.

GE-16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian,

after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave

her to

her husband Abram to be his wife.

GE-16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when

she

saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her

eyes.

GE-16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee: I

have

given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had

conceived,

I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

GE-16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy

hand;

do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with

her,

she fled from her face.

GE-16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of

water in

the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

GE-16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou?

and

whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my

mistress Sarai.

GE-16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy

mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

GE-16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will

multiply thy

seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

GE-16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou

[art]

with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name

Ishmael;

because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

GE-16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against

every

man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the

presence of all his brethren.

GE-16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto

her,

Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after

him

that seeth me?

GE-16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold,

[it is]

between Kadesh and Bered.

GE-16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's

name,

which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

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

Hagar bare

Ishmael to Abram.

GE-17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD

appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God;

walk

before me, and be thou perfect.

GE-17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and

will

multiply thee exceedingly.

GE-17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,

saying,

GE-17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou

shalt

be a father of many nations.

GE-17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but

thy name

shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

GE-17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make

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

GE-17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee

and thy

seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,

be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

GE-17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee,

the

land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an

everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

GE-17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant

therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

GE-17:10 This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me

and

you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be

circumcised.

GE-17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;

and it

shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

GE-17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised

among

you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the

house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of

thy

seed.

GE-17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought

with thy

money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in

your

flesh for an everlasting covenant.

GE-17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his

foreskin

is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people;

hath broken my covenant.

GE-17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou

shalt

not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].

GE-17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her:

yea,

I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings

people shall be of her.

GE-17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said

his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred

years

old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

GE-17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live

before

thee!

GE-17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son

indeed;

and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my

covenant

with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after

him.

GE-17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have

blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him

exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a

great nation.

GE-17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which

Sarah

shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

GE-17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from

Abraham.

GE-17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were

born in

his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male

among

the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their

foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

GE-17:24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he

was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GE-17:25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he

was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GE-17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and

Ishmael his

son.

GE-17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and

bought

with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

GE-18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre:

and he

sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

GE-18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men

stood

by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent

door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

GE-18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy

sight,

pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

GE-18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash

your

feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

GE-18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your

hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come

to your

servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

GE-18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,

Make

ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it], and make

cakes

upon the hearth.

GE-18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf

tender and

good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

GE-18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had

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

tree, and they did eat.

GE-18:9 And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife? And

said, Behold, in the tent.

GE-18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee

according to

the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And

Sarah

heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.

GE-18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken

in age;

[and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

GE-18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After

I am

waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

GE-18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah

laugh,

saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

GE-18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time

appointed I

will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah

shall

have a son.

GE-18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was

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

GE-18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward

Sodom:

and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

GE-18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing

which I do;

GE-18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and

mighty

nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

GE-18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and

his

household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to

justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that

which

he hath spoken of him.

GE-18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and

Gomorrah is

great, and because their sin is very grievous;

GE-18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done

altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me;

and if

not, I will know.

GE-18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went

toward

Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

GE-18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also

destroy the

righteous with the wicked?

GE-18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city:

wilt

thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty

righteous that

[are] therein?

GE-18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay

the

righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as

the

wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the

earth do

right?

GE-18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous

within

the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

GE-18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have

taken upon

me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:

GE-18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty

righteous:

wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said,

If I

find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].

GE-18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure

there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do

[it] for

forty's sake.

GE-18:30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry,

and I

will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And

said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.

GE-18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak

unto

the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he

said,

I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake.

GE-18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will

speak

yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he

said,

I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

GE-18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left

communing

with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

GE-19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat

the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them;

and he

bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

GE-19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you,

into

your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet,

and ye

shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay;

but we

will abide in the street all night.

GE-19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in

unto

him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and

did

bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

GE-19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even]

the men

of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the

people from every quarter:

GE-19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where

[are] the

men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us,

that we

may know them.

GE-19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the

door

after him,

GE-19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

GE-19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known

man;

let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them

as [is]

good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore

came

they under the shadow of my roof.

GE-19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This

one

[fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now

will we

deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon

the

man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.

GE-19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into

the

house to them, and shut to the door.

GE-19:11 And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the

house

with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied

themselves

to find the door.

GE-19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?

son

in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou

hast in

the city, bring [them] out of this place:

GE-19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of

them is

waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent

us to

destroy it.

GE-19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which

married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place;

for

the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that

mocked unto

his sons in law.

GE-19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened

Lot,

saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are

here;

lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

GE-19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand,

and

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

daughters; the

LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and

set him

without the city.

GE-19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth

abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,

neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest

thou

be consumed.

GE-19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

GE-19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,

and

thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in

saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some

evil

take me, and I die:

GE-19:20 Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it

[is] a

little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a little

one?) and

my soul shall live.

GE-19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee

concerning

this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the

which

thou hast spoken.

GE-19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing

till

thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called

Zoar.

GE-19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into

Zoar.

GE-19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah

brimstone

and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

GE-19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and

all

the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the

ground.

GE-19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she

became a

pillar of salt.

GE-19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place

where

he stood before the LORD:

GE-19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward

all the

land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country

went

up as the smoke of a furnace.

GE-19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of

the

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

midst of

the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot

dwelt.

GE-19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain,

and

his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and

dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

GE-19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father

[is]

old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us

after

the manner of all the earth:

GE-19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will

lie

with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

GE-19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and

the

firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not

when

she lay down, nor when she arose.

GE-19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn

said

unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let

make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie

with

him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

GE-19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also:

and

the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when

she lay

down, nor when she arose.

GE-19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their

father.

GE-19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab:

the

same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.

GE-19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his

name

Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto

this

day.

GE-20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south

country,

and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

GE-20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister:

and

Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

GE-20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said

him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman which thou

hast

taken; for she [is] a man's wife.

GE-20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord,

wilt

thou slay also a righteous nation?

GE-20:5 Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, even

she

herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my heart

and

innocency of my hands have I done this.

GE-20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou

didst

this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from

sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

GE-20:7 Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a

prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if

thou

restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou,

and all

that [are] thine.

GE-20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and

called all

his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the

men

were sore afraid.

GE-20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What

hast

thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast

brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done

deeds unto

me that ought not to be done.

GE-20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou,

that thou

hast done this thing?

GE-20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear

of God

[is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

GE-20:12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the

daughter of

my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my

wife.

GE-20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from

father's house, that I said unto her, This [is] thy kindness

which

thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come,

say of

me, He [is] my brother.

GE-20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants,

and

womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored him

Sarah

his wife.

GE-20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee:

dwell

where it pleaseth thee.

GE-20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy

brother a

thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering

of the

eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus

she

was reproved.

GE-20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech,

and

his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].

GE-20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the

house

of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

GE-21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD

did

unto Sarah as he had spoken.

GE-21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old

age,

at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

GE-21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born

unto

him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

GE-21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days

old,

as God had commanded him.

GE-21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son

Isaac was

born unto him.

GE-21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that]

all that

hear will laugh with me.

GE-21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that

Sarah

should have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in

his

old age.

GE-21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a

great

feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.

GE-21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she

had

born unto Abraham, mocking.

GE-21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this

bondwoman and

her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my

son,

[even] with Isaac.

GE-21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight

because

of his son.

GE-21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in

thy

sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all

that

Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac

shall

thy seed be called.

GE-21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a

nation,

because he [is] thy seed.

GE-21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took

bread,

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

her

shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and

wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

GE-21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the

child under one of the shrubs.

GE-21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against [him] a

good way

off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the

death of

the child. And she sat over against [him], and lift up her voice,

and

wept.

GE-21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of

God

called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth

thee,

Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he

[is].

GE-21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand;

for I

will make him a great nation.

GE-21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water;

and

she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad

drink.

GE-21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the

wilderness, and became an archer.

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

mother took

him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

GE-21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and

Phichol

the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God

[is]

with thee in all that thou doest:

GE-21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt

not

deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:

[but]

according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt

unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

GE-21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

GE-21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of

water,

which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

GE-21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing:

neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to

day.

GE-21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto

Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

GE-21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by

themselves.

GE-21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these

seven ewe

lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

GE-21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou

take of

my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged

this

well.

GE-21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because

there they

sware both of them.

GE-21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech

rose

up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned

into

the land of the Philistines.

GE-21:33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called

there

on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

GE-21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many

days.

GE-22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did

tempt

Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here]

[am].

GE-22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac,

whom

thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him

there

for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell

thee

of.

GE-22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled

his

ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son,

and

clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went

unto the

place of which God had told him.

GE-22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and

saw the

place afar off.

GE-22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with

the

ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come

again to

you.

GE-22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and

laid

[it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a

knife; and they went both of them together.

GE-22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My

father:

and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire

and the

wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt offering?

GE-22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a

lamb for

a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

GE-22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of;

and

Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and

bound

Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

GE-22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the

knife to

slay his son.

GE-22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of

heaven, and

said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.

GE-22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither

thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,

seeing

thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.

GE-22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold

behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham

went

and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the

stead

of his son.

GE-22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh:

it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be

seen.

GE-22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of

heaven

the second time,

GE-22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for

because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,

thine only [son]:

GE-22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying

will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the

sand

which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the

gate of

his enemies;

GE-22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be

blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

GE-22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose

up and

went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

GE-22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was

told

Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children

unto thy

brother Nahor;

GE-22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the

father of Aram,

GE-22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and

Bethuel.

GE-22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear

Nahor, Abraham's brother.

GE-22:24 And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare

also

Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

GE-23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:

[these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

GE-23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in

the

land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep

for

her.

GE-23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake

unto the

sons of Heth, saying,

GE-23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a

possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead

out of

my sight.

GE-23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto

him,

GE-23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty prince among us:

in the

choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall

withhold from

thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

GE-23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people

of the

land, [even] to the children of Heth.

GE-23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind

that I

should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me

Ephron the son of Zohar,

GE-23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he

hath,

which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is

worth

he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst

you.

GE-23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and

Ephron the

Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,

[even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

GE-23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the

cave

that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons

of my

people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

GE-23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the

land.

GE-23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people

the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear

me: I

will give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will

bury

my dead there.

GE-23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

GE-23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four

hundred

shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury

therefore

thy dead.

GE-23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed

Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the

sons of

Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the

merchant.

GE-23:17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah,

which

[was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein,

and

all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the

borders

round about, were made sure

GE-23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the

children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his

city.

GE-23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the

cave of

the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the

land

of Canaan.

GE-23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were

made

sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons

Heth.

GE-24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and

the LORD

had blessed Abraham in all things.

GE-24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house,

that

ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my

thigh:

GE-24:3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of

heaven,

and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto

my son

of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

GE-24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred,

and

take a wife unto my son Isaac.

GE-24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman

will

not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring

thy son

again unto the land from whence thou camest?

GE-24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring

not my

son thither again.

GE-24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's

house,

and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and

that

sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he

shall

send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my

son

from thence.

GE-24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee,

then

thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son

thither

again.

GE-24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham

his

master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

GE-24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his

master,

and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in his hand:

and

he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

GE-24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city

by a

well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time that

women

go out to draw [water].

GE-24:12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray

thee,

send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master

Abraham.

GE-24:13 Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the

daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

GE-24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I

shall

say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she

shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let

the same

be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and

thereby

shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.

GE-24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,

behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah,

the

wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her

shoulder.

GE-24:16 And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin,

neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and

filled her pitcher, and came up.

GE-24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I

pray

thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

GE-24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let

down

her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

GE-24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I

will

draw [water] for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

GE-24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the

trough, and

ran again unto the well to draw [water], and drew for all his

camels.

GE-24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit

whether

the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

GE-24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,

that

the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two

bracelets for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;

GE-24:23 And said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray

thee:

is there room [in] thy father's house for us to lodge in?

GE-24:24 And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel

the

son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

GE-24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and

provender

enough, and room to lodge in.

GE-24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the

LORD.

GE-24:27 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master

Abraham,

who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:

[being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's

brethren.

GE-24:28 And the damsel ran, and told [them of] her mother's

house

these things.

GE-24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban:

and

Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

GE-24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and

bracelets

upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah

his

sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto

the man;

and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

GE-24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD;

wherefore

standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room

for the

camels.

GE-24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his

camels,

and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash

his

feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.

GE-24:33 And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he

said, I

will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak

on.

GE-24:34 And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant.

GE-24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is

become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and

silver, and

gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

GE-24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master

when she

was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

GE-24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not

take a

wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land

dwell:

GE-24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my

kindred,

and take a wife unto my son.

GE-24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will

not

follow me.

GE-24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk,

will send

his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a

wife

for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:

GE-24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou

comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one], thou

shalt be

clear from my oath.

GE-24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD

God of

my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

GE-24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall

come to

pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water], and I

say to

her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to

drink;

GE-24:44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also

draw for

thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD hath

appointed

out for my master's son.

GE-24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold,

Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she

went down

unto the well, and drew [water]: and I said unto her, Let me

drink, I

pray thee.

GE-24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her

[shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink

also: so

I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

GE-24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou?

And

she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare

unto

him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon

her

hands.

GE-24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and

blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in

the

right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

GE-24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my

master,

tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand,

or to

the left.

GE-24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing

proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

GE-24:51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go,

and

let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

GE-24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard

their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the

earth.

GE-24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and

jewels

of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he gave also

to her

brother and to her mother precious things.

GE-24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that [were]

with

him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and

said, Send me away unto my master.

GE-24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel

abide

with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

GE-24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD

hath

prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

GE-24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at

her

mouth.

GE-24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou

with this man? And she said, I will go.

GE-24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse,

and

Abraham's servant, and his men.

GE-24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou

[art] our

sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let

thy

seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

GE-24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon

the

camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and

went

his way.

GE-24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for

dwelt in the south country.

GE-24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the

eventide:

and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels

[were]

coming.

GE-24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac,

she

lighted off the camel.

GE-24:65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is]

this that

walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It

[is]

my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself.

GE-24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

GE-24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent,

and took

Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was

comforted after his mother's [death].

GE-25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was]

Keturah.

GE-25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and

Midian,

and Ishbak, and Shuah.

GE-25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of

Dedan

were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

GE-25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch,

and

Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of Keturah.

GE-25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

GE-25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,

Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while

yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

GE-25:7 And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's life

which

he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

GE-25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old

age,

an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.

GE-25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of

Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

which

[is] before Mamre;

GE-25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:

there

was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

GE-25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that

God

blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.

GE-25:12 Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's

son,

whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

GE-25:13 And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by

their

names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael,

Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

GE-25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

GE-25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

GE-25:16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their

names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes

according

to their nations.

GE-25:17 And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an

hundred

and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died;

and was

gathered unto his people.

GE-25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before

Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the

presence of

all his brethren.

GE-25:19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's

son:

Abraham begat Isaac:

GE-25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to

wife,

the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to

Laban

the Syrian.

GE-25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she

[was]

barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife

conceived.

GE-25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she

said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire of

the

LORD.

GE-25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy

womb,

and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and

[the

one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the

elder

shall serve the younger.

GE-25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold,

[there were] twins in her womb.

GE-25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy

garment;

and they called his name Esau.

GE-25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took

hold

on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was]

threescore years old when she bare them.

GE-25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a

man of

the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.

GE-25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his]

venison:

but Rebekah loved Jacob.

GE-25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field,

and he

[was] faint:

GE-25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with

that same

red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore was his name called

Edom.

GE-25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

GE-25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and

what

profit shall this birthright do to me?

GE-25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware

unto him:

and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

GE-25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles;

and he

did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau

despised

[his] birthright.

GE-26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first

famine

that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech

king of

the Philistines unto Gerar.

GE-26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down

into

Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

GE-26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will

bless

thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these

countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto

Abraham thy

father;

GE-26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of

heaven,

and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed

shall

all the nations of the earth be blessed;

GE-26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my

charge, my

commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

GE-26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

GE-26:7 And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he

said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife;

lest, [said he], the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;

because she [was] fair to look upon.

GE-26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time,

that

Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and

saw,

and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife.

GE-26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a

surety she

[is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? And

Isaac said

unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

GE-26:10 And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done unto

us?

one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou

shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

GE-26:11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that

toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

GE-26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the

same year

an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

GE-26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew

until he

became very great:

GE-26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of

herds,

and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

GE-26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had

digged in

the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them,

and

filled them with earth.

GE-26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou

art much

mightier than we.

GE-26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the

valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

GE-26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they

had

digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had

stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their

names

after the names by which his father had called them.

GE-26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found

there a

well of springing water.

GE-26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's

herdmen,

saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well

Esek;

because they strove with him.

GE-26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also:

and

he called the name of it Sitnah.

GE-26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well;

and for

that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and

said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be

fruitful

in the land.

GE-26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

GE-26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and

said, I

[am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with

thee,

and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant

Abraham's

sake.

GE-26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the

name of

the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants

digged a well.

GE-26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath

one of

his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

GE-26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,

seeing ye

hate me, and have sent me away from you?

GE-26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with

thee:

and we

said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and

thee,

and let us make a covenant with thee;

GE-26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched

thee,

and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent

thee

away in peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD.

GE-26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

GE-26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one

another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in

peace.

GE-26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants

came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged,

and said

unto him, We have found water.

GE-26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the

city [is]

Beersheba unto this day.

GE-26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife

Judith the

daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of

Elon the

Hittite:

GE-26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

GE-27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his

eyes

were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest

son, and

said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.

GE-27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day

of my

death:

GE-27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy

quiver and

thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;

GE-27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring

[it] to

me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

GE-27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And

Esau

went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it].

GE-27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I

heard

thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

GE-27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may

eat,

and bless thee before the LORD before my death.

GE-27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that

which

I command thee.

GE-27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good

kids

of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,

such

as he loveth:

GE-27:10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may

eat,

and that he may bless thee before his death.

GE-27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my

brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:

GE-27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem

to him

as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a

blessing.

GE-27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse,

son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].

GE-27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his

mother:

and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

GE-27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau,

which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her

younger son:

GE-27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his

hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

GE-27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she

had

prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

GE-27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and

said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?

GE-27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy

firstborn; I

have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit

and eat

of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

GE-27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou hast

found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy

God

brought [it] to me.

GE-27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee,

that I

may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not.

GE-27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt

him,

and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the

hands

of Esau.

GE-27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy,

his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

GE-27:24 And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said,

[am].

GE-27:25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of

son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it]

near

to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.

GE-27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and

kiss

me, my son.

GE-27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the

smell

of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my

son

[is] as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:

GE-27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the

fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

GE-27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee:

be lord over

thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed

[be]

every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth

thee.

GE-27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end

blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the

presence of

Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

GE-27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto

his

father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat

of his

son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

GE-27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art] thou?

And he

said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

GE-27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who?

where

[is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have

eaten

of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he

shall

be blessed.

GE-27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried

with a

great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless

me,

[even] me also, O my father.

GE-27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath

taken

away thy blessing.

GE-27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath

supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and,

behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast

thou not

reserved a blessing for me?

GE-27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have

made

him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for

servants;

and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do

now

unto thee, my son?

GE-27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one

blessing,

my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau

lifted up

his voice, and wept.

GE-27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,

Behold, thy

dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of

heaven

from above;

GE-27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy

brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the

dominion,

that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

GE-27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith

his

father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of

mourning

for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

GE-27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to

Rebekah:

and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him,

Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself,

[purposing] to kill thee.

GE-27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee

thou

to Laban my brother to Haran;

GE-27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's

fury turn

away;

GE-27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he

forget

[that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch

thee

from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one

day?

GE-27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life

because of

the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of

Heth,

such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good

shall my life do me?

GE-28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged

him, and

said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of

Canaan.

GE-28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy

mother's

father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of

Laban thy

mother's brother.

GE-28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and

multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

GE-28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to

thy

seed with

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

stranger,

which God gave unto Abraham.

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

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,

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

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

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

the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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

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,

[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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

destroyed, I and my house.

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

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

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

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

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

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:

[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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

[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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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,

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

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

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,

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

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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