1:1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on
 the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the
 face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God
 made a division between the light and the dark,
1:5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was
 evening and there was morning, the first day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the
 waters, parting the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the arch for a division between the waters
 which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it
 was so.
1:8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was
 evening and there was morning, the second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together
 in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
1:10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters
 together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it
 was good.
1:11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants
 producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their
 seed, after their sort: and it was so.
1:12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing
 seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is
 its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven,
 for a division between the day and the night, and let them be
 for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for
 days and for years:
1:15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give
 light on the earth: and it was so.
1:16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be
 the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of
 the night: and he made the stars.
1:17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on
 the earth;
1:18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division
 between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth
 day.
1:20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and
 let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
1:21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and
 moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of
 winged bird: and God saw that it was good.
1:22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have
 increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the
 birds be increased in the earth.
1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of
 living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and
 beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the
 cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of
 the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and
 let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds
 of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
 every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
1:27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made
 him: male and female he made them.
1:28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile
 and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of
 it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
 the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
1:29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing
 seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has
 fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
1:30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the
 air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I
 have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
1:31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very
 good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth
 day.
2:1 And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were
 complete.
2:2 And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work;
 and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which
 he had done.
2:3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it
 holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work
 which he had made and done.
2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when
 they were made.
2:5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there
 were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come
 up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there
 was no man to do work on the land.
2:6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of
 the land.
2:7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth,
 breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living
 soul.
2:8 And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and
 there he put the man whom he had made.
2:9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come,
 delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the
 garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good
 and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden;
 and from there it was parted and became four streams.
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all
 the land of Havilah where there is gold.
2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and
 the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes
 round all the land of Cush.
2:14 And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to
 the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
2:15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of
 Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
2:16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may
 freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
2:17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and
 evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it,
 death will certainly come to you.
2:18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by
 himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
2:19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the
 field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to
 see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to
 any living thing, that was its name.
2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of
 the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one
 like himself as a help.
2:21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one
 of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up
 the flesh again in its place:
2:22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he
 made into a woman, and took her to the man.
2:23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of
 my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of
 Man.
2:24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his
 mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
2:25 And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they
 had no sense of shame.
3:1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which
 the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly
 said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the
 garden?
3:2 And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in
 the garden:
3:3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden,
 God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death
 will come to you.
3:4 And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
3:5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit,
 your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having
 knowledge of good and evil.
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
 a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she
 took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
3:7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they
 had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves
 stitched together.
3:8 And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in
 the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went
 to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the
 eyes of the Lord God.
3:9 And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where
 are you?
3:10 And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of
 fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from
 your eyes.
3:11 And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were
 without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which
 I said you were not to take?
3:12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me,
 she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
3:13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And
 the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I
 took it.
3:14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done
 this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the
 field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your
 food all the days of your life:
3:15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between
 your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by
 you his foot will be wounded.
3:16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in
 childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still
 your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your
 master.
3:17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of
 your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you
 were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain
 you will get your food from it all your life.
3:18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the
 field will be your food;
3:19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread
 till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for
 dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
3:20 And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was
 the mother of all who have life.
3:21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of
 skins for their clothing.
3:22 And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of
 us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out
 his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go
 on living for ever.
3:23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a
 worker on the earth from which he was taken.
3:24 So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of
 Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way
 to keep the way to the tree of life.
4:1 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became
 with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man
 from the Lord.
4:2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his
 brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
4:3 And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the
 fruits of the earth.
4:4 And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock
 and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's
 offering;
4:5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain
 was angry and his face became sad.
4:6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is
 your face sad?
4:7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do
 wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do
 not let it be your master.
4:8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and
 when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother
 Abel and put him to death.
4:9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And
 he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your
 brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
4:11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open
 to take your brother's blood from your hand;
4:12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward
 of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
4:13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
4:14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth
 and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over
 the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
4:15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven
 lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so
 that no one might put him to death.
4:16 And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and
 made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with
 child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the
 town the name of Enoch after his son.
4:18 And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of
 Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and
 Methushael became the father of Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and
 the name of the other Zillah.
4:20 And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as
 are living in tents and keep cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all
 players on instruments of music.
4:22 And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of
 every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the
 sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
4:23 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to
 my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for
 I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a
 blow;
4:24 If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's
 death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.
4:25 And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave
 birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said,
 God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put
 to death.
4:26 And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at
 this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in
 worship.
5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when
 God made man, he made him in the image of God;
5:2 Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving
 them his blessing on the day when they were made.
5:3 Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he
 had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name
 of Seth:
5:4 And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight
 hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
5:5 And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and
 thirty: and he came to his end.
5:6 And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the
 father of Enosh:
5:7 And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight
 hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
5:8 And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and
 twelve: and he came to his end.
5:9 And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of
 Kenan:
5:10 And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for
 eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:
5:11 And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and
 he came to his end.
5:12 And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father
 of Mahalalel:
5:13 And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for
 eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:
5:14 And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and
 ten; and he came to his end.
5:15 And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the
 father of Jared:
5:16 And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for
 eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
5:17 And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred
 and ninety-five: and he came to his end.
5:18 And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he
 became the father of Enoch:
5:19 And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight
 hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
5:20 And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and
 sixty-two: and he came to his end.
5:21 And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the
 father of Methuselah:
5:22 And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's
 ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
5:23 And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and
 sixty-five:
5:24 And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again,
 for God took him.
5:25 And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old
 when he became the father of Lamech:
5:26 And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living
 for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and
 daughters:
5:27 And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred
 and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.
5:28 And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he
 had a son:
5:29 And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will
 give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands,
 because of the earth which was cursed by God.
5:30 And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five
 hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters:
5:31 And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and
 seventy-seven: and he came to his end.
5:32 And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the
 father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and
 had daughters,
6:2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and
 they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to
 them.
6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever,
 for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred
 and twenty years.
6:4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in
 those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection
 with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these
 were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
6:5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth,
 and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
6:6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the
 earth, and grief was in his heart.
6:7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made,
 from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which
 goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow
 for having made them.
6:8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man
 and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
6:10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent
 ways.
6:12 And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for
 the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the
 earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an
 end to them with the earth.
6:14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it,
 and make it safe from the water inside and out.
6:15 And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three
 hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
6:16 You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof,
 and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a
 lower and second and third floors.
6:17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the
 earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh
 in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will
 come to an end.
6:18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come
 into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons'
 wives with you.
6:19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort
 of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male
 and female.
6:20 Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of
 living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to
 keep them from destruction.
6:21 And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and
 them.
6:22 And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
7:1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into
 the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be
 upright.
7:2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven
 females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male
 and his female;
7:3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females,
 so that their seed may still be living on the face of the
 earth.
7:4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty
 days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living
 thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
7:5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came
 flowing over all the earth.
7:7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives,
 went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of
 birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
7:9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah,
 as God had said.
7:10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the
 earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
 month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains
 of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of
 heaven were open;
7:12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty
 nights.
7:13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his
 sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
7:14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every
 sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
7:15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh
 in which is the breath of life.
7:16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and
 the ark was shut by the Lord.
7:17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and
 the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high
 over the earth.
7:18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased
 greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of
 the waters.
7:19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all
 the mountains under heaven were covered.
7:20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the
 mountains were covered.
7:21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the
 earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on
 the earth, and every man.
7:22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of
 life, came to its end.
7:23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and
 cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of
 the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with
 him in the ark, were kept from death.
7:24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty
 days.
8:1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the
 cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over
 the earth, and the waters went down.
8:2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were
 shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
8:3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the
 end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
8:4 And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came
 to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day
 of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
8:6 Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark
 which he had made,
8:7 Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the
 waters were gone from the earth.
8:8 And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from
 the face of the earth;
8:9 But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came
 back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth;
 and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.
8:10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out
 again;
8:11 And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an
 olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had
 gone down on the earth.
8:12 And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but
 she did not come back to him.
8:13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of
 the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah
 took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth
 was dry.
8:14 And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth
 was dry.
8:15 And God said to Noah,
8:16 Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your
 sons' wives.
8:17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you,
 birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so
 that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on
 the earth.
8:18 And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons'
 wives;
8:19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every
 sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean
 beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
8:21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in
 his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of
 man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest
 days; never again will I send destruction on all living things
 as I have done.
8:22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of
 the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night,
 will not come to an end.
9:1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be
 fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
9:2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the
 earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the
 land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.
9:3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give
 them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
9:4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for
 food.
9:5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment;
 from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take
 payment for the blood of his brother-man.
9:6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken;
 because God made man in his image.
9:7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the
 earth and become great in number.
9:8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,
9:9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed
 after you,
9:10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle
 and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with
 you.
9:11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all
 flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters
 come over all the earth for its destruction.
9:12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I
 make between me and you and every living thing with you, for
 all future generations:
9:13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of
 the agreement between me and the earth.
9:14 And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow
 will be seen in the cloud,
9:15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you
 and every living thing; and never again will there be a great
 flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.
9:16 And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will
 keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living
 thing on the earth.
9:17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement
 which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.
9:18 And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem,
 Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the
 earth was peopled.
9:20 In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a
 vine-garden.
9:21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink;
 and he was uncovered in his tent.
9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed,
 and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their
 backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over
 their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
9:24 And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son
 had done to him, and he said,
9:25 Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his
 brothers.
9:26 And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let
 Canaan be his servant.
9:27 May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in
 the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
9:28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after
 the great flow of waters;
9:29 all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and
 he came to his end.
10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem,
 Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the
 great flow of waters
10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan
 and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and
 the Dodanim.
10:5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their
 different families and languages.
10:6 And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and
 Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the
 great men of the earth.
10:9 He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like
 Nimrod, a very great bowman.
10:10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and
 Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
10:11 From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh
 with its wide streets and Calah,
10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great
 town.
10:13 And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and
 Lehabim and Naphtuhim;
10:14 And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came
 the Philistines.
10:15 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest
 son, and Heth,
10:16 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,
10:17 And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,
10:18 And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after
 that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all
 directions;
10:19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the
 direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and
 Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
10:20 All these, with their different families, languages,
 lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
10:21 And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the
 children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
10:22 These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad
 and Lud and Aram.
10:23 And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
10:24 And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah
 became the father of Eber.
10:25 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,
 because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate;
 and his brother's name was Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and
 Hazarmaveth and Jerah
10:27 And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
10:28 And Obal and Abimael and Sheba
10:29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons
 of Joktan.
10:30 And their country was from Mesha, in the direction of
 Sephar, the mountain of the east.
10:31 These, with their families and their languages and their
 lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.
10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order
 of their generations and their nations: from these came all the
 nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.
11:1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
11:2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east,
 they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar,
 and there they made their living-place.
11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks,
 burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them
 together with sticky earth.
11:4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose
 top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name
 for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of
 the earth.
11:5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which
 the children of men were building.
11:6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have
 all one language; and this is only the start of what they may
 do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any
 purpose of theirs.
11:7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their
 language, so that they will not be able to make themselves
 clear to one another.
11:8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the
 earth: and they gave up building their town.
11:9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the
 sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away
 over all the face of the earth.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred
 years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years
 after the great flow of waters;
11:11 And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for
 five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
11:12 And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became
 the father of Shelah:
11:13 And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living
 for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
11:14 And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father
 of Eber:
11:15 And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for
 four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
11:16 And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the
 father of Peleg:
11:17 And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four
 hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
11:18 And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father
 of Reu:
11:19 And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two
 hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
11:20 And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father
 of Serug:
11:21 And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two
 hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
11:22 And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father
 of Nahor:
11:23 And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two
 hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
11:24 And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the
 father of Terah:
11:25 And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a
 hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
11:26 And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father
 of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father
 of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
11:28 And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah
 in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of
 Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was
 Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
11:30 And Sarai had no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran,
 and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and
 they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of
 Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
11:32 And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and
 five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
12:1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and
 from your family and from your father's house, into the land to
 which I will be your guide:
12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and
 making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
12:3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on
 him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become
 a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
12:4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went
 with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away
 from Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son,
 and all their goods and the servants which they had got in
 Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.
12:6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to
 the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still
 living in the land.
12:7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this
 land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord
 who had let himself be seen by him.
12:8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of
 Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai
 on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the
 name of the Lord.
12:9 And he went on, journeying still to the South.
12:10 And because there was little food to be had in that land,
 he went down into Egypt.
12:11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his
 wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;
12:12 And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they
 will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and
 keep you.
12:13 Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well
 with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your
 account.
12:14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of
 Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.
12:15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in
 praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's
 house.
12:16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep
 and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and
 camels.
12:17 And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house
 because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
12:18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done
 to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?
12:19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took
 her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.
12:20 And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on
 his way, with his wife and all he had.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he
 had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.
13:2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
13:3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to
 the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and
 Ai;
13:4 To the place where he had made his first altar, and there
 Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.
13:5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;
13:6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them:
 their property was so great that there was not room for them
 together.
13:7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's
 cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the
 Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
13:8 Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me
 and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are
 brothers.
13:9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate
 ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you
 take the right, I will go to the left.
13:10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of
 Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the
 Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like
 the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to
 Zoar.
13:11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went
 to the east, and they were parted from one another.
13:12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went
 to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before
 the Lord.
13:14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from
 him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and
 to the south, to the east and to the west:
13:15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to
 your seed for ever.
13:16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth,
 so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will
 your children be numbered.
13:17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other
 for I will give it to you.
13:18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place
 by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an
 altar there to the Lord.
14:1 Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king
 of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of
 Goiim,
14:2 They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha,
 king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of
 Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).
14:3 All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is
 the Salt Sea).
14:4 For twelve years they were under the rule of Chedorlaomer,
 but in the thirteenth year they put off his control.
14:5 And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who
 were on his side, overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim,
 and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
14:6 And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far
 as El-paran, which is near the waste land.
14:7 Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making
 waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites
 living in Hazazon-tamar.
14:8 And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the
 king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela
 (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in
 the valley of Siddim,
14:9 Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of
 Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of
 Ellasar: four kings against the five.
14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky
 earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight
 and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the
 mountain.
14:11 And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom
 and Gomorrah and went on their way.
14:12 And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who
 was living in Sodom, and all his goods.
14:13 And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word
 of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of
 Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were
 friends of Abram.
14:14 And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a
 prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and
 eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far
 as Dan.
14:15 And separating his forces by night, he overcame them,
 putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah,
 which is on the north side of Damascus.
14:16 And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son,
 with his goods and the women and the people.
14:17 And when he was coming back after putting to flight
 Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the
 king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's
 Valley.
14:18 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most
 High God, took bread and wine,
14:19 And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High
 God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:
14:20 And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into
 your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a
 tenth of all the goods he had taken.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners
 and take the goods for yourself.
14:22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath
 to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,
14:23 That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a
 shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to
 Abram:
14:24 Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who
 went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have
 their part of the goods.
15:1 After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a
 vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and
 great will be your reward.
15:2 And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child
 and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
15:3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant
 in my house will get the heritage.
15:4 Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but
 a son of your body will have your property after you.
15:5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let
 your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be
 numbered; even so will your seed be.
15:6 And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account
 as righteousness.
15:7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of
 the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
15:8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will
 be mine?
15:9 And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a
 she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old,
 and a dove and a young pigeon.
15:10 All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one
 half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
15:11 And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent
 them away.
15:12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on
 Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.
15:13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a
 land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be
 cruel to them for four hundred years;
15:14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they
 are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
15:15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the
 end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
15:16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for
 at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
15:17 Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a
 smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts
 of the bodies.
15:18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and
 said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of
 Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
15:19 The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15:20 And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15:21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite,
 and the Jebusite.
16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she
 had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have
 children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through
 her. And Abram did as Sarai said.
16:3 So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of
 Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to
 Abram for his wife.
16:4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when
 she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect
 for her master's wife.
16:5 And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you
 my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with
 child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be
 judge between you and me.
16:6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her
 whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that
 she went running away from her.
16:7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water
 in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come
 from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away
 from Sarai, my master's wife.
16:9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under
 her authority.
16:10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly
 increased so that it may not be numbered.
16:11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child
 and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name
 Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.
16:12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand
 will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and
 he will keep his place against all his brothers.
16:13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this
 name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even
 here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
16:14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision:
 it is between Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom
 Abram gave the name of Ishmael.
16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to
 Ishmael.
17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him,
 and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright
 in all things,
17:2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your
 offspring will be greatly increased.
17:3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord
 God went on talking with him, and said,
17:4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be
 the father of nations without end.
17:5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have
 made you the father of a number of nations.
17:6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come
 from you and kings will be your offspring.
17:7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you
 through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to
 you and to your seed after you.
17:8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land
 in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal
 heritage; and I will be their God.
17:9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the
 agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
17:10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me,
 you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo
 circumcision.
17:11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it,
 as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
17:12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is
 to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every
 servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you
 gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.
17:13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made
 yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my
 agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all
 time.
17:14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut
 off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.
17:15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name
 will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
17:16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son
 by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the
 mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
17:17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in
 his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will
 Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
17:18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be
 your care!
17:19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a
 son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my
 agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
17:20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I
 have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give
 him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and
 I will make him a great nation.
17:21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will
 give birth a year from this time.
17:22 And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.
17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had
 taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made
 his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day
 he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts
 as God had said to him.
17:24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent
 circumcision.
17:25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he
 underwent circumcision.
17:26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on
 that very day.
17:27 And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken
 place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men
 of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.
18:1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he
 was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
18:2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and
 seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent,
 and went down on his face to the earth;
18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not
 go away from your servant:
18:4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest
 under the tree:
18:5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and
 after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have
 come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
18:6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah,
 Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
18:7 And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat,
 and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;
18:8 And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had
 made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the
 tree while they took food.
18:9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he
 said, She is in the tent.
18:10 And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the
 spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came
 to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past
 the time for giving birth.
18:12 And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used
 up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
18:13 And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is
 it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?
18:14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At
 the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and
 Sarah will have a child.
18:15 Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of
 fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.
18:16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom;
 and Abraham went with them on their way.
18:17 And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the
 knowledge of what I do;
18:18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and
 strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of
 the earth as a blessing?
18:19 For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his
 children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of
 the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do
 to Abraham as he has said.
18:20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and
 Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
18:21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as
 they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are
 not, I will see.
18:22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom:
 but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.
18:23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction
 come on the upright with the sinners?
18:24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will
 you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it
 because of the fifty upright men?
18:25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to
 death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do
 right?
18:26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the
 town, I will have mercy on it because of them.
18:27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust,
 have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
18:28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men,
 will you give up all the town to destruction because of these
 five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there
 are forty-five.
18:29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty
 there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.
18:30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say,
 What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it
 if there are thirty.
18:31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts
 before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I
 will have mercy because of the twenty.
18:32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say
 only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he
 said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
18:33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham
 was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.
19:1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was
 seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up
 and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.
19:2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house
 and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be
 washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And
 they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the
 street.
19:3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with
 him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made
 unleavened bread, of which they took.
19:4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all
 the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from
 every part of the town;
19:5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who
 came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we
 may take our pleasure with them.
19:6 And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door
 after him.
19:7 And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
19:8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them
 out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to
 you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have
 come under the shade of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said,
 came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge?
 now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently
 against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.
19:10 But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the
 house to them, shutting the door again.
19:11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all
 of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with
 looking for the door.
19:12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your
 family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all
 out of this place;
19:13 For we are about to send destruction on this place,
 because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the
 Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.
19:14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were
 married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place,
 for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his
 sons-in-law did not take him seriously.
19:15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power
 to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and
 your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come
 to destruction in the punishment of the town.
19:16 But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife
 and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them,
 and put them outside the town.
19:17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life,
 without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to
 the mountain or you will come to destruction.
19:18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;
19:19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great
 is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not
 able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and
 death;
19:20 This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me
 go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.
19:21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this
 one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.
19:22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till
 you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
19:23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
19:24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down
 from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
19:25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the
 lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing
 in the land.
19:26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the
 place where he had been talking with the Lord:
19:28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
 lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke
 of an oven.
19:29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the
 towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot
 safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was
 living.
19:30 Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was
 living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from
 living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their
 living-place in a hole in the rock.
19:31 And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is
 old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural
 way:
19:32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go
 into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,
19:33 And that night they made their father take much wine; and
 the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge
 of when she went in or when she went away.
19:34 And on the day after, the older daughter said to the
 younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take
 much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we
 may have offspring by our father.
19:35 And that night again they made their father take much
 wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no
 knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
19:36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their
 father.
19:37 And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the
 name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
19:38 And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi:
 from him come the children of Ammon to this day.
20:1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the
 South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and
 Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said
 to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you
 have taken; for she is a man's wife.
20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord,
 will you put to death an upright nation?
20:5 Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she
 herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean
 hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done
 this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning
 against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
20:7 So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet,
 and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but
 if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to
 you and all your house.
20:8 So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all
 his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were
 full of fear.
20:9 Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you
 done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me
 and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things
 which are not to be done.
20:10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was
 no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to
 death because of my wife.
20:12 And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father,
 but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
20:13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I
 said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever
 we go, say of me, He is my brother.
20:14 Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and
 men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife
 Sarah.
20:15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take
 whatever place seems good to you.
20:16 And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a
 thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right;
 now your honour is clear in the eyes of all.
20:17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech
 well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they
 had children.
20:18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of
 Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's
 wife.
21:1 And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as
 he had undertaken.
21:2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he
 was old, at the time named by God.
21:3 And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth,
 the name Isaac.
21:4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him
 undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
21:5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac
 took place.
21:6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and
 everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
21:7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah
 would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a
 son now when he is old.
21:8 And when the child was old enough to be taken from the
 breast, Abraham made a great feast.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with
 Isaac.
21:10 So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son:
 for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage
 with my son Isaac.
21:11 And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.
21:12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the
 boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to
 you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its
 name.
21:13 And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman,
 because he is your seed.
21:14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar
 some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and
 sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of
 Beer-sheba.
21:15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put
 the child down under a tree.
21:16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight,
 and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter
 weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.
21:17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel
 of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping?
 have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.
21:18 Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him
 a great nation.
21:19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring,
 and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.
21:20 And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong,
 and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.
21:21 And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother
 got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
21:22 Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his
 army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you
 do.
21:23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you
 will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I
 have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land
 where you have been living.
21:24 And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.
21:25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a
 water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
21:26 But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this
 thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of
 it till this day.
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to
 Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.
21:28 And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side
 by themselves.
21:29 Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you
 have put on one side?
21:30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness
 that I have made this water-hole.
21:31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there
 the two of them had given their oaths.
21:32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and
 Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the
 Philistines.
21:33 And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba,
 gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
21:34 And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines
 as in a strange country.
22:1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and
 said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
22:2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only
 son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a
 burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give
 you knowledge.
22:3 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his
 ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son,
 and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he
 went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
22:4 And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the
 place a long way off.
22:5 Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and
 I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again
 to you.
22:6 And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his
 son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his
 hand, and the two of them went on together.
22:7 Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am
 I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where
 is the lamb for the burned offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the
 burned offering: so they went on together.
22:9 And they came to the place of which God had given him
 knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in
 place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his
 son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
22:10 And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put
 his son to death.
22:11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven,
 saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
22:12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against
 the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the
 fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back
 your son, your only son, from me.
22:13 And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its
 horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a
 burned offering of it in place of his son.
22:14 And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it
 is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
22:15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a
 second time from heaven,
22:16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord,
 because you have done this and have not kept back from me your
 dearly loved only son,
22:17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed
 will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the
 seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against
 them;
22:18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the
 earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
22:19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went
 together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
22:20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife
 of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
22:21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father
 of Aram,
22:22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
22:23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the
 children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
22:24 And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and
 Tahash and Maacah.
23:1 Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and
 twenty-seven.
23:2 And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is,
 Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house,
 weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.
23:3 And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of
 Heth,
23:4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give
 me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to
 rest.
23:5 And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,
23:6 My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the
 best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will
 keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.
23:7 And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth,
 the people of that land.
23:8 And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest
 here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,
23:9 That he will give me the hollow in the rock named
 Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let
 him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my
 dead among you.
23:10 Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and
 Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of
 the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town,
 saying,
23:11 No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in
 the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it
 to you for a resting-place for your dead.
23:12 And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the
 land.
23:13 And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people
 of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you
 the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest
 there.
23:14 So Ephron said to Abraham,
23:15 My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four
 hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your
 dead to rest there.
23:16 And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the
 hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred
 shekels in current money.
23:17 So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow
 in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,
23:18 Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the
 children of Heth and of all who came into the town.
23:19 Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock
 in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the
 land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to
 Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.
24:1 Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had
 given him everything in full measure.
24:2 And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all
 his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
24:3 And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God
 of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac
 from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
24:4 But that you will go into my country and to my relations
 and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
24:5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come
 with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the
 land from which you came?
24:6 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go
 back to that land.
24:7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house
 and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying,
 To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel
 before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
24:8 And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free
 from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
24:9 And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave
 him his oath about this thing.
24:10 And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all
 sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia,
 to the town of Nahor.
24:11 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by
 the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women
 came to get water.
24:12 And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me
 do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy
 to my master Abraham.
24:13 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the
 daughters of the town are coming out to get water:
24:14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and
 give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for
 you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one
 marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain
 that you have been good to my master Abraham.
24:15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the
 daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of
 Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her
 arm.
24:16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never
 been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get
 water in her vessel.
24:17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a
 little water from your vessel.
24:18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting
 down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.
24:19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your
 camels till they have had enough.
24:20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the
 animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring
 and got water for all the camels.
24:21 And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see
 if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.
24:22 And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold
 nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her
 arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
24:23 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in
 your father's house for us?
24:24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son
 of Milcah, Nahor's wife.
24:25 And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and
 cattle-food, and there is room for you.
24:26 And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord;
24:27 And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master
 Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my
 master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's
 family.
24:28 So the girl went running and took the news of these things
 to her mother's house
24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out
 quickly to the man at the water-spring.
24:30 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his
 sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had
 said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with
 the camels by the water-spring.
24:31 And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing
 of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the
 house ready for you, and a place for the camels.
24:32 Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their
 cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he
 gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing
 their feet.
24:33 And meat was put before him, but he said, I will not take
 food till I have made my business clear to you. And they said,
 Do so.
24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
24:35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has
 become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and
 gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.
24:36 And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth
 to a son, to whom he has given all he has.
24:37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a
 wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom
 I am living;
24:38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife
 for my son.
24:39 And I said to my master, What if the woman will not come
 with me?
24:40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me,
 will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you
 to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's
 house;
24:41 And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to
 my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be
 free from your oath.
24:42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord,
 the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a
 good outcome to my journey,
24:43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the
 water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her,
 Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,
24:44 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let
 her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.
24:45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came
 out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring
 to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.
24:46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm,
 and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.
24:47 And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And
 she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah
 his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on
 her hands.
24:48 And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord,
 the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the
 right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his
 son.
24:49 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my
 master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have
 to do.
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's
 doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.
24:51 See, here is Rebekah: take her and go, and let her be your
 master's son's wife, as the Lord has said.
24:52 And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his
 face and gave praise to the Lord.
24:53 Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair
 robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to
 her mother and her brother.
24:54 Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink,
 and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got
 up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.
24:55 But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with
 us a week or ten days, and then she may go.
24:56 And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good
 outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.
24:57 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make
 the decision.
24:58 And they sent for Rebekah and said to her, Are you ready
 to go with this man? And she said, I am ready.
24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with
 Abraham's servant and his men.
24:60 And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister,
 may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may
 your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
24:61 So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated
 on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his
 way.
24:62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to
 Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
24:63 And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into
 the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.
24:64 And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from
 her camel,
24:65 And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us
 through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then
 she took her veil, covering her face with it.
24:66 Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.
24:67 And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his
 wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his
 father's death.
25:1 And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
25:2 She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and
 Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from
 Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.
25:4 And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida
 and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.
25:5 Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac;
25:6 But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and
 sent them away, while he was still living, into the east
 country.
25:7 Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and
 seventy-five.
25:8 And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years;
 and he was put to rest with his people.
25:9 And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the
 hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of
 Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;
25:10 The same field which Abraham got from the children of
 Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.
25:11 Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was
 with Isaac, his son.
25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of
 Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of
 Sarah:
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their
 generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and
 Adbeel and Mibsam
25:14 And Mishma and Dumah and Massa,
25:15 Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names
 in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their
 peoples.
25:17 And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and
 thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with
 his people.
25:18 And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east
 of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their
 brothers.
25:19 Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:
25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the
 daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister
 of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
25:21 Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had
 no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah
 became with child.
25:22 And the children were fighting together inside her, and
 she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to
 put her question to the Lord.
25:23 And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body,
 and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be
 stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of
 the younger.
25:24 And when the time came for her to give birth, there were
 two children in her body.
25:25 And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe
 of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.
25:26 And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot;
 and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave
 birth to them.
25:27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of
 the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man,
 living in tents.
25:28 Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was
 greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.
25:29 And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in
 from the fields in great need of food;
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red
 soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he
 was named Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what
 profit is the birthright to me?
25:33 And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he
 gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.
25:34 Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and
 drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.
26:1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which
 had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to
 Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
26:2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go
 down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you
 knowledge:
26:3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my
 blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these
 lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father
 Abraham;
26:4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number,
 and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a
 blessing to all the nations of the earth;
26:5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my
 rules, my orders, and my laws.
26:6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
26:7 And when he was questioned by the men of the place about
 his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my
 wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on
 account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.
26:8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king
 of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing
 with Rebekah his wife.
26:9 And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife:
 why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For
 fear that I might be put to death because of her.
26:10 Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the
 people might well have had connection with your wife, and the
 sin would have been ours.
26:11 And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone
 touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
26:12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same
 year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the
 Lord was on him.
26:13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and
 more;
26:14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great
 numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
26:15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had
 made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by
 the Philistines.
26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are
 stronger than we are.
26:17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the
 valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
26:18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in
 the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up
 by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father
 had given them.
26:19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to
 a spring of flowing water.
26:20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen,
 for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the
 name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
26:21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight
 about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.
26:22 Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole,
 about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of
 Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and
 we will have fruit in this land.
26:23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.
26:24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I
 am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with
 you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of
 my servant Abraham.
26:25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name
 of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his
 servants made a water-hole.
26:26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath
 his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.
26:27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing
 that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?
26:28 And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you:
 so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us
 make an agreement with you;
26:29 That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on
 you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace:
 and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.
26:30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and
 drink.
26:31 And early in the morning they took an oath one to the
 other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in
 peace.
26:32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him
 word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We
 have come to water.
26:33 And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that
 town is Beer-sheba to this day.
26:34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives
 Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the
 daughter of Elon the Hittite:
26:35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.
27:1 Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so
 that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son,
 and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
27:2 And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place
 at any time:
27:3 So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field
 and get meat for me;
27:4 And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to
 me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give
 you my blessing before death comes to me.
27:5 Now Isaac's words to his son were said in Rebekah's
 hearing. Then Esau went out to get the meat.
27:6 And Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to
 your brother Esau in my hearing,
27:7 Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that
 I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before
 my death.
27:8 Now, my son, do what I say.
27:9 Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will
 make of them a meal to your father's taste:
27:10 And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good
 meal and give you his blessing before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother
 is covered with hair, while I am smooth:
27:12 If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem
 to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in
 place of a blessing.
27:13 And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only
 do as I say, and go and get them for me.
27:14 So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and
 she made a meal to his father's taste.
27:15 And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which
 were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger
 son:
27:16 And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and
 on the smooth part of his neck:
27:17 And she gave into the hand of Jacob, her son, the meat and
 the bread which she had made ready.
27:18 And he came to his father, and said, My father: and he
 said, Here am I: who are you, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as
 you said: come now, be seated and take of my meat, so that you
 may give me a blessing.
27:20 And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly,
 my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my
 way.
27:21 And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on
 you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not.
27:22 And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands
 on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands
 are the hands of Esau.
27:23 And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were
 covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him
 a blessing.
27:24 And he said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am.
27:25 And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's
 meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before
 him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.
27:26 And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son,
 and give me a kiss.
27:27 And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the
 smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See,
 the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the
 blessing of the Lord has come:
27:28 May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of
 the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:
27:29 Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before
 you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go
 down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed,
 and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
27:30 And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and
 Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came
 in from the field.
27:31 And he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it
 to his father, and said to him, Let my father get up and take
 of his son's meat, so that you may give me a blessing.
27:32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he
 said, I am your oldest son, Esau.
27:33 And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat
 and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and
 gave him a blessing, and his it will be?
27:34 And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and
 bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even
 to me, O my father!
27:35 And he said, Your brother came with deceit, and took away
 your blessing.
27:36 And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has
 twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now
 he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a
 blessing for me?
27:37 And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master,
 and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made
 him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you,
 my son?
27:38 And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you
 have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was
 overcome with weeping.
27:39 Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far
 from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of
 heaven on high will your living-place be:
27:40 By your sword will you get your living and you will be
 your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his
 yoke will be broken from off your neck.
27:41 So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's
 blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my
 father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.
27:42 Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob,
 her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother
 Esau is purposing to put you to death.
27:43 So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my
 brother Laban;
27:44 And be there with him for a little time, till your
 brother's wrath is turned away;
27:45 Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and
 he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come
 back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?
27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me
 because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from
 among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this
 land, of what use will my life be to me?
28:1 Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not
 take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
28:2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your
 mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the
 daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
28:3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing,
 giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army
 of peoples.
28:4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to
 your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave
 to Abraham, may be your heritage.
28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to
 Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the
 mother of Jacob and Esau.
28:6 So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing,
 and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself
 there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from
 among the women of Canaan;
28:7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and
 had gone to Paddan-aram;
28:8 It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the
 women of Canaan,
28:9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of
 Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife
 in addition to the wives he had.
28:10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.
28:11 And coming to a certain place, he made it his
 resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he
 took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under
 his head he went to sleep in that place.
28:12 And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps
 stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were
 going up and down on them.
28:13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord,
 the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will
 give to you and to your seed this land on which you are
 sleeping.
28:14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all
 the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the
 south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the
 families of the earth.
28:15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever
 you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not
 give you up till I have done what I have said to you.
28:16 And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord
 is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
28:17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place;
 this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of
 heaven.
28:18 And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had
 been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on
 it.
28:19 And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before
 that time the town was named Luz.
28:20 Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me,
 and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing
 to put on,
28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I
 will take the Lord to be my God,
28:22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be
 God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part
 to you.
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of
 the children of the East.
29:2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side
 of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the
 sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great
 stone.
29:3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the
 stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water,
 and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the
 water-hole.
29:4 Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you
 come from? And they said, From Haran.
29:5 And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the
 son of Nahor? And they said, We have.
29:6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well,
 and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.
29:7 Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time
 to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and
 give them their food.
29:8 And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks
 have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the
 mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.
29:9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her
 father's sheep, for she took care of them.
29:10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his
 mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and
 rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water
 for Laban's flock.
29:11 And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.
29:12 And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's
 relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to
 give her father news of it.
29:13 And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came
 running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him
 come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.
29:14 And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my
 flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.
29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are
 you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment
 to be?
29:16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was
 Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
29:17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face
 and form.
29:18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be
 your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.
29:19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than
 another man: go on living here with me.
29:20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of
 his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.
29:21 Then Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife so that I may
 have her, for the days are ended.
29:22 And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a
 feast.
29:23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave
 her to him, and he went in to her.
29:24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be
 her waiting-woman.
29:25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said
 to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you
 so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?
29:26 And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger
 daughter be married before the older.
29:27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then
 we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my
 servant for another seven years.
29:28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave
 him his daughter Rachel for his wife.
29:29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her
 waiting-woman.
29:30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her
 was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for
 Laban for another seven years.
29:31 Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a
 child; while Rachel had no children.
29:32 And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom
 she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my
 sorrow; now my husband will have love for me.
29:33 Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son;
 and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not
 loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him
 the name Simeon.
29:34 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and
 said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I
 have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.
29:35 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and
 she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was
 named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.
30:1 Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy
 of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me
 children I will not go on living.
30:2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the
 place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
30:3 Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so
 that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family
 by her.
30:4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob
 went in to her.
30:5 And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.
30:6 Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear
 to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.
30:7 And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and
 gave birth to a second son.
30:8 And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister,
 and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name
 Naphtali.
30:9 When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more
 children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as
 a wife.
30:10 And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son.
30:11 And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him
 the name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son.
30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness
 to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.
30:14 Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some
 love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And
 Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.
30:15 But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have
 taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's
 love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in
 exchange for your son's love-fruits.
30:16 In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah
 went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I
 have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went
 in to her that night.
30:17 And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and
 gave Jacob a fifth son.
30:18 Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my
 servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name
 Issachar.
30:19 And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a
 sixth son.
30:20 And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at
 last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given
 him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.
30:21 After that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name
 Dinah.
30:22 Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he
 made her fertile.
30:23 And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she
 said, God has taken away my shame.
30:24 And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord
 give me another son.
30:25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me
 go away to my place and my country.
30:26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have been
 your servant, and let me go: for you have knowledge of all the
 work I have done for you.
30:27 And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away;
 for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me
 because of you.
30:28 Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.
30:29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you,
 and how your cattle have done well under my care.
30:30 For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly
 increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything
 I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?
30:31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do
 not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your
 flock if you will only do this for me:
30:32 Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from
 among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black,
 and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.
30:33 And so you will be able to put my honour to the test in
 time to come; if you see among my flocks any goats which are
 not marked or coloured, or any sheep which is not black, you
 may take me for a thief.
30:34 And Laban said, Let it be as you say.
30:35 So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or
 coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured
 or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into
 the care of his sons;
30:36 And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took
 care of the rest of Laban's flock.
30:37 Then Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the
 skin so that the white wood was seen in bands.
30:38 And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where
 the flock came to get water; and they became with young when
 they came to the water.
30:39 And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which
 were marked with bands of colour.
30:40 These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a
 place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.
30:41 And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with
 young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the
 drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they
 saw the sticks.
30:42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks
 before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the
 stronger were Jacob's.
30:43 So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great
 flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and
 asses.
31:1 Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were
 saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in
 this way he has got all this wealth.
31:2 And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer
 what it had been before.
31:3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your
 fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.
31:4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the
 field among his flock.
31:5 And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's
 feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my
 father has been with me
31:6 And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your
 father,
31:7 But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times
 he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from
 doing me damage.
31:8 If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to
 be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if
 he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the
 flock had banded young.
31:9 So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given
 them to me.
31:10 And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a
 dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the
 she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.
31:11 And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob:
 and I said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and
 marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to
 you.
31:13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar
 and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go
 back to the country of your birth.
31:14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or
 heritage is there for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he
 took a price for us and now it is all used up.
31:16 For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and
 our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.
31:17 Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;
31:18 And sending on before him all his cattle and his property
 which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go
 to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
31:19 Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of
 his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of
 her father's house.
31:20 And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his
 flight to Laban the Aramaean.
31:21 So he went away with all he had, and went across the River
 in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.
31:22 And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.
31:23 And taking the men of his family with him, he went after
 him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of
 Gilead.
31:24 Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to
 him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
31:25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in
 the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents
 in the hill-country of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly,
 taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?
31:27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me
 word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and
 songs, with melody and music?
31:28 You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my
 daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.
31:29 It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your
 father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say
 nothing good or bad to Jacob.
31:30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's
 desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my
 gods?
31:31 And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you
 might take your daughters from me by force.
31:32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put
 to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take
 it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.
31:33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and
 into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not
 there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the
 camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching
 through all the tent, did not come across them.
31:35 And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry
 because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common
 condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come
 across the images.
31:36 Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or
 sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?
31:37 Now that you have made search through all my goods, what
 have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my
 people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.
31:38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and
 your goats have had young without loss, not one of your
 he-goats have I taken for food.
31:39 Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to
 you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me
 responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by
 night.
31:40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by
 the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your
 servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for
 six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment
 changed.
31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear
 of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away
 with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the
 work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
31:43 Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters
 and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are
 mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their
 children?
31:44 Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be
 for a witness between us.
31:45 Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.
31:46 And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and
 they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.
31:47 And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob
 gave it the name of Galeed.
31:48 And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and
 me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,
31:49 And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us
 when we are unable to see one another's doings.
31:50 If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other
 wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there
 to see, God will be the witness between us.
31:51 And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I
 have put between you and me;
31:52 They will be witness that I will not go over these stones
 to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to
 me, for any evil purpose.
31:53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of
 their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear
 of his father Isaac.
31:54 And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave
 orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took
 their rest that night on the mountain.
31:55 And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing
 his daughters, went on his way back to his country.
32:1 And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of
 God.
32:2 And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so
 he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.
32:3 Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in
 the land of Seir, the country of Edom;
32:4 And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your
 servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:
32:5 And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and
 women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these
 things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
32:6 When the servants came back they said, We have seen your
 brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men
 with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he
 put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels
 into two groups;
32:8 And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on
 them, the others will get away safely.
32:9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my
 father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country
 and your family and I will be good to you:
32:10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies
 and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my
 hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.
32:11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my
 fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death
 mother and child.
32:12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your
 seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
32:13 Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from
 among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,
32:14 Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred
 females and twenty males from the sheep,
32:15 Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen,
 twenty asses, and ten young asses.
32:16 These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and
 he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a
 space between one herd and another.
32:17 And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother
 Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where
 are you going, and whose are these herds?
32:18 Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are
 an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming
 after us.
32:19 And he gave the same orders to the second and the third
 and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what
 you are to say to Esau when you see him;
32:20 And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming
 after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by
 the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before
 him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.
32:21 So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and
 he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his
 people.
32:22 And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two
 wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he
 went over the river Jabbok.
32:23 He took them and sent them over the stream with all he
 had.
32:24 Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him
 till dawn.
32:25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome
 Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so
 that his leg was damaged.
32:26 And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near.
 But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me
 your blessing.
32:27 Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but
 Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have
 overcome.
32:29 Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is
 my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
32:30 And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I
 have seen God face to face, and still I am living.
32:31 And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And
 he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.
32:32 For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never
 take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the
 hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.
33:1 Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his
 four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between
 Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.
33:2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and
 her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
33:3 And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to
 the earth seven times till he came near his brother.
33:4 Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his
 arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with
 weeping.
33:5 Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the
 children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The
 children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.
33:6 Then the servants and their children came near, and went
 down on their faces.
33:7 And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and
 Rachel, and they did the same.
33:8 And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the
 way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have
 grace in my lord's eyes.
33:9 But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my
 brother, for yourself.
33:10 And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes,
 take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as
 one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.
33:11 Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been
 very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he
 took it.
33:12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will
 go in front.
33:13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only
 small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one
 day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.
33:14 Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on
 slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are
 able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.
33:15 And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he
 said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with
 me?
33:16 So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.
33:17 And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for
 himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the
 place was named Succoth.
33:18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of
 Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the
 town.
33:19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children
 of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put
 up his tents.
33:20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of
 Israel.
34:1 Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to
 see the women of that country.
34:2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the
 chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had
 connection with her.
34:3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of
 Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
34:4 And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for
 my wife.
34:5 Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his
 daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and
 Jacob said nothing till they came.
34:6 Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk
 with Jacob.
34:7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had
 news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the
 shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's
 daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
34:8 But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire
 for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?
34:9 And let our two peoples be joined together; give your
 daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
34:10 Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you;
 do trade and get property there.
34:11 And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you
 will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to
 you.
34:12 However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will
 give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
34:13 But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and
 Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their
 sister.
34:14 And they said, It is not possible for us to give our
 sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a
 cause of shame to us:
34:15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement
 with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes
 circumcision;
34:16 Then we will give our daughters to you and take your
 daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
34:17 But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then
 we will take our daughter and go.
34:18 And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son
 Shechem.
34:19 And without loss of time the young man did as they said,
 because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the
 noblest of his father's house.
34:20 Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place
 of their town, and said to the men of the town,
34:21 It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let
 them then go on living in this country and doing trade here,
 for the country is wide open before them; let us take their
 daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.
34:22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on
 living with us and to become one people, only on the condition
 that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have
 done.
34:23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their
 beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so
 that they may go on living with us.
34:24 Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of
 Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent
 circumcision.
34:25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well,
 two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers,
 took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put
 all the males to death.
34:26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword,
 and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
34:27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded
 and made waste the town because of what had been done to their
 sister;
34:28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and
 everything in their town and in their fields,
34:29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their
 wives; everything in their houses they took and made them
 waste.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble
 for me and given me a bad name among the people of this
 country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because
 we are small in number they will come together against me and
 make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
34:31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister
 as a loose woman?
35:1 And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your
 living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who
 came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.
35:2 Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange
 gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on
 a change of clothing:
35:3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar
 to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was
 with me wherever I went.
35:4 Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they
 had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them
 away under the holy tree at Shechem.
35:5 So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on
 the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons
 of Jacob.
35:6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the
 same as Beth-el), he and all his people.
35:7 And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el:
 because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in
 flight from his brother.
35:8 And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from
 her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el,
 under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.
35:9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to
 him again and, blessing him, said,
35:10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now
 your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.
35:11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be
 fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations,
 will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
35:12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will
 give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.
35:13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been
 talking with him.
35:14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been
 talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.
35:15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with
 him, the name of Beth-el.
35:16 So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still
 some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel
 and she had a hard time.
35:17 And when her pain was very great, the woman who was
 helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another
 son.
35:18 And in the hour when her life went from her (for death
 came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his
 father gave him the name of Benjamin.
35:19 So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road
 to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).
35:20 And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is
 named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.
35:21 And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the
 other side of the tower of the flock.
35:22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had
 connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel
 had news of it.
35:23 Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben,
 Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar
 and Zebulun;
35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;
35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these
 are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.
35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at
 Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been
 living.
35:28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
35:29 Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his
 father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and
 Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say,
 Edom.
36:2 Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of
 Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the
 daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
36:3 And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
36:4 Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of
 Reuel;
36:5 Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these
 are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of
 Canaan.
36:6 Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all
 the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all
 his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and
 went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.
36:7 For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide
 enough for the two of them and all their cattle.
36:8 So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir
 (Esau is Edom).
36:9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the
 Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:
36:10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of
 Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath.
36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and
 Kenaz.
36:12 And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman
 named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the
 children of Esau's wife Adah.
36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah,
 and Mizzah: they were the children of Esau's wife Basemath.
36:14 And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the
 daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon: she was the mother of
 Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
36:15 These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of
 Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
36:16 Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of
 Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.
36:17 And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah,
 Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of
 Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath.
36:18 And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush,
 Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's
 wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.
36:19 These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these
 were their chiefs.
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in
 that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the
 Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.
36:22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister
 was Timna.
36:23 And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath,
 Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that
 same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the
 waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father
 Zibeon.
36:25 And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah
 his daughter.
36:26 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran,
 and Keran.
36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
36:29 These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
36:30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in
 their order in the land of Seir.
36:31 And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of
 Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.
36:32 Bela, son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his
 chief town was Dinhabah.
36:33 At his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king
 in his place.
36:34 And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the
 Temanites, became king in his place.
36:35 And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who
 overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his
 chief town was named Avith.
36:36 And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king.
36:37 And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River
 became king in his place.
36:38 And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor,
 became king.
36:39 And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his
 place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was
 Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
 Me-zahab.
36:40 These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of
 their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
36:41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
36:42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
36:43 Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their
 places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the
 Edomites.
37:1 Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made
 a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.
37:2 These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen
 years old, was looking after the flock, together with his
 brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives;
 and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.
37:3 Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than
 his love for all his other children, because he got him when he
 was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.
37:4 And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his
 father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and
 would not say a kind word to him.
37:5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account
 of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
37:6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.
37:7 We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and
 my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on
 the earth before mine.
37:8 And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will
 you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his
 words, their hate for him became greater than ever.
37:9 Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account
 of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon
 and eleven stars gave honour to me.
37:10 And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but
 his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I
 and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to
 the earth before you?
37:11 And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept
 his words in mind.
37:12 Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's
 flock in Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the
 flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to
 him, Here am I.
37:14 And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are
 well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So
 he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to
 Shechem.
37:15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to
 him, What are you looking for?
37:16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me
 word of where they are keeping their flock.
37:17 And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they
 said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after
 them and came up with them at Dothan.
37:18 But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he
 came near them they made a secret design against him to put him
 to death;
37:19 Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.
37:20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of
 these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to
 death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.
37:21 But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their
 hands, saying, Let us not take his life.
37:22 Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed
 in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their
 hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.
37:23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his
 long coat which he had on;
37:24 And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole
 had no water in it.
37:25 Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking
 up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from
 Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their
 camels.
37:26 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in
 putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?
37:27 Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let
 us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our
 flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.
37:28 And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up
 out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty
 bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.
37:29 Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not
 there; and giving signs of grief,
37:30 He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone;
 what am I to do?
37:31 Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the
 blood from a young goat which they had put to death,
37:32 And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came
 across this; is it your son's coat or not?
37:33 And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an
 evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come
 to a cruel end.
37:34 Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and
 went on weeping for his son day after day.
37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him
 comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I
 will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his
 father's sorrow for him.
37:36 And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to
 Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.
38:1 Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and
 became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.
38:2 And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan
 named Shua, and took her as his wife.
38:3 And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.
38:4 And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name
 Onan.
38:5 Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah;
 she was at Chezib when the birth took place.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name
 was Tamar.
38:7 Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the
 Lord, so that he put him to death.
38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and
 do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her
 your wife and get offspring for your brother.
38:9 But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went
 in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth,
 so that he might not get offspring for his brother.
38:10 And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that
 he put him to death, like his brother.
38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to
 your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son
 Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that
 death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So
 Tamar went back to her father's house.
38:12 And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her
 end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to
 Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his
 friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.
38:13 And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going
 up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,
38:14 She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself
 with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to
 Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not
 been made his wife.
38:15 When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the
 town, because her face was covered.
38:16 And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me
 come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his
 daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my
 price?
38:17 And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock.
 And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?
38:18 And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring
 and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her
 and went in to her, and she became with child by him.
38:19 Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and
 put on her widow's clothing.
38:20 Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to
 get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman:
 but she was not there.
38:21 And he put questions to the men of the place, saying,
 Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And
 they said, There was no such woman there.
38:22 So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her,
 and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.
38:23 And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may
 not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the
 woman.
38:24 Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that
 Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman
 and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be
 burned.
38:25 And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her
 father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are,
 is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and
 this cord and this stick?
38:26 Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She
 is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my
 son. And he had no more connection with her.
38:27 And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear
 that there were two children in her body.
38:28 And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them
 put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red
 thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.
38:29 But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came
 first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have
 made for yourself! So he was named Perez.
38:30 And then his brother came out, with the red thread round
 his hand, and he was named Zerah.
39:1 Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the
 Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got
 him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
39:2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was
 living in the house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making
 everything he did go well.
39:4 And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made
 him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he
 had.
39:5 And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him
 control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with
 the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was
 on all he had, in the house and in the field.
39:6 And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no
 account of anything, but only the food which was put before
 him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.
39:7 And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with
 desire, said to him, Be my lover.
39:8 But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master
 keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his
 property in my control;
39:9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I
 have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are
 his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against
 God?
39:10 And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to
 her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.
39:11 Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not
 one of the men of the house was inside.
39:12 And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but
 slipping out of his coat, he went running away.
39:13 And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep
 his coat,
39:14 She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See,
 he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to
 my bed, and I gave a loud cry;
39:15 And hearing it he went running out without his coat.
39:16 And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.
39:17 Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew
 servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make
 sport of me;
39:18 And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his
 coat.
39:19 And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had
 done, he became very angry.
39:20 And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the
 place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he
 was there in the prison-house.
39:21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and
 made the keeper of the prison his friend.
39:22 And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under
 Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done
 there.
39:23 And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything
 which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and
 the Lord made everything he did go well.
40:1 Now after these things the chief servant who had the care
 of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did
 something against Pharaoh's orders;
40:2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief
 wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;
40:3 And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of
 the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.
40:4 And the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what
 was needed for them; and they were kept in prison for some
 time.
40:5 And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief
 wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt,
 who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special
 sense.
40:6 And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that
 they were looking sad.
40:7 And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison
 with him, Why are you looking so sad?
40:8 Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is
 able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense
 of dreams come from God? what was your dream?
40:9 Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his
 dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;
40:10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if
 it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready
 for cutting.
40:11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes
 and crushing them into Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into
 Pharaoh's hand.
40:12 Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the
 three branches are three days;
40:13 After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you
 back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did
 before, when you were his wine-servant.
40:14 But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be
 good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out
 of this prison:
40:15 For truly I was taken by force from the land of the
 Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in
 prison.
40:16 Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream
 had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my
 dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;
40:17 And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for
 Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on
 my head.
40:18 Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the
 three baskets are three days;
40:19 After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison,
 hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for
 birds.
40:20 Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a
 feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief
 wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.
40:21 And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place;
 and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
40:22 But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as
 Joseph had said.
40:23 But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a
 thought to him.
41:1 Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and
 in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;
41:2 And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat,
 and their food was the river-grass.
41:3 And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile,
 poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other
 cows.
41:4 And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows.
 Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.
41:5 But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which
 he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.
41:6 And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted
 by the east wind.
41:7 And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And
 when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.
41:8 And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for
 all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his
 dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of
 it.
41:9 Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of
 my sin comes back to me now;
41:10 Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me
 in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together
 with the chief bread-maker;
41:11 And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and
 the dreams had a special sense.
41:12 And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's
 servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the
 sense of them.
41:13 And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place,
 and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly
 out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress
 changed, he came before Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one
 is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears
 that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put
 before you.
41:16 Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of
 peace for Pharaoh.
41:17 Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the
 Nile:
41:18 And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking,
 and their food was the river-grass;
41:19 Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and
 poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;
41:20 And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who
 came up first;
41:21 And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad
 as before. And so I came out of my sleep.
41:22 And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and
 good, coming up on one stem:
41:23 And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by
 the east wind, coming up after them:
41:24 And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good
 heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of
 them was able to give me the sense of it.
41:25 Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense:
 God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:26 The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good
 heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.
41:27 The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after
 them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and
 wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no
 food.
41:28 As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him
 what he is about to do.
41:29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth
 of grain in Egypt;
41:30 And after that will come seven years when there will not
 be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from
 men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;
41:31 And men will have no memory of the good time because of
 the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.
41:32 And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing
 is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.
41:33 And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and
 good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the
 land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of
 the land in the good years.
41:35 And let them get together all the food in those good years
 and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use
 of the towns, and let them keep it.
41:36 And let that food be kept in store for the land till the
 seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land
 may not come to destruction through need of food.
41:37 And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
41:38 Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a
 man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all
 this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and
 good sense as you:
41:40 You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will
 be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.
41:41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all
 the land of Egypt.
41:42 Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on
 Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and
 put a chain of gold round his neck;
41:43 And he made him take his seat in the second of his
 carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he
 made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
41:44 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without
 your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.
41:45 And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and
 he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of
 On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of
 Egypt.
41:46 Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before
 Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the
 face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
41:47 Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in
 masses.
41:48 And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years,
 and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the
 fields round every town was stored up in the town.
41:49 So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the
 sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring
 it, for it might not be measured.
41:50 And before the time of need, Joseph had two sons, to whom
 Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth.
41:51 And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said,
 God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my
 father's house.
41:52 And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said,
 God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.
41:53 And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.
41:54 Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph
 had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but
 in the land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the
 people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to
 the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.
41:56 And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then
 Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt
 grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of
 Egypt.
41:57 And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for
 the need was great over all the earth.
42:1 Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to
 his sons, Why are you looking at one another?
42:2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt:
 go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death
 may be ours.
42:3 So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.
42:4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with
 them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.
42:5 And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get
 grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
42:6 Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who
 gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's
 brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the
 earth.
42:7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who
 they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking
 roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said,
 From the land of Canaan, to get food.
42:8 Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they
 had no idea who he was.
42:9 Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to
 Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how
 poor the land is.
42:10 And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have
 come with money to get food.
42:11 We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not
 come with any secret purpose.
42:12 And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor
 the land is.
42:13 Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons
 of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now
 with our father, and one is dead.
42:14 And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some
 secret purpose;
42:15 But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life
 of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your
 youngest brother comes here.
42:16 Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest
 of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested
 to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your
 purpose is certainly secret.
42:17 So he put them in prison for three days.
42:18 And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you
 would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
42:19 If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison,
 while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
42:20 And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that
 your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to
 death. This is what you are to do.
42:21 And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our
 brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear
 to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.
42:22 And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the
 child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment
 has come on us for his blood.
42:23 They were not conscious that the sense of their words was
 clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one
 who had knowledge of their language.
42:24 And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping;
 then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put
 chains on him before their eyes.
42:25 Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of
 grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag,
 and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done.
42:26 Then they put the bags of grain on their asses and went
 away.
42:27 Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening
 his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth
 of the bag.
42:28 And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back:
 it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and
 turning to one another they said, What is this which God has
 done to us?
42:29 So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of
 Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences,
 saying,
42:30 The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us
 and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret
 evil purpose.
42:31 And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil
 designs;
42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead,
 and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.
42:33 And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be
 certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with
 me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
42:34 And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I
 will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your
 brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.
42:35 And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was
 seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when
 they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.
42:36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my
 children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now
 you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
42:37 And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come
 back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him
 safely back to you.
42:38 And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for
 his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him
 on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to
 the underworld in sorrow.
43:1 Now the land was in bitter need of food.
43:2 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used
 up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little
 food.
43:3 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You
 are not to come before me again without your brother.
43:4 If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and
 get food:
43:5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the
 man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother
 is not with you.
43:6 And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to
 him that you had a brother?
43:7 And they said, The man put a number of questions to us
 about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still
 living? have you another brother? And we had to give him
 answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come
 back with your brother?
43:8 Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with
 me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our
 little ones may not come to destruction.
43:9 Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I
 do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for
 ever.
43:10 Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have
 come back again by now.
43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so,
 then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your
 vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and
 nuts:
43:12 And take twice as much money with you; that is to say,
 take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have
 been an error;
43:13 And take your brother and go back to the man:
43:14 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the
 man, so that he may give you back your other brother and
 Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no
 help for it.
43:15 So they took what their father said for the man, and twice
 as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their
 journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.
43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief
 servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal,
 for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.
43:17 And the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into
 Joseph's house.
43:18 Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken
 into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money
 which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking
 for something against us, so that he may come down on us and
 take us and our asses for his use.
43:19 So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of
 the house,
43:20 And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to
 get food;
43:21 And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening
 our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his
 bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to
 give it back;
43:22 As well as more money, with which to get food: we have no
 idea who put our money in our bags.
43:23 Then the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear:
 your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your
 bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to
 them.
43:24 And the servant took them into Joseph's house, and gave
 them water for washing their feet; and he gave their asses
 food.
43:25 And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in
 the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they
 were to have a meal there.
43:26 And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which
 they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.
43:27 And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man
 of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?
43:28 And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is
 still living. And they went down on their faces before him.
43:29 Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother,
 his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of
 whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.
43:30 Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went
 quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.
43:31 Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling
 his feelings said, Put food before us.
43:32 And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them
 by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by
 themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the
 Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.
43:33 And they were all given their seats before him in order of
 birth, from the oldest to the youngest: so that they were
 looking at one another in wonder.
43:34 And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent
 five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And
 they took wine freely with him.
44:1 Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house,
 saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into
 them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;
44:2 And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag,
 with his money. So he did as Joseph said.
44:3 And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.
44:4 And when they had gone only a little way out of the town,
 Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after
 them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you
 done evil in reward for good?
44:5 Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by
 which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done
 evil.
44:6 So he overtook them and said these words to them.
44:7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as
 these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
44:8 See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave
 back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we
 take silver or gold from your lord's house?
44:9 If it comes to light that any of your servants has done
 this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's
 servants.
44:10 And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is
 seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible.
44:11 Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.
44:12 And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending
 with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.
44:13 Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again
 and went back to the town.
44:14 So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he
 was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.
44:15 And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done?
 had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see
 what is secret?
44:16 And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we
 put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of
 your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in
 whose bag your cup was seen.
44:17 Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who
 had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your
 father in peace.
44:18 Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a
 word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning
 against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to
 us.
44:19 My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a
 brother?
44:20 And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young
 child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he
 is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.
44:21 And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me
 with you, so that I may see him.
44:22 And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go;
 for if he went away his father would come to his death.
44:23 But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother
 does not come with you, you will not see my face again.
44:24 And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave
 him an account of my lord's words.
44:25 And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.
44:26 And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us
 will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our
 youngest brother is not with us.
44:27 And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife
 gave me two sons;
44:28 The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come
 to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,
44:29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to
 him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the
 underworld.
44:30 If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the
 boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,
44:31 When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to
 his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to
 the underworld.
44:32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father,
 saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be
 the sin for ever.
44:33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the
 boy, and let him go back with his brothers.
44:34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and
 see the evil which will come on my father?
45:1 Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those
 who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away,
 and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who
 he was.
45:2 And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of
 the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.
45:3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father
 still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an
 answer for they were troubled before him.
45:4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they
 came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent
 into Egypt.
45:5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending
 me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of
 your lives.
45:6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are
 still five more years to come in which there will be no
 ploughing or cutting of grain.
45:7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on
 earth so that you might become a great nation.
45:8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has
 made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
 ruler over all the land of Egypt.
45:9 Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son
 Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt:
 come down to me straight away:
45:10 The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will
 be near me; you and your children and your children's children,
 and your flocks and herds and all you have:
45:11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your
 family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years
 to come.
45:12 Now truly, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
 Benjamin see, that it is my mouth which says these things to
 you.
45:13 Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all
 you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.
45:14 Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin
 himself was weeping on Joseph's neck.
45:15 Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over
 them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to
 him.
45:16 And news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and
 it was said that Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed
 good to Pharaoh and his servants.
45:17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your
 goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;
45:18 And get your father and your families and come back to me:
 and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat
 of the land will be your food.
45:19 And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the
 land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get
 your father and come back.
45:20 And take no thought for your goods, for the best of all
 the land of Egypt is yours.
45:21 And the children of Israel did as he said; and Joseph gave
 them carts as had been ordered by Pharaoh, and food for their
 journey.
45:22 To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing;
 but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five
 changes of clothing.
45:23 And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from
 Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread
 and food for his father on the journey.
45:24 And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them,
 See that you have no argument on the road.
45:25 So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan,
 to their father Jacob.
45:26 And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over
 all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite
 overcome, for he had no faith in it.
45:27 And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said
 to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for
 them, his spirit came back to him:
45:28 And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still
 living; I will go and see him before my death.
46:1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to
 Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father
 Isaac.
46:2 And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And
 he said, Here am I.
46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to
 Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you
 there:
46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you
 come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on
 your eyes.
46:5 Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob
 took their father and their little ones and their wives in the
 carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.
46:6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had
 got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and
 all his seed:
46:7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his
 daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.
46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel who came
 into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest
 son;
46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and
 Carmi;
46:10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and
 Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;
46:11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez
 and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land
 of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and
 Shimron;
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel;
46:15 All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the
 children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they
 were thirty-three in number.
46:16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon,
 Eri and Arodi and Areli;
46:17 And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and
 Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber
 and Malchiel.
46:18 These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his
 daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.
46:19 The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20 And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt,
 by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel,
 Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
46:22 All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by
 her, fourteen persons.
46:23 And the son of Dan was Hushim.
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and
 Shillem.
46:25 These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his
 daughter Rachel, seven persons.
46:26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the
 offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into
 account the wives of Jacob's sons.
46:27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two.
 Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
46:28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word
 from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.
46:29 And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for
 the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he
 put his arms round his neck, weeping.
46:30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living
 again, I am ready for death.
46:31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's
 people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him,
 My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan,
 have come to me;
46:32 And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle,
 and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they
 have.
46:33 Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your
 business?
46:34 You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle
 from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way
 you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves;
 because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the
 Egyptians.
47:1 Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
 brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have,
 are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.
47:2 And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they
 said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were
 before us.
47:4 And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in
 this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land
 of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves
 in the land of Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of
 Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over
 my cattle.
47:6 And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when
 word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said
 to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the
 land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers
 have the best of the land for their resting-place.
47:7 Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and
 Jacob gave him his blessing.
47:8 And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?
47:9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a
 hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have
 been the years of my life, and less than the years of the
 wanderings of my fathers.
47:10 And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from
 before him.
47:11 And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers,
 and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of
 the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.
47:12 And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and
 all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of
 their families.
47:13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that
 all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.
47:14 And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which
 had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he
 put it in Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the
 Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you
 have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no
 more money.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you
 grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone.
47:17 So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread
 in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so
 all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.
47:18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the
 second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's
 knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of
 cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but
 our bodies and our land;
47:19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our
 land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our
 land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we
 may have life and the land may not become waste.
47:20 So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every
 Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of
 their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.
47:21 And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by
 town, from one end of Egypt to the other.
47:22 Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the
 priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what
 Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.
47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your
 land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to
 put in your fields.
47:24 And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to
 Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and
 for your families and your little ones.
47:25 And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death;
 may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's
 servants.
47:26 Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that
 Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the
 priests did not become his.
47:27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land
 of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great
 in numbers and in wealth.
47:28 And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen
 years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
47:29 And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his
 son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your
 hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to
 rest in Egypt;
47:30 But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of
 Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he
 said, I will do so.
47:31 And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to
 him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.
48:1 Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father
 was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
48:2 And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to
 see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had
 himself lifted up in his bed.
48:3 And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me
 in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his
 blessing,
48:4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you
 increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I
 will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage
 for ever.
48:5 And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I
 came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine,
 in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.
48:6 And any other offspring which you have after them, will be
 yours, and will be named after their brothers in their
 heritage.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook
 Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from
 Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath,
 which is Beth-lehem.
48:8 Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these?
48:9 And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God
 has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me,
 and I will give them a blessing.
48:10 Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear,
 and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him,
 and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.
48:11 And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your
 face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your
 children.
48:12 Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went
 down on his face to the earth.
48:13 Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at
 Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at
 Israel's right side, placing them near him.
48:14 And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the
 head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of
 Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the
 older.
48:15 And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom
 my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has
 taken care of me all my life till this day,
48:16 The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his
 blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my
 fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them
 become a great nation in the earth.
48:17 Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand
 on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and
 lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of
 Manasseh.
48:18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this
 is the older; put your right hand on his head.
48:19 But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on
 purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great
 one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his
 seed will become a great family of nations.
48:20 So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be
 the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make
 you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before
 Manasseh.
48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God
 will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.
48:22 And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem
 as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword
 and my bow.
49:1 And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all
 of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future
 times.
49:2 Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of
 Israel your father.
49:3 Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my
 strength, first in pride and first in power:
49:4 But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not
 be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his
 bride-bed, and made it unclean.
49:5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their
 secret designs.
49:6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O
 my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men
 to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.
49:7 A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their
 wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be
 broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
49:8 To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand
 will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go
 down to the earth before you.
49:9 Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have
 become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion
 stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be
 broken?
49:10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he
 will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the
 right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his
 rule.
49:11 Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to
 the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in
 the blood of grapes:
49:12 His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with
 milk.
49:13 The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he
 will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by
 Zidon.
49:14 Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:
49:15 And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing;
 so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.
49:16 Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes
 of Israel.
49:17 May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road,
 biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.
49:18 I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.
49:19 Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down
 on them in their flight.
49:20 Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.
49:21 Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.
49:22 Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the
 fountain;
49:23 He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows
 against him, cruelly wounding him:
49:24 But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords
 of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of
 the Stone of Israel:
49:25 Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and
 by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from
 heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the
 earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:
49:26 Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings
 of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let
 them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was
 separate from his brothers.
49:27 Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he
 takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he
 has taken.
49:28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the
 words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he
 gave his blessing.
49:29 And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my
 people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the
 field of Ephron the Hittite,
49:30 In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the
 land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to
 be his resting-place.
49:31 There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and
 there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah
 to rest.
49:32 In the rock in the field which was got for a price from
 the people of Heth.
49:33 And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his
 sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and
 went the way of his people.
50:1 And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping
 and kissing him.
50:2 And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the
 necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding
 it in linen with spices, and they did so.
50:3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went
 by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for
 seventy days.
50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said
 to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say
 these words to Pharaoh:
50:5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put
 me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the
 land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last
 resting-place, and I will come back again.
50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you
 gave your oath to him.
50:7 So Joseph went up to put his father in his last
 resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh,
 and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land
 of Egypt,
50:8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his
 father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and
 herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.
50:9 And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.
50:10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side
 of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with
 great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven
 days.
50:11 And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at
 the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is
 the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named
 Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.
50:12 So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:
50:13 For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to
 rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which
 Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron
 the Hittite at Mamre.
50:14 And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his
 brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.
50:15 Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers
 said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be
 turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the
 evil which we did to him.
50:16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before
 his death, gave us orders, saying,
50:17 You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your
 brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if
 it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your
 father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was
 overcome with weeping.
50:18 Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said,
 Truly, we are your servants.
50:19 And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?
50:20 As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has
 given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as
 you see today.
50:21 So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your
 little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
50:22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in
 Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation:
 and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth
 on Joseph's knees.
50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has
 come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this
 land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and
 Isaac and Jacob.
50:25 Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath,
 saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are
 to take my bones away from here.
50:26 So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years
 old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in
 Egypt.
