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The First Book of Moses, called Genesis


CHAPTER
1 In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was
good: and God divided the
light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which
were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the
firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was
so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was
good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:
and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass,
and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were
the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in
the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days, and
years:
15 And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was
so.
16 And God made two great lights; the
greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule
the night: he made the stars
also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of
the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide
the light from the darkness: and God saw
that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were
the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and
every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind: and God saw that it was
good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the
earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were
the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping
thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God
created he him; male and female created
he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in
the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be
for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and
to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth
upon the earth, wherein there
is life, I have given every green herb
for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had
made, and, behold, it
was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.

CHAPTER 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the
host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had
made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his
work which God created and
made.
4 These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that
the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and
every herb of the field before it grew:
for the Lord God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till
the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the
earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a
living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord
God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and good
for food; the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge of good
and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water
the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into
four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that
is it which compasseth
the whole land of Havilah, where there
is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good:
there is bdellium and
the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is
Gihon: the same is it
that compasseth the whole land of
Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is
Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is
Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and
put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good
that the man should
be alone; I will make him an help meet
for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air;
and brought them unto Adam to
see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every
living creature, that was the name
thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the
air, and to every beast of the field;
but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he
a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of
my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of
Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and
his wife, and were
not ashamed.

CHAPTER 3
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said
unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree
of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye
touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely
die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and
evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree
was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a
tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did
eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened,
and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord
God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and Adam
and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where
art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the
garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou
wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not
eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou
gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman,
What is this that
thou hast done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast
done this, thou art cursed above all
cattle, and above every beast
of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou
go, and dust shalt thou eat
all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou
hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for
thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it
wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the
mother of all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did
the Lord God make coats
of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the
man is become as one of
us, to know good and evil: and now, lest
he put forth his hand, and
take also of the tree of life, and eat,
and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth
from the garden of
Eden, to till the ground from whence he
was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he
placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming
sword which turned every
way, to keep the way of the tree of
life.

CHAPTER 4
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she
conceived, and bare
Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from
the Lord.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper
of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
ground.
3 And in process of time it came to
pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto
the Lord.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the
firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof. And the Lord had
respect unto Abel and to his
offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he
had not respect. And
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance
fell.
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art
thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be
accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
And unto thee shall be his
desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother:
and it came to pass,
when they were in the field, that Cain
rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him.
9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is
Abel thy brother? And
he said, I know not: Am I my brother's
keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the
voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the
ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the
earth, which hath opened
her mouth to receive thy brother's blood
from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it
shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be in
the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My
punishment is greater than
I can bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this
day from the face of
the earth; and from thy face shall I be
hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;
and it shall come to pass,
that every one that findeth me shall
slay me.
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore
whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him
sevenfold. And the Lord set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord, and dwelt
in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Enoch:
and he builded a city, and called the
name of the city, after the
name of his son, Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and
Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael
begat Lamech.
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives:
the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the
father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he
was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain,
an instructor of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the
sister of Tubalcain was
Naamah.
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah
and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto
my speech: for I have slain
a man to my wounding, and a young man to
my hurt.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she
bare a son, and
called his name Seth: For God, said she,
hath appointed me another
seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was
born a son; and he
called his name Enos: then began men to
call upon the name of the
Lord.

CHAPTER 5
1 This is the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God
made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and
called their name Adam, in the day when
they were created.
3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty
years, and begat a son
in his own likeness, after his image;
and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and
daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were
nine hundred and
thirty years: and he died.
6 And Seth lived an hundred and five
years, and begat Enos:
7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos
eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters:
8 And all the days of Seth were nine
hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat
Cainan:
10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan
eight hundred and
fifteen years, and begat sons and
daughters:
11 And all the days of Enos were nine
hundred and five years:
and he died.
12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and
begat Mahalaleel:
13 And Cainan lived after he begat
Mahalaleel eight hundred
and forty years, and begat sons and
daughters:
14 And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years:
and he died.
15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five
years, and begat Jared:
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat
Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and
daughters:
17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were
eight hundred ninety
and five years: and he died.
18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and
two years, and he
begat Enoch:
19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch
eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters:
20 And all the days of Jared were nine
hundred sixty and two
years: and he died.
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years,
and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he
begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and
daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty and five
years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was
not; for God took
him.
25 And Methuselah lived an hundred
eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech:
26 And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years, and begat sons and
daughters:
27 And all the days of Methuselah were
nine hundred sixty and
nine years: and he died.
28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty
and two years, and begat
a son:
29 And he called his name Noah, saying,
This same shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil
of our hands, because of
the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah
five hundred ninety
and five years, and begat sons and
daughters:
31 And all the days of Lamech were seven
hundred seventy and
seven years: and he died.
32 And Noah was five hundred years old:
and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.

CHAPTER 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to
multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born
unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were
fair; and they took them wives of all
which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not
always strive with
man, for that he also is flesh: yet his
days shall be an hundred
and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in
those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and
they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men which were
of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had
made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man
whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man,
and beast, and the creeping
thing, and the fowls of the air; for it
repenteth me that I have
made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of
the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noah:
Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was
filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of
all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the
earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in
the ark, and shalt pitch it within and
without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou
shalt make it of: The
length of the ark shall be three hundred
cubits, the breadth of it
fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt
thou finish it above; and the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the
side thereof; with lower, second, and
third stories shalt thou make
it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a
flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life, from
under heaven; and every thing that is in
the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my
covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons,
and thy wife, and thy
sons'wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all
flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep
them alive with thee; they
shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of
cattle after their kind,
of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every
sort shall come unto thee, to keep them
alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food
that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be
for food for thee, and for
them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that
God commanded him, so
did he.

CHAPTER 7
1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou
and all thy house
into the ark; for thee have I seen
righteous before me in this
generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take
to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that
are not clean by two, the
male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens,
the male and the female;
to keep seed alive upon the face of all
the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause
it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and
every living substance that
I have made will I destroy from off the
face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that
the Lord commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old
when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and
his wife, and his
sons'wives with him, into the ark,
because of the waters of the
flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that
are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth
upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah
into the ark, the male
and the female, as God had commanded
Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days,
that the waters of
the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second
month, the seventeenth day of the month,
the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven
were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty
days and forty
nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and
Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife, and the three wives of
his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind,
and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind, and every fowl
after his kind, every bird of
every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the
ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male
and female of all
flesh, as God had commanded him: and the
Lord shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the
earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it
was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth; and
all the high hills, that were under the
whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon
the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of beast, and of
every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath
of life, of all that
was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and
cattle, and the creeping things,
and the fowl of the heaven; and they
were destroyed from the earth:
and Noah only remained alive, and they
that were with him in the
ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the
earth an hundred and
fifty days.

CHAPTER 8
1 And God remembered Noah, and every
living thing, and all the
cattle that was with him in the ark: and
God made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the
earth continually: and
after the end of the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, upon the mountains of
Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually
until the tenth month:
in the tenth month, on the first day of
the month, were the tops of
the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he
had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went
forth to and fro,
until the waters were dried up from off
the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
see if the waters
were abated from off the face of the
ground;
9 But the dove found no rest for the
sole of her foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the
waters were on the face of
the whole earth: then he put forth his
hand, and took her, and
pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days;
and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark;
11 And the dove came in to him in the
evening; and, lo, in her
mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so
Noah knew that the waters
were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days;
and sent forth the
dove; which returned not again unto him
any more.
13 And it came to pass in the six
hundredth and first year, in
the first month, the first day of the
month, the waters were dried
up from off the earth: and Noah removed
the covering of the ark,
and looked, and, behold, the face of the
ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven
and twentieth day of
the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy
wife, and thy sons, and
thy sons'wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living
thing that is with thee,
of all flesh, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth; that
they may breed abundantly
in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons,
and his wife, and his
sons'wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing,
and every fowl, and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,
after their kinds, went forth
out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the
Lord; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings
on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour;
and the Lord said in
his heart, I will not again curse the
ground any more for man's
sake; for the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more
every thing living, as I have
done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not cease.

CHAPTER 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and
said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of
you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl
of the air, upon all that
moveth upon the earth, and upon all the
fishes of the sea; into
your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall
be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all
things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which
is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives
will I require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it,
and at the hand of man; at
the hand of every man's brother will I
require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply;
bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply
therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant
with you, and with
your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that
is with you, of the
fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast
of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the ark, to every
beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with
you; neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the
waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to
destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of
the covenant which I
make between me and you and every living
creature that is with you,
for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I
bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant,
which is between me and
you and every living creature of all
flesh; and the waters shall no
more become a flood to destroy all
flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud;
and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is
upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the
token of the covenant,
which I have established between me and
all flesh that is upon the
earth.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth
of the ark, were
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is
the father of Canaan.
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and
of them was the whole
earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman,
and he planted a
vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw
the nakedness of his
father, and told his two brethren
without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment,
and laid it upon both
their shoulders, and went backward, and
covered the nakedness of
their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their
father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a
servant of servants shall
he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God
of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he
shall dwell in the tents
of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant.
28 And Noah lived after the flood three
hundred and fifty
years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine
hundred and fifty years:
and he died.

CHAPTER 10
1 Now these are the generations of the
sons of Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were
sons born after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog,
and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and
Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and
Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the
Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after
their families, in their
nations.
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and
Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of
Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be
a mighty one in the
earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the
Lord: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter
before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar.
11 Out of that land went forth Asshur,
and builded Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:
the same is a great
city.
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim,
and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of
whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.
15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn,
and Heth,
16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite,
and the Girgasite,
17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and
the Sinite,
18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite,
and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the
Canaanites spread abroad.
19 And the border of the Canaanites was
from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou
goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even
unto Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham, after
their families, after
their tongues, in their countries, and
in their nations.
21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the
children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the elder, even to
him were children born.
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and
Asshur, and Arphaxad, and
Lud, and Aram.
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and
Hul, and Gether, and
Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah
begat Eber.
25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the
name of one was
Peleg; for in his days was the earth
divided; and his brother's
name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and
Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab:
all these were the sons
of Joktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as
thou goest unto
Sephar a mount of the east.
31 These are the sons of Shem, after
their families, after
their tongues, in their lands, after
their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of
Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and by
these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood.

CHAPTER 11
1 And the whole earth was of one
language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed
from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of
Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to,
let us make brick, and
burn them throughly. And they had brick
for stone, and slime had
they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us
a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let
us make us a name, lest we
be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people
is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to
do: and now nothing will
be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there
confound their language,
that they may not understand one
another's speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to
build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called
Babel; because the Lord
did there confound the language of all
the earth: and from thence
did the Lord scatter them abroad upon
the face of all the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem:
Shem was an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years
after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat
Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty
years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat
Salah four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and
daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and
begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber
four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years,
and begat Peleg:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg
four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and
begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu
two hundred and nine
years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years,
and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug
two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and
begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor
two hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty
years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah
an hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and
daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and
begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of
Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father
Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives:
the name of Abram's
wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's
wife, Milcah, the daughter
of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the
father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no
child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot
the son of Haran his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter in
law, his son Abram's wife; and
they went forth with them from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the
land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two
hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.

CHAPTER 12
1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get
thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father's house, unto a
land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou
shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth be
blessed.
4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had
spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and
five years old when he
departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot
his brother's son,
and all their substance that they had
gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went
forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan
they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land unto
the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the
Canaanite was then in the land.
7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded
he an altar unto the Lord,
who appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a
mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having
Bethel on the west, and Hai on
the east: and there he builded an altar
unto the Lord, and called
upon the name of the Lord.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still
toward the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land:
and Abram went down
into Egypt to sojourn there; for the
famine was grievous in the
land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was come
near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife,
Behold now, I know that
thou art a fair woman to look upon:
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when
the Egyptians shall
see thee, that they shall say, This is
his wife: and they will kill
me, but they will save thee alive.
13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister:
that it may be well
with me for thy sake; and my soul shall
live because of thee.
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram
was come into Egypt,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she
was very fair.
15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her,
and commended her
before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken
into Pharaoh's house.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her
sake: and he had sheep,
and oxen, and he asses, and menservants,
and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels.
17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his
house with great
plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said,
What is this that thou
hast done unto me? why didst thou not
tell me that she was thy
wife?
19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so
I might have taken
her to me to wife: now therefore behold
thy wife, take her, and go
thy way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men
concerning him: and they sent
him away, and his wife, and all that he
had.

CHAPTER 13
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he,
and his wife, and all
that he had, and Lot with him, into the
south.
2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in
silver, and in gold.
3 And he went on his journeys from the
south even to Bethel,
unto the place where his tent had been
at the beginning, between
Bethel and Hai;
4 Unto the place of the altar, which he
had made there at the
first: and there Abram called on the
name of the Lord.
5 And Lot also, which went with Abram,
had flocks, and herds,
and tents.
6 And the land was not able to bear
them, that they might
dwell together: for their substance was
great, so that they could
not dwell together.
7 And there was a strife between the
herdmen of Abram's cattle
and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the
Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be
no strife, I pray
thee, between me and thee, and between
my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we be brethren.
9 Is not the whole land before thee?
separate thyself, I pray
thee, from me: if thou wilt take the
left hand, then I will go to
the right; or if thou depart to the
right hand, then I will go to
the left.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and
beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was well watered every
where, before the Lord
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as
the garden of the Lord, like
the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto
Zoar.
11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan; and Lot
journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the one from the
other.
12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan,
and Lot dwelled in the
cities of the plain, and pitched his
tent toward Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and
sinners before the
Lord exceedingly.
14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after
that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and
look from the place where
thou art northward, and southward, and
eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land which thou seest, to
thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
16 And I will make thy seed as the dust
of the earth: so that
if a man can number the dust of the
earth, then shall thy seed also
be numbered.
17 Arise, walk through the land in the
length of it and in the
breadth of it; for I will give it unto
thee.
18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came
and dwelt in the
plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and
built there an altar unto
the Lord.

CHAPTER 14
1 And it came to pass in the days of
Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer
king of Elam, and Tidal king
of nations;
2 That these made war with Bera king of
Sodom, and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah,
and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is
Zoar.
3 All these were joined together in the
vale of Siddim, which
is the salt sea.
4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer,
and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled.
5 And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings
that were with him, and smote the
Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim,
and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in
Shaveh Kiriathaim,
6 And the Horites in their mount Seir,
unto Elparan, which is
by the wilderness.
7 And they returned, and came to
Enmishpat, which is Kadesh,
and smote all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
8 And there went out the king of Sodom,
and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the
king of Zeboiim, and the
king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and
they joined battle with them
in the vale of Siddim;
9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam,
and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar,
and Arioch king of Ellasar;
four kings with five.
10 And the vale of Siddim was full of
slimepits; and the kings
of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell
there; and they that remained
fled to the mountain.
11 And they took all the goods of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and went their way.
12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's
son, who dwelt in
Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
13 And there came one that had escaped,
and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of
Mamre the Amorite, brother of
Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these
were confederate with Abram.
14 And when Abram heard that his brother
was taken captive, he
armed his trained servants, born in his
own house, three hundred
and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them,
he and his servants,
by night, and smote them, and pursued
them unto Hobah, which is on
the left hand of Damascus.
16 And he brought back all the goods,
and also brought again
his brother Lot, and his goods, and the
women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom went out to
meet him after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and
of the kings that were with
him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is
the king's dale.
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought
forth bread and wine:
and he was the priest of the most high
God.
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed
be Abram of the most high God, possessor
of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the most high God,
which hath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
21 And the king of Sodom said unto
Abram, Give me the persons, and take the
goods to thyself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom,
I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord,
the most high God, the possessor of
heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread
even to a shoelatchet, and that I will
not take any thing that is thine, lest
thou shouldest say, I have made Abram
rich:
24 Save only that which the young men
have eaten, and the portion of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and
Mamre; let them take their portion.

CHAPTER 15
1 After these things the word of the
Lord came unto Abram in a vision,
saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy
shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt
thou give me, seeing I go childless, and
the steward of my house is this Eliezer
of Damascus?
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou
hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in
my house is mine heir.
4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came
unto him, saying, This shall not be
thine heir; but he that shall come forth
out of thine own bowels shall be thine
heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and
said, Look now toward heaven, and tell
the stars, if thou be able to number
them: and he said unto him, So shall thy
seed be.
6 And he believed in the Lord; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord
that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to
inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I
know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me an
heifer of three years old, and a she
goat of three years old, and a ram of
three years old, and a turtledove, and a
young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and
divided them in the midst, and laid each
piece one against another: but the birds
divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the
carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an
horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger
in a land that is not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them
four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I judge: and afterward shall
they come out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in
peace; thou shalt be buried in a good
old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they
shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet
full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the
sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that
passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the Lord made a
covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the
river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and
the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

CHAPTER 16
1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no
children: and she had an handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now,
the Lord hath restrained me from
bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my
maid; it may be that I may obtain
children by her. And Abram hearkened to
the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her
maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt
ten years in the land of Canaan, and
gave her to her husband Abram to be his
wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she
conceived: and when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in
her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be
upon thee: I have given my maid into thy
bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes:
the Lord judge between me and thee.
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy
maid is in thy hand; do to her as it
pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by
a fountain of water in the wilderness,
by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? and whither wilt
thou go? And she said, I flee from the
face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, Return to thy mistress, and submit
thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, I will multiply thy seed
exceedingly, that it shall not be
numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, Behold, thou art with child, and
shalt bear a son, and shalt call his
name Ishmael; because the Lord hath
heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand
will be against every man, and every
man's hand against him; and he shall
dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.
13 And she called the name of the Lord
that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:
for she said, Have I also here looked
after him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well was called
Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between
Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram
called his son's name, which Hagar bare,
Ishmael.
16 And Abram was fourscore and six years
old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

CHAPTER 17
1 And when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram,
and said unto him, I am the Almighty
God; walk before me, and be thou
perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me
and thee, and will multiply thee
exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God
talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with
thee, and thou shalt be a father of many
nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be
called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations
have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding
fruitful, and I will make nations of
thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant
between me and thee and thy seed after
thee in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto
thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee, the land wherein thou
art a stranger, all the land of Canaan,
for an everlasting possession; and I
will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt
keep my covenant therefore, thou, and
thy seed after thee in their
generations.
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall
keep, between me and you and thy seed
after thee; Every man child among you
shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin; and it shall be a token
of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old shall
be circumcised among you, every man
child in your generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money
of any stranger, which is not of thy
seed.
13 He that is born in thy house, and he
that is bought with thy money, must
needs be circumcised: and my covenant
shall be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.
14 And the uncircumcised man child whose
flesh of his foreskin is not
circumcised, that soul shall be cut off
from his people; he hath broken my
covenant.
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for
Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and give thee a
son also of her: yea, I will bless her,
and she shall be a mother of nations;
kings of people shall be of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a
child be born unto him that is an
hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that
is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall
bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt
call his name Isaac: and I will
establish my covenant with him for an
everlasting covenant, and with his seed
after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard
thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will
multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes
shall he beget, and I will make him a
great nation.
21 But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee
at this set time in the next year.
22 And he left off talking with him, and
God went up from Abraham.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and
all that were born in his house, and all
that were bought with his money, every
male among the men of Abraham's house;
and circumcised the flesh of their
foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had
said unto him.
24 And Abraham was ninety years old and
nine, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen
years old, when he was circumcised in
the flesh of his foreskin.
26 In the selfsame day was Abraham
circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27 And all the men of his house, born in
the house, and bought with money of the
stranger, were circumcised with him.

CHAPTER 18
1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the
plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent
door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and looked,
and, lo, three men stood by him: and
when he saw them, he ran to meet them
from the tent door, and bowed himself
toward the ground,
3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found
favour in thy sight, pass not away, I
pray thee, from thy servant:
4 Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree:
5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread,
and comfort ye your hearts; after that
ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye
come to your servant. And they said, So
do, as thou hast said.
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent
unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal, knead it,
and make cakes upon the hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and
fetched a calf tender and good, and gave
it unto a young man; and he hasted to
dress it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the
calf which he had dressed, and set it
before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat.
9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah
thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the
tent.
10 And he said, I will certainly return
unto thee according to the time of life;
and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a
son. And Sarah heard it in the tent
door, which was behind him.
11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and
well stricken in age; and it ceased to
be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12 Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old
shall I have pleasure, my lord being old
also?
13 And the Lord said unto Abraham,
Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall
I of a surety bear a child, which am
old?
14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord?
At the time appointed I will return unto
thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.
15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed
not; for she was afraid. And he said,
Nay; but thou didst laugh.
16 And the men rose up from thence, and
looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went
with them to bring them on the way.
17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from
Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and
all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command
his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the
Lord, to do justice and judgment; that
the Lord may bring upon Abraham that
which he hath spoken of him.
20 And the Lord said, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because
their sin is very grievous;
21 I will go down now, and see whether
they have done altogether according to
the cry of it, which is come unto me;
and if not, I will know.
22 And the men turned their faces from
thence, and went toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt
thou also destroy the righteous with the
wicked?
24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city: wilt thou also destroy
and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after
this manner, to slay the righteous with
the wicked: and that the righteous
should be as the wicked, that be far
from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?
26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom
fifty righteous within the city, then I
will spare all the place for their
sakes.
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold
now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
28 Peradventure there shall lack five of
the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy
all the city for lack of five? And he
said, If I find there forty and five, I
will not destroy it.
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and
said, Peradventure there shall be forty
found there. And he said, I will not do
it for forty's sake.
30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the
Lord be angry, and I will speak:
Peradventure there shall thirty be found
there. And he said, I will not do it, if
I find thirty there.
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord:
Peradventure there shall be twenty found
there. And he said, I will not destroy
it for twenty's sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak yet but this
once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy
it for ten's sake.
33 And the Lord went his way, as soon as
he had left communing with Abraham: and
Abraham returned unto his place.

CHAPTER 19
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at
even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:
and Lot seeing them rose up to meet
them; and he bowed himself with his face
toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords,
turn in, I pray you, into your servant's
house, and tarry all night, and wash
your feet, and ye shall rise up early,
and go on your ways. And they said, Nay;
but we will abide in the street all
night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and
they turned in unto him, and entered
into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread,
and they did eat.
4 But before they lay down, the men of
the city, even the men of Sodom,
compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every
quarter:
5 And they called unto Lot, and said
unto him, Where are the men which came
in to thee this night? bring them out
unto us, that we may know them.
6 And Lot went out at the door unto
them, and shut the door after him,
7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not
so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which
have not known man; let me, I pray you,
bring them out unto you, and do ye to
them as is good in your eyes: only unto
these men do nothing; for therefore came
they under the shadow of my roof.
9 And they said, Stand back. And they
said again, This one fellow came in to
sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:
now will we deal worse with thee, than
with them. And they pressed sore upon
the man, even Lot, and came near to
break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand, and
pulled Lot into the house to them, and
shut to the door.
11 And they smote the men that were at
the door of the house with blindness,
both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door.
12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou
here any besides? son in law, and thy
sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever
thou hast in the city, bring them out of
this place:
13 For we will destroy this place,
because the cry of them is waxen great
before the face of the Lord; and the
Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his
sons in law, which married his
daughters, and said, Up, get you out of
this place; for the Lord will destroy
this city. But he seemed as one that
mocked unto his sons in law.
15 And when the morning arose, then the
angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take
thy wife, and thy two daughters, which
are here; lest thou be consumed in the
iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men laid
hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of
his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the Lord being merciful unto
him: and they brought him forth, and set
him without the city.
17 And it came to pass, when they had
brought them forth abroad, that he said,
Escape for thy life; look not behind
thee, neither stay thou in all the
plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou
be consumed.
18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so,
my Lord:
19 Behold now, thy servant hath found
grace in thy sight, and thou hast
magnified thy mercy, which thou hast
shewed unto me in saving my life; and I
cannot escape to the mountain, lest some
evil take me, and I die:
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee
unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me
escape thither, (is it not a little
one?) and my soul shall live.
21 And he said unto him, See, I have
accepted thee concerning this thing
also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I
cannot do any thing till thou be come
thither. Therefore the name of the city
was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when
Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from
the Lord out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and
all the plain, and all the inhabitants
of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind
him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham gat up early in the
morning to the place where he stood
before the Lord:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the
plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of
the country went up as the smoke of a
furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain, that
God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out
of the midst of the overthrow, when he
overthrew the cities in the which Lot
dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and
dwelt in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him; for he feared to
dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave,
he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the
younger, Our father is old, and there is
not a man in the earth to come in unto
us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink
wine, and we will lie with him, that we
may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine
that night: and the firstborn went in,
and lay with her father; and he
perceived not when she lay down, nor
when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that the firstborn said unto the
younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with
my father: let us make him drink wine
this night also; and go thou in, and lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine
that night also: and the younger arose,
and lay with him; and he perceived not
when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot
with child by their father.
37 And the firstborn bare a son, and
called his name Moab: the same is the
father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son,
and called his name Benammi: the same is
the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day.

CHAPTER 20
1 And Abraham journeyed from thence
toward the south country, and dwelled
between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned
in Gerar.
2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife,
She is my sister: and Abimelech king of
Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream
by night, and said to him, Behold, thou
art but a dead man, for the woman which
thou hast taken; for she is a man's
wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a
righteous nation?
5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister?
and she, even she herself said, He is my
brother: in the integrity of my heart
and innocency of my hands have I done
this.
6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea,
I know that thou didst this in the
integrity of thy heart; for I also
withheld thee from sinning against me:
therefore suffered I thee not to touch
her.
7 Now therefore restore the man his
wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall
pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and
if thou restore her not, know thou that
thou shalt surely die, thou, and all
that are thine.
8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his servants,
and told all these things in their ears:
and the men were sore afraid.
9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and
said unto him, What hast thou done unto
us? and what have I offended thee, that
thou hast brought on me and on my
kingdom a great sin? thou hast done
deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What
sawest thou, that thou hast done this
thing?
11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,
Surely the fear of God is not in this
place; and they will slay me for my
wife's sake.
12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she
is the daughter of my father, but not
the daughter of my mother; and she
became my wife.
13 And it came to pass, when God caused
me to wander from my father's house,
that I said unto her, This is thy
kindness which thou shalt shew unto me;
at every place whither we shall come,
say of me, He is my brother.
14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen,
and menservants, and womenservants, and
gave them unto Abraham, and restored him
Sarah his wife.
15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land
is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth
thee.
16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I
have given thy brother a thousand pieces
of silver: behold, he is to thee a
covering of the eyes, unto all that are
with thee, and with all other: thus she
was reproved.
17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God
healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his
maidservants; and they bare children.
18 For the Lord had fast closed up all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech,
because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

CHAPTER 21
1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had
said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he
had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham
a son in his old age, at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son
that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare
to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac
being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old,
when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to
laugh, so that all that hear will laugh
with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said unto
Abraham, that Sarah should have given
children suck? for I have born him a son
in his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned:
and Abraham made a great feast the same
day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the
Egyptian, which she had born unto
Abraham, mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast
out this bondwoman and her son: for the
son of this bondwoman shall not be heir
with my son, even with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in
Abraham's sight because of his son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not
be grievous in thy sight because of the
lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in
all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac
shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman
will I make a nation, because he is thy
seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and took bread, and a bottle of
water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting
it on her shoulder, and the child, and
sent her away: and she departed, and
wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the
bottle, and she cast the child under one
of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over
against him a good way off, as it were a
bowshot: for she said, Let me not see
the death of the child. And she sat over
against him, and lift up her voice, and
wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad;
and the angel of God called to Hagar out
of heaven, and said unto her, What
aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God
hath heard the voice of the lad where he
is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him
in thine hand; for I will make him a
great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw
a well of water; and she went, and
filled the bottle with water, and gave
the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he
grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and
became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of
Paran: and his mother took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt.
22 And it came to pass at that time,
that Abimelech and Phichol the chief
captain of his host spake unto Abraham,
saying, God is with thee in all that
thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by
God that thou wilt not deal falsely with
me, nor with my son, nor with my son's
son: but according to the kindness that
I have done unto thee, thou shalt do
unto me, and to the land wherein thou
hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech
because of a well of water, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken
away.
26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who
hath done this thing: neither didst thou
tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but
today.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and
gave them unto Abimelech; and both of
them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of
the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What
mean these seven ewe lambs which thou
hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe
lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that
they may be a witness unto me, that I
have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place
Beersheba; because there they sware both
of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at
Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and
Phichol the chief captain of his host,
and they returned into the land of the
Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in
Beersheba, and called there on the name
of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the
Philistines'land many days.

CHAPTER 22
1 And it came to pass after these
things, that God did tempt Abraham, and
said unto him, Abraham: and he said,
Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine
only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and
get thee into the land of Moriah; and
offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which I will
tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the
morning, and saddled his ass, and took
two of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son, and clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went
unto the place of which God had told
him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted
up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men,
Abide ye here with the ass; and I and
the lad will go yonder and worship, and
come again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt
offering, and laid it upon Isaac his
son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife; and they went both of them
together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his
father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here am I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where
is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering: so they went both of them
together.
9 And they came to the place which God
had told him of; and Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order,
and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on
the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto
him out of heaven, and said, Abraham,
Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon
the lad, neither do thou any thing unto
him: for now I know that thou fearest
God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and behold behind him a ram
caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and
offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that
place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to
this day, In the mount of the Lord it
shall be seen.
15 And the angel of the Lord called unto
Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the Lord, for because thou hast
done this thing, and hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee,
and in multiplying I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which is upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed; because thou
hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young
men, and they rose up and went together
to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at
Beersheba.
20 And it came to pass after these
things, that it was told Abraham,
saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also
born children unto thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his
brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash,
and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these
eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham's brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name was
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham,
and Thahash, and Maachah.

CHAPTER 23
1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and
twenty years old: these were the years
of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the
same is Hebron in the land of Canaan:
and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and
to weep for her.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his
dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth,
saying,
4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with
you: give me a possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury
my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered
Abraham, saying unto him,
6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty
prince among us: in the choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us
shall withhold from thee his sepulchre,
but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed
himself to the people of the land, even
to the children of Heth.
8 And he communed with them, saying, If
it be your mind that I should bury my
dead out of my sight; hear me, and
entreat for me to Ephron the son of
Zohar,
9 That he may give me the cave of
Machpelah, which he hath, which is in
the end of his field; for as much money
as it is worth he shall give it me for a
possession of a buryingplace amongst
you.
10 And Ephron dwelt among the children
of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered
Abraham in the audience of the children
of Heth, even of all that went in at the
gate of his city, saying,
11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give
I thee, and the cave that is therein, I
give it thee; in the presence of the
sons of my people give I it thee: bury
thy dead.
12 And Abraham bowed down himself before
the people of the land.
13 And he spake unto Ephron in the
audience of the people of the land,
saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray
thee, hear me: I will give thee money
for the field; take it of me, and I will
bury my dead there.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying
unto him,
15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is
worth four hundred shekels of silver;
what is that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead.
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron;
and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the
audience of the sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current money
with the merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron, which was in
Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the
field, and the cave which was therein,
and all the trees that were in the
field, that were in all the borders
round about, were made sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the
presence of the children of Heth, before
all that went in at the gate of his
city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah
his wife in the cave of the field of
Machpelah before Mamre: the same is
Hebron in the land of Canaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that is
therein, were made sure unto Abraham for
a possession of a buryingplace by the
sons of Heth.

CHAPTER 24
1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken
in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham
in all things.
2 And Abraham said unto his eldest
servant of his house, that ruled over
all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy
hand under my thigh:
3 And I will make thee swear by the
Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of
the earth, that thou shalt not take a
wife unto my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and
to my kindred, and take a wife unto my
son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him,
Peradventure the woman will not be
willing to follow me unto this land:
must I needs bring thy son again unto
the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou
that thou bring not my son thither
again.
7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me
from my father's house, and from the
land of my kindred, and which spake unto
me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto
thy seed will I give this land; he shall
send his angel before thee, and thou
shalt take a wife unto my son from
thence.
8 And if the woman will not be willing
to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear
from this my oath: only bring not my son
thither again.
9 And the servant put his hand under the
thigh of Abraham his master, and sware
to him concerning that matter.
10 And the servant took ten camels of
the camels of his master, and departed;
for all the goods of his master were in
his hand: and he arose, and went to
Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels to kneel down
without the city by a well of water at
the time of the evening, even the time
that women go out to draw water.
12 And he said, O Lord God of my master
Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed
this day, and shew kindness unto my
master Abraham.
13 Behold, I stand here by the well of
water; and the daughters of the men of
the city come out to draw water:
14 And let it come to pass, that the
damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy
pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink;
and she shall say, Drink, and I will
give thy camels drink also: let the same
be she that thou hast appointed for thy
servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know
that thou hast shewed kindness unto my
master.
15 And it came to pass, before he had
done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah
came out, who was born to Bethuel, son
of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's
brother, with her pitcher upon her
shoulder.
16 And the damsel was very fair to look
upon, a virgin, neither had any man
known her: and she went down to the
well, and filled her pitcher, and came
up.
17 And the servant ran to meet her, and
said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a
little water of thy pitcher.
18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she
hasted, and let down her pitcher upon
her hand, and gave him drink.
19 And when she had done giving him
drink, she said, I will draw water for
thy camels also, until they have done
drinking.
20 And she hasted, and emptied her
pitcher into the trough, and ran again
unto the well to draw water, and drew
for all his camels.
21 And the man wondering at her held his
peace, to wit whether the Lord had made
his journey prosperous or not.
22 And it came to pass, as the camels
had done drinking, that the man took a
golden earring of half a shekel weight,
and two bracelets for her hands of ten
shekels weight of gold;
23 And said, Whose daughter art thou?
tell me, I pray thee: is there room in
thy father's house for us to lodge in?
24 And she said unto him, I am the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,
which she bare unto Nahor.
25 She said moreover unto him, We have
both straw and provender enough, and
room to lodge in. 26 And the man bowed
down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
27 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God
of my master Abraham, who hath not left
destitute my master of his mercy and his
truth: I being in the way, the Lord led
me to the house of my master's brethren.
28 And the damsel ran, and told them of
her mother's house these things.
29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his
name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto
the man, unto the well.
30 And it came to pass, when he saw the
earring and bracelets upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake
the man unto me; that he came unto the
man; and, behold, he stood by the camels
at the well.
31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of
the Lord; wherefore standest thou
without? for I have prepared the house,
and room for the camels.
32 And the man came into the house: and
he ungirded his camels, and gave straw
and provender for the camels, and water
to wash his feet, and the men's feet
that were with him.
33 And there was set meat before him to
eat: but he said, I will not eat, until
I have told mine errand. And he said,
Speak on.
34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
35 And the Lord hath blessed my master
greatly; and he is become great: and he
hath given him flocks, and herds, and
silver, and gold, and menservants, and
maidservants, and camels, and asses.
36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son
to my master when she was old: and unto
him hath he given all that he hath.
37 And my master made me swear, saying,
Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, in
whose land I dwell:
38 But thou shalt go unto my father's
house, and to my kindred, and take a
wife unto my son.
39 And I said unto my master,
Peradventure the woman will not follow
me.
40 And he said unto me, The Lord, before
whom I walk, will send his angel with
thee, and prosper thy way; and thou
shalt take a wife for my son of my
kindred, and of my father's house:
41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my
oath, when thou comest to my kindred;
and if they give not thee one, thou
shalt be clear from my oath.
42 And I came this day unto the well,
and said, O Lord God of my master
Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way
which I go:
43 Behold, I stand by the well of water;
and it shall come to pass, that when the
virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I
say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a
little water of thy pitcher to drink;
44 And she say to me, Both drink thou,
and I will also draw for thy camels: let
the same be the woman whom the Lord hath
appointed out for my master's son.
45 And before I had done speaking in
mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth
with her pitcher on her shoulder; and
she went down unto the well, and drew
water: and I said unto her, Let me
drink, I pray thee.
46 And she made haste, and let down her
pitcher from her shoulder, and said,
Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the
camels drink also.
47 And I asked her, and said, Whose
daughter art thou? And she said, The
daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the
earring upon her face, and the bracelets
upon her hands.
48 And I bowed down my head, and
worshipped the Lord, and blessed the
Lord God of my master Abraham, which had
led me in the right way to take my
master's brother's daughter unto his
son.
49 And now if ye will deal kindly and
truly with my master, tell me: and if
not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.
50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and
said, The thing proceedeth from the
Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good.
51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take
her and go, and let her be thy master's
son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken.
52 And it came to pass, that, when
Abraham's servant heard their words, he
worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to
the earth.
53 And the servant brought forth jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he
gave also to her brother and to her
mother precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and
the men that were with him, and tarried
all night; and they rose up in the
morning, and he said, Send me away unto
my master.
55 And her brother and her mother said,
Let the damsel abide with us a few days,
at the least ten; after that she shall
go.
56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not,
seeing the Lord hath prospered my way;
send me away that I may go to my master.
57 And they said, We will call the
damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
58 And they called Rebekah, and said
unto her, Wilt thou go with this man?
And she said, I will go.
59 And they sent away Rebekah their
sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's
servant, and his men.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said
unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou
the mother of thousands of millions, and
let thy seed possess the gate of those
which hate them.
61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels,
and they rode upon the camels, and
followed the man: and the servant took
Rebekah, and went his way.
62 And Isaac came from the way of the
well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south
country.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide: and he lifted up
his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the
camels were coming.
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and
when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the
camel.
65 For she had said unto the servant,
What man is this that walketh in the
field to meet us? And the servant had
said, It is my master: therefore she
took a veil, and covered herself.
66 And the servant told Isaac all things
that he had done.
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother
Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she
became his wife; and he loved her: and
Isaac was comforted after his mother's
death.

CHAPTER 25
1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and
her name was Keturah.
2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan,
and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and
Shuah.
3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.
And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and
Letushim, and Leummim.
4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and
Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and
Eldaah. All these were the children of
Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he
had unto Isaac.
6 But unto the sons of the concubines,
which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts,
and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the
east country.
7 And these are the days of the years of
Abraham's life which he lived, an
hundred threescore and fifteen years.
8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and
died in a good old age, an old man, and
full of years; and was gathered to his
people.
9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried
him in the cave of Machpelah, in the
field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which is before Mamre;
10 The field which Abraham purchased of
the sons of Heth: there was Abraham
buried, and Sarah his wife.
11 And it came to pass after the death
of Abraham, that God blessed his son
Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well
Lahairoi. 12 Now these are the
generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's
handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
13 And these are the names of the sons
of Ishmael, by their names, according to
their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 And Mishma, and
Dumah, and Massa,
15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah:
16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and
these are their names, by their towns,
and by their castles; twelve princes
according to their nations.
17 And these are the years of the life
of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and
seven years: and he gave up the ghost
and died; and was gathered unto his
people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto
Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou
goest toward Assyria: and he died in the
presence of all his brethren.
19 And these are the generations of
Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat
Isaac:
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he
took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of
Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the
sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac entreated the Lord for his
wife, because she was barren: and the
Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah
his wife conceived.
22 And the children struggled together
within her; and she said, If it be so,
why am I thus? And she went to inquire
of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said unto
her, Two nations are in thy womb, and
two manner of people shall be separated
from thy bowels; and the one people
shall be stronger than the other people;
and the elder shall serve the younger.
24 And when her days to be delivered
were fulfilled, behold, there were twins
in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over
like an hairy garment; and they called
his name Esau.
26 And after that came his brother out,
and his hand took hold on Esau's heel;
and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac
was threescore years old when she bare
them.
27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a
cunning hunter, a man of the field; and
Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in
tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did
eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved
Jacob.
29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came
from the field, and he was faint:
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I
pray thee, with that same red pottage;
for I am faint: therefore was his name
called Edom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright.
32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the
point to die: and what profit shall this
birthright do to me?
33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day;
and he sware unto him: and he sold his
birthright unto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and
pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and
drink, and rose up, and went his way:
thus Esau despised his birthright.

CHAPTER 26
1 And there was a famine in the land,
beside the first famine that was in the
days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.
2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in
the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be
with thee, and will bless thee; for unto
thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all
these countries, and I will perform the
oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply
as the stars of heaven, and will give
unto thy seed all these countries; and
in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge, my commandments, my
statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7 And the men of the place asked him of
his wife; and he said, She is my sister:
for he feared to say, She is my wife;
lest, said he, the men of the place
should kill me for Rebekah; because she
was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been
there a long time, that Abimelech king
of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was
sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,
Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and
how saidst thou, She is my sister? And
Isaac said unto him, Because I said,
Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou
hast done unto us? one of the people
might lightly have lien with thy wife,
and thou shouldest have brought
guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people,
saying, He that toucheth this man or his
wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and
received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went
forward, and grew until he became very
great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and
possession of herds, and great store of
servants: and the Philistines envied
him.
15 For all the wells which his father's
servants had digged in the days of
Abraham his father, the Philistines had
stopped them, and filled them with
earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go
from us; for thou art much mightier than
we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and
pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar,
and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of
water, which they had digged in the days
of Abraham his father; for the
Philistines had stopped them after the
death of Abraham: and he called their
names after the names by which his
father had called them.
19 And Isaac's servants digged in the
valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive
with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water
is ours: and he called the name of the
well Esek; because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and
strove for that also: and he called the
name of it Sitnah.
22 And he removed from thence, and
digged another well; and for that they
strove not: and he called the name of it
Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord
hath made room for us, and we shall be
fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to
Beersheba.
24 And the Lord appeared unto him the
same night, and said, I am the God of
Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am
with thee, and will bless thee, and
multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
25 And he builded an altar there, and
called upon the name of the Lord, and
pitched his tent there: and there
Isaac's servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends,
and Phichol the chief captain of his
army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore
come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and
have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that
the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let
there be now an oath betwixt us, even
betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
covenant with thee;
29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we
have not touched thee, and as we have
done unto thee nothing but good, and
have sent thee away in peace: thou art
now the blessed of the Lord.
30 And he made them a feast, and they
did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the
morning, and sware one to another: and
Isaac sent them away, and they departed
from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day,
that Isaac's servants came, and told him
concerning the well which they had
digged, and said unto him, We have found
water.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore
the name of the city is Beersheba unto
this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he
took to wife Judith the daughter of
Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the
daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac
and to Rebekah.

CHAPTER 27
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac
was old, and his eyes were dim, so that
he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son, and said unto him, My son:
and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I
know not the day of my death:
3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy
weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go
out to the field, and take me some
venison;
4 And make me savoury meat, such as I
love, and bring it to me, that I may
eat; that my soul may bless thee before
I die.
5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to
Esau his son. And Esau went to the field
to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son,
saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak
unto Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury
meat, that I may eat, and bless thee
before the Lord before my death.
8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice
according to that which I command thee.
9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from
thence two good kids of the goats; and I
will make them savoury meat for thy
father, such as he loveth:
10 And thou shalt bring it to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he may
bless thee before his death.
11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,
Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man,
and I am a smooth man:
12 My father peradventure will feel me,
and I shall seem to him as a deceiver;
and I shall bring a curse upon me, and
not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me
be thy curse, my son: only obey my
voice, and go fetch me them.
14 And he went, and fetched, and brought
them to his mother: and his mother made
savoury meat, such as his father loved.
15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of
her eldest son Esau, which were with her
in the house, and put them upon Jacob
her younger son:
16 And she put the skins of the kids of
the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck:
17 And she gave the savoury meat and the
bread, which she had prepared, into the
hand of her son Jacob.
18 And he came unto his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here am I;
who art thou, my son?
19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am
Esau thy firstborn; I have done
according as thou badest me: arise, I
pray thee, sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me.
20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is
it that thou hast found it so quickly,
my son? And he said, Because the Lord
thy God brought it to me.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near,
I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my
son, whether thou be my very son Esau or
not.
22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his
father; and he felt him, and said, The
voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands
are the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him not, because his
hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's
hands: so he blessed him.
24 And he said, Art thou my very son
Esau? And he said, I am.
25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and
I will eat of my son's venison, that my
soul may bless thee. And he brought it
near to him, and he did eat: and he
brought him wine, and he drank.
26 And his father Isaac said unto him,
Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and
he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
blessed him, and said, See, the smell of
my son is as the smell of a field which
the Lord hath blessed:
28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of
heaven, and the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine:
29 Let people serve thee, and nations
bow down to thee: be lord over thy
brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow
down to thee: cursed be every one that
curseth thee, and blessed be he that
blesseth thee.
30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac
had made an end of blessing Jacob, and
Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau
his brother came in from his hunting.
31 And he also had made savoury meat,
and brought it unto his father, and said
unto his father, Let my father arise,
and eat of his son's venison, that thy
soul may bless me.
32 And Isaac his father said unto him,
Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son,
thy firstborn Esau.
33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly,
and said, Who? where is he that hath
taken venison, and brought it me, and I
have eaten of all before thou camest,
and have blessed him? yea, and he shall
be blessed.
34 And when Esau heard the words of his
father, he cried with a great and
exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his
father, Bless me, even me also, O my
father.
35 And he said, Thy brother came with
subtilty, and hath taken away thy
blessing.
36 And he said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these
two times: he took away my birthright;
and, behold, now he hath taken away my
blessing. And he said, Hast thou not
reserved a blessing for me?
37 And Isaac answered and said unto
Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord,
and all his brethren have I given to him
for servants; and with corn and wine
have I sustained him: and what shall I
do now unto thee, my son?
38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast
thou but one blessing, my father? bless
me, even me also, O my father. And Esau
lifted up his voice, and wept.
39 And Isaac his father answered and
said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling
shall be the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and
shalt serve thy brother; and it shall
come to pass when thou shalt have the
dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke
from off thy neck.
41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the
blessing wherewith his father blessed
him: and Esau said in his heart, The
days of mourning for my father are at
hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
42 And these words of Esau her elder son
were told to Rebekah: and she sent and
called Jacob her younger son, and said
unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as
touching thee, doth comfort himself,
purposing to kill thee.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice;
and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother
to Haran;
44 And tarry with him a few days, until
thy brother's fury turn away:
45 Until thy brother's anger turn away
from thee, and he forget that which thou
hast done to him: then I will send, and
fetch thee from thence: why should I be
deprived also of you both in one day?
46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary
of my life because of the daughters of
Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the
daughters of Heth, such as these which
are of the daughters of the land, what
good shall my life do me?

CHAPTER 28
1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed
him, and charged him, and said unto him,
Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan.
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house
of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters
of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham,
to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that
thou mayest inherit the land wherein
thou art a stranger, which God gave unto
Abraham.
5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went
to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel
the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed
Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram,
to take him a wife from thence; and that
as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan;
7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and
his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took
unto the wives which he had Mahalath the
daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the
sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba,
and went toward Haran.
11 And he lighted upon a certain place,
and tarried there all night, because the
sun was set; and he took of the stones
of that place, and put them for his
pillows, and lay down in that place to
sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder
set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven: and behold the angels
of God ascending and descending on it.
13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it,
and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham
thy father, and the God of Isaac: the
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed;
14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of
the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad
to the west, and to the east, and to the
north, and to the south: and in thee and
in thy seed shall all the families of
the earth be blessed.
15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will
keep thee in all places whither thou
goest, and will bring thee again into
this land; for I will not leave thee,
until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep,
and he said, Surely the Lord is in this
place; and I knew it not.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! this is none
other but the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.
18 And Jacob rose up early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had
put for his pillows, and set it up for a
pillar, and poured oil upon the top of
it.
19 And he called the name of that place
Beth-el: but the name of that city was
called Luz at the first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God
will be with me, and will keep me in
this way that I go, and will give me
bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 So that I come again to my father's
house in peace; then shall the Lord be
my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set for
a pillar, shall be God's house: and of
all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee.

CHAPTER 29
1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and
came into the land of the people of the
east.
2 And he looked, and behold a well in
the field, and, lo, there were three
flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of
that well they watered the flocks: and a
great stone was upon the well's mouth.
3 And thither were all the flocks
gathered: and they rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and watered the sheep,
and put the stone again upon the well's
mouth in his place.
4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren,
whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran
are we.
5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban
the son of Nahor? And they said, We know
him.
6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And
they said, He is well: and, behold,
Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day,
neither is it time that the cattle
should be gathered together: water ye
the sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said, We cannot, until all
the flocks be gathered together, and
till they roll the stone from the well's
mouth; then we water the sheep.
9 And while he yet spake with them,
Rachel came with her father's sheep: for
she kept them.
10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw
Rachel the daughter of Laban his
mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban
his mother's brother, that Jacob went
near, and rolled the stone from the
well's mouth, and watered the flock of
Laban his mother's brother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted
up his voice, and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her
father's brother, and that he was
Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her
father.
13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard
the tidings of Jacob his sister's son,
that he ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and kissed him, and brought him to
his house. And he told Laban all these
things.
14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou
art my bone and my flesh. And he abode
with him the space of a month.
15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because
thou art my brother, shouldest thou
therefore serve me for nought? tell me,
what shall thy wages be?
16 And Laban had two daughters: the name
of the elder was Leah, and the name of
the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was
beautiful and well favoured.
18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I
will serve thee seven years for Rachel
thy younger daughter.
19 And Laban said, It is better that I
give her to thee, than that I should
give her to another man: abide with me.
20 And Jacob served seven years for
Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a
few days, for the love he had to her.
21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my
wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I
may go in unto her.
22 And Laban gather ed together all the
men of the place, and made a feast.
23 And it came to pass in the evening,
that he took Leah his daughter, and
brought her to him; and he went in unto
her.
24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah
Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
25 And it came to pass, that in the
morning, behold, it was Leah: and he
said to Laban, What is this thou hast
done unto me? did not I serve with thee
for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
beguiled me?
26 And Laban said, It must not be so
done in our country, to give the younger
before the firstborn.
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give
thee this also for the service which
thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her
week: and he gave him Rachel his
daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter
Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and
he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and
served with him yet seven other years.
31 And when the Lord saw that Leah was
hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel
was barren.
32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son,
and she called his name Reuben: for she
said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon
my affliction; now therefore my husband
will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and said, Because the Lord hath
heard that I was hated, he hath
therefore given me this son also: and
she called his name Simeon.
34 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and said, Now this time will my
husband be joined unto me, because I
have born him three sons: therefore was
his name called Levi.
35 And she conceived again, and bare a
son: and she said, Now will I praise the
Lord: therefore she called his name
Judah; and left bearing.

CHAPTER 30
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her
sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against
Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's
stead, who hath withheld from thee the
fruit of the womb?
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah,
go in unto her; and she shall bear upon
my knees, that I may also have children
by her.
4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid
to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a
son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me,
and hath also heard my voice, and hath
given me a son: therefore called she his
name Dan.
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived
again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings
have I wrestled with my sister, and I
have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had left
bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and
gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and
she called his name Gad.
12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a
second son.
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the
daughters will call me blessed: and she
called his name Asher.
14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat
harvest, and found mandrakes in the
field, and brought them unto his mother
Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me,
I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15 And she said unto her, Is it a small
matter that thou hast taken my husband?
and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said,
Therefore he shall lie with thee tonight
for thy son's mandrakes.
16 And Jacob came out of the field in
the evening, and Leah went out to meet
him, and said, Thou must come in unto
me; for surely I have hired thee with my
son's mandrakes. And he lay with her
that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she
conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my
hire, because I have given my maiden to
my husband: and she called his name
Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare
Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me
with a good dowry; now will my husband
dwell with me, because I have born him
six sons: and she called his name
Zebulun.
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter,
and called her name Dinah.
22 And God remembered Rachel, and God
hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23 And she conceived, and bare a son;
and said, God hath taken away my
reproach:
24 And she called his name Joseph; and
said, The Lord shall add to me another
son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had
born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban,
Send me away, that I may go unto mine
own place, and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for
whom I have served thee, and let me go:
for thou knowest my service which I have
done thee.
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee,
if I have found favour in thine eyes,
tarry: for I have learned by experience
that the Lord hath blessed me for thy
sake.
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages,
and I will give it.
29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest
how I have served thee, and how thy
cattle was with me.
30 For it was little which thou hadst
before I came, and it is now increased
unto a multitude; and the Lord hath
blessed thee since my coming: and now
when shall I provide for mine own house
also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me
any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for me, I will again feed and keep thy
flock.
32 I will pass through all thy flock
today, removing from thence all the
speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats:
and of such shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for
me in time to come, when it shall come
for my hire before thy face: every one
that is not speckled and spotted among
the goats, and brown among the sheep,
that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it
might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats
that were ringstraked and spotted, and
all the she goats that were speckled and
spotted, and every one that had some
white in it, and all the brown among the
sheep, and gave them into the hand of
his sons.
36 And he set three days'journey betwixt
himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the
rest of Laban's flocks.
37 And Jacob took him rods of green
poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut
tree; and pilled white strakes in them,
and made the white appear which was in
the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had
pilled before the flocks in the gutters
in the watering troughs when the flocks
came to drink, that they should conceive
when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the
rods, and brought forth cattle
ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and
set the faces of the flocks toward the
ringstraked, and all the brown in the
flock of Laban; and he put his own
flocks by themselves, and put them not
unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the
stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob
laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might
conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he
put them not in: so the feebler were
Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly,
and had much cattle, and maidservants,
and menservants, and camels, and asses.

CHAPTER 31
1 And he heard the words of Laban's
sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all
that was our father's; and of that which
was our father's hath he gotten all this
glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of
Laban, and, behold, it was not toward
him as before.
3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return
unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy
kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your
father's countenance, that it is not
toward me as before; but the God of my
father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I
have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and
changed my wages ten times; but God
suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be
thy wages; then all the cattle bare
speckled: and if he said thus, The
ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare
all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of
your father, and given them to me.
10 And it came to pass at the time that
the cattle conceived, that I lifted up
mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and,
behold, the rams which leaped upon the
cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and
grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in
a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here
am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes,
and see, all the rams which leap upon
the cattle are ringstraked, speckled,
and grisled: for I have seen all that
Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou
anointedst the pillar, and where thou
vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get
thee out from this land, and return unto
the land of thy kindred.
14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said
unto him, Is there yet any portion or
inheritance for us in our father's
house?
15 Are we not counted of him strangers?
for he hath sold us, and hath quite
devoured also our money.
16 For all the riches which God hath
taken from our father, that is ours, and
our children's: now then, whatsoever God
hath said unto thee, do.
17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons
and his wives upon camels;
18 And he carried away all his cattle,
and all his goods which he had gotten,
the cattle of his getting, which he had
gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac
his father in the land of Canaan.
19 And Laban went to shear his sheep:
and Rachel had stolen the images that
were her father's.
20 And Jacob stole away unawares to
Laban the Syrian, in that he told him
not that he fled.
21 So he fled with all that he had; and
he rose up, and passed over the river,
and set his face toward the mount
Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the third
day that Jacob was fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him,
and pursued after him seven
days'journey; and they overtook him in
the mount Gilead.
24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a
dream by night, and said unto him, Take
heed that thou speak not to Jacob either
good or bad.
25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob
had pitched his tent in the mount: and
Laban with his brethren pitched in the
mount of Gilead.
26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast
thou done, that thou hast stolen away
unawares to me, and carried away my
daughters, as captives taken with the
sword?
27 Wherefore didst thou flee away
secretly, and steal away from me; and
didst not tell me, that I might have
sent thee away with mirth, and with
songs, with tabret, and with harp?
28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my
sons and my daughters? thou hast now
done foolishly in so doing.
29 It is in the power of my hand to do
you hurt: but the God of your father
spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take
thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.
30 And now, though thou wouldest needs
be gone, because thou sore longedst
after thy father's house, yet wherefore
hast thou stolen my gods?
31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban,
Because I was afraid: for I said,
Peradventure thou wouldest take by force
thy daughters from me.
32 With whomsoever thou findest thy
gods, let him not live: before our
brethren discern thou what is thine with
me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew
not that Rachel had stolen them.
33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and
into Leah's tent, and into the two
maidservants'tents; but he found them
not. Then went he out of Leah's tent,
and entered into Rachel's tent.
34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and
put them in the camel's furniture, and
sat upon them. And Laban searched all
the tent, but found them not.
35 And she said to her father, Let it
not displease my lord that I cannot rise
up before thee; for the custom of women
is upon me. And he searched, but found
not the images.
36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with
Laban: and Jacob answered and said to
Laban, What is my trespass? what is my
sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued
after me?
37 Whereas thou hast searched all my
stuff, what hast thou found of all thy
household stuff? set it here before my
brethren and thy brethren, that they may
judge betwixt us both.
38 This twenty years have I been with
thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have
not cast their young, and the rams of
thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I
brought not unto thee; I bare the loss
of it; of my hand didst thou require it,
whether stolen by day, or stolen by
night.
40 Thus I was; in the day the drought
consumed me, and the frost by night; and
my sleep departed from mine eyes.
41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy
house; I served thee fourteen years for
thy two daughters, and six years for thy
cattle: and thou hast changed my wages
ten times.
42 Except the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had
been with me, surely thou hadst sent me
away now empty. God hath seen mine
affliction and the labour of my hands,
and rebuked thee yesternight.
43 And Laban answered and said unto
Jacob, These daughters are my daughters,
and these children are my children, and
these cattle are my cattle, and all that
thou seest is mine: and what can I do
this day unto these my daughters, or
unto their children which they have
born?
44 Now therefore come thou, let us make
a covenant, I and thou; and let it be
for a witness between me and thee.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up
for a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren,
Gather stones; and they took stones, and
made an heap: and they did eat there
upon the heap.
47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha:
but Jacob called it Galeed.
48 And Laban said, This heap is a
witness between me and thee this day.
Therefore was the name of it called
Galeed;
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord
watch between me and thee, when we are
absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters,
or if thou shalt take other wives beside
my daughters, no man is with us; see,
God is witness betwixt me and thee.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this
heap, and behold this pillar, which I
have cast betwixt me and thee;
52 This heap be witness, and this pillar
be witness, that I will not pass over
this heap to thee, and that thou shalt
not pass over this heap and this pillar
unto me, for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of
Nahor, the God of their father, judge
betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear
of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the
mount, and called his brethren to eat
bread: and they did eat bread, and
tarried all night in the mount.
55 And early in the morning Laban rose
up, and kissed his sons and his
daughters, and blessed them: and Laban
departed, and returned unto his place.

CHAPTER 32
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him.
2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
is God's host: and he called the name of
that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him
to Esau his brother unto the land of
Seir, the country of Edom.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus
shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy
servant Jacob saith thus, I have
sojourned with Laban, and stayed there
until now:
5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks,
and menservants, and womenservants: and
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find grace in thy sight.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob,
saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and
also he cometh to meet thee, and four
hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and
distressed: and he divided the people
that was with him, and the flocks, and
herds, and the camels, into two bands;
8 And said, If Esau come to the one
company, and smite it, then the other
company which is left shall escape.
9 And Jacob said, O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the
Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto
thy country, and to thy kindred, and I
will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all
the mercies, and of all the truth, which
thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for
with my staff I passed over this Jordan;
and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the
hand of my brother, from the hand of
Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come
and smite me, and the mother with the
children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do
thee good, and make thy seed as the sand
of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night;
and took of that which came to his hand
a present for Esau his brother;
14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he
goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams,
15 Thirty milch camels with their colts,
forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten foals.
16 And he delivered them into the hand
of his servants, every drove by
themselves; and said unto his servants,
Pass over before me, and put a space
betwixt drove and drove.
17 And he commanded the foremost,
saying, When Esau my brother meeteth
thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art
thou? and whither goest thou? and whose
are these before thee?
18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy
servant Jacob's; it is a present sent
unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he
is behind us.
19 And so commanded he the second, and
the third, and all that followed the
droves, saying, On this manner shall ye
speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy
servant Jacob is behind us. For he said,
I will appease him with the present that
goeth before me, and afterward I will
see his face; peradventure he will
accept of me.
21 So went the present over before him:
and himself lodged that night in the
company.
22 And he rose up that night, and took
his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and
passed over the ford Jabbok.
23 And he took them, and sent them over
the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there
wrestled a man with him until the
breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not
against him, he touched the hollow of
his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled
with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh. And he said, I will not let
thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy
name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called
no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with
men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell
me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said,
Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after
my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the
place Peniel: for I have seen God face
to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun
rose upon him, and he halted upon his
thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat
not of the sinew which shrank, which is
upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this
day: because he touched the hollow of
Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

 CHAPTER 33
1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with
him four hundred men. And he divided the
children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and
unto the two handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost.
3 And he passed over before them, and
bowed himself to the ground seven times,
until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and fell on his neck, and kissed
him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children; and said, Who
are those with thee? And he said, The
children which God hath graciously given
thy servant.
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they
and their children, and they bowed
themselves.
7 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves: and after
came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
8 And he said, What meanest thou by all
this drove which I met? And he said,
These are to find grace in the sight of
my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my
brother; keep that thou hast unto
thyself.
10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if
now I have found grace in thy sight,
then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as
though I had seen the face of God, and
thou wast pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that
is brought to thee; because God hath
dealt graciously with me, and because I
have enough. And he urged him, and he
took it.
12 And he said, Let us take our journey,
and let us go, and I will go before
thee.
13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth
that the children are tender, and the
flocks and herds with young are with me:
and if men should overdrive them one
day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over
before his servant: and I will lead on
softly, according as the cattle that
goeth before me and the children be able
to endure, until I come unto my lord
unto Seir.
15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with
thee some of the folk that are with me.
And he said, What needeth it? let me
find grace in the sight of my lord.
16 So Esau returned that day on his way
unto Seir.
17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and
built him an house, and made booths for
his cattle: therefore the name of the
place is called Succoth.
18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of
Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan,
when he came from Padanaram; and pitched
his tent before the city.
19 And he bought a parcel of a field,
where he had spread his tent, at the
hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's
father, for an hundred pieces of money.
20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it ElEloheIsrael.

CHAPTER 34
1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which
she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land.
2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the
Hivite, prince of the country, saw her,
he took her, and lay with her, and
defiled her.
3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the
daughter of Jacob, and he loved the
damsel, and spake kindly unto the
damsel.
4 And Shechem spake unto his father
Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to
wife.
5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled
Dinah his daughter: now his sons were
with his cattle in the field: and Jacob
held his peace until they were come.
6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went
out unto Jacob to commune with him.
7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field when they heard it: and the men
were grieved, and they were very wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel
in lying with Jacob's daughter; which
thing ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying,
The soul of my son Shechem longeth for
your daughter: I pray you give her him
to wife.
9 And make ye marriages with us, and
give your daughters unto us, and take
our daughters unto you.
10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the
land shall be before you; dwell and
trade ye therein, and get you
possessions therein.
11 And Shechem said unto her father and
unto her brethren, Let me find grace in
your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me
I will give.
12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift,
and I will give according as ye shall
say unto me: but give me the damsel to
wife.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered
Shechem and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had
defiled Dinah their sister:
14 And they said unto them, We cannot do
this thing, to give our sister to one
that is uncircumcised; for that were a
reproach unto us:
15 But in this will we consent unto you:
If ye will be as we be, that every male
of you be circumcised;
16 Then will we give our daughters unto
you, and we will take your daughters to
us, and we will dwell with you, and we
will become one people.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us,
to be circumcised; then will we take our
daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and
Shechem Hamor's son.
19 And the young man deferred not to do
the thing, because he had delight in
Jacob's daughter: and he was more
honourable than all the house of his
father.
20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came
unto the gate of their city, and
communed with the men of their city,
saying,
21 These men are peaceable with us;
therefore let them dwell in the land,
and trade therein; for the land, behold,
it is large enough for them; let us take
their daughters to us for wives, and let
us give them our daughters.
22 Only herein will the men consent unto
us for to dwell with us, to be one
people, if every male among us be
circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23 Shall not their cattle and their
substance and every beast of theirs be
ours? only let us consent unto them, and
they will dwell with us.
24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his
son hearkened all that went out of the
gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the
gate of his city.
25 And it came to pass on the third day,
when they were sore, that two of the
sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brethren, took each man his sword, and
came upon the city boldly, and slew all
the males.
26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his
son with the edge of the sword, and took
Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went
out.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the
slain, and spoiled the city, because
they had defiled their sister.
28 They took their sheep, and their
oxen, and their asses, and that which
was in the city, and that which was in
the field,
29 And all their wealth, and all their
little ones, and their wives took they
captive, and spoiled even all that was
in the house.
30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye
have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land, among
the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I
being few in number, they shall gather
themselves together against me, and slay
me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my
house.
31 And they said, Should he deal with
our sister as with an harlot?

CHAPTER 35
1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up
to Bethel, and dwell there: and make
there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto thee when thou fleddest from the
face of Esau thy brother.
2 Then Jacob said unto his household,
and to all that were with him, Put away
the strange gods that are among you, and
be clean, and change your garments:
3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel;
and I will make there an altar unto God,
who answered me in the day of my
distress, and was with me in the way
which I went.
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods which were in their hand,
and all their earrings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under the
oak which was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed: and the terror of
God was upon the cities that were round
about them, and they did not pursue
after the sons of Jacob.
6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the
land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and
all the people that were with him.
7 And he built there an altar, and
called the place Elbethel: because there
God appeared unto him, when he fled from
the face of his brother.
8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and
she was buried beneath Bethel under an
oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
9 And God appeared unto Jacob again,
when he came out of Padanaram, and
blessed him.
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is
Jacob: thy name shall not be called any
more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God
Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a
nation and a company of nations shall be
of thee, and kings shall come out of thy
loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and
Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to
thy seed after thee will I give the
land.
13 And God went up from him in the place
where he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the
place where he talked with him, even a
pillar of stone: and he poured a drink
offering thereon, and he poured oil
thereon.
15 And Jacob called the name of the
place where God spake with him, Bethel.
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and
there was but a little way to come to
Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labour.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in
hard labour, that the midwife said unto
her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son
also.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was
in departing, (for she died) that she
called his name Benoni: but his father
called him Benjamin.
19 And Rachel died, and was buried in
the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her
grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's
grave unto this day.
21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his
tent beyond the tower of Edar.
22 And it came to pass, when Israel
dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and
lay with Bilhah his father's concubine:
and Israel heard it. Now the sons of
Jacob were twelve:
23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's
firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and
Benjamin:
25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the
sons of Jacob, which were born to him in
Padanaram.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father
unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah,
which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.
28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred
and fourscore years.
29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and
died, and was gathered unto his people,
being old and full of days: and his sons
Esau and Jacob buried him.

CHAPTER 36
1 Now these are the generations of Esau,
who is Edom.
2 Esau took his wives of the daughters
of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the
Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter,
sister of Nebajoth.
4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and
Bashemath bare Reuel;
5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam,
and Korah: these are the sons of Esau,
which were born unto him in the land of
Canaan.
6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons,
and his daughters, and all the persons
of his house, and his cattle, and all
his beasts, and all his substance, which
he had got in the land of Canaan; and
went into the country from the face of
his brother Jacob.
7 For their riches were more than that
they might dwell together; and the land
wherein they were strangers could not
bear them because of their cattle.
8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is
Edom.
9 And these are the generations of Esau
the father of the Edomites in mount
Seir:
10 These are the names of Esau's sons;
Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of
Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the
wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz
Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz
Amalek: these were the sons of Adah
Esau's wife.
13 And these are the sons of Reuel;
Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah:
these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's
wife.
14 And these were the sons of
Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she
bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and
Korah.
15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau:
the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of
Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho,
duke Kenaz,
16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke
Amalek: these are the dukes that came of
Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were
the sons of Adah.
17 And these are the sons of Reuel
Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah,
duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the
dukes that came of Reuel in the land of
Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath
Esau's wife.
18 And these are the sons of Aholibamah
Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam,
duke Korah: these were the dukes that
came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah,
Esau's wife.
19 These are the sons of Esau, who is
Edom, and these are their dukes.
20 These are the sons of Seir the
Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan,
and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan:
these are the dukes of the Horites, the
children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 And the children of Lotan were Hori
and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.
23 And the children of Shobal were
these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal,
Shepho, and Onam.
24 And these are the children of Zibeon;
both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah
that found the mules in the wilderness,
as he fed the asses of Zibeon his
father.
25 And the children of Anah were these;
Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Anah.
26 And these are the children of Dishon;
Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and
Cheran.
27 The children of Ezer are these;
Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz,
and Aran.
29 These are the dukes that came of the
Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke
Zibeon, duke Anah,
30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan:
these are the dukes that came of Hori,
among their dukes in the land of Seir.
31 And these are the kings that reigned
in the land of Edom, before there
reigned any king over the children of
Israel.
32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in
Edom: and the name of his city was
Dinhabah.
33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of
Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the
land of Temani reigned in his stead.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of
Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of
Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name
of his city was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of
Masrekah reigned in his stead.
37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth
by the river reigned in his stead.
38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son
of Achbor reigned in his stead.
39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died,
and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city was Pau; and his wife's
name was Mehetabel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
40 And these are the names of the dukes
that came of Esau, according to their
families, after their places, by their
names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke
Jetheth,
41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke
Pinon,
42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the
dukes of Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their
possession: he is Esau the father of the
Edomites.

CHAPTER 37
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein
his father was a stranger, in the land
of Canaan.
2 These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was
feeding the flock with his brethren; and
the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and
with the sons of Zilpah, his father's
wives: and Joseph brought unto his
father their evil report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all
his children, because he was the son of
his old age: and he made him a coat of
many colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their
father loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him, and could not
speak peaceably unto him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he
told it his brethren: and they hated him
yet the more.
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray
you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves
in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose,
and also stood upright; and, behold,
your sheaves stood round about, and made
obeisance to my sheaf.
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt
thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou
indeed have dominion over us? And they
hated him yet the more for his dreams,
and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and
told it his brethren, and said, Behold,
I have dreamed a dream more; and,
behold, the sun and the moon and the
eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to
his brethren: and his father rebuked
him, and said unto him, What is this
dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I
and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to
the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his
father observed the saying.
12 And his brethren went to feed their
father's flock in Shechem.
13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not
thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?
come, and I will send thee unto them.
And he said to him, Here am I.
14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee,
see whether it be well with thy
brethren, and well with the flocks; and
bring me word again. So he sent him out
of the vale of Hebron, and he came to
Shechem.
15 And a certain man found him, and,
behold, he was wandering in the field:
and the man asked him, saying, What
seekest thou?
16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell
me, I pray thee, where they feed their
flocks.
17 And the man said, They are departed
hence; for I heard them say, Let us go
to Dothan. And Joseph went after his
brethren, and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him afar off, even
before he came near unto them, they
conspired against him to slay him.
19 And they said one to another, Behold,
this dreamer cometh.
20 Come now therefore, and let us slay
him, and cast him into some pit, and we
will say, Some evil beast hath devoured
him: and we shall see what will become
of his dreams.
21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered
him out of their hands; and said, Let us
not kill him.
22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no
blood, but cast him into this pit that
is in the wilderness, and lay no hand
upon him; that he might rid him out of
their hands, to deliver him to his
father again.
23 And it came to pass when Joseph was
come unto his brethren, that they
stripped Joseph out of his coat, his
coat of many colours that was on him;
24 And they took him, and cast him into
a pit: and the pit was empty, there was
no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat bread: and
they lifted up their eyes and looked,
and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites
came from Gilead with their camels
bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
going to carry it down to Egypt.
26 And Judah said unto his brethren,
What profit is it if we slay our
brother, and conceal his blood?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the
Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be
upon him; for he is our brother and our
flesh. And his brethren were content.
28 Then there passed by Midianites,
merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up
Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph
to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of
silver: and they brought Joseph into
Egypt.
29 And Reuben returned unto the pit;
and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit;
and he rent his clothes.
30 And he returned unto his brethren,
and said, The child is not; and I,
whither shall I go?
31 And they took Joseph's coat, and
killed a kid of the goats, and dipped
the coat in the blood;
32 And they sent the coat of many
colours, and they brought it to their
father; and said, This have we found:
know now whether it be thy son's coat or
no.
33 And he knew it, and said, It is my
son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured
him; Joseph is without doubt rent in
pieces.
34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned
for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort him; but he
refused to be comforted; and he said,
For I will go down into the grave unto
my son mourning. Thus his father wept
for him.
36 And the Midianites sold him into
Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

CHAPTER 38
1 And it came to pass at that time, that
Judah went down from his brethren, and
turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose
name was Hirah.
2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a
certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah;
and he took her, and went in unto her.
3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and
he called his name Er.
4 And she conceived again, and bare a
son; and she called his name Onan.
5 And she yet again conceived, and bare
a son; and called his name Shelah: and
he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his
firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked
in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord
slew him.
8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto
thy brother's wife, and marry her, and
raise up seed to thy brother.
9 And Onan knew that the seed should not
be his; and it came to pass, when he
went in unto his brother's wife, that he
spilled it on the ground, lest that he
should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased
the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter
in law, Remain a widow at thy father's
house, till Shelah my son be grown: for
he said, Lest peradventure he die also,
as his brethren did. And Tamar went and
dwelt in her father's house.
12 And in process of time the daughter
of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah
was comforted, and went up unto his
sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his
friend Hirah the Adullamite.
13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold
thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to
shear his sheep.
14 And she put her widow's garments off
from her, and covered her with a veil,
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open
place, which is by the way to Timnath;
for she saw that Shelah was grown, and
she was not given unto him to wife.
15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to
be an harlot; because she had covered
her face.
16 And he turned unto her by the way,
and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me
come in unto thee; (for he knew not that
she was his daughter in law.) And she
said, What wilt thou give me, that thou
mayest come in unto me?
17 And he said, I will send thee a kid
from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou
give me a pledge, till thou send it?
18 And he said, What pledge shall I give
thee? And she said,
Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy
staff that is in thine hand. And he gave
it her, and came in unto her, and she
conceived by him.
19 And she arose, and went away, and
laid by her veil from her, and put on
the garments of her widowhood.
20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of
his friend the Adullamite, to receive
his pledge from the woman's hand; but he
found her not.
21 Then he asked the men of that place,
saying, Where is the harlot, that was
openly by the way side? And they said,
There was no harlot in this place.
22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I
cannot find her; and also the men of the
place said, that there was no harlot in
this place.
23 And Judah said, Let her take it to
her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent
this kid, and thou hast not found her.
24 And it came to pass about three
months after, that it was told Judah,
saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath
played the harlot; and also, behold, she
is with child by whoredom. And Judah
said, Bring her forth, and let her be
burnt.
25 When she was brought forth, she sent
to her father in law, saying, By the
man, whose these are, am I with child:
and she said, Discern, I pray thee,
whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.
26 And Judah acknowledged them, and
said, She hath been more righteous than
I; because that I gave her not to Shelah
my son. And he knew her again no more.
27 And it came to pass in the time of
her travail, that, behold, twins were in
her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she
travailed, that the one put out his
hand: and the midwife took and bound
upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying,
This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back
his hand, that, behold, his brother came
out: and she said, How hast thou broken
forth? this breach be upon thee:
therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother,
that had the scarlet thread upon his
hand: and his name was called Zerah.

CHAPTER 39
1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt;
and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh,
captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him of the hands of the
Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
thither.
2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he
was a prosperous man; and he was in the
house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that the Lord was
with him, and that the Lord made all
that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight,
and he served him: and he made him
overseer over his house, and all that he
had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that
he had made him overseer in his house,
and over all that he had, that the Lord
blessed the Egyptian's house for
Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the
Lord was upon all that he had in the
house, and in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in
Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught he
had, save the bread which he did eat.
And Joseph was a goodly person, and well
favoured.
7 And it came to pass after these
things, that his master's wife cast her
eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with
me.
8 But he refused, and said unto his
master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth
not what is with me in the house, and he
hath committed all that he hath to my
hand;
9 There is none greater in this house
than I; neither hath he kept back any
thing from me but thee, because thou art
his wife: how then can I do this great
wickedness, and sin against God?
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to
Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not
unto her, to lie by her, or to be with
her.
11 And it came to pass about this time,
that Joseph went into the house to do
his business; and there was none of the
men of the house there within.
12 And she caught him by his garment,
saying, Lie with me: and he left his
garment in her hand, and fled, and got
him out.
13 And it came to pass, when she saw
that he had left his garment in her
hand, and was fled forth,
14 That she called unto the men of her
house, and spake unto them, saying, See,
he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to
mock us; he came in unto me to lie with
me, and I cried with a loud voice:
15 And it came to pass, when he heard
that I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment with me, and
fled, and got him out.
16 And she laid up his garment by her,
until his lord came home.
17 And she spake unto him, according to
these words, saying, The Hebrew servant,
which thou hast brought unto us, came in
unto me to mock me:
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up
my voice and cried, that he left his
garment with me, and fled out.
19 And it came to pass, when his master
heard the words of his wife, which she
spake unto him, saying, After this
manner did thy servant to me; that his
wrath was kindled.
20 And Joseph's master took him, and put
him into the prison, a place where the
king's prisoners were bound: and he was
there in the prison.
21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and
shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in
the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 And the keeper of the prison
committed to Joseph's hand all the
prisoners that were in the prison; and
whatsoever they did there, he was the
doer of it.
23 The keeper of the prison looked not
to any thing that was under his hand;
because the Lord was with him, and that
which he did, the Lord made it to
prosper.

CHAPTER 40
1 And it came to pass after these
things, that the butler of the king of
Egypt and his baker had offended their
lord the king of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of
his officers, against the chief of the
butlers, and against the chief of the
bakers.
3 And he put them in ward in the house
of the captain of the guard, into the
prison, the place where Joseph was
bound.
4 And the captain of the guard charged
Joseph with them, and he served them:
and they continued a season in ward.
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them,
each man his dream in one night, each
man according to the interpretation of
his dream, the butler and the baker of
the king of Egypt, which were bound in
the prison.
6 And Joseph came in unto them in the
morning, and looked upon them, and,
behold, they were sad.
7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that
were with him in the ward of his lord's
house, saying, Wherefore look ye so
sadly today?
8 And they said unto him, We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no
interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto
them, Do not interpretations belong to
God? tell me them, I pray you.
9 And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him, In my dream,
behold, a vine was before me;
10 And in the vine were three branches:
and it was as though it budded, and her
blossoms shot forth; and the clusters
thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and
I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand.
12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the
interpretation of it: The three branches
are three days:
13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thine head, and restore thee
unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver
Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the
former manner when thou wast his butler.
14 But think on me when it shall be well
with thee, and shew kindness, I pray
thee, unto me, and make mention of me
unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this
house:
15 For indeed I was stolen away out of
the land of the Hebrews: and here also
have I done nothing that they should put
me into the dungeon.
16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said unto
Joseph, I also was in my dream, and,
behold, I had three white baskets on my
head:
17 And in the uppermost basket there was
of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh;
and the birds did eat them out of the
basket upon my head.
18 And Joseph answered and said, This is
the interpretation thereof: The three
baskets are three days:
19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thy head from off thee, and
shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds
shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
20 And it came to pass the third day,
which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he
made a feast unto all his servants: and
he lifted up the head of the chief
butler and of the chief baker among his
servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler unto
his butlership again; and he gave the
cup into Pharaoh's hand:
22 But he hanged the chief baker: as
Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet did not the chief butler remember
Joseph, but forgat him.

CHAPTER 41
1 And it came to pass at the end of two
full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and,
behold, he stood by the river.
2 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven well favoured kine and
fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them out of the river, ill
favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by
the other kine upon the brink of the
river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed
kine did eat up the seven well favoured
and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second
time: and, behold, seven ears of corn
came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold, seven thin ears and
blasted with the east wind sprung up
after them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the
seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh
awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning
that his spirit was troubled; and he
sent and called for all the magicians of
Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and
Pharaoh told them his dream; but there
was none that could interpret them unto
Pharaoh.
9 Then spake the chief butler unto
Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults
this day:
10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants,
and put me in ward in the captain of the
guard's house, both me and the chief
baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night,
I and he; we dreamed each man according
to the interpretation of his dream.
12 And there was there with us a young
man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain
of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each
man according to his dream he did
interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he
interpreted to us, so it was; me he
restored unto mine office, and him he
hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph,
and they brought him hastily out of the
dungeon: and he shaved himself, and
changed his raiment, and came in unto
Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have
dreamed a dream, and there is none that
can interpret it: and I have heard say
of thee, that thou canst understand a
dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying,
It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh
an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my
dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of
the river:
18 And, behold, there came up out of the
river seven kine, fatfleshed and well
favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came up
after them, poor and very ill favoured
and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in
all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured
kine did eat up the first seven fat
kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it
could not be known that they had eaten
them; but they were still ill favoured,
as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold,
seven ears came up in one stalk, full
and good:
23 And, behold, seven ears, withered,
thin, and blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven
good ears: and I told this unto the
magicians; but there was none that could
declare it to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The
dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed
Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years;
and the seven good ears are seven years:
the dream is one.
27 And the seven thin and ill favoured
kine that came up after them are seven
years; and the seven empty ears blasted
with the east wind shall be seven years
of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken
unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he
sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of
great plenty throughout all the land of
Egypt:
30 And there shall arise after them
seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the land of
Egypt; and the famine shall consume the
land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in
the land by reason of that famine
following; for it shall be very
grievous.
32 And for that the dream was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the
thing is established by God, and God
will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a
man discreet and wise, and set him over
the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him
appoint officers over the land, and take
up the fifth part of the land of Egypt
in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them gather all the food of
those good years that come, and lay up
corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let
them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to
the land against the seven years of
famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt; that the land perish not through
the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his
servants.
38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants,
Can we find such a one as this is, a man
in whom the spirit of God is?
39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all
this, there is none so discreet and wise
as thou art:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled: only in the throne will
I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I
have set thee over all the land of
Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from
his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine
linen, and put a gold chain about his
neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second
chariot which he had; and they cried
before him, Bow the knee: and he made
him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am
Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man
lift up his hand or foot in all the land
of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name
Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On. And Joseph went out over
all the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when
he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.
And Joseph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the
land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the
earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of
the seven years, which were in the land
of Egypt, and laid up the food in the
cities: the food of the field, which was
round about every city, laid he up in
the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand
of the sea, very much, until he left
numbering; for it was without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons
before the years of famine came, which
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he,
hath made me forget all my toil, and all
my father's house.
52 And the name of the second called he
Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be
fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness,
that was in the land of Egypt, were
ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began
to come, according as Joseph had said:
and the dearth was in all lands; but in
all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith
to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face
of the earth: and Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the
Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in
the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to
Joseph for to buy corn; because that the
famine was so sore in all lands.

CHAPTER 42
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn
in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why
do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that
there is corn in Egypt: get you down
thither, and buy for us from thence;
that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to
buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob
sent not with his brethren; for he said,
Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy
corn among those that came: for the
famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the
land, and he it was that sold to all the
people of the land: and Joseph's
brethren came, and bowed down themselves
before him with their faces to the
earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he
knew them, but made himself strange unto
them, and spake roughly unto them; and
he said unto them, Whence come ye? And
they said, From the land of Canaan to
buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they
knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which
he dreamed of them, and said unto them,
Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord,
but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one man's sons; we are
true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to
see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.
13 And they said, Thy servants are
twelve brethren, the sons of one man in
the land of Canaan; and, behold, the
youngest is this day with our father,
and one is not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it
that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are
spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the
life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth
hence, except your youngest brother come
hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch
your brother, and ye shall be kept in
prison, that your words may be proved,
whether there be any truth in you: or
else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye
are spies.
17 And he put them all together into
ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third
day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your
brethren be bound in the house of your
prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine
of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto
me; so shall your words be verified, and
ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are
verily guilty concerning our brother, in
that we saw the anguish of his soul,
when he besought us, and we would not
hear; therefore is this distress come
upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying,
Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin
against the child; and ye would not
hear? therefore, behold, also his blood
is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph
understood them; for he spake unto them
by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from
them, and wept; and returned to them
again, and communed with them, and took
from them Simeon, and bound him before
their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their
sacks with corn, and to restore every
man's money into his sack, and to give
them provision for the way: and thus did
he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the
corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to
give his ass provender in the inn, he
espied his money; for, behold, it was in
his sack's mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My
money is restored; and, lo, it is even
in my sack: and their heart failed them,
and they were afraid, saying one to
another, What is this that God hath done
unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father
unto the land of Canaan, and told him
all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land,
spake roughly to us, and took us for
spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We are true
men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our
father; one is not, and the youngest is
this day with our father in the land of
Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country,
said unto us, Hereby shall I know that
ye are true men; leave one of your
brethren here with me, and take food for
the famine of your households, and be
gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto
me: then shall I know that ye are no
spies, but that ye are true men: so will
I deliver you your brother, and ye shall
traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied
their sacks, that, behold, every man's
bundle of money was in his sack: and
when both they and their father saw the
bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto
them, Me have ye bereaved of my
children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is
not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all
these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him
not to thee: deliver him into my hand,
and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down
with you; for his brother is dead, and
he is left alone: if mischief befall him
by the way in the which ye go, then
shall ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave.

CHAPTER 43
1 And the famine was sore in the land.
2 And it came to pass, when they had
eaten up the corn which they had brought
out of Egypt, their father said unto
them, Go again, buy us a little food.
3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The
man did solemnly protest unto us,
saying, Ye shall not see my face, except
your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us,
we will go down and buy thee food:
5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will
not go down: for the man said unto us,
Ye shall not see my face, except your
brother be with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so
ill with me, as to tell the man whether
ye had yet a brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us
straitly of our state, and of our
kindred, saying, Is your father yet
alive? have ye another brother? and we
told him according to the tenor of these
words: could we certainly know that he
would say, Bring your brother down?
8 And Judah said unto Israel his father,
Send the lad with me, and we will arise
and go; that we may live, and not die,
both we, and thou, and also our little
ones.
9 I will be surety for him; of my hand
shalt thou require him: if I bring him
not unto thee, and set him before thee,
then let me bear the blame for ever:
10 For except we had lingered, surely
now we had returned this second time.
11 And their father Israel said unto
them, If it must be so now, do this;
take of the best fruits in the land in
your vessels, and carry down the man a
present, a little balm, and a little
honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and
almonds:
12 And take double money in your hand;
and the money that was brought again in
the mouth of your sacks, carry it again
in your hand; peradventure it was an
oversight:
13 Take also your brother, and arise, go
again unto the man:
14 And God Almighty give you mercy
before the man, that he may send away
your other brother, and Benjamin. If I
be bereaved of my children, I am
bereaved.
15 And the men took that present, and
they took double money in their hand,
and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down
to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with
them, he said to the ruler of his house,
Bring these men home, and slay, and make
ready; for these men shall dine with me
at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and
the man brought the men into Joseph's
house.
18 And the men were afraid, because they
were brought into Joseph's house; and
they said, Because of the money that was
returned in our sacks at the first time
are we brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, and fall upon us,
and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
19 And they came near to the steward of
Joseph's house, and they communed with
him at the door of the house,
20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down
at the first time to buy food:
21 And it came to pass, when we came to
the inn, that we opened our sacks, and,
behold, every man's money was in the
mouth of his sack, our money in full
weight: and we have brought it again in
our hand.
22 And other money have we brought down
in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell
who put our money in our sacks.
23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear
not: your God, and the God of your
father, hath given you treasure in your
sacks: I had your money. And he brought
Simeon out unto them.
24 And the man brought the men into
Joseph's house, and gave them water, and
they washed their feet; and he gave
their asses provender.
25 And they made ready the present
against Joseph came at noon: for they
heard that they should eat bread there.
26 And when Joseph came home, they
brought him the present which was in
their hand into the house, and bowed
themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare,
and said, Is your father well, the old
man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
28 And they answered, Thy servant our
father is in good health, he is yet
alive. And they bow ed down their heads,
and made obeisance.
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw
his brother Benjamin, his mother's son,
and said, Is this your younger brother,
of whom ye spake unto me? And he said,
God be gracious unto thee, my son.
30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels
did yearn upon his brother: and he
sought where to weep; and he entered
into his chamber, and wept there.
31 And he washed his face, and went out,
and refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread.
32 And they set on for him by himself,
and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that
is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
33 And they sat before him, the
firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth:
and the men marvelled one at another.
34 And he took and sent messes unto them
from before him: but Benjamin's mess was
five times so much as any of theirs. And
they drank, and were merry with him.

CHAPTER 44
1 And he commanded the steward of his
house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with
food, as much as they can carry, and put
every man's money in his sack's mouth.
2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the
sack's mouth of the youngest, and his
corn money. And he did according to the
word that Joseph had spoken.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the
men were sent away, they and their
asses.
4 And when they were gone out of the
city, and not yet far off, Joseph said
unto his steward, Up, follow after the
men; and when thou dost overtake them,
say unto them, Wherefore have ye
rewarded evil for good?
5 Is not this it in which my lord
drinketh, and whereby indeed he
divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
6 And he overtook them, and he spake
unto them these same words.
7 And they said unto him, Wherefore
saith my lord these words? God forbid
that thy servants should do according to
this thing:
8 Behold, the money, which we found in
our sacks'mouths, we brought again unto
thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord's house
silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be
found, both let him die, and we also
will be my lord's bondmen.
10 And he said, Now also let it be
according unto your words: he with whom
it is found shall be my servant; and ye
shall be blameless.
11 Then they speedily took down every
man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the
eldest, and left at the youngest: and
the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13 Then they rent their clothes, and
laded every man his ass, and returned to
the city.
14 And Judah and his brethren came to
Joseph's house; for he was yet there:
and they fell before him on the ground.
15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed
is this that ye have done? wot ye not
that such a man as I can certainly
divine?
16 And Judah said, What shall we say
unto my lord? what shall we speak? or
how shall we clear ourselves? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants:
behold, we are my lord's servants, both
we, and he also with whom the cup is
found.
17 And he said, God forbid that I should
do so: but the man in whose hand the cup
is found, he shall be my servant; and as
for you, get you up in peace unto your
father.
18 Then Judah came near unto him, and
said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I
pray thee, speak a word in my lord's
ears, and let not thine anger burn
against thy servant: for thou art even
as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying,
Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And we said unto my lord, We have a
father, an old man, and a child of his
old age, a little one; and his brother
is dead, and he alone is left of his
mother, and his father loveth him.
21 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Bring him down unto me, that I may set
mine eyes upon him.
22 And we said unto my lord, The lad
cannot leave his father: for if he
should leave his father, his father
would die.
23 And thou saidst unto thy servants,
Except your youngest brother come down
with you, ye shall see my face no more.
24 And it came to pass when we came up
unto thy servant my father, we told him
the words of my lord.
25 And our father said, Go again, and
buy us a little food.
26 And we said, We cannot go down: if
our youngest brother be with us, then
will we go down: for we may not see the
man's face, except our youngest brother
be with us.
27 And thy servant my father said unto
us, Ye know that my wife bare me two
sons:
28 And the one went out from me, and I
said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I
saw him not since:
29 And if ye take this also from me, and
mischief befall him, ye shall bring down
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
30 Now therefore when I come to thy
servant my father, and the lad be not
with us; seeing that his life is bound
up in the lad's life;
31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth
that the lad is not with us, that he
will die: and thy servants shall bring
down the gray hairs of thy servant our
father with sorrow to the grave.
32 For thy servant became surety for the
lad unto my father, saying, If I bring
him not unto thee, then I shall bear the
blame to my father for ever.
33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy
servant abide instead of the lad a
bondman to my lord; and let the lad go
up with his brethren.
34 For how shall I go up to my father,
and the lad be not with me? lest
peradventure I see the evil that shall
come on my father.

CHAPTER 45
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself
before all them that stood by him; and
he cried, Cause every man to go out from
me. And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph made himself known unto his
brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians
and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And
his brethren could not answer him; for
they were troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren,
Come near to me, I pray you. And they
came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor
angry with yourselves, that ye sold me
hither: for God did send me before you
to preserve life.
6 For these two years hath the famine
been in the land: and yet there are five
years, in the which there shall neither
be earing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to
save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now it was not you that sent me
hither, but God: and he hath made me a
father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his
house, and a ruler throughout all the
land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph,
God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come
down unto me, tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of
Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me,
thou, and thy children, and thy
children's children, and thy flocks, and
thy herds, and all that thou hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for
yet there are five years of famine; lest
thou, and thy household, and all that
thou hast, come to poverty.
12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the
eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is
my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 And ye shall tell my father of all my
glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have
seen; and ye shall haste and bring down
my father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin
wept upon his neck.
15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren,
and wept upon them: and after that his
brethren talked with him.
16 And the fame thereof was heard in
Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's
brethren are come: and it pleased
Pharaoh well, and his servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say
unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your
beasts, and go, get you unto the land of
Canaan;
18 And take your father and your
households, and come unto me: and I will
give you the good of the land of Egypt,
and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye;
take you wagons out of the land of Egypt
for your little ones, and for your
wives, and bring your father, and come.
20 Also regard not your stuff; for the
good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
21 And the children of Israel did so:
and Joseph gave them wagons, according
to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave
them provision for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man
changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he
gave three hundred pieces of silver, and
five changes of raiment.
23 And to his father he sent after this
manner; ten asses laden with the good
things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden
with corn and bread and meat for his
father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and
they departed: and he said unto them,
See that ye fall not out by the way.
25 And they went up out of Egypt, and
came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob
their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive, and he is governor over all the
land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart
fainted, for he believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of
Joseph, which he had said unto them: and
when he saw the wagons which Joseph had
sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob
their father revived:
28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph
my son is yet alive: I will go and see
him before I die.

CHAPTER 46
1 And Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beersheba, and
offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac.
2 And God spake unto Israel in the
visions of the night, and said, Jacob,
Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy
father: fear not to go down into Egypt;
for I will there make of thee a great
nation:
4 I will go down with thee into Egypt;
and I will also surely bring thee up
again: and Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes.
5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and
the sons of Israel carried Jacob their
father, and their little ones, and their
wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had
sent to carry him.
6 And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the land
of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob,
and all his seed with him:
7 His sons, and his sons'sons with him,
his daughters, and his sons'daughters,
and all his seed brought he with him
into Egypt.
8 And these are the names of the
children of Israel, which came into
Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben,
Jacob's firstborn.
9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and
Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and
Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar,
and Shaul the son of Canaanitish woman.
11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan,
and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but
Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and
Hamul.
13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and
Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and
Elon, and Jahleel.
15 These be the sons of Leah, which she
bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his
daughter Dinah: all the souls of his
sons and his daughters were thirty and
three.
16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and
Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi,
and Areli.
17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and
Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah
their sister: and the sons of Beriah;
Heber, and Malchiel.
18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and
these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen
souls.
19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife;
Joseph, and Benjamin.
20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt
were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah
priest of On bare unto him.
21 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah,
and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and
Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and
Huppim, and Ard.
22 These are the sons of Rachel, which
were born to Jacob: all the souls were
fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel,
and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which
Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and
she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls
were seven.
26 All the souls that came with Jacob
into Egypt, which came out of his loins,
besides Jacob's sons'wives, all the
souls were threescore and six;
27 And the sons of Joseph, which were
born him in Egypt, were two souls: all
the souls of the house of Jacob, which
came into Egypt, were threescore and
ten.
28 And he sent Judah before him unto
Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen;
and they came into the land of Goshen.
29 And Joseph made ready his chariot,
and went up to meet Israel his father,
to Goshen, and presented himself unto
him; and he fell on his neck, and wept
on his neck a good while.
30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let
me die, since I have seen thy face,
because thou art yet alive.
31 And Joseph said unto his brethren,
and unto his father's house, I will go
up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him,
My brethren, and my father's house,
which were in the land of Canaan, are
come unto me;
32 And the men are shepherds, for their
trade hath been to feed cattle; and they
have brought their flocks, and their
herds, and all that they have.
33 And it shall come to pass, when
Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say,
What is your occupation?
34 That ye shall say, Thy servants'trade
hath been about cattle from our youth
even until now, both we, and also our
fathers: that ye may dwell in the land
of Goshen; for every shepherd is an
abomination unto the Egyptians.

CHAPTER 47
1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and
said, My father and my brethren, and
their flocks, and their herds, and all
that they have, are come out of the land
of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the
land of Goshen.
2 And he took some of his brethren, even
five men, and presented them unto
Pharaoh.
3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren,
What is your occupation? And they said
unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are
shepherds, both we, and also our
fathers.
4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For
to sojourn in the land are we come; for
thy servants have no pasture for their
flocks; for the famine is sore in the
land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray
thee, let thy servants dwell in the land
of Goshen.
5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father and thy brethren are come
unto thee:
6 The land of Egypt is before thee; in
the best of the land make thy father and
brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen
let them dwell: and if thou knowest any
men of activity among them, then make
them rulers over my cattle.
7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his
father, and set him before Pharaoh: and
Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
art thou?
9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days
of the years of my pilgrimage are an
hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the
days of the years of the life of my
fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went
out from before Pharaoh.
11 And Joseph placed his father and his
brethren, and gave them a possession in
the land of Egypt, in the best of the
land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
had commanded.
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and
his brethren, and all his father's
household, with bread, according to
their families.
13 And there was no bread in all the
land; for the famine was very sore, so
that the land of Egypt and all the land
of Canaan fainted by reason of the
famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money
that was found in the land of Egypt, and
in the land of Canaan, for the corn
which they bought: and Joseph brought
the money into Pharaoh's house.
15 And when money failed in the land of
Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all
the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and
said, Give us bread: for why should we
die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle;
and I will give you for your cattle, if
money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in
exchange for horses, and for the flocks,
and for the cattle of the herds, and for
the asses: and he fed them with bread
for all their cattle for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came
unto him the second year, and said unto
him, We will not hide it from my lord,
how that our money is spent; my lord
also hath our herds of cattle; there is
not aught left in the sight of my lord,
but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine
eyes, both we and our land? buy us and
our land for bread, and we and our land
will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give
us seed, that we may live, and not die,
that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians
sold every man his field, because the
famine prevailed over them: so the land
became Pharaoh's.
21 And as for the people, he removed
them to cities from one end of the
borders of Egypt even to the other end
thereof.
22 Only the land of the priests bought
he not; for the priests had a portion
assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat
their portion which Pharaoh gave them:
wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people,
Behold, I have bought you this day and
your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed
for you, and ye shall sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the
increase, that ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall
be your own, for seed of the field, and
for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little
ones.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our
lives; let us find grace in the sight of
my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the
land of Egypt unto this day, that
Pharaoh should have the fifth part;
except the land of the priests only,
which became not Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and
they had possessions therein, and grew,
and multiplied exceedingly.
28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt
seventeen years: so the whole age of
Jacob was an hundred forty and seven
years.
29 And the time drew nigh that Israel
must die: and he called his son Joseph,
and said unto him, If now I have found
grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee,
thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly
and truly with me; bury me not, I pray
thee, in Egypt:
30 But I will lie with my fathers, and
thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and
bury me in their buryingplace. And he
said, I will do as thou hast said.
31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he
sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself
upon the bed's head.

CHAPTER 48
1 And it came to pass after these
things, that one told Joseph, Behold,
thy father is sick: and he took with him
his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold,
thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and
Israel strengthened himself, and sat
upon the bed.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God
Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the
land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make
thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I
will make of thee a multitude of people;
and will give this land to thy seed
after thee for an everlasting
possession.
5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and
Manasseh, which were born unto thee in
the land of Egypt before I came unto
thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and
Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And thy issue, which thou begettest
after them, shall be thine, and shall be
called after the name of their brethren
in their inheritance.
7 And as for me, when I came from Padan,
Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan
in the way, when yet there was but a
little way to come unto Ephrath: and I
buried her there in the way of Ephrath;
the same is Bethlehem.
8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and
said, Who are these?
9 And Joseph said unto his father, They
are my sons, whom God hath given me in
this place. And he said, Bring them, I
pray thee, unto me, and I will bless
them.
10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for
age, so that he could not see. And he
brought them near unto him; and he
kissed them, and embraced them.
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had
not thought to see thy face: and, lo,
God hath shewed me also thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out from
between his knees, and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth.
13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in
his right hand toward Israel's left
hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
toward Israel's right hand, and brought
them near unto him.
14 And Israel stretched out his right
hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand
upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
wittingly; for Manasseh was the
firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God,
before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac
did walk, the God which fed me all my
life long unto this day,
16 The Angel which redeemed me from all
evil, bless the lads; and let my name be
named on them, and the name of my
fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of
the earth.
17 And when Joseph saw that his father
laid his right hand upon the head of
Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held
up his father's hand, to remove it from
Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not
so, my father: for this is the
firstborn; put thy right hand upon his
head.
19 And his father refused, and said, I
know it, my son, I know it: he also
shall become a people, and he also shall
be great: but truly his younger brother
shall be greater than he, and his seed
shall become a multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying,
In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God
make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold,
I die: but God shall be with you, and
bring you again unto the land of your
fathers.
22 Moreover I have given to thee one
portion above thy brethren, which I took
out of the hand of the Amorite with my
sword and with my bow.

CHAPTER 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and
said, Gather yourselves together, that I
may tell you that which shall befall you
in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear,
ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto
Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my
might, and the beginning of my strength,
the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not
excel; because thou wentest up to thy
father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he
went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their
habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their
secret; unto their assembly, mine
honour, be not thou united: for in their
anger they slew a man, and in their
selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was
fierce; and their wrath, for it was
cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and
scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren
shall praise: thy hand shall be in the
neck of thine enemies; thy father's
children shall bow down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the
prey, my son, thou art gone up: he
stooped down, he couched as a lion, and
as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from
Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him
shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and
his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he
washed his garments in wine, and his
clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and
his teeth white with milk.
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of
the sea; and he shall be for an haven of
ships; and his border shall be unto
Zidon.
14 Issachar is a strong ass couching
down between two burdens:
15 And he saw that rest was good, and
the land that it was pleasant; and bowed
his shoulder to bear, and became a
servant unto tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of
the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an
adder in the path, that biteth the horse
heels, so that his rider shall fall
backward.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O
Lord.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but
he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat,
and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he
giveth goodly words.
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a
fruitful bough by a well; whose branches
run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him,
and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and
the arms of his hands were made strong
by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob;
(from thence is the shepherd, the stone
of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who
shall help thee; and by the Almighty,
who shall bless thee with blessings of
heaven above, blessings of the deep that
lieth under, blessings of the breasts,
and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have
prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the
head of Joseph, and on the crown of the
head of him that was separate from his
brethren.
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in
the morning he shall devour the prey,
and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of
Israel: and this is it that their father
spake unto them, and blessed them; every
one according to his blessing he blessed
them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto
them, I am to be gathered unto my
people: bury me with my fathers in the
cave that is in the field of Ephron the
Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of
Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the
land of Canaan, which Abraham bought
with the field of Ephron the Hittite for
a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah
his wife; there they buried Isaac and
Rebekah his wife; and there I buried
Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the
cave that is therein was from the
children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of
commanding his sons, he gathered up his
feet into the bed, and yielded up the
ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

CHAPTER 50
1 And Joseph fell upon his father's
face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father: and the
physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him;
for so are fulfilled the days of those
which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
mourned for him threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive,
I pray thee now, the trespass of thy
brethren, and their sin; for they did
unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee,
forgive the trespass of the servants of
the God of thy father. And Joseph wept
when they spake unto him.
18 And his brethren also went and fell
down before his face; and they said,
Behold, we be thy servants.
19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not:
for am I in the place of God?
20 But as for you, ye thought evil
against me; but God meant it unto good,
to bring to pass, as it is this day, to
save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will
nourish you, and your little ones. And
he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and
his father's house: and Joseph lived an
hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of
the third generation: the children also
of Machir the son of Manasseh were
brought up upon Joseph's knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I
die: and God will surely visit you, and
bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the
children of Israel, saying, God will
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and
ten years old: and they embalmed him,
and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.