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And God said, "Let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth."
And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The Earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the water.
Moreover, I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it on the heel."
But the serpent was subtler than all the beasts of the field which the LORD God had made; and said unto the woman, "Ah sir, that God hath said, ye shall not eat of all manner trees in the garden."
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth herb and grass that sow seed, and fruitful trees that bear fruit, every one in his kind, having their seed in themselves, upon the earth." And it came so to pass.
Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.
Then the LORD said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred; and out of thy father's house, into a land which I will show thee.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper to bear him company."
And God beheld all that he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning was made the sixth day.
And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee. And in thee shall be blessed all the generations of the earth."
And God said, "See, I have given you all herbs that sow seed which are on all the earth, and all manner trees that have fruit in them and sow seed; to be meat for you,
And God called the firmament "heaven." And so of the evening and morning was made the second day.
And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,
And the LORD God took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it.
After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him, "Abraham." And he answered, "Here am I."
And Adam lay with Eve his wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man of the LORD."
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the earth and had begot them daughters,
But of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: For even the same day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die.
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and uncorrupt in his time, and walked with God.
These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the time when the LORD God created heaven and earth
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; for in it he rested from all his works which he had created and made.
When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying, "I am the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt.
And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty unto the eyes, and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.
And the LORD God commanded Adam, saying, "Of all the trees of the garden see thou eat:
After these deeds, the word of God came unto Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not Abram, I am thy shield; and thy reward shall be exceeding great."
Then said God, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night; that they may be unto signs, seasons, days and years.
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:
And the LORD God said, "Lo, Adam is become as it were one of us, in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live ever -"
so that he which sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man after his own likeness.
and to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light from darkness. And God saw that it was good:
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God as he walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam hid himself and his wife also from the face of the LORD God, among the trees of the garden.
and in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and rested in the seventh day from all his works which he had made.
And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth.
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he being the priest of the most highest God, blessed him, saying,
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast so done, most cursed be thou of all cattle and of all beasts of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all days of thy life.
And God said, "Let the water bring forth creatures that move and have life, and fowls for to fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven."
And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the gate of the city. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself to the ground with his face.
And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.
There were tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children, the same children were the mightiest of the world and men of renown.
but God doth know, that whensoever ye should eat of it, your eyes should be opened and ye should be as God and know both good and evil."
Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive.
The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed.
And God said, "Let there be a firmament between the waters, and let it divide the waters asunder."
Then the LORD God cast a slumber on Adam, and he slept. And then he took out one of his ribs, and in stead thereof he filled up the place with flesh.
And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for they are flesh. Nevertheless I will give them yet space, a hundred and twenty years."
This is the book of the generation of man, in the day when God created man and made him after the similitude of God.
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures in their kinds: cattle and worms and beasts of the earth in their kinds." And so it came to pass.
And God said, "Let the waters that are under heaven gather themselves unto one place, that the dry land may appear." And it came so to pass.
For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."
and called the light "day," and the darkness "night." And so of the evening and morning was made the first day.
And that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt, even unto the great river Euphrates:
And after that the LORD God had made of the earth all manner beasts of the field, and all manner fowls of the air, he brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And as Adam called all manner living beasts: even so are their names.
And the eyes of both them were opened, that they understood how that they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together and made them aprons.
Then said Adam, "This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was taken of the man."
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.
and with all living things that is with you: both fowl and cattle, and all manner beast of the earth that is with you, of all that cometh out of the ark, whatsoever beast of the earth it be.
And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day, and a lesser light to rule the night; and he made stars also.
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all.
And he cast Adam out, and set at the entering of the garden Eden, Cherubim with a naked sword moving in and out, to keep the way to the tree of life.
And he said, "Take thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and get thee unto the land of Moria, and sacrifice him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will show thee."
As soon as he came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair.
But and if thou dost evil, by and by thy sin lieth open in the door. Notwithstanding, let it be subdued unto thee, and see thou rule it."
And the LORD said, "The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous.
And let them be lights in the firmament of heaven, to shine upon the earth." And so it was.
And the LORD God made to spring out of the earth, all manner trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And all that moveth upon the earth, having life, shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs, so give I you all things.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they were in the fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him.
and tarried behind; himself alone. And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day.
When the sun was down and it was waxed dark, behold, there was a smoking furnace and a fire brand that went between the said pieces.
And of clean beasts and of beasts that were unclean and of birds and of all that creepeth upon the earth,
And Pharaoh's lords saw her also, and praised her unto Pharaoh, so that she was taken into Pharaoh's house;
And when the dove could find no resting place for her foot, she returned to him again unto the ark, for the waters were upon the face of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her and pulled her to him into the ark.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Why saidest thou that she was thy sister, and causedest me to take her to my wife? But now, lo, there is thy wife: take her and be walking."
And set himself and his servants in array, and fell upon them by night, and smote them, and chased them away unto Hobah, which lieth on the lefthand of Damascus,
But God plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.
And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest.
and said moreover unto him, "We have litter and provender enough and also room to lodge in."
Behold, here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live?"
Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee."
and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field:
And after he had begot Enos he lived eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me or not, that I may know."
Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife?
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah. That is a great city.
And the gold of that country is precious; there is found bdellium and a stone called Onyx.
and brought again all the goods and also his brother Lot, and his goods; the women also and the people.
And as he returned again from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, then came the king of Sodom to meet him, unto the vale of Shaveh which now is called King's Dale.
came in by couples of every kind unto Noah into the ark: a male and a female: even as God commanded Noah.
and lived, after he had begot Shelah, four hundred years and three and begat sons and daughters.
And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And his concubine called Reuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacha.
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine.
When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.
And he said to him, "See, I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken.
Arise, and walk about in the land, in the length of it and in the breadth, for I will give it unto thee."
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more.
Pharaoh also gave a charge unto his men over Abram, to lead him out, with his wife and all that he had.
And then will I think upon my covenant which I have made between me and you, and all that liveth, whatsoever flesh it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a flood to destroy all flesh.
The name of the one is Pishon; he it is that compasseth all the land of Havilah, where gold groweth.
And the men departed thence and went to Sodomward. But Abraham stood yet before the LORD,
and the dove came to him again about eventide, and behold: there was in her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked, whereby Noah perceived that the waters were abated upon the earth.
But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee." For Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them.
And the woman said unto the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees in the garden we may eat,
The sons of Noah that came out of the ark were: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham he is the father of Canaan.
and lived, after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Enos, after he begat Kenan, lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.
But I will make mine covenant with thee, that both thou shalt come into the ark and thy sons, thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee.
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
And God said unto Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have made between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
People be thy servants, and nations bow unto thee. Be lord over thy brethren, and thy mother's children stoop unto thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee."
And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot.
And as concerning Ishmael also, I have heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.
And Isaac said unto them, "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have put me away from you?"
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel, which runneth on the east side of the Assyrians; And the fourth river is Euphrates.
The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and all that liveth upon the earth, whatsoever flesh it be."
and lived, after he had begot Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
But my covenant will I make with Isaac, which Sara shall bear unto thee: even this time, twelve month."
And he said, "O let not my LORD be angry, that I speak yet, but even once more only. What if ten be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy them for ten's sake."
so that when I bring in clouds upon the earth, the bow shall appear in the clouds.
And Enoch begat Irad. And Irad begat Mehujael. And Mehujael begat Methusael. And Methusael begat Lamech.
Then said Lamech unto his wives Adah and Zillah, "Hear my voice ye wives of Lamech, and hearken unto my words, for I have slain a man and wounded myself, and have slain a young man, and got myself stripes.
And he spake unto him yet again, and said, "What if there be forty found there?" And he said, "I will not do it for forty's sake."
and lived, after he had begot Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Abram went forth into the land till he came unto a place called Shechem, and unto the oak of Moreh. And the Cananites dwelled then in the land.
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Giants,
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.
Then went Laban into Jacob's tent, and into Lea's tent, and into two maidens' tents: but found them not. Then went he out of Lea's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
And he said, "Oh, see, I have begun to speak unto my LORD, what if there be twenty found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy them for twenty's sake."
A window shalt thou make above in the ark. And within a cubit compass shalt thou finish it. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side of it: and thou shalt make it with three lofts - one above another.
And he tarried yet seven other days, and sent forth the dove, which from thenceforth came no more again to him.
and lived after he had begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
For behold, I will bring in a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh from under heaven, wherein breath of life is, so that all that is in the earth shall perish.
And when he was come nigh for to enter into Egypt, he said unto Sarai his wife, "Behold, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.
And it came to pass, the six hundred and one year and the first day of the first month, that the waters were dried up upon the earth. And Noah took off the hatches of the ark and looked: and behold, the face of the earth was dry.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah: of Shem, Ham and Japheth, which begat them children after the flood.
And all the beasts that are with thee whatsoever flesh it be, both fowl and cattle and all manner worms that creep on the earth, bring out with thee, and let them move, grow and multiply upon the earth."
Joktan begat Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Haste thee, and save thyself there, for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither." And therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.
Hivi, Arki, Sini,
Jebusi, Amori, Girgosi,
Then said they, "We saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee:
And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea.
And he said, "What shall I give thee?" And Jacob answered, "Thou shalt give me nothing at all, if thou wilt do this one thing for me: And then will I turn again and feed thy sheep and keep them.
And the coasts of the Canaanites were from Sidon till thou come to Gerar and to Gaza, and till thou come to Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, Zeboiim: even unto Lasha.
And Jacob said, "Swear to me then this day." And he swore to him and sold his birthright unto Jacob.
For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."
And the selfsame day went Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them in to the ark:
and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Behold, thou castest me out this day from off the face of the earth, and from thy sight must I hide myself, and I must be a vagabond and a renegade upon the earth: Moreover whosoever findeth me, will kill me."
And Zillah she also bare Tubalcain; a worker in metal and a father of all that grave in brass and iron. And Tubalcain's sister was called Naamah.
And Rebekah had a brother called Laban. And Laban ran out unto the man, to the well:
And as they came from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and there they dwelled.
And Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, and yet am but dust and ashes.
And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, with all their goods which they had gotten, and souls which they had begotten in Haran. And they departed to go into the land of Canaan. And when they were come into the land of Canaan,
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built.
Wherefore the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the tongue of all the world; and because that the LORD, from thence, scattered them abroad upon all the earth.
And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Joktan.
It will come to pass, therefore, when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, 'she is his wife.' And so shall they slay me and save thee.
Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the east side of Bethel and pitched his tent - Bethel being on the west side, and Ai on the east - and he built there an altar unto the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
And his brother's name was Jubal; of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs.
And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Sheleh begat Eber.
And Shem the father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Japheth, begat children also.
and said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham which ceaseth not to deal mercifully and truly with my master. For the LORD hath brought me the way to my master's brother's house."
for as soon as he had seen the earrings and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying "thus said the man unto me," then he went out unto the man. And lo, he stood yet with the camels by the well side.
Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in their countries, every man in his speech, kindred and nation.
Male and female made he them, and called their names man, in the day when they were created.
And male and female see that they be, of birds in their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of all manner of worms of the earth in their kind: a pair of every thing shall come unto thee to keep them alive.
And they came unto Noah into the ark by couples, of all flesh that had breath of life in it.
If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are therein?
And he answered, "Seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well."
And they said, one to another, "Come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire." So brick was their stone and slime was their mortar.
"Come out of the ark, both thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran; which was father of Milcah and of Iscah.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of red rice. And he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.
And Esau answered, "Lo, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do me?"
Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times - first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"
And Kenan, after he had begot Mahalalel, lived eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth.
Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.
All the beasts also, and all the worms, and all the fowls, and all that crept upon the earth, went out of the ark, every one unto his like.
And she conceived yet, and bare a son, and said, "Now this once will my husband keep me company, because I have borne him three sons." And therefore she called his name Levi.
And the sons of Gomer were: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.
Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these are the sons of Joktan.
both they and all manner of beasts in their kind, and all manner of cattle in their kind and all manner of worms that creep upon the earth in their kind, and all manner of birds in their kind, and all manner of fowls whatsoever had feathers.
The LORD God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land where I was born, and which spake unto me and sware unto me saying 'unto thy seed will I give this land' - he shall send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife unto my son from thence.
He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD, whereof came the proverb "he is as Nimrod, that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD."
And Enoch walked with God, after he had begot Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
and lived, after he had begot Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And the sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty nine years, and then he died.
What though there lack five of 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 them."
And Mahalalel, after he had begot Jared, lived eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
And take unto thee of all manner of meat that may be eaten and lay it up in store by thee, that it may be meat both for thee and for them."
And Shem lived, after he had begot Arpachshad, five hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts, perished; with all that crept on the earth, and all men:
Thus made they a bond together at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol his chief Captain rose up and turned again unto the land of the Philistines.
Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he cut off the foreskin of his flesh.
And the children of Aram were: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.
As soon as Noah was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest son had done unto him,
And they that came, came male and female of every flesh according as God commanded him: and the LORD shut the door upon him.
and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and then he died.
And Laban said, "Come in, thou blessed of the LORD. Wherefore standest thou without? I have dressed the house and made room for the camels."
And the waters prevailed exceedingly above measure upon the earth, so that all the high hills which are under all the parts of heaven were covered:
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's privities, and told his two brethren that were without.
And the waters went away, and decreased until the tenth month. And the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
Thus the LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city.
God increase Japheth that he may dwell in the tents of Shem. And Canaan be their servant."
so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it, throughout all that was on dry land, died.
And Isaac was greatly astonished out of measure, and said, "Where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him, and he shall be blessed still."
And the water prevailed and increased exceedingly upon the earth: and the ark went upon the top of the waters.
Then his father Isaac said unto him, "Who art thou?" He answered, "I am thy eldest son Esau."
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
And he took off his ring from his finger, and put it upon Joseph's finger, and he arrayed him in raiment of byss, and put a golden chain about his neck,
and said unto his brethren, "Gather stones." And they took stones, and made a heap, and they ate there, upon the heap.
And the dwelling of them was from Mesha until thou come unto Sephar, a mountain of the east land.
Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth; both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the air, so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark.
Then said the king of Sodom unto Abram, "Give me the souls, and take the goods to thyself."
The sons of Cush: were Seva, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were: Sheba, and Dedan.
And after the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
And these words of Esau her eldest son, were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called Jacob her youngest son, and said unto him, "Behold, thy brother Esau threateneth to kill thee.
See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the earth, and multiply therein."
And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place.
And my master made me swear saying, 'Thou shalt not take a wife to my son, among the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell.
The second called he Ephraim, "For God," said he, "hath caused me to grow in the land of my trouble."
and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed."
And Esau said unto his father, "Hast thou but that one blessing my father? Bless me also, my father!" So lifted up Esau his voice and wept.
Thou hast searched all my stuff, and what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Put it here before thy brethren and mine, and let them judge betwixt us both.
And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called Gilead.
and the waters returned from off the earth and abated after the end of a hundred and fifty days.
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy seven years, and then he died.
Laban answered and said unto Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, 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?
And with thy sword shalt thou live and shalt be thy brother's servant; But the time will come, when thou shalt get the mastery, and loose his yoke from off thy neck."
For seven days hence will I send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and will destroy all manner of things that I have made, from off the face of the earth."
behold, I stand by this well of water, and when a virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her 'give me a little water of thy pitcher to drink,'
and the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain of heaven was forbidden,
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants born in his house, and all that was bought with money; as many as were men children among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh, even the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
And Cain lay with his wife, which conceived and bare Enoch. And he was building a city and called the name of it after the name of his son, Enoch.
This twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not been barren, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
And I bowed myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away.
And Noah went, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him, into the ark from the waters of the flood.
Then sent he forth a dove from him, to wete whether the waters were fallen from off the earth.
After this there came a dearth in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the dearth was sore in the land.
and all the shrubs of the field before they were in the earth. And all the herbs of the field before they sprang: for the LORD God had yet sent no rain upon the earth, neither was there yet any man to till the earth.
Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children. But she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
And he said unto me, 'The LORD before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy journey that thou shalt take a wife for my son, of my kindred and of my father's house.
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and then he died.
And God created great whales and all manner of creatures that live and move, which the waters brought forth in their kinds, and all manner of feathered fowls in their kinds. And God saw that it was good:
The LORD visited Sara as he had said, and did unto her according as he had spoken.
and gathered up all the food of the seven plenteous years which were in the land of Egypt and put it into the cities. And he put the food of the fields that grew round about every city, even in the same.
and sent forth a raven, which went out, ever going and coming again, until the waters were dried up upon the earth.
and Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
and said to Jacob, "Let me sip of that red pottage, for I am fainty." And therefore was his name called Edom.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
Then said the elder unto the younger, "Our father is old, and there are no more men in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world.
And Abraham planted a wood in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God:
And he brought him out at the doors and said, "Look up unto heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them." And said unto him, "Even so shall thy seed be."
and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabbok.
that thou shouldest do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and have done unto thee nothing but good, and send thee away in peace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORD."
And Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high, possessor of heaven and earth,
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon it.
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was departed from him, "Lift up thine eyes and look from the place where thou art, northward, southward, eastward and westward,
Make thee an ark of pine tree, and make chambers in the ark, and pitch it, within and without, with pitch.
And the LORD said unto Noah, "Go into the ark both thou and all thy household. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
and Methuselah, after he had begot Lamech, lived seven hundred and eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters.
Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day and night cease, as long as the earth endureth."
That be far from thee, that thou shouldest 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. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"
And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's nakedness.
And all the men in his house, whether they were born in his house or bought with money, though they were strangers, were circumcised with him.
And blessed be God the most highest, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hands." And Abram gave him tithes of all.
Then the LORD appeared unto Abram and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." And he built an altar there unto the LORD which appeared to him.
And there sprung a river out of Eden to water the garden, and thence divided itself, and grew into four principal waters.
likewise of the birds of the air seven of every kind, male and female to save seed upon all the earth.
And Lamech lived, after he had begot Noah, five hundred, ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters.
And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."
And they were either of them naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
And the LORD God made of the rib which he took out of Adam, a woman, and brought her unto Adam.
And Abimelech answered, "I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it, but this day."
And the LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will spare all the place for their sakes."
Joseph was brought unto Egypt, and Potiphar - a lord of Pharaoh's, and his chief marshal, an Egyptian - bought him of the Ishmaelites which brought him thither.
And when Adam was a hundred and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth.
And there fell a dearth in the land, passing the first dearth that fell in the days of Abraham. Wherefore Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
So that all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
And said, "I will destroy mankind which I have made, from off the face of the earth: both man, beast, worm and fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them."
Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
And Noah made an altar unto the LORD, and took of all manner of clean beasts and all manner of clean fowls, and offered sacrifice upon the altar.
I will go about all thy sheep this day, and separate from them all the sheep that are spotted and of divers colors, and all black sheep among the lambs, and the party and spotted among the kids: And then such shall be my reward.
When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."
And Adam gave names unto all manner cattle, and unto the fowls of the air, and unto all manner beasts of the field. But there was no help found unto Adam to bear him company.
And he lift up his eyes and looked: and lo, three men stood not far from him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and fell to the ground
Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,
Then the men stood up from thence and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
And it fortuned, in process of time, that Cain brought of the fruit of the earth an offering unto the LORD.
As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting:
And the LORD said unto Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I can not tell, am I my brother's keeper?"
And he called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah. And he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. Then went Joseph abroad in the land of Egypt.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice."
Then Abram departed out of Egypt; both he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him unto the south.
And he said unto Abram, "Know this of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that pertaineth not unto them. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreat them evil, four hundred years.
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, that is to say in the land of Canaan.
Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.
And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. Then called he Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son." And he said unto him, "Here am I."
And God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to blow upon the earth, and the waters ceased;
And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me."
When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he harnessed his servants born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and followed till they came at Dan.
that I will bless thee and multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the sea side. And thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies.
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.
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.
that I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say 'I have made Abram rich.'
For verily the blood of you, wherein your lives are, will I require: Even of the hand of all beasts will I require it, and of the hand of man and of the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man:
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together.
and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.
And the LORD said unto Cain, "Why art thou angry, and why lowerest thou? Knowest thou not, if thou dost well thou shalt receive it?
These are the kindreds of the sons of Noah, in their generations and nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.
And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountains and his two daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he dwelt therefore in a cave, both he and his two daughters also.
When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,
And it chanced within a while, that Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of the nations:
And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.
And he said unto him, "I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur in Chaldea to give thee this land to possess it."
Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.
And Jacob called for his sons and said, "Come together, that I may tell you what shall happen you in the last days.
And he answered, "Thy voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, and therefore hid myself."
And God made the beasts of the earth in their kinds, and cattle in their kinds, and all manner worms of the earth in their kinds: and God saw that it was good.
And Abraham called the name of the place, "The LORD will see." Wherefore it is a common saying this day, "In the mount will the LORD be seen."
Of all clean beasts take unto thee seven of every kind, the male and his female, and of unclean beasts a pair, the male and his female:
And God said unto Jacob, "Arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother."
and set him upon the best chariot that he had, save one. And they cried before him "Abrech!" And that Pharaoh had made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.
And Seth begat a son and called his name Enos. And in that time began men to call on the name of the LORD.
And it fortuned at that time that Judah went from his brethren and gat him to a man called Hirah of Adullam,
And the LORD's angel said further unto her, "See, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation.
Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.
Then said God to Noah, "The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of their mischief. And lo, I will destroy them with the earth.
But before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round about both old and young, all the people from all quarters.
Therefore shalt thou no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee,
And it fortuned, at two years' end, that Pharaoh dreamed; and thought that he stood by a river's side,
Then said God, "Nay. Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my covenant with him, that it shall be an everlasting covenant unto his seed after him.
Say, I pray thee therefore, that thou art my sister; that I may fare the better by reason of thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake."
And the earth brought forth herb and grass sowing seed, every one in his kind, and trees bearing fruit and having their seed in themselves, every one in his kind. And God saw that it was good:
Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.
And Joseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren.
"Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee.
And the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat, the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."
And Cain went out from the face of the LORD, and dwelt in the land Nod, on the east side of Eden.
And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."
I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant made between me and the earth;
but unto Cain and unto his offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.
and for all beasts of the earth, and unto all fowls of the air, and unto all that creepeth on the earth wherein is life, that they may have all manner herbs and grass for to eat." And even so it was.
And he said, "Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, of which I bade thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
And Adam answered, "The woman which thou gavest to bear me company, she took me of the tree, and I ate."
And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide him a sheep for sacrifice." So went they both together.
And Rachel took the images, and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not.
And God said unto Abraham, "Sarai, thy wife, shall no more be called Sarai: but Sara shall her name be.
And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?"
And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and will be their God."
Therefore in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Giants in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
And he said, "I will come again unto thee as soon as the fruit can live. And lo, Sara thy wife shall have a son." That heard Sara, out of the tent door which was behind his back.
seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out greatly and bitterly above measure, and said unto his father, "Bless me also, my father!"
"I am. Behold, my covenant is with thee, that thou shalt be a father of many nations.
And God said, "This is the token of my covenant which I make between me and you, and between all living thing, that is with you forever:
Adam also lay with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth: "For God," said she, "hath given me another son for Abel whom Cain slew."
And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.
And she conceived yet again, and bare a son, saying, "Now will I praise the LORD!" Therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.
I make my covenant with you, that henceforth all flesh shall not be destroyed with the waters of any flood, and that henceforth there shall not be a flood to destroy the earth."
and had made also meat, and brought it in unto his father and said unto him, "Arise my father and eat of thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me."
And he called it Sheba, wherefore the name of the city is called Beersheba unto this day.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering:
And the LORD said unto her, "There are two manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out of thy bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the eldest shall be servant unto the younger."
and God blessed them, saying, "Grow and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowls multiply upon the earth."
but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, said God, see that ye eat not, and see that ye touch it not: lest ye die."
And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger, "Behold, yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this night also, and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our father."
Out of that land came Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old, when he went out of Haran.
Wherefore she said unto Abram, "Behold the LORD hath closed me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her." And Abram heard the voice of Sarai.
Is the thing too hard for the LORD to do? In the time appointed will I return unto thee, as soon as the fruit can have life. And Sara shall have a son."
Dina, the daughter of Lea which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
And the LORD said, "See, the people is one and have one tongue among them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that they have purposed to do.
And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men which came into thy house tonight? Bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them."
He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren."
And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he begat him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
And the LORD God said unto the woman, "Wherefore didst thou so?" And the woman answered, "The serpent deceived me and I ate."
And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?"
And see, I am with thee, and will be thy keeper in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: Neither will I leave thee; until I have made good all that I have promised thee."
And the LORD said unto him, "Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should kill him.
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?"
And then the man came in to the house: and he unbridled the camels: and brought litter and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and their feet that were with him,
And he said, "Lay not thy hands upon the child, neither do anything at all unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, in that thou hast not kept thine only son from me."
And when they had eaten them up, a man could not perceive that they had eaten them: for they were still as evil favored as they were at the beginning. And I awoke.
And Abram answered, "LORD Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? I go childless, and the cater of mine house, this Eliezer of Damascus, hath a son."
The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.
and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."
And every manchild when it is eight days old, shall be circumcised among you in your generations, and all servants also born at home or bought with money, though they be strangers and not of thy seed.
When Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, "Joseph might fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which we did unto him."
When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware."
Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking.
Then as the Midianites merchant men passed by, they drew Joseph out of the pit and sold him unto the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought him into Egypt.
Yea, and the LORD stood upon it and said, "I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon will I give thee and thy seed.
"That flourishing child, Joseph; that flourishing child, and goodly unto the eye! The daughters come forth to bear rule;
Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees, and peeled white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves:
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar:
The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth, and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands.
Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even there, that one understand not what another sayeth."
And the Angel of the LORD found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness: even by a well in the way to Shur.
This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee: that ye circumcise all your men children.
because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept mine ordinances, commandments, statutes and laws."
And it fortuned, after this, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Come lie with me."
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to put on,
saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,
And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into Egypt.
for all the land which thou seest will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever.
And when they came unto the place which God showed him, Abraham made an altar there and dressed the wood, and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, above upon the wood.
And the days of Adam, after he begat Seth, were eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And afterward his brother came out, and his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare them:
Come therefore, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father."
And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?"
And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.
"And of all that liveth, whatsoever flesh it be, shalt thou bring into the ark, of every thing a pair, to keep them alive with thee.
he said, "Cursed be Canaan, and a servant, of all servants be he to his brethren."
Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up?
And after the death of Baalhanan the son of Achbor, Hadad 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.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son.
Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.
And she conceived again and bare a son, and said, "The LORD hath heard that I am despised, and hath therefore given me this son also." And she called him Simeon.
and looked toward Sodom and Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace.
When Jacob saw that there was corn to be sold in Egypt, he said unto his sons, "Why are ye negligent?
Then said Judah unto Onan, go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, and stir up seed unto thy brother.
after these deeds, tidings were brought unto Joseph, that his father was sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
If there be any uncircumcised manchild, that hath not the foreskin of his flesh cut off, his soul shall perish from his people: because he hath broken my covenant."
And Isaac digged again, the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, and gave them the same names which his father gave them.
and the LORD hath blessed my master out of measure that he is become great and hath given him sheep, oxen, silver and gold, menservants, maidservants, camels and asses.
Then the angel of the LORD called unto him from heaven saying, "Abraham, Abraham?" And he answered, "Here am I."
And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had, "Put thy hand under my thigh
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."
Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre: Let them take their parts."
And he said unto him, "Take a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a three year old ram, a turtle dove and a young pigeon."
And he was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And then Joseph departed from Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was his sister. Then Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and fetched Sara away.
And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril.
And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."
Moreover, Joseph dreamed a dream and told it his brethren: wherefore they hated him yet the more.
Then God made the firmament, and parted the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters that were above the firmament: And it was so.
Ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And God heard the voice of the child. And the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, "What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the child where he lieth.
And behold, the word of the LORD spake unto Abram saying, "He shall not be thine heir, but one that shall come out of thine own body shall be thine heir."
Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came unto Beersheba and offered offerings unto the God of his father Isaac.
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 swore unto Abraham thy father,
And all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.
insomuch that they stopped, and filled up with earth, all the wells which his father's servants digged in his father Abraham's time.
And he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren, saying, "Behold, I have had one dream more: me thought the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me."
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a lucky fellow and continued in the house of his master the Egyptian.
And God called the dry land "the earth" and the gathering together of waters called he "the sea." And God saw that it was good.
Behold, I have two daughters which have known no man; them will I bring out unto you: do with them as it seemeth you good: Only unto these men do nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof."
But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.
and came unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was down. And took a stone of the place, and put it under his head, and laid him down in the same place to sleep.
When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: And thou shalt spread abroad: west, east, north and south. And through thee and thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
And Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara, and said, Make ready at once three pecks of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes."
Then spake Isaac unto Abraham his father and said, "My father?" And he answered, "Here am I, my son." And he said, "See, here is fire and wood, but where is the sheep for sacrifice?"
And they gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the elder daughter went and lay with her father. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
Then digged they another well, and they strove for that also. Therefore called he it Sitnah.
and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.
made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, and with Shinab king of Admah, and with Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and with the king of Bela - which Bela is called Zoar.
Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian - after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan - and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.
and this stone which I have set up on end, shall be God's house. And of all that thou shalt give me, will I give the tenth unto thee."
yet in very deed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not of my mother: and became my wife.
and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.
Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rachel and unto the two maidens.
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, which Hagar the Egyptian, Sara's handmaid, bare unto Abraham.
And when Onan perceived that the seed should not be his: therefore when he went into his brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, because he would not give seed unto his brother.
And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him, "See, thou art but a dead man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife."
And God said unto him, "I am God almighty: grow and multiply; for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee, yea and kings shall come out of thy loins.
And God said unto Abraham, "See thou keep my covenant, both thou and thy seed after thee in their times.
And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD.
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, with their names in their kindreds. The eldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.
and said unto his young men, "Bide here with the ass. I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you."
And Jacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head, and pitched it up on end, and poured oil on the top of it.
and will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries. And through thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,
And God almighty bless thee, increase thee, and multiply thee that thou mayest be a number of people,
And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city."
And when the sun was down, there fell a slumber upon Abram. And lo, fear and great darkness came upon him.
and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her.
that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.
And Isaac sowed in the land, and found in the same year a hundred bushels; for the LORD blessed him.
And the same day came Isaac's servants, and told him of a well which they had digged: and said unto him, that they had found water.
and yet his bow bode fast, and his arms and his hands were strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob: out of him shall come a herdsman, a stone in Israel.
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of hunger came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, bare unto him.
And I will make my covenant between thee and me, and will multiply thee exceedingly."
and I will multiply thee exceedingly, and will make nations of thee: yea, and kings shall spring out of thee.
And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;
Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his men with him, and Isaac his son: and clove wood for the sacrifice, and rose up and got him to the place which God had appointed him.
And then turned they and came to the well of judgment which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwell in Hazezon-Tamar.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I am Pharaoh; without thy will, shall no man lift up either his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Let a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour."
"Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.
Then the LORD appeared unto him and said, "Go not down into Egypt, but bide in the land which I say unto thee:
Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom.
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country;
And it chanced, after this, that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and his chief baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
Then Judah went unto him and said, "O my lord, let thy servant speak a word in my lord's audience, and be not wroth with thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
And Abram said, "See, to me hast thou given no seed: lo, a lad born in my house shall be mine heir!"
And Reuben went out in the wheat harvest and found mandragoras in the fields, and brought them unto his mother Lea. Then said Rachel to Lea, "Give me of thy son's mandragoras."
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 unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
And it came to pass that after three months, one told Judah, saying, "Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and with playing the whore is become great with child." And Judah said, "Bring her forth and let her be burnt."
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, "I will so increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude."
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.
and there was meat set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat, until I have said mine errand." And he said, "Say on."
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her sight.
And the elder bare a son and called him Moab, which is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
And the men said moreover unto Lot, "If thou have yet here any son-in-law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place:
And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."
Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.
"And this toot-hill which the LORD seeth," said he, "be witness between me and thee when we are departed one from another:
And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.
Then said she to her father, "My lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come upon me." So searched he, but found them not.
And now, though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?"
Now, therefore, deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for thee that thou mayest live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast."
And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life.
And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." And he said, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."
And Hagar bare Abram a son, and Abram called his son's name which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me?
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre.
And he said, "See lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house; and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up early and go on your ways." And they said, "Nay, but we will bide in the streets all night."
And the Midianites sold him in Egypt unto Potiphar, a lord of Pharaoh's: and his chief marshal.
then went he unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wife.
And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and stood himself by them under the tree: and they ate.
And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, which dwelt by the well of the living and seeing.
and said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer cometh;
Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you and make yourselves clean, and change your garments,
And he dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as men go toward the Assyrians. And he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives.
And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"
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.
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
But this Er, Judah's eldest son, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; wherefore the LORD slew him.
And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law.
So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time cometh that I shall receive my reward of thee: So that whatsoever is not speckled and party among the goats and black among the lambs, let that be theft with me."
Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.
These are the generations of Esau, which is called Edom.
which bare him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
but arise and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.
And therefore he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and looked upon nothing that was with him, save only on the bread which he ate. And Joseph was a goodly person and a well favored.
And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the thigh, and the sinew of Jacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with him.
"Zebulon shall dwell in the haven of the sea and in the port of ships, and shall reach unto Sidon.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, "Come near to me." And they came near. And he said, "I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt.
And Sara said, "God hath made me a laughingstock: for all that hear, will laugh at me."
And he commanded the ruler of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry,
Then said Abram to Sarai, "Behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do with her as it pleaseth thee." And because Sarai fared foul with her, she fled from her.
These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king among the children of Israel.
And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem.
Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:
And he that came out first was red and rough over all, as it were a hide: and they called his name Esau.
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'
And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
And he was afraid, and said, "How fearful is this place? It is none other, but even the house of God and the gate of heaven!"
And as the camels had left drinking, he took an earring of half a sicle weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten sicles weight of gold,
Then said Sarai unto Abram, "Thou dost me unright, for I have given my maid into thy bosom: and now because she seeth that she hath conceived, I am despised in her sight: the LORD judge between thee and me."
and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.
And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor:
He himself is not greater in the house than I, and hath kept nothing from me, but only thee because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, for to sin against God?"
Thy father's God shall help thee, and the almighty shall bless thee with blessings from heaven above, and with blessings of the water that lieth under, and with blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Then their father Israel said unto them, "If it must needs be so now: then do thus, take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a courtesy balm, and a courtesy of honey, spices and myrrh, dates and almonds.
and bought a parcel of ground - where he pitched his tent - of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred lambs.
And the younger bare a son and called him Benammi, which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.
And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
And Jacob came peaceably into the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched before the city;
Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so that the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years.
And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, lord of the country, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and forced her:
And he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and entered into his house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and they ate.
For I will bless her and give thee a son of her; and will bless her so that people, yea and kings of people, shall spring of her."
Now therefore, come on, let us make a bond, I and thou together, and let it be a witness between thee and me."
And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday."
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."
behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make thy mercy great which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die.
And the dearth waxed sore in the land.
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon an Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, which Anah was the son of Zibeon an Hivite;
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan: And Lot in the cities of the plain, and tented till he came to Sodom.
and said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob. Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name." And so was his name called Israel.
And I asked her, saying, 'whose daughter art thou?' And she answered, '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.
And God appeared unto Jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him,
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph. And they made him haste out of prison. And he shaved himself and changed his raiment, and went in to Pharaoh.
And it came to pass, yer he had left speaking, that Rebekah came out - the daughter of Bethuel, son to Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother - and her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And he called the name of the place Bethel, for indeed the name of the city was called Luz before time.
Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed."
And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands; because the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city.
and was gone out to walk in his meditations before the even tide. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and behold the camels were coming.
As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.
And when her time was come to be delivered, behold, there were two twins in her womb.
I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born.'"
And the sons of Eliphaz were: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.
And Abraham took the wood of the sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand and a knife. And they went both of them together.
"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
There was no bread in all the land, for the dearth was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, were famished by the reason of the dearth.
When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt:
Now therefore thy two sons Manasseh and Ephraim which were born unto thee before I came to thee, into Egypt, shall be mine: even as Reuben and Simeon shall they be unto me.
Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.
And of the increase, ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed to sow the field: and for you, and them of your households, and for your children, to eat."
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt were: two souls. So that all the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt are seventy.
Then answered Laban and Bethuel, saying, "The thing is proceeded even out of the LORD, we can not therefore say unto thee, either good or bad:
and the Horites in their own mount Seir unto the plain of Elparan, which bordereth upon the wilderness.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.
And Sara my master's wife bare him a son, when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
And he commanded them, saying, "See that ye speak after this manner to my LORD Esau, 'thy servant, Jacob, sayeth thus: I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time;
And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."
And his father would not, but said, "I know it well my son, I know it well. He shall be also a people and shall be great. But of a truth his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be full of people."
and Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, their sheep and their beasts and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and are in the land of Goshen."
The damsel was very fair to look upon, and yet a maid and unknown of man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up again.
And he called the name of the first son Manasseh, "For God," said he, "hath made me forget all my labour and all my father's household."
The servant born in thy house, and he also that is bought with money, must needs be circumcised, that my covenant may be in your flesh, for an everlasting bond.
And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.
And in process of time, the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died. Then Judah, when he had left mourning, went unto his sheep shearers to Timnath with his friend Hirah of Adullam.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying, 'Jacob?' And I answered, 'Here am I.'
Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day or night.
And all countries came to Egypt, to Joseph, for to buy corn: because that the hunger was so sore in all lands.
Then 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, now called Zoar. And set their men in array to fight with them in the vale of Siddim, that is to say,
And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
And he took them and sent them over the river, and sent over that he had,
And Jacob asked him, saying, "Tell me thy name." And he said, "Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?" And he blessed him there.
And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And God said unto him in a dream, "I know it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her.
He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in the blood of grapes:
And Israel stretched out his righthand and laid it upon Ephraim's head which was the younger, and his lefthand upon Manasseh's head, crossing his hands; for Manasseh was the elder.
These are the children of Seir the Horite, the inhabiter of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and bare unto Eliphaz, Amalek. And these be the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
Then Isaac his father answered and said unto him, "Behold, thy dwelling place shall have of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.
And he took Joseph and put him in prison: even in the place where the king's prisoners lay bound. And there continued he in prison,
And he went to him and kissed him. And he smelled the savour 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.
And he went on his journey from the south even unto Bethel, and unto the place where his tent was at the first time between Bethel and Ai,
And they took Lot also; Abram's brother's son, and his goods, for he dwelled at Sodom; and departed.
Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
Then said Pharaoh unto his servants, "Where shall we find such a man as this is, that hath the spirit of God in him?"
And he took all these and divided them in the midst, and laid every piece, one over against another. But the fowls divided he not.
And Joseph prepared dwellings for his father and his brethren, and gave them possessions in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land: even in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.
The sons of Lea: Reuben, Jacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.
Then she said, "Here is my maid, Bilhah: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her."
These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years
And when they saw him afar off before he came at them, they took counsel against him, for to slay him,
But the nation whom they shall serve, will I judge. And afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And the Angel of the LORD said unto her, "Return to thy mistress again, and submit thyself under her hands."
so that the land was not able to receive them that they might dwell together. For the substance of their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together.
and set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Laban's sheep.
And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, "Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies."
These are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt, both Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first son.
The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were under their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak at Shechem.
They answered him, "We have dreamed a dream, and have no man to declare it." And Joseph said unto them, "Interpreting belongeth to God, but tell me yet."
"Benjamin is a ravishing wolf. In the morning he shall devour his prey, and at night he shall divide his spoil."
And he put the staves which he had peeled even before the sheep; in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Is not all the whole land before thee? Depart, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the lefthand, I will take the right: or if thou take the righthand I will take the left."
Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,
And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Timnath, for because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
And she caught him by the garment, saying, "Come, sleep with me." And he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out.
Wherefore she called the well, "the well of the living that seeth me" which well is between Kadesh and Bered.
Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will make of him a great people."
but the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and got him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison;
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two droves.
Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."
And they said, "Come hither." And they said, "Camest thou not in to sojourn, and wilt thou be now a judge? We will surely deal worse with thee than with them. And as they pressed sore upon Lot and began to break up the door,
Isaac answered and said unto Esau, "Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his mother's children have I made his servants. Moreover, with corn and wine have I established him. What can I do unto thee now my son?"
Then Joseph said unto Pharaoh, "Both Pharaoh's dreams are one. And God doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Then said Laban unto him, "If I have found favour in thy sight - for I suppose that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake -
And he said, "LORD God of my master Abraham, send me good speed this day, and show mercy unto my master Abraham.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."
and unto the place of the altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name, of the LORD.
for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it."
For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying,
When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him.
And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come."
Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.
And as soon as Joseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped him out of his gay coat that was upon him,
Moreover, I give unto thee a portion of land above thy brethren which I gat out of the hands of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
And God said unto Israel in a vision by night, and called unto him, "Jacob, Jacob." And he answered, "Here am I."
And Abraham ran unto his beasts and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, which made it ready at once.
Then said the LORD unto Abraham, "Wherefore doth Sara laugh saying, 'shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I am old?'
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, to comfort your hearts withal. And then go your ways, for even therefore are ye come to your servant." And they answered, "Do even so as thou hast said."
And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:
and said, "Nay. For God's sake, brethren, do not so wickedly.
When the morning came, his spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpret it unto Pharaoh.
And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male;
And made his camels to lie down without the city by a well's side of water, at even: about the time that women come out to draw water.
And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness - both small and great, so that they could not find the door.
Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more.
And after God caused me to wander out of my father's house, I said unto her, 'This kindness shalt thou show unto me in all places where we come, that thou say of me, how that I am thy brother.'"
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
Then answered Rachel and Lea and said unto him, "We have no part nor inheritance in our father's house:
duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Idumaea in their habitations, in the land of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomites.
And then he departed thence, and digged another well for the which they strove not: therefore called he it Rehoboth, saying, "The LORD hath now made us room, and we are increased upon the earth."
Then Abimelech rose up betimes in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears, and the men were sore afraid.
But and if, when thou comest unto my kindred, they will not give thee one; then shalt thou bear no peril of mine oath.'
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon camels,
The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Sarah - but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children of Perez, Hezron, and Hamul.
Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"
Then went Jacob to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Then said Judah to his brethren, "What availeth it that we slay our brother, and keep his blood secret?
And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence comest thou and whither wilt thou go?" And she answered, "I flee from my mistress Sarai."
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."
The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of my elders, after the desire of the highest in the world. And these blessings shall fall on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins - beside his son's wives - were all together sixty and six souls.
Then Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley Gerar and dwelt there.
And after I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel died upon my hand in the land of Canaan, by the way: when I had but a field's breadth to go unto Ephrata. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrata which is now called Bethlehem."
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir, which Esau is called Edom.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host," and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.
When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Twelve years were they subject to king Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year rebelled.
Then they said one to another, "We have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us."
and went and sat her out of sight a great way; as it were a bowshot off. For she said, "I will not see the lad die." And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.
And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."
So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.
And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Jordan, there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father seven days.
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, he went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.
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 feared lest he should have died also, as his brethren did. Thus went Tamar and dwelt in her father's house.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people.
that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me."
And he said unto his brethren, "I am Joseph: doth my father yet live?" But his brethren could not answer him, for they were abashed at his presence.
And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."
The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.
And Judah knew them, saying, "She is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Shelah my son." But he lay with her no more.
"Hear us, lord, thou art a prince of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchers bury thy dead: None of us shall forbid thee his sepulchre, that thou shouldest not bury thy dead therein."
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their towns and castles; twelve princes of nations.
Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife.
And then he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and there pitched his tent. And there Isaac's servants digged a well.
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me."
say, 'Thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep."
and Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him.
And unto the sons of his concubines he gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son - while he yet lived - eastward, unto the east country.
Wherefore Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is no man of understanding nor of wisdom like unto thee.
And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lay thereby - for at that well were the flocks watered - and there lay a great stone at the well mouth.
And Rachel said, "God is turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand." And she called his name Naphtali.
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.
and there he saw the daughter of a man called Shua, a Canaanite. And he took her and went in unto her.
Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again.
When time was come that she should be delivered, behold there was two twins in her womb.
And then Laban said, "Well, thou art my bone and my flesh. Abide with me the space of a month."
She said also, "Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age?"
When Judah saw her, he thought it had been an whore, because she had covered her face.
Then took Joseph them both: Ephraim in his righthand, toward Israel's lefthand, and Manasseh in his lefthand, toward Israel's righthand, and brought them unto him.
My father shall peradventure feel me, and I shall seem unto him as though I went about to beguile him, and so shall he bring a curse upon me and not a blessing."
The children of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
And he took out that same day the he-goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons,
And Jacob their father said unto them, "Me have ye robbed of my children: Joseph is away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things fall upon me."
Behold, we were making sheaves in the field: and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and yours stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf."
And Jacob took his journey toward Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: whereof the name of the place is called Succoth.
And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number.
So turned Abraham again unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
she spake unto Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I have heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying,
Then Sara denied it, saying, "I laughed not." For she was afraid. But he said, "Yes, thou laughtest."
When Jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his people.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father spake unto them when he blessed them, every man with a several blessing.
And Isaac dwelled in Gerar.
And Israel dwelt in Egypt, even in the country of Goshen. And they had their possessions therein, and they grew and multiplied exceedingly.
And she made haste, and took down her pitcher from off her, and said, 'drink, and I will give thy camels drink also.' And I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.
Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar; and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol his chief captain.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children, even unto the third generation. And unto Machir the son of Manasseh were children born, and sat on Joseph's knees.
And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living and seeing, for he dwelt in the south country,
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying 'see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,'
And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said that she was his sister: for he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him for her sake, because she was beautiful to the eye.
But shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac."
But Abimelech had not yet come nigh her, and therefore said, "LORD, wilt thou slay righteous people?
But he plucked his hand back again, and his brother came out. And she said, "Wherefore hast thou rent a rent upon thee?" And called him Perez.
Joseph dwelt in Egypt and his father's house also, and lived a hundred and ten years.
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were borne: Manasseh and Ephraim which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On bare unto him.
The children of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
and make me meat such as I love, and bring it me and let me eat that my soul may bless thee before that I die."
Then said the servant unto him, "What and if the woman will not agree to come with me unto this land, shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out of?"
And he said, "Swear unto me." And he sware unto him. And then Israel bowed him unto the bed's head.
Now therefore my son hear my voice, make thee ready, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran:
But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.
And he said, "I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I will make of thee there a great people.
Then said Lot unto them, "Oh nay my lord:
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past.
Into their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed an ox.
Thou therefore shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the king's seat will I be above thee."
Then said Jacob to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is rough and I am smooth.
Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps,
These were dukes of the sons of Esau. The children of Eliphaz the first son of Esau were these: duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door.
These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, in their kindreds, places and names: Duke Timna, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which came to hand, a present, unto Esau his brother:
And he said, "My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. Moreover, some misfortune might happen upon him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave."
And they prepared for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians which ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
And he lift up his eyes and saw the wives and their children, and said, "What are these which thou there hast?" And he said, "They are the children which God hath given thy servant."
Then Jacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by themself, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban.
For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream: and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were streaked, spotted and party.
Then said Rachel, "God hath given sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son." Therefore called she him Dan.
Wherefore he found grace in his master's sight, and served him. And his master made him ruler of his house, and put all that he had in his hand.
And Jockshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim and Leummim.
And I came this day unto the well and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if it be so that thou makest my journey which I go, prosperous:
And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.
and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
For it was but little that thou hadst before I came, and now it is increased into a multitude, and the LORD hath blessed thee for my sake. But now when shall I make provision for mine own house also?"
and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebekah's son. Then Rachel ran and told her father.
While he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
These were the children of Zibeon: Aia and Anah; this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed his father Zibeon's asses.
And afterward came out his brother that had the red thread about his hand, which was called Zerah.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their victuals, and went their way.
Nevertheless, if the woman will not agree to come with thee then shalt thou be without danger of this oath. But above all things bring not my son thither again."
And the man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.
And Joseph was governor in the land, and sold corn to all the people of the land. And his brethren came, and fell flat on the ground before him.
and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in."
for this day, three days, shall Pharaoh take thy head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee."
Now therefore take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee to the fields, and take me some venison,