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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
And I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all of the families of the earth be blessed."
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham." He said, "Here I am."
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help."
It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
And Abram believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
On the sixth day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
The LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you will be a blessing.
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
The LORD said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.
God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together in one gathering, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. And the waters under the sky gathered to their gatherings, and the dry land appeared.
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
The man said, "This at last is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
The LORD said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.
Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you."
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
The LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and fathered sons and daughters.
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Cainan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Cainan lived after he had become the father of Shelah three hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The name of the first is Pishon; this is the one which goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; this is the one which flows east of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Perath.
It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he did not find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;
Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
And Arpachshad became the father of Cainan. And Cainan became the father of Shelah. And Shelah became the father of Eber.
To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?
He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and fathered sons and daughters
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."
Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.
Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
He said, "Come in, you blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels."
The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."
The LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
and he named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
He said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.
The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
The LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of the LORD."
Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of the sky.
He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
The LORD said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him.
A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and fathered sons and daughters.
He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
The LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.
The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
As time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.
It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
The LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev.
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Abraham called the name of that place the LORD Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On the LORD's mountain, it will be provided."
You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee." He set him over all the land of Egypt.
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the LORD's name.
It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.
God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me." No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
"Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Cain went out from the LORD's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
but he did not respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but did not find them.
God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Then he said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The LORD respected Abel and his offering,
The LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."
Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
The LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"
The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."
Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
Behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
and said, "I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
The LORD has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
The angel of the LORD called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham." He said, "Here I am."
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.
She called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."
He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed."
The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not go away from your servant.
God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the LORD.
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you."
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up. Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.
It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
They returned, and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
"Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
It happened after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
The angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
and Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
She said to her father, "Do not let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but did not find the teraphim.
Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you do not restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up. Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He did not concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
When he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place. This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you."
Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
even by the God of your father, who will help you; by Shaddai, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. And I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.
The famine was severe in the land.
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.
I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."
The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were nine souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy-five.
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can't speak to you bad or good.
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
He said, "See now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
He went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.
Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
They said, "Stand back." They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them." They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
He said, "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Therefore the children of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob." He said, "Here I am."
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
He said, "Please, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
He left that place, and dug another well. They did not argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they do not give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
"Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.
All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."
Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.
They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Do not let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
The LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sorrowful lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph. Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead."
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.
the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "Apart from God an answer of peace shall not be given to Pharoah."
that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
It happened in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel. And the sons of Bela: Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim. And Gera became the father of Ard.
That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
Then Sarah denied, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
Isaac lived in Gerar.
Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the Negev.
The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. [And there were sons born to Manasseh, which the Aramean concubine bore to him: Machir. And Machir begot Gilead. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasseh: Shuthelah and Tahan. And the sons of Shuthelah: Eran.]
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."
The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself, leaning on the top of his staff.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.
Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
My soul, do not come into their council. My glory, do not be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians do not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them into Laban's flock.
It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
I came this day to the spring, and said, 'The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go?
for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.