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And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Verse ConceptsTypes Of ChristChanged NamesGod Naming PeopleGod Renaming PeopleHuman Nature, OvercomingStruggles

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredSeeing PeopleFamily Conflict

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

Verse ConceptsPartialityOrder Of MarchLast OnesIn Front

And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Verse ConceptsBowingSevenSalutationsSeven TimesIn Front

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodWho Is This?Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodSeeing People

Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

Verse ConceptsNot Receiving

And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

Verse ConceptsIn Front

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

Verse ConceptsSlownessPeople Going Before

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBooths

And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfAltars, Built ByCamp, Of Israel

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Verse ConceptsProperty, LandSilverTentsReal EstateLarge Denominations

and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAltarsBuilding AltarsPeople Naming Things

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople Visiting

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAdultery, Examples OfRulersRape

And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfRapeIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Polluted

And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Visiting

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldSexual Sin, Nature OfSorrowRapeNamed People Angry With Others

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Verse ConceptsTradeLiving In The LandProperty

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed SistersThose Who Deceivedhumor

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

Only in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that all the men children among you be circumcised,

Verse ConceptsAgreementBecoming Like PeopleConsentNecessity Of Circumcision

And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

Verse ConceptsGood Words

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

Verse ConceptsHappiness

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Verse ConceptsLiving In The LandTaking Possession

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsBusiness At The GatewayConsent

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other People

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed Sisters

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockSpoils Of WarLoss Of DonkeysPossessing Sheep

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

Verse ConceptsChildren SufferingOther Wives

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesAppearances Of God In OtCommemorationSpeech, DivineWorship, Places OfBuilding AltarsGod AppearingBethel The House Of GodLiving In The Land

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Verse ConceptsDistressGod AnsweredGod Has Been With YouGod With Specific People

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesBuilding AltarsGod AppearingAltars

But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

and said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob. Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name." And so was his name called Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod Renaming People

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalBlessings, To AbrahamBodyGod, Power OfProcreationI Am Godfruitfulness

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftGod Gave The Land

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringCeremoniesOilPouringMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsAnointing ThingsMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesHard Tasks

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

Verse ConceptsMidwifechildbearing

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Verse ConceptsObelisksPlaces To This Day

And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Verse ConceptsIncestConcubinesThe Number TwelveImmorality, Examples Of SexualExtra Marital Sex ExamplesTwelve Beingssex

The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

Verse ConceptsSojourning

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfOld Age, Attainment OfDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherFamily Death

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

and Basmath Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;

And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesPeople Parting

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialPeople ProvidingWealthy Peoplepossessions

So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

Verse ConceptsConcubines

And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom