These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath.

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

And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah.

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

And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon: she was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.

And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath.

And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.

These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.

These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.

The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna.

And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon.

And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah his daughter.

These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.

These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of Seir.

And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.

These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?

Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.

And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;

And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.

And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

And the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what was needed for them; and they were kept in prison for some time.

And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.

And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?

Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

But the wine-servant did not keep Joseph in mind or give a thought to him.

And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?

You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.

And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.

We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil designs;

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.

And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.

And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food: