Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.

Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan.

And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?

And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back.

And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;

These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

Then Joseph went to Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers with their flocks and their herds and all they have, are come from Canaan, and are now in the land of Goshen.

And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.

And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?

And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.

But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

Then Israel, looking at Joseph's sons, said, Who are these?

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing.

Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?

And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.

And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.

And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.

And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement.

And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean?