In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night.

For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.

Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.

And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.

And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.

So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.

Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;

And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

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.

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 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 the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

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

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

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.

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

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

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

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

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.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

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 the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.

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.

And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

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 when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

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.

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food;

And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;

And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.

And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.

Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us.

See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.

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.

And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him:

And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

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;

All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.

And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.

And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

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;

And the time of his death came near, and he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, If now I am dear to you, put your hand under my leg and take an oath that you will not put me to rest in Egypt;

Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,

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.

And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.