And they ate and drank, he and the men with him, and stayed all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.

And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren. And Jehovah heard him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day. And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob.

And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land which I shall tell you of.

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold! She surely is your wife. And why did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold. And Jehovah blessed him.

And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and many servants. And the Philistines envied him.

And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Contention, because they strove with him.

And Jehovah appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you, and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake.

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, and Phicol the commander of his army.

And they rose up early in the morning, and swore to one another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

And the same day it happened, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. And they said to him, We have found water.

And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called his oldest son Esau and said to him, My son. And he said to him, Behold, I am here.

And he said to him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death.

My father will perhaps feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

And his mother said to him, Your curse be upon me, my son, only obey my voice and go bring them to me.

And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands the hands of Esau.

And he did not know him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. And he blessed him.

And he said, Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank.

And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now and kiss me, my son.

And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed.

And his father Isaac said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your first-born, Esau.

And Isaac trembled with a great trembling, and said, Who then was the one who has hunted deer and brought to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed!

And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold! I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given him for servants. And with grain and wine I have supported him. And what shall I do now to you, my son?

And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold! Your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.

And these words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you.

and stay with him a few days until your brother's fury turns away,

until your brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of both of you in one day?

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him. And he said to him, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Padan-aram in order to take 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;

And he said to them, Do you know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

And it happened when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for a month.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him a few days, for the love he had for her.

And it happened in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him. And he went in to her.

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

And he also went in to Rachel. He also loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him still seven more years.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will return to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

And she gave him her slave woman Bilhah to wife. And Jacob went in to her.

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening. And Leah went out to meet him, and said, You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's love-apples. And he lay with her that night.

And Leah said, God has given me a good present. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun.

And Laban said to him, Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, stay. For I have seen omens, that Jehovah has blessed me for your sake.

He said to him, You know how I have served you, and what your cattle has become with me.

And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

and your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not allow him to hurt me.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Are we not counted strangers by him? For he has sold us, and has also entirely devoured our silver.

And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he fled.

And he took his brothers with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. And they overtook him in Mount Gilead.

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob.

With whomever you find your gods, let him not live. Before our brothers, choose what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

And the messengers returned to Jacob saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds, and the camels, into two bands.

Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he come and strike me, from mother to sons.

And so he commanded the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, In this way you shall speak to Esau when you find him.

And also you shall say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.

And the present went over before him. And he himself lodged that night in the camp.

And Jacob was left alone. And a Man wrestled there with him until the breaking of the day.

And 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 out of joint as he wrestled with Him.

And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

And Jacob asked and said, I pray You, reveal Your name. And He said, Why do you ask after My name? And He blessed him there.

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he limped upon his thigh.

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

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

Please take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he accepted.

And he said to him, My lord knows that the boys are tender, and the flocks and herds with me are suckling. And if the men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

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

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments.

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

And he built an altar there and called the place El-bethel, because God appeared to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.

And God appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram and blessed him.

And God said to him, Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel shall be your name. And He called his name Israel.

And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.

And God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

And it happened as her soul was departing (for she died) that she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave woman: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob born to him in Padan-aram.

And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

And Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a tunic reaching to the soles of his feet.

And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers. And they hated him still more.

And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have the rule over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.

And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I, and your mother, and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the earth before you?

And his brothers were jealous of him. But his father observed the saying.

And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

And he said to him, please go see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks. And bring me word again. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for?

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Therefore come now, and let us kill him, and throw him into some pit, and we will say some evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.

And Reuben heard, and he delivered him out of their hands and said, Let us not kill him.

And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him (in order to rescue him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again).

And it happened when Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped Joseph out of his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet that was on him.