So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.

But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you.

Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.

And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.

The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.

These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.

And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.

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

And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.

And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;

But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place.

And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

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.

Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.

Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,

Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

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

But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

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;

They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,

And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

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 let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.

And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

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

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.

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.

Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

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.

Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

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

But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.

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

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 there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

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.

So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

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.

Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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 the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there.

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;