And the field of Ephron was certified, which was Machpelah, which was before Mamre; the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees in the field, in all the borders round about,

And Abraham was old, going on in age. And Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

And before he had finished speaking, it happened, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And the young woman was very beautiful to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

And the man was watching her, keeping silent, in order to know whether Jehovah had prospered his journey or not.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the well.

And the man came into the house. And he unloaded his camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him.

And food was set before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And he has given to him all that he has.

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and satisfied. And he was gathered to his people.

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations. The first-born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty-seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

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

And after that his brother came out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel. And his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

And the boys grew. And Esau was a man knowing hunting, and Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.

And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. But Rebekah loved Jacob.

And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And Esau said to Jacob, I beg you, Let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife; lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful of form.

And when he had been there a long time, it happened that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through the window, and saw; and behold! Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

And they said, We saw certainly that Jehovah was with you. And we said, Let there be now an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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 Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game in order to bring it.

And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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 he dreamed. And behold! A ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven! And behold! The angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing but the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven!

And he called the name of that place The House of God. But the name of that city was Luz at first.

And he looked, and behold, a well was in the field! And, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it, for they watered the flocks out of that well. And a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.

And Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

And Leah was weak of eyes, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.

And it happened in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?

And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, even He opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.

And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I was hated, He has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon.

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 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel. And he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?

And Jacob took rods of green poplar, and of a fresh tree, and the almond and plane tree. And he peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and he has gotten all this glory from that which was our father's.

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

And he fled with all that was his. And he rose up and passed over the river, and set his face toward Mount Gilead.

It was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, for I said, Perhaps you would take your daughters away from me by force.

And Jacob was angry, and rebuked Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me?

I was with you these twenty years. Your ewes and she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.

That which was mangled I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it at my hand, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

I was there; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night. And my sleep departed from my eyes.

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore the name of it was called Heap of Testimony,

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.

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 the young man did not hesitate to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was more honorable than all the house of his father.

And all that went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son. And every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

They took their sheep and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field.

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, they took captive, and plundered even all that was in the house.

And let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

And they gave all the strange gods which were in their hands to Jacob, and the earrings in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

And they moved. And the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel, under an oak. And the name of it was called Oak of Weeping.

And they moved from Bethel. And there was only a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor in her bearing.

And it happened when she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also.

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

And Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

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 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son. And she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These were the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Heman; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

And the sons of Anah were these: Dishon. And Oholibamah was the daughter of Anah.

And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom. And the name of his city was Dinhabah.

And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

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 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 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.

And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty, with no water in it.

And Reuben returned to the pit. And behold! Joseph was not in the pit! And he tore his clothes.

And she yet again conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Shelah. And she was at Chezib when she bore him.

And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, whose name was Tamar.

And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah killed him.

And what he did was evil in the eyes of Jehovah. Therefore He killed him also.

And the days were many, and Judah's wife, the daughter of Shuah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to shearers of his sheep, he and his friend Hiram of Adullam, to Timnah.

And it was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

And she put off her widow's clothes, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself. And she sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given to him as wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face.

And he turned aside to her by the wayside, and said, Come now, let me come in to you. For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me, so that you may come in to me?

Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot who was by the wayside? And they said, There was no harlot here.

And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her. And also the men of the place said, There was no harlot here.

And it happened, about three months afterward, that it was told Judah, saying, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burned.

When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose things these are. And she said, Please observe. Whose things are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff?

And it happened as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, How have you broken a break for yourself? And his name was called Pharez.

And afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread. And his name was called Zarah.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt. And Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners, an Egyptian man, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all he did to prosper in his hand.

And it happened from the time he had made him overseer in his house, and over all he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.