And the sun was upon the earth when Lot was entered into Zoar.

And Lot's wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt.

And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was his sister. Then Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and fetched Sara away.

Said not he unto me, that she was his sister? Yea, and said not she herself that he was her brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this!"

And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age, even the same season which the LORD had appointed.

And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:

and Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him.

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.

When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush

And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son.

Sara was a hundred and twenty seven years old, for so long lived she,

Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre - even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about - made sure unto Abraham for a possession,

And so both the field and the cave that is therein, was made unto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, of the sons of Heth.

Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.

The LORD God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land where I was born, and which spake unto me and sware unto me saying 'unto thy seed will I give this land' - he shall send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife unto my son from thence.

The damsel was very fair to look upon, and yet a maid and unknown of man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up again.

And then the man came in to the house: and he unbridled the camels: and brought litter and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and their feet that were with him,

and there was meat set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat, until I have said mine errand." And he said, "Say on."

And Sara my master's wife bare him a son, when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living and seeing, for he dwelt in the south country,

and was gone out to walk in his meditations before the even tide. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and behold the camels were coming.

Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.

Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife.

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian.

And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And when her time was come to be delivered, behold, there were two twins in her womb.

And he that came out first was red and rough over all, as it were a hide: and they called his name Esau.

And afterward his brother came out, and his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare them:

and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the field and was fainty,

and said to Jacob, "Let me sip of that red pottage, for I am fainty." And therefore was his name called Edom.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said that she was his sister: for he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him for her sake, because she was beautiful to the eye.

And Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "See, she is of a surety thy wife, and why saidest thou that she was thy sister?" And Isaac said unto him, "I thought that I might peradventure have died for her sake."

And the man waxed mighty, and went forth and grew till he was exceeding great,

Then said they, "We saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee:

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,

But Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And as soon as Esau was gone to the field to catch venison, and to bring it,

As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, then came Esau his brother from his hunting:

And Isaac was greatly astonished out of measure, and said, "Where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him, and he shall be blessed still."

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:

and came unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was down. And took a stone of the place, and put it under his head, and laid him down in the same place to sleep.

When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware."

And he was afraid, and said, "How fearful is this place? It is none other, but even the house of God and the gate of heaven!"

And he called the name of the place Bethel, for indeed the name of the city was called Luz before time.

And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lay thereby - for at that well were the flocks watered - and there lay a great stone at the well mouth.

And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone again upon the well's mouth unto his place.

and told her also that he was her father's brother and Rebekah's son. Then Rachel ran and told her father.

Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

And when even was come, he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her.

And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?"

When the LORD saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.

Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"

For it was but little that thou hadst before I came, and now it is increased into a multitude, and the LORD hath blessed thee for my sake. But now when shall I make provision for mine own house also?"

But in the latter bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Jacob's.

And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour."

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past.

I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born.'"

Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was fled.

and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it,

Jacob answered, and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me.

Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me?

Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day or night.

Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,

And Jacob came peaceably into the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched before the city;

And the young man deferred not for to do the thing, because he had a lust to Jacob's daughter: he was also most set by of all that were in his father's house.

And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male;

and took their sheep, oxen, asses and whatsoever was in the city and also in the fields.

And all their goods, all their children and their wives took they captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses.

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there, unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation and was with me in the way which I went."

So came Jacob to Luz in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him.

Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.

and said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob. Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name." And so was his name called Israel.

And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril.

And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also."

Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrata which now is called Bethlehem.

and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon an Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, which Anah was the son of Zibeon an Hivite;

For their riches was so much that they could not dwell together; and that the land wherein they were strangers could not receive them, because of their cattle.

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and bare unto Eliphaz, Amalek. And these be the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.

And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And Lotan's sister was called Timna.

These were the children of Zibeon: Aia and Anah; this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed his father Zibeon's asses.

Bela the son of Beor reigned in Idumaea, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

When Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.

And after the death of Husham, Hadad the son of Bedad, which slew the Midianites in the field of the Moabites, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith.

When Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

When Samlah was dead, Saul of the river Rehoboth reigned in his stead.

When Saul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

And after the death of Baalhanan the son of Achbor, Hadad reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Pau. And his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab.

And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, that is to say in the land of Canaan.

And these are the generations of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and of Zilpah his father's wives. And he brought unto their father an evil saying that was of them.

And as soon as Joseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped him out of his gay coat that was upon him,

and they took him and cast him into a pit. But the pit was empty and had no water therein.

And she conceived the third time and bare a son, whom she called Shelah: and he was at Chezib when she bare him.