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

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

It happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

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

The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

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

It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Food was set before him to eat, but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."

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

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

Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

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

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

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

They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place. This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

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

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

Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

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

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he was running away.

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

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?

That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

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 strained, as he wrestled.

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

The young man did not wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

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

They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

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

They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."

It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.

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

The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.

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

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

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

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. The LORD killed him.

The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.

After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"