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

But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

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 Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.

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,

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;

Bela, son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his chief town was Dinhabah.

And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith.

And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

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 hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry.

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

For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.

And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done.

And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food;

And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.

And they said, Your servant, our father, is well, he is still living. And they went down on their faces before him.

And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.

And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.

If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.

Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the town.

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.

And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.

And the son of Dan was Hushim.

And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.

Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.

To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you.

Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.

And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?

Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction.

And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.

So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.

And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.

And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.

So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was stopped.

And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.

And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.

And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Then Moses and the children of Israel made this song to the Lord, and said, I will make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory: the horse and the horseman he has sent down into the sea.

Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.

But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.

Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.