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.

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 they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.

But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad.

And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.

Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.

And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.

And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.

And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.

And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me

But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

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 on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.

And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

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

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

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

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.

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.

Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.

Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

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

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;

Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?

Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

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 Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

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.

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

And hearing it he went running out without his coat.

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat.

But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.

Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they took him quickly out of prison; and when his hair had been cut and his dress changed, he came before Pharaoh.

Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

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.