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.

Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.

Laban answered and said unto Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

Then said Laban, "This heap be witness between thee and me this day." Therefore is it called Gilead.

And Laban said moreover to Jacob, "Behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here, betwixt me and thee:

this heap be witness and also this mark, that I will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over this heap and this mark, to do any harm.

Then Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill.

Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom.

And he commanded them, saying, "See that ye speak after this manner to my LORD Esau, 'thy servant, Jacob, sayeth thus: I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time;

and have gotten oxen, asses and sheep, menservants and womenservants, and have sent to show it my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.'"

And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."

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 said, "If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself."

And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'

I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant. For with my staff came I over this Jordan, and now have I gotten two droves.

Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."

And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which came to hand, a present, unto Esau his brother:

Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams:

and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."

and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabbok.

and tarried behind; himself alone. And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day.

And he said, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." And he said, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."

Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rachel and unto the two maidens.

Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

And he said, "What meanest thou with all the droves which I met?" And he answered, "To find grace in the sight of my lord."

Jacob answered, "O nay, but if I have found grace in thy sight, receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God: wherefore receive me to grace

and take my blessing that I have brought thee, for God hath given it me freely. And I have enough of all things." And so he compelled him to take it.

And he said unto him, "My lord knoweth that I have tender children, ewes and cows with young, under mine hand, which if men should overdrive but even one day, the whole flock would die.

Let my lord therefore go before his servant and I will drive fair and softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children, be able to endure: until I come to my lord unto Seir."

So Esau went his way again that same day unto Seir.

Dina, the daughter of Lea which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob, to commune with him.

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it, for it grieved them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lain with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

And Hamor communed with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: give her him to wife,

and dwell with us, and the land shall be at your pleasure; dwell and do your business, and have your possessions therein."

Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."

Then the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dina their sister.

And they said unto them, "We cannot do this thing, that we should give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that were a shame unto us.

then will we give our daughter to you and take yours to us, and will dwell with you and be one people.

But and if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go our ways."

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.

"These men are peaceable with us, and will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein; And in the land is room enough for them, let us take their daughters to wives and give them ours;

only herein will they consent unto us for to dwell with us and to be one people: if all the men children that are among us be circumcised as they are.

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 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."

And God said unto Jacob, "Arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother."

Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you and make yourselves clean, and change your garments,

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.

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.

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 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rachel's grave pillar unto this day.

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.

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

Behold, we were making sheaves in the field: and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and yours stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf."

And he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren, saying, "Behold, I have had one dream more: me thought the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me."

His brethren went to keep their father's sheep in Shechem,

and Israel said unto Joseph, "Do not thy brethren keep in Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them." And he answered, "Here am I."

And he said unto him, "Go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again." And sent him out of the vale of Hebron, for to go to Shechem.

And when they saw him afar off before he came at them, they took counsel against him, for to slay him,

and said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer cometh;

come now and let us slay him and cast him into some pit, and let us say that some wicked beast hath devoured him, and let us see what his dreams will come to."

When Reuben heard that, he went about to rid him out of their hands, and said, "Let us not kill him."

And Reuben said moreover unto them, "Shed not his blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hands upon him." For he would have rid him out of their hands and delivered him to his father again.

And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into Egypt.

Then said Judah to his brethren, "What availeth it that we slay our brother, and keep his blood secret?

Come on, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hands be defiled upon him: for he is our brother and our flesh." And his brethren were content.

And they sent that gay coat and caused it to be brought unto their father and said, "This have we found: see, whether it be thy son's coat or no."

Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.

And it fortuned at that time that Judah went from his brethren and gat him to a man called Hirah of Adullam,

Then said Judah unto Onan, go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, and stir up seed unto thy brother.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown." For he feared lest he should have died also, as his brethren did. Thus went Tamar and dwelt in her father's house.

And in process of time, the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died. Then Judah, when he had left mourning, went unto his sheep shearers to Timnath with his friend Hirah of Adullam.

And one told Tamar, saying, "Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep."

And she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Timnath, for because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

And turned to her unto the way and said, "Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee." For he knew not that it was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What wilt thou give me, for to lie with me?"

And Judah sent the kid by his neighbour of Adullam, for to fetch out his pledge again from the woman. But he found her not.

And he came to Judah again, saying, "I cannot find her, and also the men of the place said that there was no whore there."

And Judah said, "Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: for I sent the kid and thou couldest not find her."

And it came to pass that after three months, one told Judah, saying, "Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and with playing the whore is become great with child." And Judah said, "Bring her forth and let her be burnt."

And when they brought her forth, she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man unto whom these things pertain, am I with child." And said also, "Look whose are this seal, necklace, and staff."

And Judah knew them, saying, "She is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Shelah my son." But he lay with her no more.

When time was come that she should be delivered, behold there was two twins in her womb.

But he denied, and said to her, "Behold, my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to my hand.

He himself is not greater in the house than I, and hath kept nothing from me, but only thee because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, for to sin against God?"

And after this manner spake she to Joseph day by day; but he hearkened not unto her, to sleep near her or to be in her company.

And it fortuned about the same season, that Joseph entered into the house, to do his business: and there was none of the household by, in the house.

she called unto the men of the house, and told them, saying, "See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to do us shame: for he came in to me, for to have slept with me. But I cried with a loud voice.

And she told him according to these words, saying, "This Hebrews' servant which thou hast brought unto us came in to me to do me shame.

When his master heard the words of his wife which she told him, saying, "after this manner did thy servant to me," he waxed wroth.

which committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison house. And whatsoever was done there, that did he.

And the keeper of the prison looked unto nothing that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him, and because that whatsoever he did, the LORD made it come luckily to pass.

They answered him, "We have dreamed a dream, and have no man to declare it." And Joseph said unto them, "Interpreting belongeth to God, but tell me yet."

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph and said unto him, "In my dream me thought there stood a vine before me,