If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.

And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

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

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.

And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

And Jacob, in answer, said to Laban, My fear was that you might take your daughters from me by force.

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.

Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?

Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.

And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.

And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;

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

When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.

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.

These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.

And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

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

Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.

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 he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

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.

And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

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

Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.

Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.

But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.

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

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

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.

Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:

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;

And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.

And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock.

Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.

And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

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 Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?

He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?

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.

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

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?

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.

And he put questions to the men of the place, saying, Where is the loose woman who was in Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There was no such woman there.

So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman 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 about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

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

She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.

And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?

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?

Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

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;

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.

Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

Then the chief wine-servant said to Pharaoh, The memory of my sin comes back to me now;

And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

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

Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

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

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

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