and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt
us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
01:026:029 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and
as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee
away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
01:026:030 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
01:026:031 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him
in peace.
01:026:032 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and
said unto him, We have found water.
01:026:033 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba unto this day.
01:026:034 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite:
01:026:035 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
01:027:001 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes
were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,
here am I.
01:027:002 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
01:027:003 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and
thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
01:027:004 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me,
that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
01:027:005 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
01:027:006 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
01:027:007 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
01:027:008 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command thee.
01:027:009 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of
the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth:
01:027:010 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and
that he may bless thee before his death.
01:027:011 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother
is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
01:027:012 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him
as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing.
01:027:013 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son:
only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
01:027:014 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and
his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
01:027:015 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her
younger son:
01:027:016 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
and upon the smooth of his neck:
01:027:017 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
01:027:018 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I; who art thou, my son?
01:027:019 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I
have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit
and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
01:027:020 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it
so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God
brought it to me.
01:027:021 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
01:027:022 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him,
and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau.
01:027:023 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
01:027:024 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
01:027:025 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's
venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near
to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
01:027:026 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss
me, my son.
01:027:027 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of
his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my
son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
01:027:028 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness
of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
01:027:029 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord
over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that
blesseth thee.
01:027:030 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in
from his hunting.
01:027:031 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat
of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
01:027:032 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said,
I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
01:027:033 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is
he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have
eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,
and he shall be blessed.
01:027:034 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,
Bless me, even me also, O my father.
01:027:035 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken
away thy blessing.
01:027:036 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright;
and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,
Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
01:027:037 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and
what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
01:027:038 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted
up his voice, and wept.
01:027:039 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of
heaven from above;
01:027:040 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
01:027:041 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
01:027:042 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah:
and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto
him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort
himself, purposing to kill thee.
01:027:043 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran;
01:027:044 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
away;
01:027:045 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget
that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch
thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in
one day?
01:027:046 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters
of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land,
what good shall my life do me?
01:028:001 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and
said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan.
01:028:002 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of
Laban thy mother's brother.
01:028:003 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
01:028:004 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy
seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
01:028:005 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
01:028:006 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take
a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
01:028:007 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone
to Padanaram;
01:028:008 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father;
01:028:009 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister
of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
01:028:010 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
01:028:011 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of
that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep.
01:028:012 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it.
01:028:013 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
01:028:014 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
01:028:015 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;
for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
01:028:016 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
01:028:017 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this
is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.
01:028:018 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar,
and poured oil upon the top of it.
01:028:019 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
that city was called Luz at the first.
01:028:020 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on,
01:028:021 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall
the LORD be my God:
01:028:022 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's
house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give
the tenth unto thee.
01:029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
people of the east.
01:029:002 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there
were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well
they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's
mouth.
01:029:003 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
01:029:004 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we.
01:029:005 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
01:029:006 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:
and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
01:029:007 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep,
and go and feed them.
01:029:008 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth;
then we water the sheep.
01:029:009 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep; for she kept them.
01:029:010 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
mother's brother.
01:029:011 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
01:029:012 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and
that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
01:029:013 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban
all these things.
01:029:014 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
And he abode with him the space of a month.
01:029:015 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what
shall thy wages be?
01:029:016 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel.
01:029:017 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured.
01:029:018 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
01:029:019 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than
that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
01:029:020 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
01:029:021 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
01:029:022 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made
a feast.
01:029:023 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
01:029:024 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
handmaid.
01:029:025 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:
and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did
not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
beguiled me?
01:029:026 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
the younger before the firstborn.
01:029:027 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
01:029:028 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also.
01:029:029 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to
be her maid.
01:029:030 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
01:029:031 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:
but Rachel was barren.
01:029:032 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
01:029:033 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this
son also: and she called his name Simeon.
01:029:034 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this
time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born
him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
01:029:035 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;
and left bearing.
01:030:001 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or
else I die.
01:030:002 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am
I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
womb?
01:030:003 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
her.
01:030:004 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went
in unto her.
01:030:005 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
01:030:006 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name
Dan.
01:030:007 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son.
01:030:008 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
01:030:009 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
01:030:010 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
01:030:011 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
01:030:012 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
01:030:013 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
blessed: and she called his name Asher.
01:030:014 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
01:030:015 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast
taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
01:030:016 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
with her that night.
01:030:017 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
01:030:018 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
01:030:019 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
01:030:020 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons:
and she called his name Zebulun.
01:030:021 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
01:030:022 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
01:030:023 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken
away my reproach:
01:030:024 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add
to me another son.
01:030:025 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
place, and to my country.
01:030:026 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,
and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done
thee.
01:030:027 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour
in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that
the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
01:030:028 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
01:030:029 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
how thy cattle was with me.
01:030:030 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is
now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own
house also?
01:030:031 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for
me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.
01:030:032 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence
all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle
among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats:
and of such shall be my hire.
01:030:033 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when
it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the
sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
01:030:034 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
word.
01:030:035 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and
spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,
and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown
among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
01:030:036 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
01:030:037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the
white appear which was in the rods.
01:030:038 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
01:030:039 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
01:030:040 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put
them not unto Laban's cattle.
01:030:041 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods.
01:030:042 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
01:030:043 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
01:031:001 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath
taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was
our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
01:031:002 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
01:031:003 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
01:031:004 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock,
01:031:005 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it
is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been
with me.
01:031:006 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
01:031:007 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
01:031:008 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked
shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
01:031:009 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them to me.
01:031:010 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
01:031:011 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
And I said, Here am I.
01:031:012 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and
grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
01:031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from
this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
01:031:014 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet
any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
01:031:015 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and
hath quite devoured also our money.
01:031:016 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that
is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, do.
01:031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
01:031:018 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of
Canaan.
01:031:019 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father's.
01:031:020 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he
told him not that he fled.
01:031:021 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed
over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
01:031:022 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
01:031:023 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.