unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good
or bad.
01:031:025 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead.
01:031:026 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as
captives taken with the sword?
01:031:027 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from
me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away
with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
01:031:028 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
01:031:029 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of
your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed
that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
01:031:030 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?
01:031:031 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:
for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me.
01:031:032 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and
take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
01:031:033 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and
into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then
went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
01:031:034 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent,
but found them not.
01:031:035 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that
I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon
me. And he searched but found not the images.
01:031:036 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered
and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that
thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
01:031:037 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found
of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and
thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
01:031:038 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she
goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock
have I not eaten.
01:031:039 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare
the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
01:031:040 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost
by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
01:031:041 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
01:031:042 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now
empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my
hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
01:031:043 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my
daughters, and these children are my children, and these
cattle are my cattle, 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?
01:031:044 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
01:031:045 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
01:031:046 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the
heap.
01:031:047 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
Galeed.
01:031:048 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee
this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
01:031:049 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from another.
01:031:050 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take
other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God
is witness betwixt me and thee.
01:031:051 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
01:031:052 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will
not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
01:031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his
father Isaac.
01:031:054 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
night in the mount.
01:031:055 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons
and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and
returned unto his place.
01:032:001 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
01:032:002 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim.
01:032:003 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto
the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
01:032:004 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my
lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with
Laban, and stayed there until now:
01:032:005 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find grace in thy sight.
01:032:006 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
hundred men with him.
01:032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided
the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
the camels, into two bands;
01:032:008 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then
the other company which is left shall escape.
01:032:009 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
01:032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all
the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with
my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two
bands.
01:032:011 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the
hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
and the mother with the children.
01:032:012 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
01:032:013 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
01:032:014 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,
and twenty rams,
01:032:015 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
01:032:016 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every
drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over
before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
01:032:017 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and
whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
01:032:018 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a
present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind
us.
01:032:019 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak
unto Esau, when ye find him.
01:032:020 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.
For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth
before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he
will accept of me.
01:032:021 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
night in the company.
01:032:022 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
Jabbok.
01:032:023 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
01:032:024 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day.
01:032:025 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was
out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
01:032:026 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
01:032:027 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
01:032:028 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed.
01:032:029 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?
And he blessed him there.
01:032:030 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen
God face to face, and my life is preserved.
01:032:031 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
halted upon his thigh.
01:032:032 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
that shrank.
01:033:001 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau
came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the
children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
01:033:002 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
01:033:003 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
01:033:004 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
01:033:005 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children
which God hath graciously given thy servant.
01:033:006 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
they bowed themselves.
01:033:007 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
01:033:008 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?
And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
01:033:009 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
unto thyself.
01:033:010 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in
thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I
have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and
thou wast pleased with me.
01:033:011 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have
enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
01:033:012 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before thee.
01:033:013 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and
if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
01:033:014 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I
will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before
me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my
lord unto Seir.
01:033:015 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find
grace in the sight of my lord.
01:033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
01:033:017 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and
made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is
called Succoth.
01:033:018 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his
tent before the city.
01:033:019 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his
tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,
for an hundred pieces of money.
01:033:020 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
01:034:001 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,
went out to see the daughters of the land.
01:034:002 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled
her.
01:034:003 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
01:034:004 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
damsel to wife.
01:034:005 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his
peace until they were come.
01:034:006 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
01:034:007 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's
daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
01:034:008 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to
wife.
01:034:009 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto
us, and take our daughters unto you.
01:034:010 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you;
dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
01:034:011 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will
give.
01:034:012 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according
as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
01:034:013 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their
sister:
01:034:014 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our
sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach
unto us:
01:034:015 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be,
that every male of you be circumcised;
01:034:016 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take
your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will
become one people.
01:034:017 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then
will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
01:034:018 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
01:034:019 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than
all the house of his father.
01:034:020 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
01:034:021 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in
the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large
enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,
and let us give them our daughters.
01:034:022 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us,
to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as
they are circumcised.
01:034:023 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of
their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will
dwell with us.
01:034:024 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
01:034:025 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
boldly, and slew all the males.
01:034:026 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
01:034:027 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
01:034:028 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and
that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
01:034:029 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the
house.
01:034:030 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make
me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they
shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and
I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
01:034:031 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot?
01:035:001 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
01:035:002 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be
clean, and change your garments:
01:035:003 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there
an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the way which I went.
01:035:004 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
01:035:005 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the
sons of Jacob.
01:035:006 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
01:035:007 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the
face of his brother.
01:035:008 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
01:035:009 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him.
01:035:010 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he
called his name Israel.
01:035:011 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee,
and kings shall come out of thy loins;
01:035:012 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will
give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
01:035:013 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him.
01:035:014 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with
him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
01:035:015 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
him, Bethel.
01:035:016 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way
to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard
labour.
01:035:017 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son
also.
01:035:018 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called
him Benjamin.
01:035:019 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
is Bethlehem.
01:035:020 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day.
01:035:021 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Edar.
01:035:022 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
01:035:023 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and
Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
01:035:024 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
01:035:025 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
01:035:026 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these
are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
01:035:027 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city
of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
01:035:028 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
01:035:029 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto
his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and
Jacob buried him.
01:036:001 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
01:036:002 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
01:036:003 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
01:036:004 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
01:036:005 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are
the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of
Canaan.
01:036:006 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and
all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of
Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother
Jacob.
01:036:007 For their riches were more than that they might dwell
together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not
bear them because of their cattle.
01:036:008 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
01:036:009 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir:
01:036:010 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
01:036:011 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
and Kenaz.
01:036:012 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to
Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
01:036:013 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
01:036:014 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
01:036:015 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke
Kenaz,
01:036:016 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons
of Adah.
01:036:017 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke
Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that
came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Bashemath Esau's wife.
01:036:018 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
01:036:019 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
dukes.
01:036:020 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;
Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
01:036:021 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the
Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
01:036:022 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
sister was Timna.
01:036:023 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath,
and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
01:036:024 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah:
this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as
he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
01:036:025 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah.
01:036:026 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and
Ithran, and Cheran.
01:036:027 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
01:036:028 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
01:036:029 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
01:036:030 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that
came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
01:036:031 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
01:036:032 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his
city was Dinhabah.
01:036:033 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
his stead.
01:036:034 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in
his stead.
01:036:035 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian
in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city was Avith.