because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place,
and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
028:012 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and the top
of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.
028:013 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh,
the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.
The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
028:014 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread
abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families
of the earth be blessed.
028:015 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go,
and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you,
until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
028:016 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh
is in this place, and I didn't know it."
028:017 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place!
This is none other than God's house, and this is the
gate of heaven."
028:018 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar,
and poured oil on the top of it.
028:019 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city
was Luz at the first.
028:020 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 clothing to put on,
028:021 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh
will be my God,
028:022 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be
God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give
the tenth to you."
029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of
the children of the east.
029:002 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks
of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered
the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
029:003 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone
again on the well's mouth in its place.
029:004 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?"
They said, "We are from Haran."
029:005 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said,
"We know him."
029:006 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well.
See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
029:007 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day,
not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep,
and go and feed them."
029:008 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered
together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth.
Then we water the sheep."
029:009 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep, for she kept them.
029:010 It happened, 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.
029:011 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
029:012 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that
he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
029:013 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son,
that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him,
and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
029:014 Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh.
He lived with him for a month.
029:015 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you
therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will
your wages be?"
029:016 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel.
029:017 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in
form and attractive.
029:018 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years
for Rachel, your younger daughter."
029:019 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I
should give her to another man. Stay with me."
029:020 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him
but a few days, for the love he had for her.
029:021 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled,
that I may go in to her."
029:022 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
029:023 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter,
and brought her to him. He went in to her.
029:024 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
029:025 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah.
He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me?
Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have
you deceived me?"
029:026 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger
before the firstborn.
029:027 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other
also for the service which you will serve with me yet
seven other years."
029:028 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel
his daughter as wife.
029:029 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid,
to be her handmaid.
029:030 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah,
and served with him yet seven other years.
029:031 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb,
but Rachel was barren.
029:032 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben.
For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction.
For now my husband will love me."
029:033 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has
heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also."
She named him Simeon.
029:034 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my
husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons."
Therefore was his name called Levi.
029:035 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time
will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah.
Then she stopped bearing.
030:001 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied
her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else
I will die."
030:002 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said,
"Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit
of the womb?"
030:003 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she
may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
030:004 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went
in to her.
030:005 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
030:006 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice,
and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
030:007 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob
a second son.
030:008 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,
and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
030:009 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah,
her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
030:010 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.
030:011 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
030:012 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.
030:013 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy."
She named him Asher.
030:014 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes
in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel
said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
030:015 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away
my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?"
Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for
your son's mandrakes."
030:016 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me;
for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes."
He lay with her that night.
030:017 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob
a fifth son.
030:018 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid
to my husband." She named him Issachar.
030:019 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
030:020 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my
husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons."
She named him Zebulun.
030:021 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.
030:022 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
030:023 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken
away my reproach."
030:024 She named him Joseph,{Joseph means "may he add."} saying,
"May Yahweh add another son to me."
030:025 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said
to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place,
and to my country.
030:026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you,
and let me go; for you know my service with which I
have served you."
030:027 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes,
stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me
for your sake."
030:028 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
030:029 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your
livestock have fared with me.
030:030 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased
to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned.
Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
030:031 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall
not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me,
I will again feed your flock and keep it.
030:032 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there
every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among
the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats.
This will be my hire.
030:033 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter,
when you come concerning my hire that is before you.
Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats,
and black among the sheep, that might be with me,
will be counted stolen."
030:034 Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."
030:035 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted,
and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted,
every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among
the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
030:036 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob,
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
030:037 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree,
peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear
which was in the rods.
030:038 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the
gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink.
They conceived when they came to drink.
030:039 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought
forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
030:040 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban:
and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them
into Laban's flock.
030:041 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock
in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
030:042 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in.
So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
030:043 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks,
female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
031:001 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away
all that was our father's. From that which was our father's,
has he gotten all this wealth."
031:002 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
031:003 Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers,
and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
031:004 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
031:005 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face,
that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father
has been with me.
031:006 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
031:007 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times,
but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
031:008 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all
the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked
will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
031:009 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given
them to me.
031:010 It happened during mating season that I lifted up my eyes,
and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped
on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
031:011 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said,
'Here I am.'
031:012 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats
which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled,
for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you
vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land,
and return to the land of your birth.'"
031:014 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion
or inheritance for us in our father's house?
031:015 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us,
and has also quite devoured our money.
031:016 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father,
that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has
said to you, do."
031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
031:018 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions
which he had gathered, including the livestock which
he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father,
to the land of Canaan.
031:019 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole
the teraphim{teraphim were household idols that may have been
associated with inheritance rights to the household property.}
that were her father's.
031:020 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him
that he was running away.
031:021 So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River,
and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
031:022 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
031:023 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him
seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
031:024 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night,
and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak
to Jacob either good or bad."
031:025 Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent
in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped
in the mountain of Gilead.
031:026 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me,
and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
031:027 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me,
that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs,
with tambourine and with harp;
031:028 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Now have you done foolishly.
031:029 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your
father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself
that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
031:030 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your
father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
031:031 Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said,
'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
031:032 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live.
Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it."
For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
031:033 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into
the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them.
He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
031:034 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's
saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent,
but didn't find them.
031:035 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I
can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me."
He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
031:036 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered
Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have
hotly pursued after me?
031:037 Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found
of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives
and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
031:038 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your
female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten
the rams of your flocks.
031:039 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you.
I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it,
whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
031:040 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me,
and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
031:041 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen
years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock,
and you have changed my wages ten times.
031:042 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me
away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands,
and rebuked you last night."
031:043 Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters,
the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks,
and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to
these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
031:044 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be
for a witness between me and you."
031:045 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
031:046 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones,
and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
031:047 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha"
means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called
it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}
031:048 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day."
Therefore it was named Galeed
031:049 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you,
when we are absent one from another.
031:050 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides
my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness
between me and you."
031:051 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar,
which I have set between me and you.
031:052 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness,
that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you
will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father,
judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of
his father, Isaac.
031:054 Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his
relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night
in the mountain.
031:055 Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and
his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned
to his place.
032:001 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
032:002 When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army."
He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
032:003 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother,
to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
032:004 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell
my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says.
I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
032:005 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants.
I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
032:006 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your
brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you,
and four hundred men with him."
032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed.
He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks,
and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
032:008 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it,
then the company which is left will escape."
032:009 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country,
and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses,
and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant;
for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
have become two companies.
032:011 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau:
for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers
with the children.
032:012 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed
as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there
are so many.'"
032:013 He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had
with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
032:014 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred
ewes and twenty rams,
032:015 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls,
twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
032:016 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd
by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me,
and put a space between herd and herd."
032:017 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you,
and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going?
Whose are these before you?'
032:018 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a
present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
032:019 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed
the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau,
when you find him.
032:020 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob,
is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present
that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face.
Perhaps he will accept me."
032:021 So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged
that night in the camp.
032:022 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids,
and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
032:023 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over
that which he had.
032:024 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until
the breaking of the day.
032:025 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched
the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh
was strained, as he wrestled.
032:026 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said,
"I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
032:027 He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
032:028 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel;
for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
032:029 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name."
He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?"
He blessed him there.
032:030 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel{Peniel means "face
of God."}: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved."
032:031 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped
because of his thigh.
032:032 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of
the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day,
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
of the hip.
033:001 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming,
and with him four hundred men. He divided the children
between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.
033:002 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
033:003 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself
to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
033:004 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him,
and they wept.
033:005 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children
whom God has graciously given your servant."
033:006 Then the handmaids came near with their children,
and they bowed themselves.
033:007 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves.
After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
033:008 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"
Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
033:009 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you
have be yours."
033:010 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight,
then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face,
as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
033:011 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has
dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough."
He urged him, and he took it.
033:012 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before you."
033:013 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender,
and that the flocks and herds with me have their young,
and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
033:014 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I
will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock
that are before me and according to the pace of the children,
until I come to my lord to Seir."
033:015 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are
with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight
of my lord."
033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
033:017 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made
shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place
is called Succoth.{succoth means shelters or booths.}
033:018 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is
in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram;
and encamped before the city.
033:019 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent,
at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,
for one hundred pieces of money.
033:020 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El
Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God
of Israel is mighty."}
034:001 Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out
to see the daughters of the land.
034:002 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her.
He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
034:003 His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved
the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
034:004 Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young
lady as a wife."
034:005 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter;
and his sons were with his livestock in the field.
Jacob held his peace until they came.
034:006 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
034:007 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it.
The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he
had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter;
a which thing ought not to be done.
034:008 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem,
longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
034:009 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take
our daughters for yourselves.
034:010 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you.
Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
034:011 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find
favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
034:012 Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever
you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
034:013 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit,
and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
034:014 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister
to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
034:015 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will
be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
034:016 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take
your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we
will become one people.
034:017 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we
will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we
will be gone."
034:018 Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.
034:019 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight
in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house
of his father.
034:020 Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city,
and talked with the men of their city, saying,
034:021 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land
and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them.
Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give
them our daughters.
034:022 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us,
to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised,
as they are circumcised.
034:023 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their
animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them,
and they will dwell with us."
034:024 All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor,
and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised,
all who went out of the gate of his city.
034:025 It happened on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers,
each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city,
and killed all the males.
034:026 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword,
and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
034:027 Jacob's sons came on the dead, and plundered the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
034:028 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which
was in the city, that which was in the field,
034:029 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones
and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was
in the house.
034:030 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me,
to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land,
among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number.
They will gather themselves together against me and strike me,
and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
034:031 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
035:001 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there.
Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled
from the face of Esau your brother."
035:002 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him,
"Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves,
change your garments.
035:003 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there
an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the way which I went."
035:004 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands,
and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them
under the oak which was by Shechem.
035:005 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were
around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
035:006 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land
of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
035:007 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El;
because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from
the face of his brother.
035:008 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel
under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon Bacuth.
035:009 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram,
and blessed him.
035:010 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall
not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel."
He named him Israel.
035:011 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply.
A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings
will come out of your body.
035:012 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you,
and to your seed after you will I give the land."
035:013 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
035:014 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him,
a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it,
and poured oil on it.
035:015 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
035:016 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance
to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
035:017 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her,
"Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
035:018 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died),
that she named him Benoni,{"Benoni" means "son of my
trouble."} but his father named him Benjamin.{"Benjamin"
means "son of my right hand."}
035:019 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath
(the same is Bethlehem).
035:020 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar
of Rachel's grave to this day.
035:021 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
035:022 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and
lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
035:023 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn),
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
035:024 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
035:025 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
035:026 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher.
These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
035:027 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba
(which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
035:028 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
035:029 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people,
old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
036:001 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau
(that is, Edom).
036:002 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter
of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
036:003 and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
036:004 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
036:005 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons
of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
036:006 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members
of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all
his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan,
and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
036:007 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together,
and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because
of their livestock.
036:008 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
036:009 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father
of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:
036:010 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son
of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath,
the wife of Esau.
036:011 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
036:012 Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore
to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
036:013 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
036:014 These were the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah,
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to
Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
036:015 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar,
chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
036:016 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs
who came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the
sons of Adah.
036:017 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son:
chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah:
these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom;
these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
036:018 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush,
chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs who came
of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
036:019 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these
are their chiefs.
036:020 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
036:021 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came
of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
036:022 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.
036:023 These are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho,
and Onam.
036:024 These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness,
as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
036:025 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah,
the daughter of Anah.
036:026 These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran,
and Cheran.
036:027 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
036:028 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
036:029 These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief Lotan,
chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,
036:030 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are
the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs
in the land of Seir.
036:031 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom,
before any king reigned over the children of Israel.
036:032 Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom. The name of his
city was Dinhabah.
036:033 Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah,
reigned in his place.
036:034 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned
in his place.
036:035 Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck
Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place.
The name of his city was Avith.
036:036 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
036:037 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the river,
reigned in his place.
036:038 Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor reigned
in his place.
036:039 Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place.
The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel,
the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
036:040 These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to
their families, after their places, and by their names:
chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
036:041 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
036:042 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
036:043 chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom,
according to their habitations in the land of their possession.
This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
037:001 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the
land of Canaan.
037:002 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers.
He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives.
Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
037:003 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,
because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat
of many colors.
037:004 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than
all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak
peaceably to him.
037:005 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers,
and they hated him all the more.
037:006 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
037:007 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold,
my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves
came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
037:008 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us?
Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him
all the more for his dreams and for his words.
037:009 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers,
and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream:
and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed
down to me."
037:010 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him,
and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed?
Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow
ourselves down to you to the earth?"
037:011 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
037:012 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
037:013 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding
the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them."
He said to him, "Here I am."
037:014 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers,
and well with the flock; and bring me word again."
So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
037:015 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field.
The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
037:016 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please,
where they are feeding the flock."
037:017 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say,
'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers,
and found them in Dothan.
037:018 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them,
they conspired against him to kill him.
037:019 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
037:020 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one
of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.'
We will see what will become of his dreams."
037:021 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said,
"Let's not take his life."
037:022 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--
that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him
to his father.
037:023 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped
Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
037:024 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty.
There was no water in it.
037:025 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked,
and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead,
with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh,
going to carry it down to Egypt.
037:026 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill
our brother and conceal his blood?
037:027 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let
our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh."
His brothers listened to him.
037:028 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted
up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
037:029 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit;
and he tore his clothes.
037:030 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more;
and I, where will I go?"
037:031 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped
the coat in the blood.
037:032 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought
it to their father, and said, "We have found this.
Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
037:033 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat.
An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt
torn in pieces."
037:034 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist,
and mourned for his son many days.
037:035 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him,
but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down
to Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead.} to my son mourning."
His father wept for him.
037:036 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
038:001 It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers,
and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
038:002 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name
was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
038:003 She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.
038:004 She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
038:005 She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah:
and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
038:006 Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
038:007 Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh.
Yahweh killed him.
038:008 Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform
the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed
to your brother."
038:009 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened,
when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it
on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
038:010 The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
and he killed him also.
038:011 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow
in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;"
for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers."
Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
038:012 After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died.
Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah,
he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
038:013 It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going
up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
038:014 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood,
and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself,
and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah;
for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given
to him as a wife.
038:015 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute,
for she had covered her face.
038:016 He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come,
let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was
his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me,
that you may come in to me?"
038:017 He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock."
She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
038:018 He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet
and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand."
He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
038:019 She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her,
and put on the garments of her widowhood.
038:020 Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend,
the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand,
but he didn't find her.
038:021 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is
the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said,
"There has been no prostitute here."
038:022 He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her;
and also the men of the place said, 'There has been
no prostitute here.'"
038:023 Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent
this kid, and you haven't found her."
038:024 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah,
saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute;
and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution."
Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
038:025 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law,
saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child."
She also said, "Please discern whose are these--the signet,
and the cords, and the staff."
038:026 Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous
than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son."
He knew her again no more.
038:027 It happened in the time of her travail, that behold,
twins were in her womb.
038:028 When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied
a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
038:029 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother
came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?"
Therefore his name was called Perez.{Perez means "breaking out."}
038:030 Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet
thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.{Zerah
means "scarlet" or "brightness."}
039:001 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian,
bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought
him down there.
039:002 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man.
He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
039:003 His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made
all that he did prosper in his hand.
039:004 Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him,
and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had
he put into his hand.
039:005 It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house,
and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's
house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on
all that he had, in the house and in the field.
039:006 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern
himself with anything, except for the food which he ate.
Joseph was well-built and handsome.
039:007 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast
her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
039:008 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master
doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put
all that he has into my hand.
039:009 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept
back anything from me but you, because you are his wife.
How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
039:010 As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn't listen to her,
to lie by her, or to be with her.
039:011 About this time, he went into the house to do his work,
and there were none of the men of the house inside.
039:012 She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!"
He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
039:013 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand,
and had run outside,
039:014 she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them,
saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us.
He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
039:015 It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
039:016 She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
039:017 She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew
servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
039:018 and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left
his garment by me, and ran outside."
039:019 It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife,
which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant
did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
039:020 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison,
the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was
there in custody.
039:021 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him,
and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
039:022 The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all
the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there,
he was responsible for it.
039:023 The keeper of the prison didn't look after anything that was under
his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did,
Yahweh made it prosper.
040:001 It happened after these things, that the butler of the king
of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
040:002 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer
and the chief baker.
040:003 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,
into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
040:004 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took
care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
040:005 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night,
each man according to the interpretation of his dream,
the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were
bound in the prison.
040:006 Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw
that they were sad.
040:007 He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his
master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
040:008 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there
is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them,
"Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
040:009 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,
"In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
040:010 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded,
its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought
forth ripe grapes.
040:011 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes,
and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand."
040:012 Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it:
the three branches are three days.
040:013 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head,
and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup
into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
040:014 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show
kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh,
and bring me out of this house.
040:015 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews,
and here also have I done nothing that they should put me
into the dungeon."
040:016 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good,
he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and behold,
three baskets of white bread were on my head.
040:017 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food
for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket
on my head."
040:018 Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it.
The three baskets are three days.
040:019 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from
off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat
your flesh from off you."
040:020 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,
that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up
the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief
baker among his servants.
040:021 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position again,
and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand;
040:022 but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
040:023 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.
041:001 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and behold, he stood by the river.
041:002 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat,
and they fed in the marsh grass.
041:003 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river,
ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink
of the river.
041:004 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.
So Pharaoh awoke.
041:005 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads
of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
041:006 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind,
sprung up after them.
041:007 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears.
Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
041:008 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled,
and he sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men.
Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could
interpret them to Pharaoh.
041:009 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember
my faults today.
041:010 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in
the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
041:011 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
041:012 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain
of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams.
To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
041:013 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was:
he restored me to my office, and he hanged him."
041:014 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily
out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh.
041:015 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there
is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,
that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
041:016 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me.
God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
041:017 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on
the brink of the river:
041:018 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle,
fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
041:019 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and
very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land
of Egypt for ugliness.
041:020 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
041:021 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they
had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
041:022 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up
on one stalk, full and good:
041:023 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them.
041:024 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain.
I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
041:025 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one.
What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
041:026 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads
of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
041:027 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted
with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
041:028 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about
to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
041:029 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout
all the land of Egypt.
041:030 There will arise after them seven years of famine,
and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
The famine will consume the land,
041:031 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that
famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
041:032 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established
by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
041:033 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man,
and set him over the land of Egypt.
041:034 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land,
and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce
in the seven plenteous years.
041:035 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come,
and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities,
and let them keep it.
041:036 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt;
that the land not perish through the famine."
041:037 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of all his servants.
041:038 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this,
a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
041:039 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this,
there is none so discreet and wise as you.
041:040 You shall be over my house, and according to your word
will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be
greater than you."
041:041 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all
the land of Egypt."
041:042 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it
on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen,
and put a gold chain about his neck,
041:043 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had.
They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all
the land of Egypt.
041:044 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall
no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
041:045 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave
him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife.
Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
041:046 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
041:047 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.
041:048 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were
in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:
the food of the field, which was round about every city,
he laid up in the same.
041:049 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
041:050 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On,
bore to him.
041:051 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,{"Manasseh"
sounds like the Hebrew for "forget."} "For," he said, "God has
made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
041:052 The name of the second, he called Ephraim{"Ephraim"
sounds like the Hebrew for "twice fruitful."}: "For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
041:053 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end.
041:054 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said.
There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
041:055 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh
for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph.
What he says to you, do."
041:056 The famine was over all the surface of the earth.
Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians.
The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
041:057 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain,
because the famine was severe in all the earth.
042:001 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said
to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
042:002 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt.
Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live,
and not die."
042:003 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
042:004 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers;
for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
042:005 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came,
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
042:006 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold
to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came,
and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
042:007 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted
like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them.
He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said,
"From the land of Canaan to buy food."
042:008 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
042:009 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them,
and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see
the nakedness of the land."
042:010 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come
to buy food.
042:011 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants
are not spies."
042:012 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness
of the land."
042:013 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons
of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest
is this day with our father, and one is no more."
042:014 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'
042:015 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh,
you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest
brother comes here.
042:016 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound,
that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you,
or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
042:017 He put them all together into custody for three days.
042:018 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live,
for I fear God.
042:019 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound
in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine
of your houses.
042:020 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified,
and you won't die." They did so.
042:021 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul,
when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this
distress has come upon us."
042:022 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying,
'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen?
Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
042:023 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was
an interpreter between them.
042:024 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned
to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them,
and bound him before their eyes.
042:025 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain,
and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give
them food for the way. So it was done to them.
042:026 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
042:027 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the
lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth
of his sack.
042:028 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is
in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned
trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has
done to us?"
042:029 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan,
and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
042:030 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us,
and took us for spies of the country.
042:031 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
042:032 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
042:033 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know
that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me,
and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
042:034 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know
that you are not spies, but that you are honest men.
So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade
in the land.'"
042:035 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's
bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father
saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
042:036 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me
of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more,
and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things
are against me."
042:037 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons,
if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care,
and I will bring him to you again."
042:038 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along
the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
043:001 The famine was severe in the land.
043:002 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again,
buy us a little more food."
043:003 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying,
'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
043:004 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,
043:005 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man
said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother
is with you.'"
043:006 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man
that you had another brother?"
043:007 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves,
and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive?
Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions.
Is there any way we could know that he would say,
'Bring your brother down?'"
043:008 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me,
and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die,
both we, and you, and also our little ones.
043:009 I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him.
If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you,
then let me bear the blame forever,
043:010 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second
time by now."
043:011 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this.
Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry
down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey,
spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
043:012 and take double money in your hand, and take back
the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks.
Perhaps it was an oversight.
043:013 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
043:014 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man,
that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin.
If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
043:015 The men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt,
and stood before Joseph.
043:016 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of
his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal,
and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
043:017 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men
to Joseph's house.
043:018 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house;
and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our
sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves,
along with our donkeys."
043:019 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
spoke to him at the door of the house,
043:020 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time
to buy food.
043:021 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks,
and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack,
our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
043:022 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food.
We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
043:023 He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God,
and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks.
I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
043:024 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water,
and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
043:025 They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon,
for they heard that they should eat bread there.
043:026 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was
in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him
to the earth.
043:027 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well,
the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
043:028 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive."
They bowed the head, and did homage.
043:029 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother,
his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother,
of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious
to you, my son."
043:030 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother;
and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room,
and wept there.
043:031 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself,
and said, "Serve the meal."
043:032 They served him by himself, and them by themselves,
and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves,
because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews,
for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
043:033 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright,
and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled
one with another.
043:034 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's
portion was five times as much as any of theirs.
They drank, and were merry with him.
044:001 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's
sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every
man's money in his sack's mouth.
044:002 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest,
with his grain money." He did according to the word that
Joseph had spoken.
044:003 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
they and their donkeys.
044:004 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off,
Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men.
When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded
evil for good?
044:005 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which
he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
044:006 He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
044:007 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these?
Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
044:008 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought
again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we
steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
044:009 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die,
and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
044:010 He said, "Now also let it be according to your words:
he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you
will be blameless."
044:011 Then they hurried, and every man took his sack down to the ground,
and every man opened his sack.
044:012 He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest.
The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
044:013 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey,
and returned to the city.
044:014 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was
still there. They fell on the ground before him.
044:015 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done?
Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
044:016 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak?
Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity
of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants,
both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
044:017 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man
in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant;
but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
044:018 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord,
please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears,
and don't let your anger burn against your servant;
for you are even as Pharaoh.
044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father,
or a brother?'
044:020 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child
of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
044:021 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may
set my eyes on him.'
044:022 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father:
for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
044:023 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes
down with you, you will see my face no more.'
044:024 It happened when we came up to your servant my father,
we told him the words of my lord.
044:025 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
044:026 We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us,
then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face,
unless our youngest brother is with us.'
044:027 Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife
bore me two sons:
044:028 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn
in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
044:029 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him,
you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
044:030 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father,
and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up
in the boy's life;
044:031 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more,
that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray
hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
044:032 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father,
saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear
the blame to my father forever.'
044:033 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy,
a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
044:034 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--
lest I see the evil that will come on my father."
045:001 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood
before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!"
No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known
to his brothers.
045:002 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
045:003 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father
still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they
were terrified at his presence.
045:004 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."
They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother,
whom you sold into Egypt.
045:005 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold
me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
045:006 For these two years the famine has been in the land,
and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither
plowing nor harvest.
045:007 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth,
and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
045:008 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has
made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler
over all the land of Egypt.
045:009 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what
your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt.
Come down to me. Don't wait.
045:010 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near
to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks,
your herds, and all that you have.
045:011 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine;
lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all
that you have."'
045:012 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
045:013 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt,
and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring
my father down here."
045:014 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin
wept on his neck.
045:015 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his
brothers talked with him.
045:016 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
"Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well,
and his servants.
045:017 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this.
Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
045:018 Take your father and your households, and come to me,
and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you
will eat the fat of the land.'
045:019 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land
of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring
your father, and come.
045:020 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings,
for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."
045:021 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
045:022 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
045:023 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded
with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded
with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
045:024 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed.
He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."
045:025 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan,
to Jacob their father.
045:026 They told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is
ruler over all the land of Egypt." His heart fainted,
for he didn't believe them.
045:027 They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them.
When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him,
the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
045:028 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive.
I will go and see him before I die."
046:001 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba,
and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
046:002 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said,
"Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
046:003 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go
down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
046:004 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring
you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
046:005 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob,
their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons
which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
046:006 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten
in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all
his seed with him,
046:007 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters,
and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with
him into Egypt.
046:008 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came
into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
046:009 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
046:010 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanite woman.
046:011 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
046:012 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah;
but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez
were Hezron and Hamul.
046:013 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
046:014 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
046:015 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,
with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his
daughters were thirty-three.
046:016 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi,
and Areli.
046:017 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah
their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
046:018 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah,
his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
046:019 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
046:020 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,
bore to him.
046:021 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman,
Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
046:022 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob:
all the souls were fourteen.
046:023 The son of Dan: Hushim.
046:024 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
046:025 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter,
and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
046:026 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his
direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the
souls were sixty-six.
046:027 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls.
All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt,
were seventy.
046:028 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him
to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
046:029 Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel,
his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him,
and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
046:030 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen
your face, that you are still alive."
046:031 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house,
"I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him,
'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land
of Canaan, have come to me.
046:032 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock,
and they have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have.'
046:033 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say,
'What is your occupation?'
046:034 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock
from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:'
that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd
is an abomination to the Egyptians."
047:001 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father
and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that
they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold,
they are in the land of Goshen."
047:002 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented
them to Pharaoh.
047:003 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?"
They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we,
and our fathers."
047:004 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in
the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks.
For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore,
please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
047:005 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers
have come to you.
047:006 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your
brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell
in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them,
then put them in charge of my livestock."
047:007 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh,
and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
047:008 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years
of your life?"
047:009 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage
are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been
the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained
to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days
of their pilgrimage."
047:010 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
047:011 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them
a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land,
in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
047:012 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his
father's household, with bread, according to their families.
047:013 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe,
so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted
by reason of the famine.
047:014 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt,
and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
047:015 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said,
"Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence?
For our money fails."
047:016 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food
for your livestock, if your money is gone."
047:017 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave
them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks,
and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them
with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
047:018 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year,
and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money
is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There
is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies,
and our lands.
047:019 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?
Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will
be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live,
and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."
047:020 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh,
for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.
047:021 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end
of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
047:022 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a
portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them.
That is why they didn't sell their land.
047:023 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you
and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you,
and you shall sow the land.
047:024 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth
to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed
of the field, for your food, for them of your households,
and for food for your little ones."
047:025 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor
in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
047:026 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt
to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth.
Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
047:027 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen;
and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful,
and multiplied exceedingly.
047:028 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one
hundred forty-seven years.
047:029 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph,
and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put
your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.
Please don't bury me in Egypt,
047:030 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me
out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place."
He said, "I will do as you have said."
047:031 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed
himself on the bed's head.
048:001 It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold,
your father is sick." He took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
048:002 Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,"
and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
048:003 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz
in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
048:004 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you,
and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this
land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
048:005 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt
before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh,
even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
048:006 Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours.
They will be called after the name of their brothers
in their inheritance.
048:007 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land
of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come
to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath
(the same is Bethlehem)."
048:008 Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"
048:009 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God
has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me,
and I will bless them."
048:010 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see.
He brought them near to him; and he kissed them,
and embraced them.
048:011 Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face,
and behold, God has let me see your seed also."
048:012 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed
himself with his face to the earth.
048:013 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's
left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's
right hand, and brought them near to him.
048:014 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head,
who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
048:015 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life
long to this day,
048:016 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads,
and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst
of the earth."
048:017 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head
of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand,
to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
048:018 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is
the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
048:019 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know.
He also will become a people, and he also will be great.
However, his younger brother will be greater than he,
and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
048:020 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless,
saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set
Ephraim before Manasseh.
048:021 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be
with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
048:022 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword
and with my bow."
049:001 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together,
that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the
days to come.
049:002 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob.
Listen to Israel, your father.
049:003 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning
of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.
049:004 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you
went up to your father's bed, then defiled it.
He went up to my couch.
049:005 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
049:006 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be
united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men.
In their self-will they hamstrung oxen.
049:007 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath,
for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter
them in Israel.
049:008 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be
on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow
down before you.
049:009 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness.
Who will rouse him up?
049:010 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff
from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs.
To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
049:011 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the
blood of grapes.
049:012 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
049:013 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for
a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
049:014 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
049:015 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land,
that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden,
and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
049:016 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
049:017 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path,
That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.
049:018 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
049:019 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
049:020 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.
049:021 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
049:022 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring.
His branches run over the wall.
049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, shot at him,
and persecute him:
049:024 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were
made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
049:025 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty,
who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts,
and of the womb.
049:026 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings
of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills.
They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head
of him who is separated from his brothers.
049:027 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour
the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this
is what their father spoke to them and blessed them.
He blessed everyone according to his blessing.
049:029 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people.
Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field
of Ephron the Hittite,
049:030 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre,
in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field
from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they
buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
049:032 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased
from the children of Heth."
049:033 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered
up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit,
and was gathered to his people.
050:001 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.
050:002 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father;
and the physicians embalmed Israel.
050:003 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many
the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him
for seventy days.
050:004 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke
to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor
in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
050:005 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me
in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan."
Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father,
and I will come again.'"
050:006 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he
made you swear."
050:007 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house,
all the elders of the land of Egypt,
050:008 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house.
Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds,
they left in the land of Goshen.
050:009 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen.
It was a very great company.
050:010 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan,
and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation.
He mourned for his father seven days.
050:011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning
in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning
by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called
Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
050:012 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
050:013 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried
him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site,
from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
050:014 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all
that went up with him to bury his father, after he had
buried his father.
050:015 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,
"It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us
back for all of the evil which we did to him."
050:016 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded
before he died, saying,
050:017 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience
of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."'
Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God
of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
050:018 His brothers also went and fell down before his face;
and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
050:019 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
050:020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good,
to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
050:021 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your
little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
050:022 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house.
Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
050:023 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation.
The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born
on Joseph's knees.
050:024 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely
visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land
which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
050:025 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will
surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
050:026 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.