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,