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Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conditions.html              Chapter 1  Genesis, chapter 1    Compare with King James Version: Gene.01     1: In the beginning God created the heavens and  the earth.  2: The earth was without form and void, and  darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was  moving over the face of the waters.  3: And God said, "Let  there be light"; and there was light.  4: And God saw that  the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.   5: God called the light Day, and the darkness he called  Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.  6: And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the  waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."  7: And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were  under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.  And it was so.  8: And God called the firmament Heaven. And  there was evening and there was morning, a second day.  9: And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered  together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was  so.  10: God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that  were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was  good.  11: And God said, "Let the earth put forth  vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in  which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth."  And it was so.  12: The earth brought forth vegetation,  plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees  bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good.  13: And there was evening and  there was morning, a third day.  14: And God said, "Let  there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day  from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for  days and years,  15: and let them be lights in the firmament  of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.  16: And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule  the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars  also.  17: And God set them in the firmament of the heavens  to give light upon the earth,  18: to rule over the day and  over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And  God saw that it was good.  19: And there was evening and  there was morning, a fourth day.  20: And God said, "Let the  waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly  above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."  21: So God created the great sea monsters and every living  creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to  their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God  saw that it was good.  22: And God blessed them, saying, "Be  fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let  birds multiply on the earth."  23: And there was evening and  there was morning, a fifth day.  24: And God said, "Let the  earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle  and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their  kinds." And it was so.  25: And God made the beasts of the  earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their  kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its  kind. And God saw that it was good.  26: Then God said, "Let  us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have  dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air,  and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every  creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."  27: So God  created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;  male and female he created them.  28: And God blessed them,  and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth  and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over  the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon  the earth."  29: And God said, "Behold, I have given you  every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth,  and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for  food.  30: And to every beast of the earth, and to every  bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth,  everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green  plant for food." And it was so.  31: And God saw everything  that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was  evening and there was morning, a sixth day.    Chapter 2  Genesis, chapter 2    Compare with King James Version: Gene.02     1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,  and all the host of them.  2: And on the seventh day God  finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh  day from all his work which he had done.  3: So God blessed  the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all  his work which he had done in creation.  4: These are the  generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In  the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,  5: when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of  the field had yet sprung up -- for the LORD God had not caused it  to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;   6: but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole  face of the ground --  7: then the LORD God formed man of  dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of  life; and man became a living being.  8: And the LORD God  planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man  whom he had formed.  9: And out of the ground the LORD God  made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for  food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the  tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  10: A river flowed  out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became  four rivers.  11: The name of the first is Pishon; it is the  one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is  gold;  12: and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and  onyx stone are there.  13: The name of the second river is  Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.   14: And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows  east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.  15: The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to  till it and keep it.  16: And the LORD God commanded the  man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;   17: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you  shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."   18: Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man  should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."  19: So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the  field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see  what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living  creature, that was its name.  20: The man gave names to all  cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the  field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.   21: So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the  man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its  place with flesh;  22: and the rib which the LORD God had  taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.   23: Then the man said,  "This at last is bone of my  bones   and flesh of my flesh;   she shall be called  Woman,   because she was taken out of Man."   24: Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves  to his wife, and they become one flesh.  25: And the man and  his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.    Chapter 3  Genesis, chapter 3    Compare with King James Version: Gene.03     1: Now the serpent was more subtle than any other  wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman,  "Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?"   2: And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the  fruit of the trees of the garden;  3: but God said, `You  shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the  garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"  4: But  the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die.  5: For  God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you  will be like God, knowing good and evil."  6: So when the  woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a  delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make  one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to  her husband, and he ate.  7: Then the eyes of both were  opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig  leaves together and made themselves aprons.  8: And they  heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool  of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the  presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.  9: But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are  you?"  10: And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the  garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."   11: He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you  eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"  12: The man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she  gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."  13: Then the LORD  God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman  said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."  14: The LORD  God said to the serpent,  "Because you have done this,    cursed are you above all cattle,   and above all wild  animals;   upon your belly you shall go,   and dust you  shall eat   all the days of your life.   15:  I  will put enmity between you and the woman,   and between your  seed and her seed;   he shall bruise your head,   and you  shall bruise his heel."   16: To the woman he said,  "I  will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing;   in pain you  shall bring forth children,   yet your desire shall be for  your husband,   and he shall rule over you."   17: And to Adam he said,  "Because you have listened to the  voice of your wife,   and have eaten of the tree   of  which I commanded you,   `You shall not eat of it,'    cursed is the ground because of you;   in toil you shall  eat of it all the days of your life;   18:  thorns and  thistles it shall bring forth to you;   and you shall eat the  plants of the field.   19:  In the sweat of your  face   you shall eat bread   till you return to the  ground,   for out of it you were taken;   you are  dust,   and to dust you shall return."   20: The man  called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all  living.  21: And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife  garments of skins, and clothed them.  22: Then the LORD God  said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and  evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree  of life, and eat, and live for ever" --  23: therefore the  LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground  from which he was taken.  24: He drove out the man; and at  the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a  flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree  of life.    Chapter 4  Genesis, chapter 4    Compare with King James Version: Gene.04     1: Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived  and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the  LORD."  2: And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel  was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.  3: In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of  the fruit of the ground,  4: and Abel brought of the  firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had  regard for Abel and his offering,  5: but for Cain and his  offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his  countenance fell.  6: The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you  angry, and why has your countenance fallen?  7: If you do  well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is  couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master  it."  8: Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go out to  the field." And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against  his brother Abel, and killed him.  9: Then the LORD said to  Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I  my brother's keeper?"  10: And the LORD said, "What have you  done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the  ground.  11: And now you are cursed from the ground, which  has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your  hand.  12: When you till the ground, it shall no longer  yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer  on the earth."  13: Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is  greater than I can bear.  14: Behold, thou hast driven me  this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden;  and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever  finds me will slay me."  15: Then the LORD said to him, "Not  so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him  sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon  him should kill him.  16: Then Cain went away from the  presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.   17: Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch;  and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name  of his son, Enoch.  18: To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was  the father of Me-hu'ja-el, and Me-hu'ja-el the father of  Me-thu'sha-el, and Me-thu'sha-el the father of Lamech.  19: And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and  the name of the other Zillah.  20: Adah bore Jabal; he was  the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.  21: His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those  who play the lyre and pipe.  22: Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he  was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of  Tubal-cain was Na'amah.  23: Lamech said to his wives:   "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;   you wives of Lamech,  hearken to what I say:   I have slain a man for wounding  me,   a young man for striking me.   24:  If Cain  is avenged sevenfold,   truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."    25: And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and  called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me  another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."  26: To  Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that  time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.    Chapter 5  Genesis, chapter 5    Compare with King James Version: Gene.05     1: This is the book of the generations of Adam.  When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.  2: Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named  them Man when they were created.  3: When Adam had lived a  hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own  likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.  4: The days  of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred  years; and he had other sons and daughters.  5: Thus all the  days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he  died.  6: When Seth had lived a hundred and five years, he  became the father of Enosh.  7: Seth lived after the birth  of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and  daughters.  8: Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred  and twelve years; and he died.  9: When Enosh had lived  ninety years, he became the father of Kenan.  10: Enosh  lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and  had other sons and daughters.  11: Thus all the days of  Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.  12: When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of  Ma-hal'alel.  13: Kenan lived after the birth of Ma-hal'alel  eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters.   14: Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten  years; and he died.  15: When Ma-hal'alel had lived  sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.  16: Ma-hal'alel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and  thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.  17: Thus  all the days of Ma-hal'alel were eight hundred and ninety-five  years; and he died.  18: When Jared had lived a hundred and  sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.  19: Jared  lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other  sons and daughters.  20: Thus all the days of Jared were  nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.  21: When  Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of  Methu'selah.  22: Enoch walked with God after the birth of  Methu'selah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.   23: Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and  sixty-five years.  24: Enoch walked with God; and he was  not, for God took him.  25: When Methu'selah had lived a  hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech.   26: Methu'selah lived after the birth of Lamech seven  hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters.   27: Thus all the days of Methu'selah were nine hundred and  sixty-nine years; and he died.  28: When Lamech had lived a  hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son,  29: and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground which the  LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and  from the toil of our hands."  30: Lamech lived after the  birth of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and had other  sons and daughters.  31: Thus all the days of Lamech were  seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.  32: After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father  of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.    Chapter 6  Genesis, chapter 6    Compare with King James Version: Gene.06     1: When men began to multiply on the face of the  ground, and daughters were born to them,  2: the sons of God  saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such  of them as they chose.  3: Then the LORD said, "My spirit  shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days  shall be a hundred and twenty years."  4: The Nephilim were  on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of  God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to  them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of  renown.  5: The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was  great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of  his heart was only evil continually.  6: And the LORD was  sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his  heart.  7: So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I  have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and  creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have  made them."  8: But Noah found favor in the eyes of the  LORD.  9: These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a  righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.   10: And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  11: Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was  filled with violence.  12: And God saw the earth, and  behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon  the earth.  13: And God said to Noah, "I have determined to  make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence  through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  14: Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark,  and cover it inside and out with pitch.  15: This is how you  are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its  breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.  16: Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and  set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second,  and third decks.  17: For behold, I will bring a flood of  waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath  of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall  die.  18: But I will establish my covenant with you; and you  shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons'  wives with you.  19: And of every living thing of all flesh,  you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive  with you; they shall be male and female.  20: Of the birds  according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their  kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind,  two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.  21: Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store  it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."  22: Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.    Chapter 7  Genesis, chapter 7    Compare with King James Version: Gene.07     1: Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark,  you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous  before me in this generation.  2: Take with you seven pairs  of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the  animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;  3: and  seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep  their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.  4: For in  seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty  nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out  from the face of the ground."  5: And Noah did all that the  LORD had commanded him.  6: Noah was six hundred years old  when the flood of waters came upon the earth.  7: And Noah  and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into  the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.  8: Of clean  animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of  everything that creeps on the ground,  9: two and two, male  and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.   10: And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon  the earth.  11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in  the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day  all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of  the heavens were opened.  12: And rain fell upon the earth  forty days and forty nights.  13: On the very same day Noah  and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the  three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,  14: they  and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according  to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth  according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every  bird of every sort.  15: They went into the ark with Noah,  two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.   16: And they that entered, male and female of all flesh,  went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.  17: The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters  increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.   18: The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the  earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.  19: And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all  the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;  20: the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them  fifteen cubits deep.  21: And all flesh died that moved upon  the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm  upon the earth, and every man;  22: everything on the dry  land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.  23: He  blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the  ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air;  they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those  that were with him in the ark.  24: And the waters prevailed  upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.    Chapter 8  Genesis, chapter 8    Compare with King James Version: Gene.08     1: But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and  all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind  blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;  2: the  fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed,  the rain from the heavens was restrained,  3: and the waters  receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and  fifty days the waters had abated;  4: and in the seventh  month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest  upon the mountains of Ar'arat.  5: And the waters continued  to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first  day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.  6: At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark  which he had made,  7: and sent forth a raven; and it went  to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.  8: Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had  subsided from the face of the ground;  9: but the dove found  no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for  the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put  forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.   10: He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth  the dove out of the ark;  11: and the dove came back to him  in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf;  so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.  12: Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove;  and she did not return to him any more.  13: In the six  hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the  month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed  the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the  ground was dry.  14: In the second month, on the  twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.  15: Then God said to Noah,  16: "Go forth from the ark, you  and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.  17: Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of  all flesh -- birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps  on the earth -- that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be  fruitful and multiply upon the earth."  18: So Noah went  forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.   19: And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird,  everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of  the ark.  20: Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took  of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt  offerings on the altar.  21: And when the LORD smelled the  pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again  curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart  is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every  living creature as I have done.  22: While the earth  remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,  day and night, shall not cease."    Chapter 9  Genesis, chapter 9    Compare with King James Version: Gene.09     1: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to  them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.  2: The  fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the  earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps  on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are  delivered.  3: Every moving thing that lives shall be food  for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.   4: Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its  blood.  5: For your lifeblood I will surely require a  reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every  man's brother I will require the life of man.  6: Whoever  sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God  made man in his own image.  7: And you, be fruitful and  multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."   8: Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,  9: "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants  after you,  10: and with every living creature that is with  you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you,  as many as came out of the ark.  11: I establish my covenant  with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters  of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the  earth."  12: And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant  which I make between me and you and every living creature that is  with you, for all future generations:  13: I set my bow in  the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and  the earth.  14: When I bring clouds over the earth and the  bow is seen in the clouds,  15: I will remember my covenant  which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;  and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all  flesh.  16: When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon  it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every  living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."  17: God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I  have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."   18: The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem,  Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.  19: These  three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was  peopled.  20: Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He  planted a vineyard;  21: and he drank of the wine, and  became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.  22: And Ham,  the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his  two brothers outside.  23: Then Shem and Japheth took a  garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and  covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned  away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.  24: When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son  had done to him,  25: he said,  "Cursed be Canaan;    a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."   26: He also said,  "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem;    and let Canaan be his slave."   27:  God enlarge  Japheth,   and let him dwell in the tents of Shem;   and  let Canaan be his slave."   28: After the flood Noah  lived three hundred and fifty years.  29: All the days of  Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.    Chapter 10  Genesis, chapter 10    Compare with King James Version: Gene.10     1: These are the generations of the sons of  Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the  flood.  2: The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan,  Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.  3: The sons of Gomer: Ash'kenaz,  Riphath, and Togar'mah.  4: The sons of Javan: Eli'shah,  Tarshish, Kittim, and Do'danim.  5: From these the coastland  peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each  with his own language, by their families, in their nations.  6: The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.  7: The  sons of Cush: Seba, Hav'ilah, Sabtah, Ra'amah, and Sab'teca. The  sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.  8: Cush became the father  of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.  9: He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said,  "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."  10: The  beginning of his kingdom was Ba'bel, Erech, and Accad, all of them  in the land of Shinar.  11: From that land he went into  Assyria, and built Nin'eveh, Reho'both-Ir, Calah, and  12: Resen between Nin'eveh and Calah; that is the great city.   13: Egypt became the father of Ludim, An'amim, Leha'bim,  Naph-tu'him,  14: Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the  Philistines), and Caph'torim.  15: Canaan became the father  of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,  16: and the Jeb'usites,  the Amorites, the Gir'gashites,  17: the Hivites, the  Arkites, the Sinites,  18: the Ar'vadites, the Zem'arites,  and the Ha'mathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites  spread abroad.  19: And the territory of the Canaanites  extended from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza, and  in the direction of Sodom, Gomor'rah, Admah, and Zeboi'im, as far  as Lasha.  20: These are the sons of Ham, by their families,  their languages, their lands, and their nations.  21: To  Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder  brother of Japheth, children were born.  22: The sons of  Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpach'shad, Lud, and Aram.  23: The  sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.  24: Arpach'shad  became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.   25: To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was  Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's  name was Joktan.  26: Joktan became the father of Almo'dad,  Sheleph, Hazarma'veth, Jerah,  27: Hador'am, Uzal, Diklah,   28: Obal, Abim'a-el, Sheba,  29: Ophir, Hav'ilah,  and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.  30: The  territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction  of Sephar to the hill country of the east.  31: These are  the sons of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands,  and their nations.  32: These are the families of the sons  of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from  these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.     Chapter 11  Genesis, chapter 11    Compare with King James Version: Gene.11     1: Now the whole earth had one language and few  words.  2: And as men migrated from the east, they found a  plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.  3: And they  said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them  thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.   4: Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city,  and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for  ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole  earth."  5: And the LORD came down to see the city and the  tower, which the sons of men had built.  6: And the LORD  said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language;  and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing  that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.  7: Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that  they may not understand one another's speech."  8: So the  LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the  earth, and they left off building the city.  9: Therefore  its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the  language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them  abroad over the face of all the earth.  10: These are the  descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became  the father of Arpach'shad two years after the flood;  11: and Shem lived after the birth of Arpach'shad five hundred  years, and had other sons and daughters.  12: When  Arpach'shad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of  Shelah;  13: and Arpach'shad lived after the birth of Shelah  four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.   14: When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the  father of Eber;  15: and Shelah lived after the birth of  Eber four hundred and three years, and had other sons and  daughters.  16: When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he  became the father of Peleg;  17: and Eber lived after the  birth of Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons  and daughters.  18: When Peleg had lived thirty years, he  became the father of Re'u;  19: and Peleg lived after the  birth of Re'u two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and  daughters.  20: When Re'u had lived thirty-two years, he  became the father of Serug;  21: and Re'u lived after the  birth of Serug two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and  daughters.  22: When Serug had lived thirty years, he became  the father of Nahor;  23: and Serug lived after the birth of  Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.  24: When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father  of Terah;  25: and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a  hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.   26: When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the  father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  27: Now these are the  descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and  Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.  28: Haran died  before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the  Chalde'ans.  29: And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of  Abram's wife was Sar'ai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the  daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.  30: Now  Sar'ai was barren; she had no child.  31: Terah took Abram  his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sar'ai his  daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together  from Ur of the Chalde'ans to go into the land of Canaan; but when  they came to Haran, they settled there.  32: The days of  Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.     Chapter 12  Genesis, chapter 12    Compare with King James Version: Gene.12     1: Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your  country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that  I will show you.  2: And I will make of you a great nation,  and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be  a blessing.  3: I will bless those who bless you, and him  who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the  earth shall bless themselves."  4: So Abram went, as the  LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five  years old when he departed from Haran.  5: And Abram took  Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their  possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had  gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan.  When they had come to the land of Canaan,  6: Abram passed  through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At  that time the Canaanites were in the land.  7: Then the LORD  appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this  land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to  him.  8: Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of  Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the  east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the  name of the LORD.  9: And Abram journeyed on, still going  toward the Negeb.  10: Now there was a famine in the land.  So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was  severe in the land.  11: When he was about to enter Egypt,  he said to Sar'ai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful  to behold;  12: and when the Egyptians see you, they will  say, `This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let  you live.  13: Say you are my sister, that it may go well  with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your  account."  14: When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw  that the woman was very beautiful.  15: And when the princes  of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was  taken into Pharaoh's house.  16: And for her sake he dealt  well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants,  maidservants, she-asses, and camels.  17: But the LORD  afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of  Sar'ai, Abram's wife.  18: So Pharaoh called Abram, and  said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me  that she was your wife?  19: Why did you say, `She is my  sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your  wife, take her, and be gone."  20: And Pharaoh gave men  orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife  and all that he had.    Chapter 13  Genesis, chapter 13    Compare with King James Version: Gene.13     1: So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife,  and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.  2: Now Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.   3: And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to  the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel  and Ai,  4: to the place where he had made an altar at the  first; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.  5: And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and  tents,  6: so that the land could not support both of them  dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they  could not dwell together,  7: and there was strife between  the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. At  that time the Canaanites and the Per'izzites dwelt in the land.   8: Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between  you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are  kinsmen.  9: Is not the whole land before you? Separate  yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the  right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."   10: And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan  valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD,  like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zo'ar; this was before  the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomor'rah.  11: So Lot chose  for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus  they separated from each other.  12: Abram dwelt in the land  of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved  his tent as far as Sodom.  13: Now the men of Sodom were  wicked, great sinners against the LORD.  14: The LORD said  to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes, and  look from the place where you are, northward and southward and  eastward and westward;  15: for all the land which you see  I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.  16: I  will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one  can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be  counted.  17: Arise, walk through the length and the breadth  of the land, for I will give it to you."  18: So Abram moved  his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are at  Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.    Chapter 14  Genesis, chapter 14    Compare with King James Version: Gene.14     1: In the days of Am'raphel king of Shinar,  Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, and Tidal  king of Goi'im,  2: these kings made war with Bera king of  Sodom, Birsha king of Gomor'rah, Shinab king of Admah, Sheme'ber  king of Zeboi'im, and the king of Bela (that is, Zo'ar).  3: And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is,  the Salt Sea).  4: Twelve years they had served  Ched-or-lao'mer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.  5: In the fourteenth year Ched-or-lao'mer and the kings who were  with him came and subdued the Reph'aim in Ash'teroth-karna'im, the  Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Sha'veh-kiriatha'im,  6: and the  Horites in their Mount Se'ir as far as El-paran on the border of  the wilderness;  7: then they turned back and came to  Enmish'pat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the  Amal'ekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Haz'azon-ta'mar.   8: Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomor'rah, the king  of Admah, the king of Zeboi'im, and the king of Bela (that is,  Zo'ar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim   9: with Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goi'im,  Am'raphel king of Shinar, and Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, four kings  against five.  10: Now the Valley of Siddim was full of  bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomor'rah fled, some  fell into them, and the rest fled to the mountain.  11: So  the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomor'rah, and all their  provisions, and went their way;  12: they also took Lot, the  son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and  departed.  13: Then one who had escaped came, and told Abram  the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite,  brother of Eshcol and of Aner; these were allies of Abram.  14: When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he  led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and  eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.  15: And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his  servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of  Damascus.  16: Then he brought back all the goods, and also  brought back his kinsman Lot with his goods, and the women and the  people.  17: After his return from the defeat of  Ched-or-lao'mer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom  went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's  Valley).  18: And Mel-chiz'edek king of Salem brought out  bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.  19: And he  blessed him and said,  "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,    maker of heaven and earth;   20:  and blessed be God  Most High,   who has delivered your enemies into your  hand!"   21: And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give  me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."  22: But  Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn to the LORD God Most  High, maker of heaven and earth,  23: that I would not take  a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, lest you  should say, `I have made Abram rich.'  24: I will take  nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men  who went with me; let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."     Chapter 15  Genesis, chapter 15    Compare with King James Version: Gene.15     1: After these things the word of the LORD came  to Abram in a vision, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your  reward shall be very great."  2: But Abram said, "O Lord  GOD, what wilt thou give me, for I continue childless, and the heir  of my house is Elie'zer of Damascus?"  3: And Abram said,  "Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my  house will be my heir."  4: And behold, the word of the LORD  came to him, "This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall  be your heir."  5: And he brought him outside and said,  "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to  number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."   6: And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as  righteousness.  7: And he said to him, "I am the LORD who  brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to  possess."  8: But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know  that I shall possess it?"  9: He said to him, "Bring me a  heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three  years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."  10: And he  brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over  against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.  11: And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram  drove them away.  12: As the sun was going down, a deep  sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon  him.  13: Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety  that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not  theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for  four hundred years;  14: but I will bring judgment on the  nation which they serve, and afterward they shall come out with  great possessions.  15: As for yourself, you shall go to  your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.   16: And they shall come back here in the fourth generation;  for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."  17: When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking  fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.  18: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To  your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the  great river, the river Euphra'tes,  19: the land of the  Ken'ites, the Ken'izzites, the Kad'monites,  20: the  Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Reph'aim,  21: the Amorites,  the Canaanites, the Gir'gashites and the Jeb'usites."    Chapter 16  Genesis, chapter 16    Compare with King James Version: Gene.16     1: Now Sar'ai, Abram's wife, bore him no  children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;  2: and Sar'ai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented  me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall  obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of  Sar'ai.  3: So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land  of Canaan, Sar'ai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid,  and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.  4: And he went  in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had  conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.  5: And  Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave  my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived,  she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and  me!"  6: But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in  your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly  with her, and she fled from her.  7: The angel of the LORD  found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the  way to Shur.  8: And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where  have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am  fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."  9: The angel of the LORD  said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her."  10: The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly  multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for  multitude."  11: And the angel of the LORD said to her,  "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call  his name Ish'mael; because the LORD has given heed to your  affliction.  12: He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand  against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall  dwell over against all his kinsmen."  13: So she called the  name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for  she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing  him?"  14: Therefore the well was called Beer-la'hai-roi; it  lies between Kadesh and Bered.  15: And Hagar bore Abram a  son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore,  Ish'mael.  16: Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar  bore Ish'mael to Abram.    Chapter 17  Genesis, chapter 17    Compare with King James Version: Gene.17     1: When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD  appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before  me, and be blameless.  2: And I will make my covenant  between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."  3: Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,  4: "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father  of a multitude of nations.  5: No longer shall your name be  Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the  father of a multitude of nations.  6: I will make you  exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings  shall come forth from you.  7: And I will establish my  covenant between me and you and your descendants after you  throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God  to you and to your descendants after you.  8: And I will  give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your  sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession;  and I will be their God."  9: And God said to Abraham, "As  for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after  you throughout their generations.  10: This is my covenant,  which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after  you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.  11: You  shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall  be a sign of the covenant between me and you.  12: He that  is eight days old among you shall be circumcised; every male  throughout your generations, whether born in your house, or bought  with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,   13: both he that is born in your house and he that is  bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant  be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.  14: Any  uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his  foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my  covenant."  15: And God said to Abraham, "As for Sar'ai your  wife, you shall not call her name Sar'ai, but Sarah shall be her  name.  16: I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a  son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations;  kings of peoples shall come from her."  17: Then Abraham  fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, "Shall a child  be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is  ninety years old, bear a child?"  18: And Abraham said to  God, "O that Ish'mael might live in thy sight!"  19: God  said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall  call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an  everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.  20: As  for Ish'mael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make  him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father  of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.  21: But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall  bear to you at this season next year."  22: When he had  finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.  23: Then Abraham took Ish'mael his son and all the slaves born in  his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of  Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins  that very day, as God had said to him.  24: Abraham was  ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his  foreskin.  25: And Ish'mael his son was thirteen years old  when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  26: That very day Abraham and his son Ish'mael were circumcised;   27: and all the men of his house, those born in the house  and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with  him.    Chapter 18  Genesis, chapter 18    Compare with King James Version: Gene.18     1: And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of  Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.   2: He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men  stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door  to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth,  3: and said,  "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your  servant.  4: Let a little water be brought, and wash your  feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,  5: while I fetch  a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that  you may pass on -- since you have come to your servant." So they  said, "Do as you have said."  6: And Abraham hastened into  the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of  fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."  7: And Abraham ran to  the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the  servant, who hastened to prepare it.  8: Then he took curds,  and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before  them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.  9: They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She  is in the tent."  10: The LORD said, "I will surely return  to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And  Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.  11: Now  Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be  with Sarah after the manner of women.  12: So Sarah laughed  to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old,  shall I have pleasure?"  13: The LORD said to Abraham, "Why  did Sarah laugh, and say, `Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I  am old?'  14: Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the  appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall  have a son."  15: But Sarah denied, saying, "I did not  laugh"; for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."   16: Then the men set out from there, and they looked toward  Sodom; and Abraham went with them to set them on their way.  17: The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to  do,  18: seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty  nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by  him?  19: No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his  children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by  doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to  Abraham what he has promised him."  20: Then the LORD said,  "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah is great and their  sin is very grave,  21: I will go down to see whether they  have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me;  and if not, I will know."  22: So the men turned from there,  and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD.   23: Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed  destroy the righteous with the wicked?  24: Suppose there  are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the  place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?   25: Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the  righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the  wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth  do right?"  26: And the LORD said, "If I find at Sodom fifty  righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their  sake."  27: Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon  myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.  28: Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou  destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not  destroy it if I find forty-five there."  29: Again he spoke  to him, and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered,  "For the sake of forty I will not do it."  30: Then he said,  "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are  found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty  there."  31: He said, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to  speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered,  "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."  32: Then he  said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but  this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake  of ten I will not destroy it."  33: And the LORD went his  way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned  to his place.    Chapter 19  Genesis, chapter 19    Compare with King James Version: Gene.19     1: The two angels came to Sodom in the evening;  and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he  rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth,   2: and said, "My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your  servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you  may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will  spend the night in the street."  3: But he urged them  strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he  made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.  4: But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of  Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man,  surrounded the house;  5: and they called to Lot, "Where are  the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may  know them."  6: Lot went out of the door to the men, shut  the door after him,  7: and said, "I beg you, my brothers,  do not act so wickedly.  8: Behold, I have two daughters who  have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as  you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under  the shelter of my roof."  9: But they said, "Stand back!"  And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the  judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they  pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.   10: But the men put forth their hands and brought Lot into  the house to them, and shut the door.  11: And they struck  with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both  small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the  door.  12: Then the men said to Lot, "Have you any one else  here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the  city, bring them out of the place;  13: for we are about to  destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has  become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy  it."  14: So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who  were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place; for the  LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his  sons-in-law to be jesting.  15: When morning dawned, the  angels urged Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two  daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of  the city."  16: But he lingered; so the men seized him and  his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful  to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.   17: And when they had brought them forth, they said, "Flee  for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley;  flee to the hills, lest you be consumed."  18: And Lot said  to them, "Oh, no, my lords;  19: behold, your servant has  found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in  saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster  overtake me, and I die.  20: Behold, yonder city is near  enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there --  is it not a little one? -- and my life will be saved!"  21: He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I  will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.  22: Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive  there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zo'ar.  23: The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zo'ar.  24: Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor'rah brimstone and fire  from the LORD out of heaven;  25: and he overthrew those  cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities,  and what grew on the ground.  26: But Lot's wife behind him  looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.  27: And  Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood  before the LORD;  28: and he looked down toward Sodom and  Gomor'rah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and  lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.   29: So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the  valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of  the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.   30: Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills  with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he  dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.  31: And the  first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is  not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the  earth.  32: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we  will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our  father."  33: So they made their father drink wine that  night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did  not know when she lay down or when she arose.  34: And on  the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay  last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also;  then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring  through our father."  35: So they made their father drink  wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and  he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.  36: Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their  father.  37: The first-born bore a son, and called his name  Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.  38: The  younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the  father of the Ammonites to this day.    Chapter 20  Genesis, chapter 20    Compare with King James Version: Gene.20     1: From there Abraham journeyed toward the  territory of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he  sojourned in Gerar.  2: And Abraham said of Sarah his wife,  "She is my sister." And Abim'elech king of Gerar sent and took  Sarah.  3: But God came to Abim'elech in a dream by night,  and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman  whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife."  4: Now  Abim'elech had not approached her; so he said, "Lord, wilt thou  slay an innocent people?  5: Did he not himself say to me,  `She is my sister'? And she herself said, `He is my brother.' In  the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done  this."  6: Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know  that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was  I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you  touch her.  7: Now then restore the man's wife; for he is a  prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you  do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all  that are yours."  8: So Abim'elech rose early in the  morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these  things; and the men were very much afraid.  9: Then  Abim'elech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to  us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me  and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought  not to be done."  10: And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What  were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"  11: Abraham  said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all  in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.  12: Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but  not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.  13: And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I  said to her, `This is the kindness you must do me: at every place  to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"  14: Then  Abim'elech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and  gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.  15: And Abim'elech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell  where it pleases you."  16: To Sarah he said, "Behold, I  have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your  vindication in the eyes of all who are with you; and before every  one you are righted."  17: Then Abraham prayed to God; and  God healed Abim'elech, and also healed his wife and female slaves  so that they bore children.  18: For the LORD had closed all  the wombs of the house of Abim'elech because of Sarah, Abraham's  wife.    Chapter 21  Genesis, chapter 21    Compare with King James Version: Gene.21     1: The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and  the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.  2: And Sarah  conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of  which God had spoken to him.  3: Abraham called the name of  his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.  4: And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days  old, as God had commanded him.  5: Abraham was a hundred  years old when his son Isaac was born to him.  6: And Sarah  said, "God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh  over me."  7: And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham  that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his  old age."  8: And the child grew, and was weaned; and  Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.  9: But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne  to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.  10: So she said to  Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of  this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."  11: And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of  his son.  12: But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased  because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah  says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your  descendants be named.  13: And I will make a nation of the  son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."  14: So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a  skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,  along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and  wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.  15: When the  water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the  bushes.  16: Then she went, and sat down over against him a  good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Let  me not look upon the death of the child." And as she sat over  against him, the child lifted up his voice and wept.  17: And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God  called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you,  Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he  is.  18: Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your  hand; for I will make him a great nation."  19: Then God  opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and  filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.  20: And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the  wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.  21: He lived  in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from  the land of Egypt.  22: At that time Abim'elech and Phicol  the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all  that you do;  23: now therefore swear to me here by God that  you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my  posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with  me and with the land where you have sojourned."  24: And  Abraham said, "I will swear."  25: When Abraham complained  to Abim'elech about a well of water which Abim'elech's servants had  seized,  26: Abim'elech said, "I do not know who has done  this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until  today."  27: So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to  Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.  28: Abraham  set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.  29: And Abim'elech  said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs  which you have set apart?"  30: He said, "These seven ewe  lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me  that I dug this well."  31: Therefore that place was called  Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.  32: So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abim'elech and  Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land  of the Philistines.  33: Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in  Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the  Everlasting God.  34: And Abraham sojourned many days in the  land of the Philistines.    Chapter 22  Genesis, chapter 22    Compare with King James Version: Gene.22     1: After these things God tested Abraham, and  said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."  2: He  said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to  the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon  one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."  3: So  Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, and took two of  his young men with him, and his son Isaac; and he cut the wood for  the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God  had told him.  4: On the third day Abraham lifted up his  eyes and saw the place afar off.  5: Then Abraham said to  his young men, "Stay here with the ass; I and the lad will go  yonder and worship, and come again to you."  6: And Abraham  took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son;  and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both  of them together.  7: And Isaac said to his father Abraham,  "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold,  the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"   8: Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a  burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.  9: When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham  built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac  his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.  10: Then  Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.   11: But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven,  and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."  12: He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to  him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld  your son, your only son, from me."  13: And Abraham lifted  up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in  a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and  offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.  14: So Abraham called the name of that place The LORD will  provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it  shall be provided."  15: And the angel of the LORD called to  Abraham a second time from heaven,  16: and said, "By myself  I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this, and have  not withheld your son, your only son,  17: I will indeed  bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of  heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your  descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,  18: and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth  bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."  19: So  Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together  to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.  20: Now  after these things it was told Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has  borne children to your brother Nahor:  21: Uz the  first-born, Buz his brother, Kemu'el the father of Aram,  22: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethu'el."  23: Bethu'el became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore  to Nahor, Abraham's brother.  24: Moreover, his concubine,  whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Ma'acah.     Chapter 23  Genesis, chapter 23    Compare with King James Version: Gene.23     1: Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years;  these were the years of the life of Sarah.  2: And Sarah  died at Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and  Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.  3: And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and said to the  Hittites,  4: "I am a stranger and a sojourner among you;  give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my  dead out of my sight."  5: The Hittites answered Abraham,   6: "Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us.  Bury your dead in the choicest of our sepulchres; none of us will  withhold from you his sepulchre, or hinder you from burying your  dead."  7: Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the  people of the land.  8: And he said to them, "If you are  willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and  entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,  9: that he may give  me the cave of Mach-pe'lah, which he owns; it is at the end of his  field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as  a possession for a burying place."  10: Now Ephron was  sitting among the Hittites; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham  in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of  his city,  11: "No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field,  and I give you the cave that is in it; in the presence of the sons  of my people I give it to you; bury your dead."  12: Then  Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.  13: And  he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if  you will, hear me; I will give the price of the field; accept it  from me, that I may bury my dead there."  14: Ephron  answered Abraham,  15: "My lord, listen to me; a piece of  land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you  and me? Bury your dead."  16: Abraham agreed with Ephron;  and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in  the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver,  according to the weights current among the merchants.  17: So the field of Ephron in Mach-pe'lah, which was to the east  of Mamre, the field with the cave which was in it and all the trees  that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over   18: to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the  Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.  19: After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the  field of Mach-pe'lah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of  Canaan.  20: The field and the cave that is in it were made  over to Abraham as a possession for a burying place by the  Hittites.    Chapter 24  Genesis, chapter 24    Compare with King James Version: Gene.24     1: Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years;  and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.  2: And  Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had  charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,  3: and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and of  the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the  daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,  4: but  will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son  Isaac."  5: The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may  not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son  back to the land from which you came?"  6: Abraham said to  him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.  7: The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house  and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and swore to me,  `To your descendants I will give this land,' he will send his angel  before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.  8: But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be  free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back  there."  9: So the servant put his hand under the thigh of  Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.  10: Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed,  taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose, and  went to Mesopota'mia, to the city of Nahor.  11: And he made  the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the  time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.  12: And he said, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, grant me  success today, I pray thee, and show steadfast love to my master  Abraham.  13: Behold, I am standing by the spring of water,  and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw  water.  14: Let the maiden to whom I shall say, `Pray let  down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, `Drink, and I  will water your camels' -- let her be the one whom thou hast  appointed for thy servant Isaac. By this I shall know that thou  hast shown steadfast love to my master."  15: Before he had  done speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethu'el the son of  Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her  water jar upon her shoulder.  16: The maiden was very fair  to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the  spring, and filled her jar, and came up.  17: Then the  servant ran to meet her, and said, "Pray give me a little water to  drink from your jar."  18: She said, "Drink, my lord"; and  she quickly let down her jar upon her hand, and gave him a drink.   19: When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I  will draw for your camels also, until they have done drinking."   20: So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran  again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.  21: The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had  prospered his journey or not.  22: When the camels had done  drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two  bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,  23: and  said, "Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your  father's house for us to lodge in?"  24: She said to him, "I  am the daughter of Bethu'el the son of Milcah, whom she bore to  Nahor."  25: She added, "We have both straw and provender  enough, and room to lodge in."  26: The man bowed his head  and worshiped the LORD,  27: and said, "Blessed be the LORD,  the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast  love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has  led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."  28: Then the maiden ran and told her mother's household about  these things.  29: Rebekah had a brother whose name was  Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.  30: When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms,  and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man  spoke to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by  the camels at the spring.  31: He said, "Come in, O blessed  of the LORD; why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the  house and a place for the camels."  32: So the man came into  the house; and Laban ungirded the camels, and gave him straw and  provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet  of the men who were with him.  33: Then food was set before  him to eat; but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my  errand." He said, "Speak on."  34: So he said, "I am  Abraham's servant.  35: The LORD has greatly blessed my  master, and he has become great; he has given him flocks and herds,  silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and asses.   36: And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when  she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.  37: My master made me swear, saying, `You shall not take a wife  for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I  dwell;  38: but you shall go to my father's house and to my  kindred, and take a wife for my son.'  39: I said to my  master, `Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'  40: But he  said to me, `The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with  you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from  my kindred and from my father's house;  41: then you will be  free from my oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they will  not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'  42: "I  came today to the spring, and said, `O LORD, the God of my master  Abraham, if now thou wilt prosper the way which I go,  43: behold, I am standing by the spring of water; let the young  woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say, "Pray give me a  little water from your jar to drink,"  44: and who will say  to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be  the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'  45: "Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came  out with her water jar on her shoulder; and she went down to the  spring, and drew. I said to her, `Pray let me drink.'  46: She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said,  `Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and  she gave the camels drink also.  47: Then I asked her,  `Whose daughter are you?' She said, The daughter of Bethu'el,  Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her  nose, and the bracelets on her arms.  48: Then I bowed my  head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my  master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the  daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.  49: Now then,  if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if  not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."   50: Then Laban and Bethu'el answered, "The thing comes from  the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.  51: Behold,  Rebekah is before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of  your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."  52: When  Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth  before the LORD.  53: And the servant brought forth jewelry  of silver and of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he  also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.  54: And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they  spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said,  "Send me back to my master."  55: Her brother and her mother  said, "Let the maiden remain with us a while, at least ten days;  after that she may go."  56: But he said to them, "Do not  delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way; let me go that I may  go to my master."  57: They said, "We will call the maiden,  and ask her."  58: And they called Rebekah, and said to her,  "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."  59: So  they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's  servant and his men.  60: And they blessed Rebekah, and said  to her, "Our sister, be the mother of thousands of ten thousands;  and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them!"   61: Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and rode upon the  camels and followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and  went his way.  62: Now Isaac had come from Beer-la'hai-roi,  and was dwelling in the Negeb.  63: And Isaac went out to  meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and  looked, and behold, there were camels coming.  64: And  Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted  from the camel,  65: and said to the servant, "Who is the  man yonder, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It  is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.  66: And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.   67: Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah,  and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted  after his mother's death.    Chapter 25  Genesis, chapter 25    Compare with King James Version: Gene.25     1: Abraham took another wife, whose name was  Ketu'rah.  2: She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid'ian,  Ishbak, and Shuah.  3: Jokshan was the father of Sheba and  Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshu'rim, Letu'shim, and Le-um'mim.   4: The sons of Mid'ian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abi'da,  and Elda'ah. All these were the children of Ketu'rah.  5: Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.  6: But to the sons of  his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he  sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.   7: These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, a  hundred and seventy-five years.  8: Abraham breathed his  last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and  was gathered to his people.  9: Isaac and Ish'mael his sons  buried him in the cave of Mach-pe'lah, in the field of Ephron the  son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,  10: the field  which Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was  buried, with Sarah his wife.  11: After the death of Abraham  God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-la'hai-roi.   12: These are the descendants of Ish'mael, Abraham's son,  whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.  13: These are the names of the sons of Ish'mael, named in the  order of their birth: Neba'ioth, the first-born of Ish'mael; and  Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,  14: Mishma, Dumah, Massa,  15: Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Ked'emah.  16: These  are the sons of Ish'mael and these are their names, by their  villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to  their tribes.  17: (These are the years of the life of  Ish'mael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; he breathed his last  and died, and was gathered to his kindred.)  18: They dwelt  from Hav'ilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of  Assyria; he settled over against all his people.  19: These  are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father  of Isaac,  20: and Isaac was forty years old when he took to  wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of Paddan-aram,  the sister of Laban the Aramean.  21: And Isaac prayed to  the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted  his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.  22: The  children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is  thus, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.  23: And the LORD said to her,  "Two nations are in your  womb,   and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided;    the one shall be stronger than the other,   the elder shall  serve the younger."   24: When her days to be delivered  were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.  25: The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so  they called his name Esau.  26: Afterward his brother came  forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau's heel; so his name was  called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.  27: When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the  field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.  28: Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his game; but Rebekah  loved Jacob.  29: Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau  came in from the field, and he was famished.  30: And Esau  said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am  famished!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)  31: Jacob  said, "First sell me your birthright."  32: Esau said, "I am  about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"  33: Jacob  said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his  birthright to Jacob.  34: Then Jacob gave Esau bread and  pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his  way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.    Chapter 26  Genesis, chapter 26    Compare with King James Version: Gene.26     1: Now there was a famine in the land, besides  the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went  to Gerar, to Abim'elech king of the Philistines.  2: And the  LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in  the land of which I shall tell you.  3: Sojourn in this  land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to  your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the  oath which I swore to Abraham your father.  4: I will  multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to  your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the  nations of the earth shall bless themselves:  5: because  Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my  statutes, and my laws."  6: So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.  7: When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said,  "She is my sister"; for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking,  "lest the men of the place should kill me for the sake of Rebekah";  because she was fair to look upon.  8: When he had been  there a long time, Abim'elech king of the Philistines looked out of  a window and saw Isaac fondling Rebekah his wife.  9: So  Abim'elech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, she is your wife; how  then could you say, `She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him,  "Because I thought, `Lest I die because of her.'"  10: Abim'elech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the  people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have  brought guilt upon us."  11: So Abim'elech warned all the  people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put  to death."  12: And Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in  the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,  13: and  the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very  wealthy.  14: He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a  great household, so that the Philistines envied him.  15: (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the  wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham  his father.)  16: And Abim'elech said to Isaac, "Go away  from us; for you are much mightier than we."  17: So Isaac  departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt  there.  18: And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had  been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had  stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names  which his father had given them.  19: But when Isaac's  servants dug in the valley and found there a well of springing  water,  20: the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's  herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the  well Esek, because they contended with him.  21: Then they  dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he called  its name Sitnah.  22: And he moved from there and dug  another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its  name Reho'both, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and  we shall be fruitful in the land."  23: From there he went  up to Beer-sheba.  24: And the LORD appeared to him the same  night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father; fear not, for  I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants for  my servant Abraham's sake."  25: So he built an altar there  and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there.  And there Isaac's servants dug a well.  26: Then Abim'elech  went to him from Gerar with Ahuz'zath his adviser and Phicol the  commander of his army.  27: Isaac said to them, "Why have  you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from  you?"  28: They said, "We see plainly that the LORD is with  you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us  make a covenant with you,  29: that you will do us no harm,  just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but  good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of  the LORD."  30: So he made them a feast, and they ate and  drank.  31: In the morning they rose early and took oath  with one another; and Isaac set them on their way, and they  departed from him in peace.  32: That same day Isaac's  servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and  said to him, "We have found water."  33: He called it  Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.   34: When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith  the daughter of Be-e'ri the Hittite, and Bas'emath the daughter of  Elon the Hittite;  35: and they made life bitter for Isaac  and Rebekah.    Chapter 27  Genesis, chapter 27    Compare with King James Version: Gene.27     1: When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so  that he could not see, he called Esau his older son, and said to  him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."  2: He said,  "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.  3: Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go  out to the field, and hunt game for me,  4: and prepare for  me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat;  that I may bless you before I die."  5: Now Rebekah was  listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to  the field to hunt for game and bring it,  6: Rebekah said to  her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,   7: `Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food, that I  may eat it, and bless you before the LORD before I die.'  8: Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you.  9: Go to the flock, and fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare  from them savory food for your father, such as he loves;  10: and you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may  bless you before he dies."  11: But Jacob said to Rebekah  his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a  smooth man.  12: Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall  seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a  blessing."  13: His mother said to him, "Upon me be your  curse, my son; only obey my word, and go, fetch them to me."  14: So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and  his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.  15: Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son,  which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger  son;  16: and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands  and upon the smooth part of his neck;  17: and she gave the  savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of  her son Jacob.  18: So he went in to his father, and said,  "My father"; and he said, "Here I am; who are you, my son?"  19: Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your first-born. I have  done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that you may  bless me."  20: But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that  you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the  LORD your God granted me success."  21: Then Isaac said to  Jacob, "Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you  are really my son Esau or not."  22: So Jacob went near to  Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's  voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."  23: And he did  not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother  Esau's hands; so he blessed him.  24: He said, "Are you  really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."  25: Then he said,  "Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So  he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he  drank.  26: Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near  and kiss me, my son."  27: So he came near and kissed him;  and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and  said,  "See, the smell of my son   is as the smell of a  field which the LORD has blessed!   28:  May God give  you of the dew of heaven,   and of the fatness of the  earth,   and plenty of grain and wine.   29:  Let  peoples serve you,   and nations bow down to you.   Be  lord over your brothers,   and may your mother's sons bow down  to you.   Cursed be every one who curses you,   and  blessed be every one who blesses you!"   30: As soon as  Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out  from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in  from his hunting.  31: He also prepared savory food, and  brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father  arise, and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."  32: His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I  am your son, your first-born, Esau."  33: Then Isaac  trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and  brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have  blessed him? -- yes, and he shall be blessed."  34: When  Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an  exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless  me, even me also, O my father!"  35: But he said, "Your  brother came with guile, and he has taken away your blessing."   36: Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has  supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and  behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you  not reserved a blessing for me?"  37: Isaac answered Esau,  "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have  given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained  him. What then can I do for you, my son?"  38: Esau said to  his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even  me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.   39: Then Isaac his father answered him:  "Behold, away  from the fatness of the earth shall   your dwelling be, and  away from the dew of heaven on high.   40:  By your  sword you shall live,   and you shall serve your brother;    but when you break loose   you shall break his yoke from  your neck."   41: Now Esau hated Jacob because of the  blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to  himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then  I will kill my brother Jacob."  42: But the words of Esau  her older son were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called Jacob  her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau  comforts himself by planning to kill you.  43: Now  therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee to Laban my brother  in Haran,  44: and stay with him a while, until your  brother's fury turns away;  45: until your brother's anger  turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will  send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both  in one day?"  46: Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of  my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the  Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what  good will my life be to me?"    Chapter 28  Genesis, chapter 28    Compare with King James Version: Gene.28     1: Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and  charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.   2: Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethu'el your  mother's father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters  of Laban your mother's brother.  3: God Almighty bless you  and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a  company of peoples.  4: May he give the blessing of Abraham  to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take  possession of the land of your sojournings which God gave to  Abraham!"  5: Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to  Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the brother  of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.  6: Now Esau saw that  Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a  wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You  shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,"  7: and that  Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.   8: So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please  Isaac his father,  9: Esau went to Ish'mael and took to  wife, besides the wives he had, Ma'halath the daughter of Ish'mael  Abraham's son, the sister of Neba'ioth.  10: Jacob left  Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.  11: And he came to a  certain place, and stayed there that night, because the sun had  set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his  head and lay down in that place to sleep.  12: And he  dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of  it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending  and descending on it!  13: And behold, the LORD stood above  it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the  God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to  your descendants;  14: and your descendants shall be like  the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and  to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your  descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.   15: Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you  go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you  until I have done that of which I have spoken to you."  16: Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is  in this place; and I did not know it."  17: And he was  afraid, and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other  than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."  18: So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone  which he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and  poured oil on the top of it.  19: He called the name of that  place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.  20: Then Jacob made 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 wear,  21: so that I come again to my  father's house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God,  22: and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be  God's house; and of all that thou givest me I will give the tenth  to thee."    Chapter 29  Genesis, chapter 29    Compare with King James Version: Gene.29     1: Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to  the land of the people of the east.  2: As he looked, he saw  a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it;  for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the  well's mouth was large,  3: and when all the flocks were  gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth  of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its  place upon the mouth of the well.  4: Jacob said to them,  "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from  Haran."  5: He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of  Nahor?" They said, "We know him."  6: He said to them, "Is  it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his  daughter is coming with the sheep!"  7: He said, "Behold, it  is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered  together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them."  8: But  they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together,  and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water  the sheep."  9: While he was still speaking with them,  Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.  10: Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's  brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up  and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock  of Laban his mother's brother.  11: Then Jacob kissed  Rachel, and wept aloud.  12: And Jacob told Rachel that he  was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she  ran and told her father.  13: When Laban heard the tidings  of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and  kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all  these things,  14: and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my  bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.  15: Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should  you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages  be?"  16: Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older  was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.  17: Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and lovely.   18: Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, "I will serve you  seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."  19: Laban  said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give  her to any other man; stay with me."  20: So Jacob served  seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days  because of the love he had for her.  21: Then Jacob said to  Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is  completed."  22: So Laban gathered together all the men of  the place, and made a feast.  23: But in the evening he took  his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob; and he went in to her.   24: (Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be  her maid.)  25: And in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and  Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not  serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"  26: Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the  younger before the first-born.  27: Complete the week of  this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving  me another seven years."  28: Jacob did so, and completed  her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to wife.  29: (Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her  maid.)  30: So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved  Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.   31: When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her  womb; but Rachel was barren.  32: And Leah conceived and  bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, "Because  the LORD has looked upon my affliction; surely now my husband will  love me."  33: She conceived again and bore a son, and said,  "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this  son also"; and she called his name Simeon.  34: Again she  conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will  be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons"; therefore  his name was called Levi.  35: And she conceived again and  bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD"; therefore  she called his name Judah; then she ceased bearing.    Chapter 30  Genesis, chapter 30    Compare with King James Version: Gene.30     1: When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no  children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me  children, or I shall die!"  2: Jacob's anger was kindled  against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has  withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"  3: Then she said,  "Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my  knees, and even I may have children through her."  4: So she  gave him her maid Bilhah as a wife; and Jacob went in to her.   5: And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.  6: Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my  voice and given me a son"; therefore she called his name Dan.   7: Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a  second son.  8: Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I  have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she called  his name Naph'tali.  9: When Leah saw that she had ceased  bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as  a wife.  10: Then Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.   11: And Leah said, "Good fortune!" so she called his name  Gad.  12: Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.  13: And Leah said, "Happy am I! For the women will call me happy";  so she called his name Asher.  14: In the days of wheat  harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought  them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me, I  pray, some of your son's mandrakes."  15: But 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, "Then he  may lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."  16: When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out  to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have hired  you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.  17: And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a  fifth son.  18: Leah said, "God has given me my hire because  I gave my maid to my husband"; so she called his name Is'sachar.   19: And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth  son.  20: Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good  dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six  sons"; so she called his name Zeb'ulun.  21: Afterwards she  bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.  22: Then God  remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.   23: She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken  away my reproach";  24: and she called his name Joseph,  saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"  25: When  Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that  I may go to my own home and country.  26: Give me my wives  and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you  know the service which I have given you."  27: But Laban  said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by  divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you;  28: name your wages, and I will give it."  29: Jacob said  to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your  cattle have fared with me.  30: For you had little before I  came, and it has increased abundantly; and the LORD has blessed you  wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own  household also?"  31: He said, "What shall I give you?"  Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this  for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it:  32: let  me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every  speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted  and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.  33: So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look  into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted  among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall  be counted stolen."  34: Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you  have said."  35: But that day Laban removed the he-goats  that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were  speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every  lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;  36: and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself  and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.  37: Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and  peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods.   38: He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the  flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the  flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,   39: the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks  brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.  40: And Jacob  separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the  striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own  droves apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.  41: Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding Jacob laid  the rods in the runnels before the eyes of the flock, that they  might breed among the rods,  42: but for the feebler of the  flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and  the stronger Jacob's.  43: Thus the man grew exceedingly  rich, and had large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and  camels and asses.    Chapter 31  Genesis, chapter 31    Compare with King James Version: Gene.31     1: Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were  saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what  was our father's he has gained all this wealth."  2: And  Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.   3: Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your  fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."  4: So  Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his  flock was,  5: and said to them, "I see that your father  does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my  father has been with me.  6: You know that I have served  your father with all my strength;  7: yet your father has  cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit  him to harm me.  8: If he said, `The spotted shall be your  wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, `The  striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.   9: Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and  given them to me.  10: In the mating season of the flock I  lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which  leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.  11: Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, `Jacob,' and I  said, `Here I am!'  12: And he said, `Lift up your eyes and  see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted,  and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.  13: I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made  a vow to me. Now arise, go forth from this land, and return to the  land of your birth.'"  14: Then Rachel and Leah answered  him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our  father's house?  15: Are we not regarded by him as  foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money  given for us.  16: All the property which God has taken away  from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then,  whatever God has said to you, do."  17: So Jacob arose, and  set his sons and his wives on camels;  18: and he drove away  all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle  in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to  the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.  19: Laban had gone  to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.   20: And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did  not tell him that he intended to flee.  21: He fled with all  that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphra'tes, and set his face  toward the hill country of Gilead.  22: When it was told  Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,  23: he took his  kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close  after him into the hill country of Gilead.  24: But God came  to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, "Take  heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad."  25: And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in  the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill  country of Gilead.  26: And Laban said to Jacob, "What have  you done, that you have cheated me, and carried away my daughters  like captives of the sword?  27: Why did you flee secretly,  and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you  away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?  28: And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters  farewell? Now you have done foolishly.  29: It is in my  power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last  night, saying, `Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor  bad.'  30: And now you have gone away because you longed  greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"   31: Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I  thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.  32: Any one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the  presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and  take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.   33: So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,  and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find  them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered Rachel's.  34: Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the  camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent,  but did not find them.  35: And she said to her father, "Let  not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of  women is upon me." So he searched, but did not find the household  gods.  36: Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban;  Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you  have hotly pursued me?  37: Although you have felt through  all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set  it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide  between us two.  38: These twenty years I have been with  you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have  not eaten the rams of your flocks.  39: That which was torn  by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it  myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen  by night.  40: Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and  the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.  41: 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.  42: If the  God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not  been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away  empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands, and  rebuked you last night."  43: Then Laban answered and said  to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my  children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine.  But what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their  children whom they have borne?  44: Come now, let us make a  covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me."   45: So Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar.   46: And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones," and  they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there by the heap.   47: Laban called it Je'gar-sahadu'tha: but Jacob called it  Galeed.  48: Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you  and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,  49: and the  pillar Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between you and me,  when we are absent one from the other.  50: If you ill-treat  my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although  no man is with us, remember, God is witness between you and me."   51: Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the  pillar, which I have set between you and me.  52: This heap  is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass  over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and  this pillar to me, for harm.  53: The God of Abraham and the  God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob  swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,  54: and Jacob  offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat  bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.   55: Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his  grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed  and returned home.    Chapter 32  Genesis, chapter 32    Compare with King James Version: Gene.32     1: Jacob went on his way and the angels of God  met him;  2: and when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's  army!" So he called the name of that place Mahana'im.  3: And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the  land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,  4: instructing them,  "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob,  `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;  5: and  I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I  have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your  sight.'"  6: And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying,  "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and  four hundred men with him."  7: Then Jacob was greatly  afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with  him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,   8: thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys  it, then the company which is left will escape."  9: And  Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,  O LORD who didst say to me, `Return to your country and to your  kindred, and I will do you good,'  10: I am not worthy of  the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which  thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed  this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.  11: Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the  hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the  mothers with the children.  12: But thou didst say, `I will  do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea,  which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"  13: So he lodged  there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for  his brother Esau,  14: two hundred she-goats and twenty  he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,  15: thirty  milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty  she-asses and ten he-asses.  16: These he delivered into the  hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his  servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and  drove."  17: He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my  brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are  you going? And whose are these before you?'  18: then you  shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present  sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"  19: He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who  followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you  meet him,  20: and you shall say, `Moreover your servant  Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the  present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face;  perhaps he will accept me."  21: So the present passed on  before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.  22: The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids,  and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  23: He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise  everything that he had.  24: And Jacob was left alone; and  a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.  25: When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he  touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of  joint as he wrestled with him.  26: Then he said, "Let me  go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you  go, unless you bless me."  27: And he said to him, "What is  your name?" And he said, "Jacob."  28: Then he said, "Your  name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have  striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."  29: Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me, I pray, your name." But he  said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.   30: So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying,  "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."   31: The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu'el, limping  because of his thigh.  32: Therefore to this day the  Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow  of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the  sinew of the hip.    Chapter 33  Genesis, chapter 33    Compare with King James Version: Gene.33     1: And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and  behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he  divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.   2: And he put the maids with their children in front, then  Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.  3: He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground  seven times, until he came near to his brother.  4: But Esau  ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed  him, and they wept.  5: And when Esau raised his eyes and  saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?"  Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your  servant."  6: Then the maids drew near, they and their  children, and bowed down;  7: Leah likewise and her children  drew near and bowed down; and last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and  they bowed down.  8: Esau said, "What do you mean by all  this company which I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the  sight of my lord."  9: But Esau said, "I have enough, my  brother; keep what you have for yourself."  10: Jacob said,  "No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept  my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing  the face of God, with such favor have you received me.  11: Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because  God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus  he urged him, and he took it.  12: Then Esau said, "Let us  journey on our way, and I will go before you."  13: But  Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and  that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they  are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.  14: Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on  slowly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and  according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in  Se'ir."  15: So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of  the men who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me  find favor in the sight of my lord."  16: So Esau returned  that day on his way to Se'ir.  17: But Jacob journeyed to  Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle;  therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.  18: And  Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of  Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.   19: And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought  for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had  pitched his tent.  20: There he erected an altar and called  it El-El'ohe-Israel.    Chapter 34  Genesis, chapter 34    Compare with King James Version: Gene.34     1: Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had  borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;  2: and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the  land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.   3: And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob;  he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.  4: So  Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this maiden for  my wife."  5: Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his  daughter Dinah; but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so  Jacob held his peace until they came.  6: And Hamor the  father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.  7: The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it;  and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought  folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing  ought not to be done.  8: But Hamor spoke with them, saying,  "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you,  give her to him in marriage.  9: Make marriages with us;  give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.   10: You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to  you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."  11: Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me  find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.   12: Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift,  and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden  to be my wife."  13: The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and  his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister  Dinah.  14: They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to  give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a  disgrace to us.  15: Only on this condition will we consent  to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be  circumcised.  16: Then we will give our daughters to you,  and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell  with you and become one people.  17: But if you will not  listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter,  and we will be gone."  18: Their words pleased Hamor and  Hamor's son Shechem.  19: And the young man did not delay to  do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he  was the most honored of all his family.  20: So Hamor and  his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men  of their city, saying,  21: "These men are friendly with us;  let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is  large enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and  let us give them our daughters.  22: Only on this condition  will the men agree to dwell with us, to become one people: that  every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.  23: Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be  ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."   24: And all who went out of the gate of his city hearkened  to Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all  who went out of the gate of his city.  25: On the third day,  when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,  Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city  unawares, and killed all the males.  26: They slew Hamor and  his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's  house, and went away.  27: And the sons of Jacob came upon  the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been  defiled;  28: they took their flocks and their herds, their  asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;  29: all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all  that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.  30: Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble  on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the  Canaanites and the Per'izzites; my numbers are few, and if they  gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed,  both I and my household."  31: But they said, "Should he  treat our sister as a harlot?"    Chapter 35  Genesis, chapter 35    Compare with King James Version: Gene.35     1: God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel,  and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to  you when you fled from your brother Esau."  2: So Jacob said  to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the  foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change  your garments;  3: then let us arise and go up to Bethel,  that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the  day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."   4: So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they  had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them  under the oak which was near Shechem.  5: And as they  journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round  about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.  6: And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land  of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,  7: and  there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because  there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his  brother.  8: And Deb'orah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she  was buried under an oak below Bethel; so the name of it was called  Al'lon-bacuth.  9: God appeared to Jacob again, when he came  from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.  10: And God said to him,  "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but  Israel shall be your name." So his name was called Israel.  11: And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and  multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you,  and kings shall spring from you.  12: The land which I gave  to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land  to your descendants after you."  13: Then God went up from  him in the place where he had spoken with him.  14: And  Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a  pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and  poured oil on it.  15: So Jacob called the name of the place  where God had spoken with him, Bethel.  16: Then they  journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from  Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.  17: And  when she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Fear not;  for now you will have another son."  18: And as her soul was  departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-o'ni; but his  father called his name Benjamin.  19: So Rachel died, and  she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),  20: and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; it is the pillar of  Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.  21: Israel  journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.  22: While Israel dwelt in that land Reuben went and lay with  Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons  of Jacob were twelve.  23: The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's  first-born), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, and Zeb'ulun.  24: The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.  25: The sons  of Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan and Naph'tali.  26: The sons  of Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob  who were born to him in Paddan-aram.  27: And Jacob came to  his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron),  where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.  28: Now the days of  Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.  29: And Isaac  breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old  and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.     Chapter 36  Genesis, chapter 36    Compare with King James Version: Gene.36     1: These are the descendants of Esau (that is,  Edom).  2: Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the  daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the  son of Zib'eon the Hivite,  3: and Bas'emath, Ish'mael's  daughter, the sister of Neba'ioth.  4: And Adah bore to  Esau, El'iphaz; Bas'emath bore Reu'el;  5: and Oholiba'mah  bore Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were  born to him in the land of Canaan.  6: Then Esau took his  wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his  household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his property which  he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he went into a land away  from his brother Jacob.  7: For their possessions were too  great for them to dwell together; the land of their sojournings  could not support them because of their cattle.  8: So Esau  dwelt in the hill country of Se'ir; Esau is Edom.  9: These  are the descendants of Esau the father of the E'domites in the hill  country of Se'ir.  10: These are the names of Esau's sons:  El'iphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reu'el the son of  Bas'emath the wife of Esau.  11: The sons of El'iphaz were  Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.  12: (Timna was a  concubine of El'iphaz, Esau's son; she bore Am'alek to El'iphaz.)  These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.  13: These are the  sons of Reu'el: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the  sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.  14: These are the sons of  Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon, Esau's wife:  she bore to Esau Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah.  15: These are  the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of El'iphaz the first-born  of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,  16: Korah,  Gatam, and Am'alek; these are the chiefs of El'iphaz in the land of  Edom; they are the sons of Adah.  17: These are the sons of  Reu'el, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah;  these are the chiefs of Reu'el in the land of Edom; they are the  sons of Bas'emath, Esau's wife.  18: These are the sons of  Oholiba'mah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Je'ush, Jalam, and Korah;  these are the chiefs born of Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah,  Esau's wife.  19: These are the sons of Esau (that is,  Edom), and these are their chiefs.  20: These are the sons  of Se'ir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal,  Zib'eon, Anah,  21: Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the  chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Se'ir in the land of Edom.   22: The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan's  sister was Timna.  23: These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan,  Man'ahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.  24: These are the sons  of Zib'eon: A'iah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot  springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the asses of Zib'eon his  father.  25: These are the children of Anah: Dishon and  Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah.  26: These are the sons of  Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.  27: These are  the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Za'avan, and Akan.  28: These are  the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.  29: These are the chiefs  of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zib'eon, Anah,  30: Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites,  according to their clans in the land of Se'ir.  31: These  are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king  reigned over the Israelites.  32: Bela the son of Be'or  reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Din'habah.  33: Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his  stead.  34: Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the  Te'manites reigned in his stead.  35: Husham died, and Hadad  the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab,  reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Avith.  36: Hadad died, and Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.   37: Samlah died, and Shaul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes  reigned in his stead.  38: Shaul died, and Ba'al-ha'nan the  son of Achbor reigned in his stead.  39: Ba'al-ha'nan the  son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead, the name of his  city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehet'abel, the daughter of  Matred, daughter of Me'zahab.  40: These are the names of  the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their dwelling  places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,  41: Oholiba'mah, Elah, Pinon,  42: Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,   43: Mag'diel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that  is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places  in the land of their possession.    Chapter 37  Genesis, chapter 37    Compare with King James Version: Gene.37     1: Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's  sojournings, in the land of Canaan.  2: This is the history  of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was  shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a lad with the sons  of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought an ill  report of them to their father.  3: Now Israel loved Joseph  more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his  old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves.  4: But  when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his  brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.   5: Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his  brothers they only hated him the more.  6: He said to them,  "Hear this dream which I have dreamed:  7: behold, we were  binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood  upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down  to my sheaf."  8: His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed  to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So  they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words.  9: Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and  said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun,  the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."  10: But  when 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? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to  bow ourselves to the ground before you?"  11: And his  brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in  mind.  12: Now his brothers went to pasture their father's  flock near Shechem.  13: And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not  your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you  to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."  14: So he said  to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the  flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him from the valley of  Hebron, and he came to Shechem.  15: And a man found him  wandering in the fields; and the man asked him, "What are you  seeking?"  16: "I am seeking my brothers," he said, "tell  me, I pray you, where they are pasturing the flock."  17: And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say,  `Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and  found them at Dothan.  18: They saw him afar off, and before  he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.  19: They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.  20: Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits;  then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him, and we shall  see what will become of his dreams."  21: But when Reuben  heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not  take his life."  22: And Reuben said to them, "Shed no  blood; cast him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no  hand upon him" -- that he might rescue him out of their hand, to  restore him to his father.  23: So when Joseph came to his  brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves  that he wore;  24: and they took him and cast him into a  pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.  25: Then  they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of  Ish'maelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum,  balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.  26: Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we slay  our brother and conceal his blood?  27: Come, let us sell  him to the Ish'maelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he  is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers heeded him.  28: Then Mid'ianite traders passed by; and they drew Joseph up and  lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ish'maelites for  twenty shekels of silver; and they took Joseph to Egypt.  29: When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in  the pit, he rent his clothes  30: and returned to his  brothers, and said, "The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?"   31: Then they took Joseph's robe, and killed a goat, and  dipped the robe in the blood;  32: and they sent the long  robe with sleeves and brought it to their father, and said, "This  we have found; see now whether it is your son's robe or not."   33: And he recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe;  a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to  pieces."  34: Then Jacob rent his garments, and put  sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.  35: All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but  he refused to be comforted, and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol  to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.  36: Meanwhile the Mid'ianites had sold him in Egypt to Pot'i-phar,  an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.    Chapter 38  Genesis, chapter 38    Compare with King James Version: Gene.38     1: It happened at that time that Judah went down  from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose  name was Hirah.  2: There Judah saw the daughter of a  certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in  to her,  3: and she conceived and bore a son, and he called  his name Er.  4: Again she conceived and bore a son, and she  called his name Onan.  5: Yet again she bore a son, and she  called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.  6: And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was  Tamar.  7: But Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the  sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.  8: Then Judah  said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty  of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your  brother."  9: But Onan knew that the offspring would not be  his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen  on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.  10: And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and  he slew him also.  11: Then Judah said to Tamar his  daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till  Shelah my son grows up" -- for he feared that he would die, like  his brothers. So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.  12: In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died;  and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his  sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.  13: And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to  Timnah to shear his sheep,"  14: she put off her widow's  garments, and put on a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the  entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that  Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.   15: When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for  she had covered her face.  16: He went over to her at the  road side, and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not  know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you  give me, that you may come in to me?"  17: He answered, "I  will send you a kid from the flock." And she said, "Will you give  me a pledge, till you send it?"  18: He said, "What pledge  shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and  your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went  in to her, and she conceived by him.  19: Then she arose and  went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her  widowhood.  20: When Judah sent the kid by his friend the  Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could  not find her.  21: And he asked the men of the place, "Where  is the harlot who was at Enaim by the wayside?" And they said, "No  harlot has been here."  22: So he returned to Judah, and  said, "I have not found her; and also the men of the place said,  `No harlot has been here.'"  23: And Judah replied, "Let her  keep the things as her own, lest we be laughed at; you see, I sent  this kid, and you could not find her."  24: About three  months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played  the harlot; and moreover she is with child by harlotry." And Judah  said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."  25: As she  was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the  man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Mark, I  pray you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."   26: Then Judah acknowledged them and said, "She is more  righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah."  And he did not lie with her again.  27: When the time of her  delivery came, there were twins in her womb.  28: And when  she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and  bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, "This came out first."   29: But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came  out; and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!"  Therefore his name was called Perez.  30: Afterward his  brother came out with the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his  name was called Zerah.    Chapter 39  Genesis, chapter 39    Compare with King James Version: Gene.39     1: Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and  Pot'i-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an  Egyptian, bought him from the Ish'maelites who had brought him down  there.  2: The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a  successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian,   3: and his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that  the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.  4: So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he  made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he  had.  5: From the time that he made him overseer in his  house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's  house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was upon all that  he had, in house and field.  6: So he left all that he had  in Joseph's charge; and having him he had no concern for anything  but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and  good-looking.  7: And after a time his master's wife cast  her eyes upon Joseph, and said, "Lie with me."  8: But he  refused and said to his master's wife, "Lo, having me my master has  no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything  that he has in my hand;  9: he is not greater in this house  than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself,  because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness,  and sin against God?"  10: And although she spoke to Joseph  day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie with her or to be  with her.  11: But one day, when he went into the house to  do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the  house,  12: she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with  me." But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and got out of  the house.  13: And when she saw that he had left his  garment in her hand, and had fled out of the house,  14: she  called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has  brought among us a Hebrew to insult us; he came in to me to lie  with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;  15: and when he  heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with  me, and fled and got out of the house."  16: Then she laid  up his garment by her until his master came home,  17: and  she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you  have brought among us, came in to me to insult me;  18: but  as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with  me, and fled out of the house."  19: When his master heard  the words which his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your  servant treated me," his anger was kindled.  20: And  Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place  where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in  prison.  21: But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him  steadfast love, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of  the prison.  22: And the keeper of the prison committed to  Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison; and  whatever was done there, he was the doer of it;  23: the  keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's  care, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD  made it prosper.    Chapter 40  Genesis, chapter 40    Compare with King James Version: Gene.40     1: Some time after this, the butler of the king  of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.   2: And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief  butler and the chief baker,  3: and he put them in custody  in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where  Joseph was confined.  4: The captain of the guard charged  Joseph with them, and he waited on them; and they continued for  some time in custody.  5: And one night they both dreamed --  the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in  the prison -- each his own dream, and each dream with its own  meaning.  6: When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw  them, they were troubled.  7: So he asked Pharaoh's officers  who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your  faces downcast today?"  8: They said to him, "We have had  dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to  them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I  pray you."  9: So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph,  and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,  10: and on the vine there were three branches; as soon as it  budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into  grapes.  11: Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the  grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in  Pharaoh's hand."  12: Then Joseph said to him, "This is its  interpretation: the three branches are three days;  13: within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore  you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand  as formerly, when you were his butler.  14: But remember me,  when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you, to  make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.   15: For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews;  and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the  dungeon."  16: When the chief baker saw that the  interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a  dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,  17: and in  the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for  Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my  head."  18: And Joseph answered, "This is its  interpretation: the three baskets are three days;  19: within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head -- from you!  -- and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat the flesh from  you."  20: On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,  he made a feast for all his servants, and lifted up the head of the  chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.   21: He restored the chief butler to his butlership, and he  placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand;  22: but he hanged the  chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.  23: Yet the  chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.    Chapter 41  Genesis, chapter 41    Compare with King James Version: Gene.41     1: After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that  he was standing by the Nile,  2: and behold, there came up  out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed in the reed  grass.  3: And behold, seven other cows, gaunt and thin,  came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on  the bank of the Nile.  4: And the gaunt and thin cows ate up  the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.  5: And he  fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of  grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.  6: And  behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the  east wind.  7: And the thin ears swallowed up the seven  plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.   8: So in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent  and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men; and  Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret  it to Pharaoh.  9: Then the chief butler said to Pharaoh, "I  remember my faults today.  10: When Pharaoh was angry with  his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the  house of the captain of the guard,  11: we dreamed on the  same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.   12: A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the  captain of the guard; and when we told him, he interpreted our  dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his  dream.  13: And as he interpreted to us, so it came to pass;  I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."  14: Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him  hastily out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and  changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.  15: And  Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one  who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that when you  hear a dream you can interpret it."  16: Joseph answered  Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable  answer."  17: Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my  dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;  18: and  seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the  reed grass;  19: and seven other cows came up after them,  poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the  land of Egypt.  20: And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the  first seven fat cows,  21: but when they had eaten them no  one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still  as gaunt as at the beginning. Then I awoke.  22: I also saw  in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good;  23: and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind,  sprouted after them,  24: and the thin ears swallowed up the  seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no  one who could explain it to me."  25: Then Joseph said to  Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh  what he is about to do.  26: The seven good cows are seven  years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.   27: The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them  are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind  are also seven years of famine.  28: It is as I told  Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.  29: There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the  land of Egypt,  30: but after them there will arise seven  years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land  of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,  31: and the  plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which  will follow, for it will be very grievous.  32: And the  doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God,  and God will shortly bring it to pass.  33: Now therefore  let Pharaoh select a man discreet and wise, and set him over the  land of Egypt.  34: Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers  over the land, and take the fifth part of the produce of the land  of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.  35: And let them  gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and lay up  grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and  let them keep it.  36: That food shall be a reserve for the  land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land  of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."   37: This proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his  servants.  38: And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we  find such a man as this, in whom is the Spirit of God?"  39: So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this,  there is none so discreet and wise as you are;  40: you  shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as  you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than  you."  41: And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set  you over all the land of Egypt."  42: Then Pharaoh took his  signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed  him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;   43: and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they  cried before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land  of Egypt.  44: Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am  Pharaoh, and without your consent no man shall lift up hand or foot  in all the land of Egypt."  45: And Pharaoh called Joseph's  name Zaph'enath-pane'ah; and he gave him in marriage As'enath, the  daughter of Poti'phera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the  land of Egypt.  46: Joseph was thirty years old when he  entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out  from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of  Egypt.  47: During the seven plenteous years the earth  brought forth abundantly,  48: and he gathered up all the  food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt,  and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the  food from the fields around it.  49: And Joseph stored up  grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased  to measure it, for it could not be measured.  50: Before the  year of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom As'enath, the  daughter of Poti'phera priest of On, bore to him.  51: Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas'seh, "For," he  said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's  house."  52: The name of the second he called E'phraim, "For  God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."  53: The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt  came to an end;  54: and the seven years of famine began to  come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands; but in all  the land of Egypt there was bread.  55: 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."  56: So when the famine had spread over all the  land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians,  for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.  57: Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain,  because the famine was severe over all the earth.    Chapter 42  Genesis, chapter 42    Compare with King James Version: Gene.42     1: When Jacob learned that there was grain in  Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"   2: And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain  in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and  not die."  3: So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy  grain in Egypt.  4: But Jacob did not send Benjamin,  Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might  befall him.  5: Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among  the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.   6: Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who  sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and  bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.  7: Joseph saw his brothers, and knew them, but he treated them  like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?"  he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."  8: Thus Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.   9: And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of  them; and he said to them, "You are spies, you have come to see the  weakness of the land."  10: They said to him, "No, my lord,  but to buy food have your servants come.  11: We are all  sons of one man, we are honest men, your servants are not spies."   12: He said to them, "No, it is the weakness of the land  that you have come to see."  13: And 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."  14: But Joseph said to them, "It is as I  said to you, you are spies.  15: By this you shall be  tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place  unless your youngest brother comes here.  16: Send one of  you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison,  that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or  else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."  17: And he put them all together in prison for three days.  18: On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will  live, for I fear God:  19: if you are honest men, let one of  your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go  and carry grain for the famine of your households,  20: and  bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified,  and you shall not die." And they did so.  21: Then they said  to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in  that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we  would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us."  22: And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin  against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a  reckoning for his blood."  23: They did not know that Joseph  understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.  24: Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to  them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him  before their eyes.  25: And Joseph gave orders to fill their  bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and  to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.   26: Then they loaded their asses with their grain, and  departed.  27: And as one of them opened his sack to give  his ass provender at the lodging place, he saw his money in the  mouth of his sack;  28: and he said to his brothers, "My  money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At  this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one  another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"  29: When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan,  they told him all that had befallen them, saying,  30: "The  man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us to be  spies of the land.  31: But we said to him, `We are honest  men, we are not spies;  32: 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.'  33: Then the man, the lord  of the land, said to us, `By this I shall know that you are honest  men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the  famine of your households, and go your way.  34: Bring your  youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies  but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you  shall trade in the land.'"  35: As they emptied their sacks,  behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they  and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.   36: And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved  me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and  now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me."  37: Then Reuben said to his father, "Slay my two sons if I do not  bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him  back to you."  38: But he said, "My son shall not go down  with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm  should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would  bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."    Chapter 43  Genesis, chapter 43    Compare with King James Version: Gene.43     1: Now the famine was severe in the land.  2: And when they had eaten the grain which they had brought from  Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."   3: But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us,  saying, `You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with  you.'  4: If you will send our brother with us, we will go  down and buy you food;  5: but if you will not send him, we  will not go down, for the man said to us, `You shall not see my  face, unless your brother is with you.'"  6: Israel said,  "Why did you treat me so ill as to tell the man that you had  another brother?"  7: They replied, "The man questioned us  carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, `Is your father  still alive? Have you another brother?' What we told him was in  answer to these questions; could we in any way know that he would  say, `Bring your brother down'?"  8: And Judah said to  Israel his father, "Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go,  that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little  ones.  9: I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall  require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before  you, then let me bear the blame for ever;  10: for if we had  not delayed, we would now have returned twice."  11: Then  their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this:  take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry  down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum,  myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.  12: Take double the  money with you; carry back with you the money that was returned in  the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.  13: Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man;  14: may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may  send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my  children, I am bereaved."  15: So the men took the present,  and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin; and they  arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.  16: When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of  his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal  and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."  17: The man did as Joseph bade him, and brought the men to  Joseph's house.  18: And the men were afraid because they  were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of  the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we  are brought in, so that he may seek occasion against us and fall  upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses."  19: So  they went up to the steward of Joseph's house, and spoke with him  at the door of the house,  20: and said, "Oh, my lord, we  came down the first time to buy food;  21: and when we came  to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was every man's  money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we  have brought it again with us,  22: and we have brought  other money down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put  our money in our sacks."  23: He replied, "Rest assured, do  not be afraid; your God and the God of your father must have put  treasure in your sacks for you; I received your money." Then he  brought Simeon out to them.  24: And when the man had  brought the men into Joseph's house, and given them water, and they  had washed their feet, and when he had given their asses provender,   25: they made ready the present for Joseph's coming at  noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.  26: When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the  present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the  ground.  27: And he inquired about their welfare, and said,  "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still  alive?"  28: They said, "Your servant our father is well, he  is still alive." And they bowed their heads and made obeisance.   29: And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother  Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest  brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"   30: Then Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned for his  brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber  and wept there.  31: Then he washed his face and came out;  and controlling himself he said, "Let food be served."  32: They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the  Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians  might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to  the Egyptians.  33: And they sat before him, the first-born  according to his birthright and the youngest according to his  youth; and the men looked at one another in amazement.  34: Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but  Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they  drank and were merry with him.    Chapter 44  Genesis, chapter 44    Compare with King James Version: Gene.44     1: Then he commanded the steward of his house,  "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put  each man's money in the mouth of his sack,  2: and put my  cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with  his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.  3: As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with  their asses.  4: When they had gone but a short distance  from the city, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the  men; and when you overtake them, say to them, `Why have you  returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?  5: Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he  divines? You have done wrong in so doing.'"  6: When he  overtook them, he spoke to them these words.  7: 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!  8: Behold,  the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back  to you from the land of Canaan; how then should we steal silver or  gold from your lord's house?  9: With whomever of your  servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's  slaves."  10: He said, "Let it be as you say: he with whom  it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be  blameless."  11: Then every man quickly lowered his sack to  the ground, and every man opened his sack.  12: And he  searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest;  and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.  13: Then they  rent their clothes, and every man loaded his ass, and they returned  to the city.  14: When Judah and his brothers came to  Joseph's house, he was still there; and they fell before him to the  ground.  15: Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that  you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed  divine?"  16: And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord?  What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found  out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's slaves,  both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."  17: But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the  man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my slave; but as for  you, go up in peace to your father."  18: Then Judah went up  to him and said, "O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a  word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your  servant; for you are like Pharaoh himself.  19: My lord  asked his servants, saying, `Have you a father, or a brother?'   20: And we said to my lord, `We have a father, an old man,  and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is  dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father  loves him.'  21: Then you said to your servants, `Bring him  down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.'  22: We said  to my lord, `The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should  leave his father, his father would die.'  23: Then you said  to your servants, `Unless your youngest brother comes down with  you, you shall see my face no more.'  24: When we went back  to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.  25: And when our father said, `Go again, buy us a little food,'   26: we said, `We cannot go down. If our youngest brother  goes with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's  face unless our youngest brother is with us.'  27: Then your  servant my father said to us, `You know that my wife bore me two  sons;  28: one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn  to pieces; and I have never seen him since.  29: If you take  this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my  gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'  30: Now therefore, when I  come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then,  as his life is bound up in the lad's life,  31: when he sees  that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will  bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to  Sheol.  32: For your servant became surety for the lad to my  father, saying, `If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall  bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.'  33: Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of  the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his  brothers.  34: For how can I go back to my father if the lad  is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my  father."    Chapter 45  Genesis, chapter 45    Compare with King James Version: Gene.45     1: Then Joseph could not control himself before  all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Make every one go out  from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known  to his brothers.  2: And he wept aloud, so that the  Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.  3: And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; is my father  still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were  dismayed at his presence.  4: So Joseph said to his  brothers, "Come near to me, I pray you." And they came near. And he  said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.  5: And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because  you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.   6: For the famine has been in the land these two years; and  there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor  harvest.  7: And God sent me before you to preserve for you  a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.   8: So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has  made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler  over all the land of Egypt.  9: Make haste and go up to my  father and say to him, `Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me  lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry;  10: you  shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you  and your children and your children's children, and your flocks,  your herds, and all that you have;  11: and there I will  provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come;  lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to  poverty.'  12: And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my  brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.   13: You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt,  and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down  here."  14: Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck  and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.  15: And he  kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his  brothers talked with him.  16: When the report was heard in  Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh  and his servants well.  17: And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say  to your brothers, `Do this: load your beasts and go back to the  land of Canaan;  18: and take your father and your  households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the  land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'  19: Command them also, `Do this: take wagons from the land of  Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your  father, and come.  20: Give no thought to your goods, for  the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"  21: The sons  of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the  command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.   22: To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to  Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal  garments.  23: To his father he sent as follows: ten asses  loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with  grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.  24: Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said  to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."  25: So they went up  out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.   26: And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is  ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart fainted, for he  did not believe them.  27: But when they told him all the  words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the  wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their  father Jacob revived;  28: and Israel said, "It is enough;  Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die."     Chapter 46  Genesis, chapter 46    Compare with King James Version: Gene.46     1: So Israel took his journey with all that he  had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of  his father Isaac.  2: And God spoke to Israel in visions of  the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."   3: Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not  be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great  nation.  4: I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will  also bring you up again; and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."   5: Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; 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.  6: They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had  gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all  his offspring with him,  7: his sons, and his sons' sons  with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters; all his offspring  he brought with him into Egypt.  8: Now these are the names  of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his  sons. Reuben, Jacob's first-born,  9: and the sons of  Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.  10: The sons of  Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of  a Canaanitish woman.  11: The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath,  and Merar'i.  12: The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah,  Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and  the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.  13: The sons of  Is'sachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.  14: The sons of  Zeb'ulun: Sered, Elon, and Jah'leel  15: (these are the sons  of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his  daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered  thirty-three).  16: The sons of Gad: Ziph'ion, Haggi, Shuni,  Ezbon, Eri, Aro'di, and Are'li.  17: The sons of Asher:  Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, with Serah their sister. And the  sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el  18: (these are the  sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she  bore to Jacob -- sixteen persons).  19: The sons of Rachel,  Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.  20: And to Joseph in the  land of Egypt were born Manas'seh and E'phraim, whom As'enath, the  daughter of Poti'phera the priest of On, bore to him.  21: And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Na'aman,  Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard  22: (these are the sons  of Rachel, who were born to Jacob -- fourteen persons in all).   23: The sons of Dan: Hushim.  24: The sons of  Naph'tali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem  25: (these are  the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and  these she bore to Jacob -- seven persons in all).  26: All  the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his  own offspring, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six  persons in all;  27: and the sons of Joseph, who were born  to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob,  that came into Egypt, were seventy.  28: He sent Judah  before him to Joseph, to appear before him in Goshen; and they came  into the land of Goshen.  29: Then Joseph made ready his  chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he  presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his  neck a good while.  30: Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me  die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still  alive."  31: Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's  household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, `My  brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan,  have come to me;  32: and the men are shepherds, for they  have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks,  and their herds, and all that they have.'  33: When Pharaoh  calls you, and says, `What is your occupation?'  34: you  shall say, `Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our  youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you  may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an  abomination to the Egyptians."    Chapter 47  Genesis, chapter 47    Compare with King James Version: Gene.47     1: So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My  father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that  they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in  the land of Goshen."  2: And from among his brothers he took  five men and presented them to Pharaoh.  3: Pharaoh said to  his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh,  "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."  4: They  said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is  no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in  the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell  in the land of Goshen."  5: Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,  "Your father and your brothers have come to you.  6: The  land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers  in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and  if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my  cattle."  7: Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and  set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.  8: And  Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your  life?"  9: And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years  of my sojourning are a hundred and 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 sojourning."  10: And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went  out from the presence of Pharaoh.  11: Then Joseph settled  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 Ram'eses, as  Pharaoh had commanded.  12: And Joseph provided his father,  his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according  to the number of their dependents.  13: Now there was no  food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the  land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the  famine.  14: And 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.  15: And 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 food; why should we die before your eyes? For  our money is gone."  16: And Joseph answered, "Give your  cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if  your money is gone."  17: So they brought their cattle to  Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the  flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in  exchange for all their cattle that year.  18: And when that  year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to  him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent;  and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the  sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.  19: Why  should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and  our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh;  and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land  may not be desolate."  20: So Joseph bought all the land of  Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because  the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;  21: and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of  Egypt to the other.  22: Only the land of the priests he did  not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and  lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did  not sell their land.  23: Then Joseph said to the people,  "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now  here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.  24: And  at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths  shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves  and your households, and as food for your little ones."  25: And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my  lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh."  26: So Joseph made it  a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day,  that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone  did not become Pharaoh's.  27: Thus Israel dwelt in the land  of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it,  and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.  28: And Jacob  lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob,  the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.  29: And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called  his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your  sight, put your hand under my thigh, and promise to deal loyally  and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,  30: but let me  lie with my fathers; carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their  burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."  31: And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel  bowed himself upon the head of his bed.    Chapter 48  Genesis, chapter 48    Compare with King James Version: Gene.48     1: After this Joseph was told, "Behold, your  father is ill"; so he took with him his two sons, Manas'seh and  E'phraim.  2: And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has  come to you"; then Israel summoned his strength, and sat up in bed.   3: And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me  at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,  4: 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  descendants after you for an everlasting possession.'  5: And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of  Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; E'phraim and  Manas'seh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.  6: And  the offspring born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be  called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.  7: For when I came from Paddan, Rachel to my sorrow died in the  land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go  to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is,  Bethlehem)."  8: When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said,  "Who are these?"  9: Joseph said to his father, "They are my  sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me,  I pray you, that I may bless them."  10: Now the eyes of  Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph  brought them near him; and he kissed them and embraced them.  11: And Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to see your  face; and lo, God has let me see your children also."  12: Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself  with his face to the earth.  13: And Joseph took them both,  E'phraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manas'seh  in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near  him.  14: And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid  it upon the head of E'phraim, who was the younger, and his left  hand upon the head of Manas'seh, crossing his hands, for Manas'seh  was the first-born.  15: And he blessed Joseph, and said,   "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,    the God who has led me all my life long to this day,   16:  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the  lads;   and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name  of my   fathers Abraham and Isaac;   and let them grow  into a multitude in the midst of the earth."   17: When  Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of  E'phraim, it displeased him; and he took his father's hand, to  remove it from E'phraim's head to Manas'seh's head.  18: And  Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this one is the  first-born; put your right hand upon his head."  19: But his  father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also shall  become a people, and he also shall be great; nevertheless his  younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall  become a multitude of nations."  20: So he blessed them that  day, saying,  "By you Israel will pronounce blessings,  saying,   `God make you as E'phraim and as Manas'seh'";    21: Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die,  but God will be with you, and will bring you again to the land of  your fathers.  22: Moreover I have given to you rather than  to your brothers one mountain slope which I took from the hand of  the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."    Chapter 49  Genesis, chapter 49    Compare with King James Version: Gene.49     1: Then Jacob called his sons, and said, "Gather  yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in  days to come.  2:  Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob,    and hearken to Israel your father.   3:  Reuben, you  are my first-born,   my might, and the first fruits of my  strength,   pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.    4:  Unstable as water, you shall not have  pre-eminence   because you went up to your father's bed;    then you defiled it -- you went up to my couch!   5:  Simeon and Levi are brothers;   weapons of violence are  their swords.   6:  O my soul, come not into their  council;   O my spirit, be not joined to their company;    for in their anger they slay men,   and in their wantonness  they hamstring oxen.   7:  Cursed be their anger, for  it is fierce;   and their wrath, for it is cruel!   I  will divide them in Jacob   and scatter them in Israel.    8:  Judah, your brothers shall praise you;   your  hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;   your father's  sons shall bow down before you.   9:  Judah is a lion's  whelp;   from the prey, my son, you have gone up.   He  stooped down, he couched as a lion,   and as a lioness; who  dares rouse him up?   10:  The scepter shall not depart  from Judah,   nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,    until he comes to whom it belongs;   and to him shall be  the obedience of the peoples.   11:  Binding his foal  to the vine   and his ass's colt to the choice vine,   he  washes his garments in wine   and his vesture in the blood of  grapes;   12:  his eyes shall be red with wine,    and his teeth white with milk.   13:  Zeb'ulun shall  dwell at the shore of the sea;   he shall become a haven for  ships,   and his border shall be at Sidon.   14:  Is'sachar is a strong ass,   crouching between the  sheepfolds;   15:  he saw that a resting place was  good,   and that the land was pleasant;   so he bowed his  shoulder to bear,   and became a slave at forced labor.    16:  Dan shall judge his people   as one of the  tribes of Israel.   17:  Dan shall be a serpent in the  way,   a viper by the path,   that bites the horse's  heels   so that his rider falls backward.   18:  I  wait for thy salvation, O LORD.   19:  Raiders shall  raid Gad,   but he shall raid at their heels.   20:  Asher's food shall be rich,   and he shall yield royal  dainties.   21:  Naph'tali is a hind let loose,    that bears comely fawns.   22:  Joseph is a fruitful  bough,   a fruitful bough by a spring;   his branches run  over the wall.   23:  The archers fiercely attacked  him,   shot at him, and harassed him sorely;   24:  yet his bow remained unmoved,   his arms were made  agile   by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob   (by the  name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),   25:  by  the God of your father who will help you,   by God Almighty  who will bless you   with blessings of heaven above,    blessings of the deep that couches beneath,   blessings of  the breasts and of the womb.   26:  The blessings of  your father   are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal  mountains,   the bounties of the everlasting hills;   may  they be on the head of Joseph,   and on the brow of him who  was separate from his brothers.   27:  Benjamin is a  ravenous wolf,   in the morning devouring the prey,   and  at even dividing the spoil."   28: All these are the  twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them  as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to  him.  29: Then 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,  30: in the cave that  is in the field at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, in the land  of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the  Hittite to possess as a burying place.  31: There they  buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and  Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah --  32: the field  and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites."   33: When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his  feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his  people.    Chapter 50  Genesis, chapter 50    Compare with King James Version: Gene.50     1: Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and  wept over him, and kissed him.  2: And Joseph commanded his  servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians  embalmed Israel;  3: forty days were required for it, for so  many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him  seventy days.  4: And when the days of weeping for him were  past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I  have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of  Pharaoh, saying,  5: My father made me swear, saying, `I am  about to die: in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land  of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, I  pray you, and bury my father; then I will return."  6: And  Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you  swear."  7: So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with  him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his  household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,  8: as  well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's  household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were  left in the land of Goshen.  9: And there went up with him  both chariots and horsemen; it was a very great company.  10: When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond  the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful  lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.   11: When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw  the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a  grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named  A'bel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.  12: Thus his sons  did for him as he had commanded them;  13: for his sons  carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of  the field at Mach-pe'lah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham  bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a  burying place.  14: After he had buried his father, Joseph  returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with  him to bury his father.  15: When Joseph's brothers saw that  their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate  us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him."  16: So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave  this command before he died,  17: `Say to Joseph, Forgive,  I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin,  because they did evil to you.' And now, we pray you, forgive the  transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph  wept when they spoke to him.  18: His brothers also came and  fell down before him, and said, "Behold, we are your servants."   19: But Joseph said to them, "Fear not, for am I in the  place of God?  20: As for you, you meant evil against me;  but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people  should be kept alive, as they are today.  21: So do not  fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he  reassured them and comforted them.  22: So Joseph dwelt in  Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and  ten years.  23: And Joseph saw E'phraim's children of the  third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manas'seh  were born upon Joseph's knees.  24: And Joseph said to his  brothers, "I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you  up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to  Isaac, and to Jacob."  25: Then Joseph took an oath of the  sons of Israel, saying, "God will visit you, and you shall carry up  my bones from here."  26: So Joseph died, being a hundred  and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a  coffin in Egypt.             

