Genesis

Chapter 1

1^aIn the beginning ^bGod ^ccreated the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was ¹^aformless and void, and ^bdarkness was over the ²surface of the deep, and ^cthe Spirit of God ^dwas ³moving over the ²surface of the waters.
3 Then ^aGod said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was ^agood; and God ^bseparated the light from the darkness.
5 ^aGod called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And ^bthere was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be ¹an ^aexpanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."

7 God made the ¹expanse, and separated ^athe waters which were below the ¹expanse from the waters ^bwhich were above the ¹expanse; and it was so.
8 God called the ¹expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 Then God said, "^aLet the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let ^bthe dry land appear"; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land earth, and the ^agathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout ^1avegetation: ²plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after ³their kind ⁴with seed in them"; and it was so.

12 The earth brought forth ^1avegetation, ²plants yielding seed after ³their kind, and trees bearing fruit ⁴with seed in them, after ³their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse 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 for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,
18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so.
25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.

31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Chapter 2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface 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 The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
9 Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing 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 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 The man said,

"This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."

24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Chapter 3

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'"
4 The serpent said to the woman, "You will surely not die!
5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 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 desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
8 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 th garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
10 He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
12 The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you ahve done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of you life; 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." 16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

17Then to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it';

Genesis 4

1Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conveived a gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."
2Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
4Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering;
5but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.
6Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
7"If you do well, will not your counteneace be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it."
8Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

9Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
10He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11"Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
12"When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."
13Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear!
14"Behold, YOu have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
15So the LORD said to him, "THerefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

16Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

17Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch, after the name of his son.
18Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
19Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
21His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
22As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

23Lamech said to his wives,
"Adah and Zillah,
Listen to my voice,
You wives of Lamech,
Give heed to my speach,
For I have killed a man for wounding me;
And a boy for striking me;
24If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

25Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, "God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
26To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 5

1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
2He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.

3When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and name him Seth.
4Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.
5So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

6Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became father of Enosh.
7Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.
8So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

9Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
10Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.
11So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

12Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
13Then Kenan lived eight hundred an dforty years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.
14So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

15Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
16Then Mahalalel lived eight nundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.
17So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

18Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
19Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.
20So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

21Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
22Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.
23So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

25Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
26Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
27So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

28Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.
29Now he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed."
30Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.
31So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

32Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6

1Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
3Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
4The 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. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the eart, and He was grieved in His heart.
7The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

9These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled wigh violence.
12God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

13Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
14"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
15"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16"You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
17"Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
18"But I will establish My covenant with you; and yo ushall enter the ark--you and yhour sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19"And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20"Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you keep them alive.
21"As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for good for you and for them."
22Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Genesis 7

1Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.
2"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
3also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
5Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

6Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
7Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.
8Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,
9there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
14they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
15So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.

17Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
21All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
22of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
23Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
24The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8

1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God cause a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
2Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
3and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
5The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
7and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth.
8Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;
9but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.
10So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.
12Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.

13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.
14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16"Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17"Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the eart, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.

20Then 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.
21The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22"While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease."

Genesis 9

1And 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 terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
3"Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
4"Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5"Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man.
6"Whoever sheds man's blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.
7"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

8Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9"Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
11"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a glood to destroy the earth."
12God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
13I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
14"It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
15and I will remember My covenenat, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh taht is on the earth."
17And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."

18Now the sons of Noah who came out fo the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

20Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
21He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
23But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon bother their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
24When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25So he said,
"Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers."
26He also said,
"Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27"May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant."

28Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Genesis 10

1Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

2The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
3The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.
4The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.
5From these the coastlands of the nations were seperated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

6The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
7The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
8Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.
9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Neneveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,
12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
13Mizraim became the father of Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim
14and Pathrusim and Casluhim (from which came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.

15Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth
16and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
17and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
18and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
19The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go tward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
20These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

21Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.
22The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
23The sons Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.
24Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.
25Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
27and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah
28and Obal and Abimael and Sheba
29and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
30Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east.
31These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

32These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were seperated on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11

1Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
2It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4They saidm "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7"Com, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language fo the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

10These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
11and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;
13and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;
15and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;
17and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daugthers.

18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;
19and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Feu, and he had other sons and daughters.

20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;
21and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;
23and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;
25and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

27Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.
28Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
32The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12

1Now the LORD said to Abram,
"Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;
2And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
3And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

4So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.
6Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.
7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
8Then he proceeded from there 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 upon the name of the LORD.
9Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

10Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;
12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."
14It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18Then 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 the, here is your wife, take her and go."
20Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

Genesis 13

1So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

2Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.
3He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.
7And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.

8So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
9"Is not the whole land before you? Please seperate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left."
10Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere--this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
11So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lor journeyed eastward. Thus they seperated from each other.
12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
13Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LORD.

14The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had seperated from him, "Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
15for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.
16"I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.
17"Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you."
18Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 14

1And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
2that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
3All these came as allies to the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
4Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but the thirteenth year they rebelled.
5In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
7Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and conquered all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
8And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayed for battle against them in the valley of Siddim,
9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and ARioch king of Ellasar--four kings against five.
10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.
11Then they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply, and departed.
12They also took Lot, Abram's nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.

13Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were allies with Abram.
14When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
15He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them as far as HObah, which is north of Damascus.
16He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the people.

17Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the kings of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.
19He blessed him and said,
"Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand."
He gave him a tenth of all.
21The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give the people to me and take the goods for yourself."
22Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn to the LORD GOd Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
23that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, for fear you would sya, 'I have made Abram rich.'
24"I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share."

Genesis 15

1After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying,
"Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great."
2Abram said, "O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
3And Abram said, "Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir."
4Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir."
5And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
6Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."
8He said, "O LORD God, how may I know that I will possess it?"
9So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
10Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.
11The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.
13God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.
14"But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterwards they will come out with many possessions.
15"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
16"Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."

17It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces.
18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
"To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
19the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite
20and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
21and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite."

Genesis 16

1Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
2So Sarai said to Abram, "Now behold, the LORD has prevented me form bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.
4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.
5And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me."
6But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

7Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, wher have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."
9Then the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to you mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."
10Moreover, the angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."
11The angel of the LORD said to her further,
"Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
12"He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone's hand will be against him;
And he will live to the east of all his brothers."
13Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?"
14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15So Hagar bore Abrama a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishamael.
16Abram was eighty-sex years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Genesis 17

1Now 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"I will establish My covenant between Me and you,
And I will multiply you exceedingly."
3Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,
4"As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
5"No longer shall your name be called Abram,
But your name shall be Abraham;
For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
6"I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.
7"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"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."

9God said further to Abraham, "Now 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"And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.
12"And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.
13"A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
14"But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."

15Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai you wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
16"I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
17Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
18And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!"
19But God said, "No Sarah you wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
20"As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
21"But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."
22When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in hi shouse and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the cery same day, as God had said to him.
24Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
26In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27All the men of his household, who were forn in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Genesis 18

1Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
2When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,
3and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass you servant by.
4"Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree;
5and I will bring a piece of bread, that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant." And they said, "So do, as you have said."
6So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes."
7Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.
8He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.

9Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "There, in the tent."
10He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him.
11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
12Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, shall I have please, my lord being old also?"
13And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?'
14"Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."
15Sarah denied it however, saying, "I did not laugh"; for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh."

16Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.
17The LORD saidn, "Shall I hide form Abraham what I am about to do,
18since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
19"For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to kep the way of the LORD by doig righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him."
20And the LORD said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
21"I will go down now, and see if they have done extirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know."

22Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD.
23Abraham came near and said, "Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24"Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
25"Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?"
26So the LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account."
27And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.
28"Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the whole city because of five?" And He said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
29He spoke to Him yet again and said, "Suppose forty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do it on account of of the forty."
30Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak; suppose thirty are found there?" And He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
31And he said, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it on account of the twenty."
32Then he said, "Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?" And He said, "I will not destroy it on account of the ten."
33As soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham the LORD departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

Genesis 19

1Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2And he said, "Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." They said however, "No, but we shall spend the night in the square."
3Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prapred a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
5and they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are themen who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them."
6But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
7and said, "Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
8"Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; plase let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof."
9But they said, "Stand aside." Furthermore, they said, "This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them." So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.
10But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

12Then the two men said to Lot, "Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and you daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;
13for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."
14Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, "Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city." But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

15When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, of you will be swept away in the punishment of the city."
16But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
17When they had brought them outside, one said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away."
18But Lot said to them, "Oh no, my lords!
19"Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannto escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;
20now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved."
21He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.
22"Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therfore the name of the town was called Zoar.

23The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
25and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.

29Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, taht God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31Then the firstborn 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 the earth.
32"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father."
33So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34On the following day, the firstborn 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 our family through our father."
35So 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.
36Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
37The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
38As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

Genesis 20

1Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.
2Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married."
4Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a nation, even though blameless?
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."
6Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
7"Now therefore, restore the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

8So Abimelech arose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were greatly frightened.
9Then Abimelech called Abraham and siad to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."
10And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What have you encountered, that you have done this thing?"
11Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is not fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
12"Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;
13and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
14Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him.
15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; settle wherever you please."
16To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is your vindication before all who are with you, and before all men you are cleared."
17Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children.
18For the LORD had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 21

1Then the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised.
2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God has spoken to him
3Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
7And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

8The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
9Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac."
11The matter distressed Abraham greatly because of his son.
12But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.
13"And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant."
14So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
16Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, "Do not let me see the boy die." And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.
17God heard the lad crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18"Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
19Then 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.

20God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
21He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

22Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do;
23now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned."
24Abraham said, "I swear it."
25But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.
26And Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today."

27Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.
28Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?"
30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well."
31Therefore he called taht place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.
32So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
34And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Genesis 22

1Now it came about after things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
2He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."
3So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
4On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
5Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you."
6Abraham 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 the two of them walked on together.
7Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering.?"
8Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

9Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
12He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."
13Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
14Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the amount of the LORD it will be provided."

15Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
16and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
18"In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
19So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

20Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
21Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram
22and Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel."
23Bethuel became the father of Rebekah; these eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

Genesis 23

1Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
3Then Abraham rose form before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
4"I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
5The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
6"Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead."
7So Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.
8And he spoke with them, saying, "If it is your wish for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and approach Ephron the son of Zohar for me,
9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it it to me in your presence for a burial site."
10Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
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 people I give it to you; bury your dead."
12And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.
13He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me that I may bury my dead there."
14Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
15"My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."
16Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

17So Ephron's field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over
18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
20So the field and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth.

Genesis 24

1Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.
2Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, "Please place your hand under my thigh,
3and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,B 4but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
5The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?"
6Then Abraham said to him, "Beware 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 who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.
8"But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free form this my oath; only do not take my son back there."
9So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

10Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out ot draw water.
12He said, "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.
13"Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
14now may it be that the girl to whim I saw, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and who answers, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also'--may she be the one whom You have shown lovingkindness to my master."

15Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.
16The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
17Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar."
18She said, "drink, my lord"; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.
19Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking."
20So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
21Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the LORD had made his journey successfull or not.

22When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
23and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father's house?"
24She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
25Again she said to him, "We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in."
26Then the man bowed low and worshiped the LORD.
27He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers."

28Then the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.
29Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.
30When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
31And he said, "Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?"
32So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
33But when food was set before him to eat, he said, "I will not eat until I have told my business." And he said, "Speak on."
34So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.
35"The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so taht he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.
36"Now Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him 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 live;
38but you shall go to my father's house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
39"I said to my master, 'Suppose the woman does not follow me.'
40"He said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father's house;
41then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'

42"So I came today to the spring, and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful;
43behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar";
44and she will say to me, "You 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 finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
46"She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will water your camels also'; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.
47"Then I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him'; and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
48"And I bowed low and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
49"So now if you are going to deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, let me know, that I may turn to the right hand or the left."

50Then Laban and Bethuel replied, "The matter comes from the LORD; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.
51"Here is Rebekah before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."

52When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the LORD.
53The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
54Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to the master."
55But her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go."
56He said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
57And they said, "We will call the girl and consult her wishes."
58Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."
59Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham's servant and his men.
60They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
"May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them."
61Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

62Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the Negev.
63Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming.
64Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.
65She said to the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "He is my master." Then she took her veil and covered herself.
66The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
67Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 25

1Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
2She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.
3Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Luemmim.
4The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
5Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;
6but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

7These are all the years of Abraham's life that he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.
8Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
9Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,
10the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.
11It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

12Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's sons, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;
13and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam
14and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,
15Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
16These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their tribes.
17These are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
18They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

19Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham became the father of Isaac;
20and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
21Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD anwered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it so, why then am I this way?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23The LORD said to her,
"Two nations are in your womb;
And two peoples will be seperated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other;
And the older shall serve the younger."
24When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
26Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.
28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;
30and Esau said to Jacob, "Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
31But Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright."
32Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is the birthright to me?"
33And Jacob said, "First swear to me"; so he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.
34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26

1Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
2The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.
3"Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
4"I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your decendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
5because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws."

6So Isaac lived in Gerar.
7When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful."
8It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.
9Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I might die on account of her.'"
10Abimelech 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."
11So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

12Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
13and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until her became very wealthy;
14for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.
16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are too powerful for us."
17And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.

18Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.
19But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing water,
20the herdsmen Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.
22He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, "At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

23Then he went up from there to Beersheba.
24The LORD appeared to him the same night and said,
"I am the God of your father Abraham;
Do not fear, for I am with you.
I will bless you, and multiply your descendants,
For the sake of My servant Abraham."
25So 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.

26Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his advisor Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.
27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"
28They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
29that 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.'"
30Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.
32Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
33So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
35and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Genesis 27

1Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I am."
2Isaac said, "Behold now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death.
3"Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;
4and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die."

5Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring hime,
6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Behold, I heard your father speak to you brother Esau, saying,
7'Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the LORD before my death.'
8"Now therefore, my son, listen to me as I command you.
9"Go now to the flock and bring two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.
10"Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."
11Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
12"Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing."
13But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."
14So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory food such as his father favored.
15Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
16And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
17She also gave the savory food and the bread, which she had made, to her son Jacob.

18Then he came to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
19Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, that you may bless me."
20Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen to me."
21Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau of not."
22So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
23He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.
24And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."
25So he said, "Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank.
26Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come close and kiss me, my son."
27So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said,
"See, the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed;
28Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;
29May peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you;
Be master of your brothers,
And may your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be those who curse you,
And blessed be those who bless you."

30Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
31Then he also made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to him, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."
32Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am you son, your firstborn, Esau."
33Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
34When 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!"
35And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."
36Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my brithright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
37But Isaac replied to Esau, "Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with graing and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?"
38Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

39Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,
"Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling,
And away from the dew of heaven form above.
40"By your sword you shall live,
And you brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will break his yoke from your neck."

41So Esau bore a grudge against 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 near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, "Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.
43"Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!
44"Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury subsides,
45until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I will send and get you from there. WHy should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

46Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

Genesis 28

1So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.
2"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
3"May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
4"May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham."
5Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"
7and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
8So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displease his father Isaac;
9and Esau went to Ismael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth.

10Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
11He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.
12He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
13And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.
14"Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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 what I have promised you."
16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."
17He 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."

18So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone taht he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.
19he called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.
20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,
21and I return to my father's house in safety, then the LORD will be my God.
22"This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."

Genesis 29

1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.
2He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.
3When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

4Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."
5He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him."
6And he said to them, "Is it well with him?" And they said, "It is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep."
7He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them."
8But they said, "We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
10When 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 mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept.
12Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebakah's son, and she ran and told her father.

13So when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he related to Laban all these things.
14Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him a month.

15Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
16Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17And Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of form and face.
18Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me."
20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

21Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her."
22Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.
23Now in the evening he took his daughter Leah, and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her.
24Laban also gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid.
25So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?"
26But Laban said, "It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.
27"Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years."
28Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
29Laban also gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.
30So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

31Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
32Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."
33Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she named him Simeon.
34She conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.
35And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Genesis 30

1Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."
2Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
3She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children."
4So she gave him maid Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
5Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.
7Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8So Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed." And she named him Naphtali.

9When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
10Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.
12Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.
13Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher.

14Now 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, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15But she said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he may lie with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."
16When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
17God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18Then Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named him Issachar.
19Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
20Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
21Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.

22Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.
23So she conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."
24She named him Joseph, saying, "May the LORD give me another son."

25Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.
26"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you."
27But Laban said to him, "If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the LORD has blessed me on your account."
28He continued, "Name me your wages, and I will give it."
29But he 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 to a multitude, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?"
31So he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:
32let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black one among the lambs 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 concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen."
34Laban said, "Good, let it be according to your word."
35So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.
36And he put a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.
38He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.
39So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
40Jacob seperated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
41Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;
42but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so that the feebler were Laban's and the stronger Jacob's.
43So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31

1Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth."
2Jacob saw the attitude of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly.
3Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
4So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to his flock in the field,
5and said to them, "I see your father's attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, 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; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.
8"If he spoke thus, 'The speckled shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth speckled; and if he spoke thus, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock brought forth striped.
9"Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.
10"And it came about at the time when the flock were mating that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which were mating were striped, speckled, and mottled.
11"Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
12"He said, 'Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
13'I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"
14Rachel and Leah said to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?
15"Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.
16"Surely all the wealth which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and our children; now the, do whatever God has said to you."

17Then Jacob arose and put his children and his wives upon camels;
18and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had gathered, his acquired livestock which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
19When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the household idols that were her father's.
20And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
21So he fled with all that he had; and he arose and crossed the Euphrates River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

22When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
23then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
24God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."

25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.
26Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?
27"Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;
28and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have don foolishly.
29"It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of you father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.'
30"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?"
31Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
32"The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is your among my belongings and take it for yourself." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

33So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.
34Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.
35She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.

36Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?
37"Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and you kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
38"These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
39"That which was torn of beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself. You required it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
40"Thus I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost 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 changed my wages ten times.
42"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."

43Then Laban replied to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters or to their children whom they have borne?
44"So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me."
45Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
46Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
47Now Laban called Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
48Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore it was named Gileed,
49and Mizpah, for he said, "May the LORD watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.
50"If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."
51Laban said to Jacob, "Behold this heap and behold 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 by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by 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.
54Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
55Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

Genesis 32

1Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him.
2Jacob said when he saw them, "This God's camp." So he named that place Mahanaim.

3Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
4He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
5I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight."'"

6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies;
8for he said, "If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape."

9Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,'
10I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.
11"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.
12"For You said, 'I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered."

13So he spent the night there. Then selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:
14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
16He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves."
17He commanded the one in front, saying, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?'
18then you shall say, 'These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.'"
19Then he commanded also the second and the third, and all those who followed the droves, saying, "After this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him;
20and you shall say, 'Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.'" For he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me."
21So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

22Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.
24Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
25When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.
26Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
28He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed."
29Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And he blessed him there.
30So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved."
31Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.
32Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Genesis 33

1Then Jacob lifted 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.
2He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
3But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
5He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these with you?" So he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
6Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.
7Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.
8And he said, "What do you mean by all this company which I have met?" And he said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
9But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own."
10Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one see the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
11"Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty." Thus he urged him and he took it.

12Then Esau said, "Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you."
13But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.
14"Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir."

15Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

18Now Jacob came safely to the city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.
19He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent form the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
20Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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