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THE
HOLY BIBLE
CONTAINING THE
OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES
BEING THE VEESION SET FOETH A.D. 1611 COMPAEED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT AUTHOEITIES AND EEVISED.
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PREFACE. I^EH^
The Revision of the Authorised Version was undertaken in consequence of a Resohition passed by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, as has been fully explained in the Preface to the Revised Version of the New Testament, which was first published in May 1881. When the two Companies were appointed for carrying out this work, the following (Jeneral Principles, among others, were laid down by the Revision Committee of Convocation for their guidance : —
'1. To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness.'
' 2. To limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language of the Authorised and earlier English Versions.'
'4. That the Text to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponderating ; and that when the Text so adoi)ted differs from that from which the Authorised Version was made, the alteration be indic- ated in the margin.'
'7. To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation.'
In order to shew the manner in which the Old Testament Company have endeavoured to carry out their instructions, it will be ct)nvenient to treat the subjects mentioned in the foregoing rules in a somewhat difterent order.
It will be observed that in Rule 4 the word 'Text' is used in a different sense from that in Rule 1, and in the case of the Old Testament denotes the Hebrew or Aramaic original of the several books. In this respect the task of the Revisers has been much simpler than that which the New Testament Company had before them. The Received, or, as it is commonly called, the Massoretic Text of the Old Testament Scriptures has come down to us in manuscripts which are of no very great antiquity, and which all belong to the same family or recension^. That other recensions were at one time in existence is probable from the variations in the Ancient Versions, the oldest of which, namely the Greek or Septuagint, was made, at least in part, some two centuries before the Christian era. But as the state of knowledge on the subject is not at present such as to justify any attempt at an entire reconstruction of the text on the authority of the Versions, the Revisers have thought it most prudent to adopt the Massoretic Text as the basis of their work, and to depart from it, as the Authorised Translators had done 2, only in exceptional cases. With regard to the variations in the Massoretic Text itself, the Revisers have endeavoured to translate what appeared to them to be the best reading in the text, and where the alternatiA^e reading seemed sufficiently probable or important they have placed it in the margin. In some few instances of extreme difficulty a reading has been adopted on the authority of the Ancient Versions, and the departure from the Massoretic Text recorded in the margin. In other cases, where the versions appeared to sujiply a very probable though not so necessary a correction of the text, the text has been left and the variation indicated in the margin only.
In endeavouring to carry out as fully as possible the spirit of Rules 1 and 2, the Revisers have borne in mind that it was their duty not to make a new translation but to revise one already existing, which for more than two
1 The earliest MS. of wliicli the age is certainly hnown bears date A. p. 91 G.
2 See, for instauee, 2 Sam. xvi. 12 ; 2 Chr. iii. 1, xxii. 6 ; Job xxxvii. 7 ; Ezek. xlvi. 10; Am. V. 26; Hag. i. 2.
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centuries and a half had held the position of an English classic. They have therefore departed from it only in cases where they disagreed with the Translators of 1611 as to the meaning or construction of a word or sentence ; or where it was necessary for the sake of uniformity to render such parallel passages as were identical in Hebrew by the same English words, so that an English reader might know at once by comparison that a difference in the translation corresponded to a difference in the original ; or where the language of the Authorised Version was liable to be misunderstood by reason of its being archaic or obscure ; or finally, where the rendering of an earlier English version seemed preferable, or where by an apparently slight change it was possible to bring out more fully the meaning of a passage of which the trans- lation was already substantially accurate.
It has been thought advisable in regard to the word 'Jehovah' to follow the usage of the Authorised Version, and not to insert it luiiformly in place of 'Lord ' or ' God', which when printed in small capitals represent the words substituted by Jev;ish custom for the ineflfable Name according to the vowel points by which it is distinguished. It will be found therefore that in this respect the Authorised Version has been departed from only in a few passages, in which the introduction of a proper name seemed to be required.
Terms of natural history have been changed only where it was certain that the Authorised Version was incorrect and where there was sufficient evidence for the substituted rendering. In cases of doubt the alternative rendering has been given in the margin ; and even where no doubt existed, but where there was no familiar English equivalent for the original word, the Old Version has been allowed to remain i, and the more accurate term has been placed in the margin.
In some words of very frequent occurrence, the Authorised Version being either inadequate or inconsistent, and sometimes misleading, changes have been introduced with as much uniformity as appeared practicable or desirable. For instance, 'the tabernacle of the congregation' has been everywhere changed to ' the tent of meeting', on account of Exodus xxv. 22, xxix. 42, 43, and also because 'the tabernacle of the congregation' conveys an entirely wrong sense. The words 'tabernacle' and 'tent', as the renderings of two different Hebrew words, are in the Authorised Version frequently inter- changed in such a manner as to lead to confusion ; and the Revisers have endeavoured throughout the Pentateuch to preserve a consistent distinction between them. Their practice in regard to the words 'assembly' and 'con- gregation' has been the same in princij^le, although they have contented themselves with introducing greater consistency of rendering without aiming at absolute iniiformity. In consequence of the changes which have taken place in the English language, the term ' meat offei-ing ' has become in- appropriate to describe an offering of which flesh was no part ; and by the alteration to 'meal offering' a sufficiently accurate representation of the original has been obtained with the least possible change of form.
As regards the use of words, there are only a few cases in which it has been found needful to deviate from the language employed in the Authorised Version. One of these deviations occurs so frequently that it may be well to state briefly why it was adopted. The word 'j^eoples' was nowhere used by King James's Translators in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament it occurs only twice (Rev. s. 11, xvii. 15). The effect of this was to leave the rendering of numerous passages inadequate or obscure or even positively misleading. Thus in one of the best known Psalms (Ps. Ixvii.), where the Septuagint has Xaot and the N \\\'g&iQ populi, the English had 'Let the people praise thee, 0 God ; let all the people praise thee'; leaving it at least doubtful
1 As for instance, 'coney' (Lev. xi. 5), 'fitclies' ds. xx\'iii. 25, 27), 'gourd' (Jon. iv. 6V
whether the 'nations' of verse 4, or God's people, Israel, be referred to. And in Isaiah Iv. 4, ' Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people', the word 'people' is naturally understood by the English reader to refer to Israel.
Again, the Hebrew word goyim 'nations', which is applied to the nations of Canaan dispossessed by the Hebrews, and then also to the surrounding nations among whom the people of Israel were afterwards dispersed, acquired in later times a moral significance, which is represented in the Authorised Version by the rendering 'heathen' or 'Gentiles'. While recognizing this moral sense of the word, the Eevisers have employed it much more sparingly than their predecessors had done.
Similarly, the Hebrew Sheol, which signifies the abode of departed spirits, and corresponds to the Greek Hades, or the under world, is variously rendered in the Authorised Version by 'grave', 'pit', and 'hell'. Of these renderings 'hell', if it could be taken in its original sense as used in the Creeds, would be a fairly adequate equivalent for the Hebrew word ; but it is so commonly understood of the place of torment that to employ it frequently would lead to inevitable misunderstanding. The Revisers therefore in the historical narratives have left the rendering 'the grave' or 'the pit' in the text, with a marginal note 'Heb. iyJieoV to indicate that it does not signify 'the place of burial'; while in the poetical writings they have put most commonly 'Sheol' in the text and 'the grave' in the margin. In Isaiah xiv. however, where ' hell ' is used in more of its original sense and is less liable to be mis- understood, and where any change in so familiar a passage which was not distinctly an improvement would be a decided loss, the Revisers have con- tented themselves with leaving ' hell ' in the text, and have connected it with other passages by putting ' Sheol ' in the margin.
In connexion with this it may be mentioned that ' Abaddon ', which has hitherto been known to the English reader of the Bible only from the New Testament (Rev. ix. 11), has been introduced in three passages (Job xxvi. G; Prov. XV. 11, xxvii. 20), where a proper name appears to be required for giving vividness and point.
The Hebrew word Asherah, which is uniformly and wrongly rendered 'grove' in the Authorised Version, most probably denotes the wooden symbol of a goddess ; and the Revisers therefore have not hesitated to introduce it as a proper name in the singular (Judg. vi. 25, &c.), with the plurals Asherim (Ex. xxxiv. 13, &c.) and Asheroth (Judg. iii. 7, &c.), following the analogy of the Baalim (Judg. iii. 7) and the Ashtaroth (Judg. ii. 13), which are already familiar.
In regard to the language of the Authorised Version, the Revisers have thought it no part of their duty to reduce it to conformity with modern usage, and have therefore left untouched all archaisms, whether of language or construction, which though not in familiar use cause a reader no embarrass- ment and lead to no misunderstanding. They are aware that in so doing they will disappoint the largo English-speaking race on the other, side of the Atlantic, and it is a question upon which they are prepared to agree to a friendly difierence of opinion. The principle by which they have been guided has been clear and consistent. Where an archaic word or expression was liable to be misunderstood or at least was not perfectly intelligible, they have substituted for it another, in equally good use at the time the Authorised Version was made, and expressing all that the archaism was intended to convey, but more familiar to the modern reader. In such cases the gain was greater than the loss. But in other instances where the word or ex- pression, although obsolete, was not unintelligible, it was thought that the change would involve greater loss than gain, and the old rendering was therefore allowed to stand. More especially was this the case when the archaism was a perfectly correct rendering of the original and there was no
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exact modern equivalent for it. The principle adopted by the Company will be best illustrated by two typical examples. The verb ' to ear ' in the sense of ' to plough ' and the substantive ' earing ' for ' ploughing ' were very reluctantly abandoned, and only because it was ascertained that their meaning was unknown to many persons of good intelligence and education. But it was easy to put in their place equivalents which had a pedigree of almost equal antiquity, and it would have been an excess of conservatism to refuse to substitute for an unintelligible archaism an expression to which no ambiguity could be attached. On the other hand the word 'boiled' (Ex. ix. 31), which signifies 'podded for seed' and is known in provincial dialects, has no synonym in literary English. To have discarded it in favour of a less accurate or more paraphrastic expression would have been to impoverish the language ; and it was therefore left, because it exactly expresses one wiew which is taken of the meaning of the original.
One of the few instances in which the language of the Authorised Version has been modified in accordance with later usage is the change of the neuter possessive pronoun from ' his ' to ' its '. It is well known that ' its ' does not occur in the Bible of 1611, and it does not appear to have been introduced into any edition before 1660. But it is found ten times in Shakespeare, and there is other evidence to shew that at the time of the Authorised Version it was coming into nse. It was found necessary in some cases to substitute ' its ' for ' his ' in order to avoid obscurity, and there seemed no good reason, when it was once introduced, for refusing to admit it generally when it re- ferred to purely inanimate objects.
In making minor changes, whether in translation or language, the Revisers have followed the example of the translators of the Authorised Version, who allowed themselves in this respect a reasonable freedom, without permitting their liberty to degenerate into license.
It will be at once seen that the old division of the books into chapters and verses has been al>anddned in favour of the arrangement in paragraphs, the numbering of the cliapters and verses being however retained for con- venience of reference. AVhere the change of subject seemed to require a greater break than was marked by the beginning of a new i^aragraph, it has been indicated by a space before the paragraph. Occasionally the divisions of the chapters in the Authorised Version differ from those in the common Hebrew Bibles. In such cases the variations are given in the margin. In the Psalms, the titles are printed in smaller type, as in some modern English Bibles, which differ in this respect from the edition of 1611. One con- sequence of the arrangement in paragraphs has been the omission of the headings of chapters, which for other and more imjjortant reasons it was thought advisable to abandon, as involving questions which belong rather to the province of the commentator than to that of the translator. With the headings of chapters the head-lines of pages naturally disappeared also, and for the same reason.
In the poetical portions, besides the division into paragraphs, the Revisers have adopted an arrangement in lines, so as to exhibit the parallelism which is characteristic of Hebrew Poetry. But they have not extended this arrange- ment to the prophetical books, the language of which although frequently marked hj parallelism is, except in purely lyrical passages, rather of the nature of lofty and impassioned prose.
In the use of italics the Revisers departed from the custom of the Authorised Version and adopted as their rule the following resolution of their Company :
' That all such words now printed in italics, as are plainly implied in the Hel)rew and necessary in English, be i)rinted in common type.'
But where any doubt existed as to the exact rendering of the Hebrew,
PREFACE. ix
all words which have been added in order to give completeness to the English expression are printed in italic type, so that the reader by omitting them may be able to see how for their insertion is justified by the words of the original. This of course is especially true (jf those renderings for which an alternative is given in the margin, where the roman and italic type play exactly opposite parts.
To complete the account of the Revised Version it remains only to describe the marginal notes. These will be found to contain
(1) The renderings of such variations in the JMassoretic Text as appeared to be of sufficient importance. These variations are known by the teclmical names of K'ri {read) and C'thib {u-ritien), which denote that the K'ri, or reading in the margin of the Hebrew Bible, is to be substituted for the C'thib which appears in the written text. The Revisers have generally, though not uniformly, rendered the C'thib in the text, and left the K'ri in the margin, with the introductory note ' Or, according to another reading ', or ' Another reading is '. When the K'ri has been followed in the text, the C'thib has been placed in the margin, if it represented a variation of sufficient importance.
(2) Alternative renderings, introduced by ' Or '. These are either dif- ferent meanings of the word or passage, or they serve to connect it with other renderings elsewhere.
(3) Literal renderings of the Hebrew or Aramaic, indicated by the prefix ' Heb.' or 'Aram.'
(4) Changes of text made on the authority of the ancient Versions.
(5) Readings from ancient Versions which appeared to be of sufficient importance to be noticed.
(6) Renderings of the Hebrew consonants as read with different vowel points, or as differently divided. These are introduced by the words ' Or, as otherwise read'.
(7) Marginal references to other passages, which are either strictly parallel, or serve the purpose of illustrating or justifying a particular ren- dering.
(8) Explanations of certain proper names, the meaning of which is referred to in the text.
In the Proper Names the Revisers have endeavoured to ascertain the system of transliteration adopted by the Translators of the Authorised Version and to carry it out with somewhat greater consistency. They have not how- ever attempted anything like rigid uniformity, and have left unchanged all those names which by usage have become English; as, for instance, Moses, Aaron, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the like.
Among the Rules laid down by the Revision Committee of Convocation for the guidance of the Revisers was one that no change should be finally made in the text of the Authorised Version except by the vote of two-thirds of the Company present and voting ; and this Rule has been invariably acted upon. The result has been that in many cases a rendering which was pre- ferred by the majority of the Companj^ voting has been recorded in the margin, the majority not being sufficient to give it a place in the text. But all questions of marginal readings, as well as of punctuation and division into paragraphs, except where these affected the sense of a passage, were decided by a simple majority.
It may be of some interest to describe the method observed by the (Company in their work, if only to shew that every question raised was carefully and deliberately considered. In the first Revision it was the practice for the Secretary to read over each verse, first in the original and then in the Authorised Version : the proposals for change were then taken ; first those communicated in writing by absent members, and next those made by
the members present. Each proposal was moved, and if seconded was dis- cussed and voted upon ; the decision in the first Revision being by a majority only. If a proposal met with no seconder, it was not discussed but allowed to drop. In the second Revision, the Secretary read out in order the changes which had been made at the first Revision ; if these wei-e unchallenged they were allowed to remain, otherwise they were put to the vote and aflirmed or rejected according as they were or were not supported by the requisite majority of two-thirds. In the second Revision new propositions could only be made by special permission of the Company, and discussion was limited, as far as possible, to exceptional cases. In the final review, which was in reality the completion of the second Revision, the Company employed themselves in making a general survey of what they had done, deciding finally upon reserved points, harmonizing inconsistencies, smoothing down roughnesses, removing unnecessary changes, and generally giving finish and completeness to their work. Everything in this final survey was decided by the vote of a majority of two-thirds.
The Revisers had already made some progress, and had in fact gone twice through the Pentateuch, before they secured the co-operation of the American Old Testament Revision Company. The first Revision of the several books was submitted to the consideration of the American Revisers, and, except in the case of the Pentateuch, the English Company had the benefit of their criticisms and suggestions befoi'e they proceeded to the second Revision. The second Revision was in like manner forwarded to America, and the latest thoughts of the American Revisers were in the hands of the English Company at tlieir final review. In every instance the suggestions from America were treated with the same consideration as those proceeding from members of the English Company, and werfe adopted or rejected on their merits. It was a part of the terms of agreement with the Amei'ican Company that all points of ultimate difterence between them and the English Revisers should be placed on record, and they will accordingly be found fully stated at the end of the Old Testament, or' at the end of the several portions, according as the Revised Version appeal's in one or more volumes. Many of them will be found to be changes of language which are involved in the essentially different circumstances of American and English readers; others express a preference for the marginal rendering over that given in the text ; others again involve a real diflference of opinion ; but all shew that they have been dictated by the same leading principle, the sincere desire to give to modern readers a faithful representation of the meaning of the original documents.
It could not but be expected that in the course of fourteen years many changes would take place in the members of the Company. Of the original number who first put their hands to the work on the 30th of June 1870, only fifteen now remain. Ten of the Company have been removed by death, and two resigned: the places of these were filled from time to time by others; but since October 1875 no new members have been added. The Revisioii was completed in eighty-five sessions, ending on 20th June, 1884; and it occupied 792 days. The greater part of the sessions were for ten days each, and each day the Company generally sat for six hours. The labour therefore has been great, but it has been given ungrudgingly ; and now with a feeling of deep thankfulness to Almighty God, and the earnest hope that their endea- vours may with His blessing tend to a clearer knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures, the Revisers bring their long task to a close.
Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, 10 July, 1S81.
THE NAMES AND ORDER
or ALL THE
BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Genesis 1
Exodus 41
Leviticus 76
Numbers 101
Deuteeonouy 137
Joshua 167
Judges 188
Ruth 208
I. Samuel 211
II. Samuel 237
I. Kings 259
II. Kings 284
I. Chronicles 308
II. Chronicles 330
E7,EA 358
Nehemiah 366
Esther 377
Job 383
The Tsalms 109
The Proverbs -172
ecclesiastes 194
The Song of Songs ..... 499
Isaiah 504
Jeremiah 543
Lamentations 588
Ezeziel 593
Daniel ' . . 634
HosEA 646
Joel 652
Amos 654
Ob.ujiah 653
Jonah C59
Micah ' 661
Nahum 664
Hacakkuk 665
Zephaniah 667
Haggai 669
Zechariah . . . ■ 670
Malachi 677
THE NAMES AND ORDER
OF ALL THE
BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
I'aije
S. Matthew 1
S. Makk 26
S. Luke 41
S. John 68
The Acts 88
To THE EoiIANS Hi
I. COEINTHIANS 124
II. COKINTHIANS 134
To THE Galatians 141
To THE EpHESLiNS 144
To THE PniLIPPIAXS 148
Pcuje
I. TlilOTHY ^ 156
II. Timothy 159
To Titus 161
To Philemon- 162
To THE Hebeews 162
James 170
I. Peter 173
II. Peter 176
I. John 178
II. John 180
III. John 181
To the Colossians
150 JUDE
I. Thessalonians 152
n. Thessalonians 155
181
Eevelation 182
THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,
COMMONLY CALLEU
GENESIS.
1 Or, wn8 brooding upon
JHeb. cxpaiue.
1 In the begiiiiiiiig God created the
2 heaven and the earth. And the earth ■was waste and void ; and darkuess ■was upon the face of the deep : and the si)irit of God Amoved upon the
3 face of the waters. And God said, Let there be hght : and there was
■lUght. And God saw the Hght, that it was good : and God divided the Hght
5 from the darluiess. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 And God said, Let there be a ^fii-ma- ment in tlie midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and di- vided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was
8 so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land ap-
10 pear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathermg together of the waters called he Seas :
11 and God saw that it was good. And God said. Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bear- ing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth : and it was
12 so. And the earth brought forth gi'ass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree beariiig fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind : and God saw
13 that it was good. And there was even- ing and there was morning, a third day.
14 And God said. Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
15 days and years : and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give Hght upon the earth: and it
16 was so. And God made the two great Hghts ; the gi-eater light to rule the daj', and the lesser light to rule the
17 night: he made the stars also. And God set them }i\ the finuament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the' Hght from the darkness: and God saw that it was
11) good. And there was evening and there \\as morning, a fourth day.
20 And God said. Let the waters -^ bring forth abundantlj' the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth •'in the open firmament of
21 heaven. And God created the gi-eat sea-monsters, and every living crea'- ture that moveth, which the waters brought forth abimdantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was
22 good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and nmltiply, and fill the ■waters in the seas, and let fowl mul-
23tiply in the earth. Aiid there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 And God said. Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind : and it was
25 so. And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth ujion the ground after its kind : and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our uuage, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thmg that creepeth ui^on the earth.
27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him ; male and female created he
28 them. And God blessed them: and God said mito them. Be fruitful, aiid multiply, and rei)lenish the earth, and subdue it ; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
29 5 moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you evei\y herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield- ing seed ; to you it shall be for meat :
30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth ui)on the earth, wherein there is ^life, / have given every green herb for meat: and it
31 was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
3Heb.
$warm
leith
itttrarnis
of living
crea- ' turet. j 4 Heb. ( on the
face of
the ex- ' pajue of
the
heaven.
!• Or, creepeth
e Heb. a
living
loul.
GENESIS.
1. 31.
iHeb. Jehovah, as in other places wliere Lord is put in capitals.
2 Or,
lieryl
3 That is, Tigris. i Or, to- ward the east of
5 Or, antiwar- ing to
very good. And there was evening and there was mornmg, the sixth day. 2 And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
3 work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it : because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
4 These are the generations of the hea- ven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that itlie Lord
.') God made earth and heaven. And no idant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there Avas not a man to till the gi'ound ;
6 but there went uj) a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of
7 the ground. And the Lord God form- ed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God i)lauted a garden eastward, in Eden ; and there he put
9 the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good
10 and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became four
11 heads. The name of the first is Pi- shon : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is
12 gold; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdelHuni and the 2 onyx
13 stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cusli.
14 And the name of the third river is f'Hiddekel: that is it which goetli *in front of Assyria. And tlie fourth
15 river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dj-ess it and to
IGkeei) it. And the Lord God com- manded the man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
17 eat : but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will
19 make him an help ^meet for him. And out of the gi-ound the Lord God f onned every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creatui-e, that was the name
20 thereof. And the man gave names to
all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field ; but for '' man there was not f oimd an help meet
21 for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleej) to fall upon the man, and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed \\\) the flesh instead thereof:
22 and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, '^ made he a woman,
23 and brought her unto the man. And the man said. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called ^ Woman, because she was
24 taken out of ^Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
2,'i they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,Ye shall not
2 eat of 1*^ any tree of the garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent. Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
3 eat : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
4 ye touch it, lest ye die. And the ser- pent said unto the woman, Y'e shall not
5 surely die : for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as "God,
6 knowing good and evil. And 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 i'^ to be desu'ed to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat ; and she gave also mito her husband with her,
7 and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
8 1-^ aprons. Aiid they heard the invoice of the Lord God walking in the gar- den in the I'cool of the daj': and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst
9 the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto the man, and said un-
10 to him. Where art thou '? And he said, I heard thy i^ voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked ; and
11 1 hid myself. And he said. Who told thee that thou wast naked '? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I command- ed thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said. The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave
13 me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman. What is this thou hast done ? And the wo- man said. The serpent beguiled me,
14 and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast done this, cui-sed art thou i^ above all cattle, and i<5 above every beast of
4. 26.
GENESIS.
2 Or, sorrow
3Heb. Hawaii, that is, Living, or. Life.
4Heb. kanah, to get.
5 Or, shall it not be lifted up J « Or, i? its de- sire, but thou
shotlldest rul^ over it
-neb. said unto. Many ancient authori- ties have, said unto AbelTti.i brother. Let us go into the field.
the field ; upon tby belly shall thou go, aud dust shalt thou eat all the days of
15 thy life : and I will put enmity be- tween thee and the woman, and be- tween thy seed and her seed : it sliall 1 bruise thy head, and thou shalt
16 1 bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multijily thy sor- row and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desu'e shall be to thy husband,
17 and he shall rule over thee. And uiito Adam he said. Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying. Thou shalt not eat of it : cui-sed is the ground for thy sake ; in ^ toil shalt thou
18 eat of it all tlie days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of
19 the field ; m the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, tUl thou return unto the gromid ; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and
20 unto dust shalt thou return. And the man called his wife's name ^Eve ; be- cause she was the mother of all living.
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his v.dfe coats of skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said. Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good aud evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever :
23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the gromid from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
4 And the man knew Eve his ■wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have * gotten a man with
'2 the help of the Lord. Aivl again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cam was a
Stiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain lirought of the fruit of the ground
4 an offering mito the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect imto Abel and
5 to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his
0 countenance feU. And the Lord said unto Cain, Whj art thou wroth ? and
7 why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, s shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door : and unto thee 6 shall be his desire, and thou
8 shalt rule over him. And Cain '' told Abel his brother. And it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, 0 and slew him. And tlio Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know not : am I my
10 brother's keeper ? And he said, Wliat hast thou done ? the voice of thy bro- ther's blood crieth unto me from the
11 ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's
12 blood from thy hand ; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not hence- forth yield unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be
13 in the earth. And Cain said mito the Lord, 8 My punishment is greater
14 9 than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth ; and it shall come to i)ass, that whosoever findeth
15 me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him. Therefore whosoever slay- etli Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord ap- pointed a sign for Cain, lest any find- ing him should smite hun.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, aud dwelt in the land of
17 10 Nod, lion the east of Eden. Aud Cain knew his wife; and she con- ceived, and bare Enoch : and he build- ed a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,
18 Enoch. And imto Enoch was born L-ad : and Irad begat Mehujael : and Mehujael begat Methushael : and Me-
19thushael begat Lamech. And La- mech took unto him two wives : the name of the one was Adah, and the
20 name of the other Zillali. And Adah bare Jabal : he was the father of such
21 as dwell in tents and hm-e cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal : he was the father of all such as handle the harp
22 aud pipe. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, i^the forger of every cut- ting instrument of i^bj-ass and iron : and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naa-
23 mah. And Lamech said unto his wives :
Adah and Zillah, hear my voice ; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken imto
my speech : For ui have slain a man i^for
wounding me. And a yoimg man for bruising me : '
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold. Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name i6 geth : For, said .the, God I'^hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel ; for Cain slew him.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son ; and he called his name Enosh : then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
8 Or,
.\fine
iniquity
oOr,
than can
be/or-
given
10 That is, Wan- dering. "Or, in front of
12 Or, ati in- structor of every artificer
13 Or, copper and so else- where.
"Or, / will slay
15 Or, to my woiotd- ing, and a young man to iny hurt
IS Heb. Sheth. 17 Heb. slutth.
GENESIS.
5. 1.
lOi-, Man
9
10
11
1-2 13
14
15 16
17
18 19
•20
21 2-2
'25 26
29
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him ; male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name ^Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hmidred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image ; and called his name Seth : and the days of Adam after he begat- Seth were eight hundred j'ears : and he begat sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were nuie hmidi'ed and thirty years : and he died.
And Seth lived an hmidred and five years, and begat Enosh : and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Seth v/ere nine hundred and twelve j'ears: and he died.
And Enosh lived nuiety years, and be- gat Kenan : and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hmidred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years : and he died.
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel: and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hun- dred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten jears : and he died.
And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared : and Mahal- alel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thu'tj' years, and begat sons and daughters : and aU the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred nine- ty and five years : and he died.
And Jared lived an hundi-ed sixty and two years, and begat Enoch : and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hvmdi-ed years, and begat sons and daughters : and aU the daj's of Jared were nuie hundred sixty and two years : and lie died.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah : and Enoch walked with God after he begat Me- thuselah three hundi-ed years, and be- gat sons and daughters : and all the days of Enoch were three hundred six- ty and five years : and Enoch walked with God : and he was not ; for God took him.
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech : and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Methu- selah were nine hmidred sixty and nme years : and he died.
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a sou : and he called his name Noah, saying. This
same shall 2 comfort us for our work and for the toil of our hands, ^ because of the ground which the Lokd hath SOcm-sed. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daugh-
31 ters : and all the days of Lamech were seven hmidred seventy and seven years : and he died.
32 And Noah was five himdred years old : and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the gi'omid, and daughters were born
2 unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair ; and they took them wives of aU
3 that they chose. And the Lord said, My spu'it shall not ^strive with man for ever, '^for that he also is flesh : iJyet shall his days be an hmidred and
4 twenty years. The '^Neiihilmi were in the earth m those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in mito the daughters of men, and they bare children to them : the same were the mighty men which were of old, the
5 men of renown. And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was gi'eat in the earth, and that every imagin- ation of the thoughts of bis heart
6 was only evil continually. And it re- pented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it gi'ieved him
7 at his heart. And the Lord said, I will 8 destroy man whom I have cre- ated from the face of the gi'ound ; both man, and beast, and creeping thuig, and fowl of the air; for it reijenteth
8 me that I have made them. But Noah fomid grace in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and "per- fect in his generations : Noah walked
10 with God. And Noah begat thi-ee
11 sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And the earth was corrujjt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrujit ; for aU flesh had cor- rupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy
14 them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood ; i" rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty culiits, and
16 the height of it thirty cubits. A flight shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it i- upward ;, and the door of the ark shalt thou set uiythe side thereof; with lower, second, and
8. 9.
GENESIS.
17 third stories shalt thou make it. And I, beliold, I do bring the Hood of waters ni^on the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; every thing that is in the earth
18 shall die. But I will establish my covenant with thee ; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thj' wife, and thy sons' wives
19 with thee. Aiid of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; thej- shall be male
20 and female. Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the gi'ound after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keeji
21 them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee ; and it shall be for food for
22 thee, and for them. Thus did Noah ; accordmg to all that God commanded him, so did he.
1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark ; for thee have I seen righteous before me
2 in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean
3 two, the male and his female; of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to kee}) seed alive
4 upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will 1 1 destroy from
5 off the face of the ground. And Noah did according unto all that the Lokd commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon
7 the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because
8 of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth ujion the ground,
9 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female,
10 as God commanded Noah. And it came to jmss after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon
lithe earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fomitains of the gi'eat deep broken up, and the
12 windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days
13 and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the tlu-ee wives of his
14 sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after its kind, and all
iHeb.
blot out.
the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of e^•ery 1.5 2 sort. And they went in imto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh
16 wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded
17 hun : and the Lord shut him in. And the flood was forty days ui^on the earth ; and the waters increased, anil bare up the ark, and it was lift up
18 above the earth. And the waters pre- vailed, and increased greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face
19 of the waters. And the waters pre- vailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high mountains that were mi- der the whole heaven were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters j)revail ; and the mountains were cover-
21 ed . And all flesh died that moved uj)on the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every ^ creepmg thing that creei^eth upon the earth, and every
22 man : aU in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of aU that
23 was in the dry land, died. ^ And every living thing was ^ destroyed which was upon the face of the gromid, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were 5 destroyed from the earth : and Noah only was left, and they that were with
24 him in the ark. And the waters pre- vailed upon the earth an hmidred and fifty days.
8 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a mnd to pass over the
2 earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the wm- dows of heaven were stopped, and the
3 ram from heaven was restrained ; and the waters retm-ned from off the earth contmuallj-: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters de-
4 creased. And the ark rested in the se- venth month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountams of Ara-
5 rat. And the waters decreased continu- ally until the tenth month : in the tenth mouth, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the momitains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of
7 the ark which he had made : and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried uj) from
8 off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the
9 ground; but the dove fomid no rest for the sole of her foot, and she re- tm'ued unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth : and he put forth his hand, and
2Heb.
3 Or.
sicarni-
inf/thing
that
swarm-
eth
4 Or. And he de- stroyed every living thing 5Heb. blotted ont.
GENESIS.
8. 9.
lOr,
a fresh olive leaf
2 Or,
saTie;for
the
3 Or, creepeth
took her, and brought her in unto him
10 into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
11 the dove out of the ark ; and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth ^an oHve leaf i^luckt off: so Noah knew that the waters
12 were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove ; and she retui-ned
13 not again unto him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were di'ied uj) from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face
14 of the ground was dried. And in the second month, on the seven and tv/en- tieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
17 with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thmg that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and'cattle, and every creeping thmg that creepeth upon the earth ; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fi'uitful, and mul-
18 tiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and
19 his sons' wives \vith him : every beast, every creeping thmg, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after then- families, went forth out of
20 the ai'k. And Noah builded an altar imto the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered bui'nt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled the sweet sa- vour ; and the Lord said in his heart, I wiU not again curse the ground any more for man's ^sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither %\'ill I again smite any more every thing living, as 1
22 have done. While the earth remain- eth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and
9 day and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air ; with all wherewith the ground steemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every mo^-ing thing that liveth shall be food for you ; as the green herb
4 have I given you all. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
5 thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I requu-e; at the hand of every beast will I requke it : and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every
man's brother, will I require the life
6 of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in
7 the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multij)ly ; bring •forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his 9sons with him, saying. And I, behold,
I establish my covenant with you, and 10 with your seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast
11 of the earth. And I will estabHsh my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut oii any more by the waters of the flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the
12 earth. And God said. This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every li^'ing creatm-e that is with you, for per-
13 petual generations : * I do set my bow m the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me
14 and the earth. And it shall come to i^ass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen
15 in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every Uving creatm-e of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all
16 flesh. And the bow shall be in ths cloud ; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlastmg coven- ant between God and every living creatm-e of aU flesh that is upon the
17 earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father
19 of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah : and of these was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husband-
21 man, and planted a vineyard : and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told
23 his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw
24 not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his ^ youngest son had done unto
25 him. And he said.
Cursed be Canaan ; A servant of servants shall he be imto his brethren.
11. 14.
GENESIS.
uOr, went forth Asshur
'Heb. Pellsh- tim.
» Or, the
brother o/Ja- pheth the elder
26 Aiid lie said,
Blessed be the Louu, tlio Ciod of
Shorn ; And let Canaan be ^ his servant.
27 God enlarge Japlieth,
And 2 let him dwell in the tents of
Shem ; And let Canaan be ^his servant.
28 And Noah lived after the Hood three 2it hundred and fifty years. And all the
days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty yeai's : and he died.
10 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem Ham and Japlieth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and
ii Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sous of Gomer; Ashkeiiaz, and
4!'Eiphath, and Togamiah. And the sons of Javan ; Elishah, and Tarshish,
5Kittim, and ^Dodauim. Of these were the s isles of the nations divided iu their lands, every one after his tongue ; after their families, in their nations.
(i And tlie sons of Ham; Cush, and
7 Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush ; Seba, and Ha-vilah, and Sabtah, and Eaamah, and Sabteca : and the sons of Kaamah ; Slieba, and
8 Dedan. And Cusli begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Like Nim- rod a mighty hmiter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Ereeh, and Accad, and
11 Calneh, in the land of Siiinar. Out of that land "he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Eehoboth-Ii-,
12 and Calah, and Eesen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the gi-eat city).
13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Aiia- mun, and Leliabun, and Naphtuhim,
14 and Pathrusim, and Casluliim (whence went forth 'the Phihstines), and Caphtorim.
15 And Canaan begat Zidon his first- 1(5 born, and Heth ; and the Jebusite, and
17 the Amorite, and the Girgashite ; and the Hivite, and the Ai'kite, and the
18 Sinite ; and the Ai-vadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the
19 Canaanite spread abroad. And the border of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza ; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiiin,
20 unto Lasha. These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in then' nations.
21 And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, ^the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children
22 born. The sons of Shem; Elam, and Assliur, and Ai-paehshad, and Lud, and
2.'5 Aram. And the sons of Aram ; Uz,
21 and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. And Ai'pachshad ■' begat Shelah ; and Shelah
2r)))egat Eber. And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was if^Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name
20 was Joktan. And Joktan begat Al- modad, and Shelei)li, and Hazarma-
27veth, and Jerah ; and Hadoram, and
28 Uzal, and Diklali ; and " Obal, and
29 Abimael, and " Sheba ; and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were
30 the sons of Joktan. And their dwell- ing was from Meslia, as thou goest toward Sephar, the 12 mountain of the
31 east. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations : and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
11 And the whole earth was of one
21^ language and of one 1* speech. And
it came to jjass, as they journejed
15 east, that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and is slime had tliej^ for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top 711 ai/ reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name ; lest we be scattered abroad
5 upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the chihh-eu of
6 men builded. And the Lord said, Be- liold,they are one peo^jle, and they have all one language ; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing wUl be withh olden from them, which thej'
7 pm-pose to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound then- language, that they may not understand one
8 another's speech. So the Lord scat- tered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left
9 off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there i' confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them a- broad upon the face of all the earth.
10 These are the genei^tions of Shem. Shem was an hundi-ed years old, and begat Ai'pachshad two years after the
11 flood: and Shem lived after he begat Ai'pachshad five huiKh'ed j'ears, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Ai'pachshad lived five and thirty
13 years, and begat Shelah : and Ai'pach- shad lived after he begat Shelah four hunth'ed and three years, and begat sous and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and
6 The
Sept.
reiida,
begat
C'tiiiaii,
and
Cninan
begat
Hlielah. '"That is. Division.
11 111 1 Clu-. I. 2i, JSbal.
i'^Or.hiU count ri)
13 Heb. lip.
u Heb. leords. I'i Or, ill the east
If! That is, bitu- men.
V Heb. bajal, to con- found.
GENESIS.
11. U.
1.5 begat Eber : and SbeJali lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived fom- and thu-ty years,
17 and begat Peleg : and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and
19 begat Reu: and Peleg lived after he begat Eeu two hiuidred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Keu lived two and thu-tj- years,
21 and begat Serug : and Eeu lived after he begat Serug two hundi-ed and seven j"ears, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and
23 begat Nahor : and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hmulred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty
25 years, and begat Terah: and Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and
28 Haran ; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran (bed in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity,
29 in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives : the name of Abram 's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Mil-
30 call, and the father of Iscah. And Sarai was barren ; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law^ his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came mito Haran, and dwelt tliere.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and live years: and Terah died in Haran.
12 Now the Lord said unto Al)ram. Get thee out of thy country, and from thj- kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto the land that I will shew thee :
2 and I ^ill make of thee a gi-eat nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse : and in thee shall all the families of
4 the earth be blessed. So Abram went, as the Lord had spoken unto him ; and Lot went v/ith liun : and Abram was seventy and five years old
5 when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's soji, and aU their sub- stance that they had gathered, and tlie souls that they had gotten in Haran ;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land
6 of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the laud mito the jdace of Shechem, luito the i oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
7 land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said. Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar imto the Lord, who appear-
8 ed unto him. And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east : and there he builded an altar un- to the Lord, and called upon the name
9 of the Lord. And Abram journeyed, going on still towai-d the ^ Soutli.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram v.ent down into Egyjjt to sojourn there; for the famine was
11 sore in the land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife. Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon :
12 and it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall sa}-, This is his wife: and thej' will kill me. but they will save thee
13 alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art mj- sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that mj' soul may live
14 because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the wo-
1,5 man that she was very fair. And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was
16 taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he- asses, and menservants, and maid- servants, and she-asses, and camels.
17Ajid the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because
18 of Sarai Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me ? why didst thou not tell me that she was
19 thy wife? Why saidst thou. She is my sister ? so that I took her to be my wife: now therefore behold thy
20 wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him : and they l)rought him on the way, and liis wife, and all that he had.
13 And Abram went uj) out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in
3 silver, and in gold. Ajid he went on his journeys from the South even to Betli- el, mito the jilace where his tent had been at the beginnuig, between Beth-
4 el and Ai ; unto the jilace of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name
5 of the Lord. And Lot also, which
14. 24.
GENESIS.
lOr,
Circle
2 Orjere- bhiths
9 Or,
nations
4 Or,
Joined them- $f?ves to- gether agaimt
went Avith Abrain, had flocks, and
6 herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not d^\ell
7 together. And there was a strife be- tween the herdmen of Abram's cattle and tlie lierdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Cauaanite and the Perizzite dwell-
8ed then in the land. And Abram said imto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd- 9 men ; for we ai'e brethren. Is not the ■\vliole land before thee ? separate thy- self, I pray thee, froia me: if iJiou wilt fake the left hand, then I wiU go to the right; or if thou take the right
10 hand, then I wiU go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the 1 Plain of Jordan, that it v/as AveU watered every where, before the Lord destroj^ed Sodom and Gomor- rah, like the garden of the Lohd, like the laud of Egj-^jt, as thou goest unto
llZoar. So Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the
12 one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13 Now the men of Sodom Avere wicked and sinners against the Lord excee^-
14 tugly. And tlie Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him. Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and west-
15 ward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee VviU I give it, and to thy
16 seed for ever. And I vnll make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
17 numbered. Ai'ise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for unto thee wiU I give
18 it. And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the ^ oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
14 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Ariocli king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of E-
21am, and Tidal king of SGoiim, that they made Avar with Bera king of Sodom, and with Bu'sha king of Go- morrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the
3 king of Bela (the same is Zoar). All these 4 joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
■1 Twelve years they served Chedorlao- mer, and in the thirteenth year they
5 rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were Avith hini, and smote the Ilephaim in Ashteroth-karnaun, and the Zuzun
in Ham, and the Emun in ^-Shaveh-
(i kiriathaim, and the Horites in their
momit Seir, unto El-paran, Avhich is
7 by the Avilderness. And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all the (-country of the Amalekites, and also the Ainorites,
8 that dwelt in Hazazo)i-tamar. And there Avent out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Ze- boiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) ; and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Sid-
9 dim; against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch khig of Ellasar; four kings against
10 the five. Now the vale of Siddim Avas fuU of ''slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to
lithe mountain. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their Aictuals, and Avent their way.
12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, Avho dwelt in Sodom, and his
13 goods, and departed. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: noAv he dwelt by the 2 oaks of Manii-e the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these Avere confederate Avith Abram.
14 And Avhen Abram heard that his bro- ther Avas taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, tlu-ee hundred and eighteen, and pur-
15 sued as far as Dan. And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pm-sued them unto Hobah, Avhich is
16 on the ^left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the Avomen also,
17 and the people. And the kmg of So- dom Aveut out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedor- laomer and the kuigs that were Avitli him, at the A'ale of Shaveh (the same
18 is the King's Vale). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and AA'ine: and he Avas priest of 9 God
19 Most High. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of 'J God Most High, 10 possessor of heaven and earth :
20 and blessed be "God Most High, aa-McIi hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave hun a tenth of all.
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take
22 the goods to thj'self . And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, 9 God Most High, lOpossessor of heaven and earth,
23 that I AviU not take a thread nor a shoelatchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I haA'e made
24 Abram rich : ii save only that which the
'' (Jr,
theplain 0/ Kiria- thaim
« Heb. field.
"That Is, bitumen 2ntt.
8 Or, north
9 Heb. t:l
Eli/oil.
10 Or. maker
II Or, let there be nothing for me; only that ic.
10
GENESIS.
14. 24.
1 Or, thy reward shall br exceed- ing great
JHeb.
Jehovah,
as in
other
places
where
Goi) is
put in
capitJils.
3 Or, go
heura
«Tha
Chaldeo
and
Syriac
have,
Eliezer
the Da-
maKene.
young men have eaten, and the por- tion of the men which went with me ; Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take tlieir portion. 15 After these tilings the word of the Lord came imto Abrani in a vision, saj'ing, Fear not, Abrani : I am thy shield, '^and thy exceeding great re-
2 ward. And A])ram said, O Lord 2 God, what wilt thou give me, seeuig I ''go childless, and he that shnU be possessor of my house is ^Dammesek
SEHezer? And Abram said. Behold, to me thou hast given no seed : and, lo, one born in my house is mine
4 heir. And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saj'ing. This man shall not be thine heir; but lie that shall come forth out of thine
Sown bovvels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look novv^ toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to tell them : and he said luito him. So shall
6 thy seed lie. And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him
7 for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give
a thee this land to inlierit it. And ho said, 0 Lord God, whereb}' shall I
9 know that I shall inherit it? And he said luito him, Talce me an heifer of three years old. and a she-goat of tliree years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a
10 young ingeon. And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other : but the bu"ds divided he not.
11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcases, and Abram drove
12 them away. And when the sun was gomg dowii, a deep sleep fell upon Abram ; and, lo, an horror of great
13 darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abrani, Know of a suretj' tliat thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not tlieu-s, and shall serve them ; and they shall afflict them four
14 hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out
15 with great substance. But thou shalt go to thy fathers m peace; thou shalt
16 be buried in a good old age. And ill the fourth generation thej' shall come hither again : for the iniquity
17 of the Amorite is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch
18 that i^assed between these pieces. Li that day tlie Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egj-pt unto the great river, the
19 river Euphrates: the Kenite, and the 20Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the 21Rephaim, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. 16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an hand- maid, an Egyjitian, whose name was 2Hagar. And Sarai said unto Aliram, Behold now, the Lord hath restiained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, mito my handmaid ; it may be that I shall •' obtain cliildi-en by her. And A- brani hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her haiKhnaid, after A- bram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her
4 husband to be his wife. And he went iu unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had con- ceived, her mistress was despised in
5 her eyes. And Sarai said luito Abram. My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid uito thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes : the Lord judge
G between me and thee. But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from
7 her face. And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountaui in
8 the way to Shiu'. And he said, Ha- gar, Sarai's handmaid, whence earnest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I flee from the face of my
9 mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Keturn to thy mistress, an<l submit thyself under her
10 hands. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will greatly multiplj' thy seed, that it shall not be numbered
11 for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her. Behold, thou art with child, and shult bear a son; and thou shalt call his name ''Ishmael, be- cause the Lord hath heard thy afflic-
12tion. And he shall be as a wild-ass among men; his hand xhall he agamst every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell "^ m
13 the presence of all his brethren. And she called the name of the Loud that siiake unto her, "^Thou art "a God that seeth : for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me ?
14 Wherefore the well was called ^^Beer- lahai-roi ; behold, it is between Kadesh
15 and Bered. And Hagar bare Abram a son : and Abram called the name of his
16 son, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abrani.
V7 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abrani. and said unto him, I am " God
18. 13.
GENESIS.
11
I That is. Princess.
2 From the Ht'i. word meaniiii]: to law/h.
Abnighty; walk l)efore me, and be 2 thou perfect. Aiut I will make my
covenant between me and thee, and Swill multiply thee exceedingly. And
Abram fell on his face : and (rod talked
4 with him, saying. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of
5 nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.
G And I will make thee exceeding fruit- ful, and I will make nations of thee,
7 and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give imto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojouni- ings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession ; and I will be
9 their God. And God said imto Abra- ham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee ; every male among
llj'ou shall be cu'ciuncised. And j-e shall be cii'cumcised in the flesh of yonr foreskin ; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of
13 thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circmncised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an
14 everlastuig covenant. And the uncu'- cumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
1,5 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but i Sarah shall her name
16 be. And I will bless her, and more- over I will give thee a sou of her : yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mo- tJier of nations ; kings of peoples shall
17 be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart. Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundi-ed years old ? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said uaito God. Oh that
19 Islunael might Hve before thee I And God said. Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thoii shalt call his name "Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlast- ing covenant for his seed after him.
20 And as for Islmiael, I have heard thee :
behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great
21 nation. But my covenaiit will I estab- lish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the
22 next j^ear. And he left off talking with him, and God went xip from Abraham.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and aU that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and cu'cumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the self- same day, as God had said unto him.
24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was cu'cmncised in the
25 flesh of bis foreskin. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his
26 foreskin. In the selfsame day was Abraham circimicised, and Ishmael his
27 son. And all the men of his house, those boi"n in the house, and those bought with money of the stranger, were cii'cumcised with hun.
18 And the Lord a^jpeared unto hun by the -^ oaks of Mamre, as be sat in the
2 tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him : and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
3 himself to the earth, and said, ■'My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from
4 thy servant : let now a little water be fetched, and wash yom- feet, and rest
5 yourselves under the tree: and I wUl fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye yom- heart; after that ye shall pass on : ^ forasmuch as ye are come to youi' servant. And they said, So do,
6 as thou hast said. And Abraham hast- ened into the tent unto Sarah, and said. Make ready quicldy three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he
8 hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they
9 did eat. And they said unto him, "WTiere is Sarah thy wife ? And he said. Behold,
10 in the tent. And he said, I will cer- tainly retm-n unto thee when the season ^cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thj' wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was be- ll hind Imn. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age ; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the 12 manner of women. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, Mter I am waxed old shall I have pleasm-e, my 13 lord being old also? And the Loitn
3 Or, tere- binths
4 Or. O Lord
^ Or, for there- fore
"Heb. liveth, or, re- viveth.
I-G
12
GENESIS.
18. 13.
lOr.
7vo7uler-
ful
2Heb. livetht or, re- viveth.
3 See Amos iii. 2.
4 Or,
said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a 14siu-ety bear a cMd, which am old? Is any thing too ihai-d for the Lord? At the set time I wiU return unto thee, when the season 2 cometh round,
15 and Sarah shall have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay ; but thou didst laugh.
16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom : and Alira- ham went with them to bring them
17 on the way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which
181 do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and inighty na- tion, and all the nations of the earth
19 shall be blessed in him ? For I have ''known him, to the end that he may command his children and his house- hold after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which
20 he hath spoken of him. And the Lord said, * Because the cry of Sodom and GomoiTah is great, and * because their
21 sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether accordmg to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I
22 wiU Imow. And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom : but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
23 And Abraham da-ew near, and said. Wilt thou consume the righteous with
24 the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are there-
25 in? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all
26 the earth do right ? And the Lord said. If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare aU tlie jilace
27 for their sake. And Abraham answered and said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which
28 am but dust and ashes : peradventure there shell lack five of the fifty right- eous : wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not
30 do it for the forty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I wiU speak : peradventure there shall thu'ty be found there. And lie said, I will not
31 do it, if I find thirty there. And he said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: perad- venture there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy
32 it for the twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet bvit this once : perad- venture ten shall be foimd there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the
33 ten's sake. And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham : and Abraham returned unto his place.
19 And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom : and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth ;
2 and he said. Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray yoix, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said. Nay; but we will abide in
3 the street all night. And he urged them greatly ; and they turned in un- to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did
4 eat. But liefore they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house romid, both young and old, all the people
5 from every quarter; and they called unto Lot, and said unto liim. Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
6 we may know them. And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut
7 the door after him. And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.
8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes : only unto these men do nothing ; 6 forasmuch as they are come imder the
9 shadow of my roof. And they said. Stand back. And they said. This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge : now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to
11 them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great : so that they wearied
12 themselves to find the door. And tlie men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides ? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city ; brmg them out
13 of the place: for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the Lord ; and the Lord
14 hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot vrent out, and sjiake unto his sons in law, which ^ married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this jjlace ; for the Lord will destroy the city. But
20. 11.
GENESIS.
13
lOr,
ptmish-
ment
2 See ch. xiii. 10.
3 Or, O
Lord
i Oi', the evil
5 That is, Little, ver. 20. See ch. xiv. 8.
he seemed unto bis sons in law as one
15 that niofkcd. And wlien the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Ai'ise, take thy wife, and tliy two daughters which are here ; lest thou be consumed in the i iniquity of
16 the city. But he Imgered ; and the men laid hold upon his baud, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daugliters ; the Lord being merciful mito him : and they brought hun forth, and set him without the
17 city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said. Escape for thy life ; look not be- hind thee, neither stay thou in all the ■■^ Plain; escape to the moiuitain, lest
18 thou be consumed. And Lot said unto 19 them, Oh, not so, ^my lord: behold
now, thy servant hath fomid grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed mito me in saving my life; and I eaimot escape to the momitam, lest * evil 20 overtake me, and I die: behold now, this city is near to flee imto, and it is a little one : Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall
21 live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken.
22 Haste thee, escape thither ; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was
23 called ^ Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came mito Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
25 from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which gi'ew ujion the
26 ground. But his wife looked back from behmd him, and she became a pillar of
27 salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had
28 stood before the Lord : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the laud went up as the smoke of a im'iiace.
29 And it came to pass, when God de- stroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, wlien he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him ; for he feared to dweU in Zoar: and he dwelt in a
31 cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger. Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after
32 the manner of aU the earth: come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
33 preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night : and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father ; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she
34 arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father : let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may jire-
35 serve seed of om- father. And they made thek father drink wine that night also: and the yomiger arose, and lay with hun ; and he knew not when she
36 lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with
37 child by their father. And the first- born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the
38Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi : the same is the father of the chililren of Ammon unto this day.
20 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur ; and
2 he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife. She is my sister : and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and
3 took Sarah. But God came to Abimel- ech in a di-eam of the night, and said to him. Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 Nov/ Abimelech had not come near her : and he said. Lord, wilt thou slay
5 even a righteous nation ? Said he not himself unto me. She is my sister? and she, even she herseK said. He is my brother : in the integi'ity of my heart and the umocency of my hands have
6 1 done this. And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that m the integi'ity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from simiing against me : therefore suiiered
7 I thee not to touch her. Now there- fore restore the man's wite ; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live : and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt sm'ely die, thou, and aU that are thine.
8 And Abimelech rose early ui the morning, and called aU his servants, and told all these things m their ears :
9 and the men were sore afraid. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said imto him. What hast thou done imto us ? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin ? thou hast done deeds mito me that ought not to
10 be done. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, WHiat sawest thou, that thou
11 hast done this thing ? And Abraham said. Because I thouglit, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and
14
GENESIS.
20. 11.
1 Or, Jic
2 Or, be- fore aXl men
3 Or, pre- pared I'iughter /or me
lOr, ptaying
5 Or,
they will slay me for my wife's sake.
1'2 And moreover she is indeed my sister,
the daughter of my father, but not the
daughter of my mother; and she be-
13 came my wife : and it came to jiass, when God caused me to wander from my father's hotise, that I said unto her. This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He
14 is my brother. Arid Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and menservants and womenservants, and gave them mito Abraham, and restored him Sarah his
15 wife. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee : dwell where
16 it jileaseth thee. And unto Sarah he said. Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, lit is for thee a covermg of the eyes to aU that ai-e with thee; and 2 in re-
17 spect of all thou art righted. And Abra- ham prayed unto God : and God healed Abhnelech, and his wife, and his maid-
18 servants ; and they bare children. For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, be- cause of Sarah Abraham's wife.
21 And the Lord visited Sarali as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah
2 as he had spoken. And Sarah con- ceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which
3 God had sxjoken to him. And Abra- ham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare
4 to him, Isaac. And Abraham circum- cised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
.'SAud Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was Iwrii unto
B him. And Sarah said, God hath ^made me to laugh ; every one that heareth
Twill laugh with nie. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck ? for I have borne him a son in his old age.
8 And the child gi'ew, and ^\&s, weaned : and Abraham made a great feast on
9 the day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egj^iJtian, which she had borne unto
10 Abraham, ^mocking. Wlierefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond- woman and her son : for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my
11 son, even with Isaac. AnA the thing was very gi-ievous in Abraham's sight
12 on account of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be gi'ievous in thy sight because of the lad, and be- cause of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto lier voice ; for in Isaac shall thy seed
13 be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman ^\iU I make a nation, be-
14 cause he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a = bottle of v.'ater, and gave it
unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away : and she dejiarted, and wandered in the
15 wilderness of Beer-sheba. And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child mider one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over against hun a good vv-aj- off, as it were a bowshot : for she said. Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her
17 voice, and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her. What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice
18 of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and fiUed the bottle with water, and gave
20 the lad drink. And God was with the lad, and he grew ; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and "became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and liis mother took him a wife out of the land of ~Eigj^i.
22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, sajirig, God is with thee in all that thou doest :
•23 now therefore swear mito me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with ''my son, nor with my son's son : but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land
24wherem thou hast sojourned. And
25 Abraham said, I ^vill swear. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing : neither didst thou teU me, neither yet heard I of it, but
'27 to-day. And Abraham took shee^j and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech ;
28 and they two made a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the
29 flock by themselves. And Abhnelech said unto Altraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set
30 by themselves? And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31 "Whei'ef ore he called that place Beer- sheba ; because there they sware both
32 of them. So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the
33 Philistines. And Ahraliam planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the
34 Everlasthig (xod. And Abraham so- journed in the laud of the Philistines many days.
23. 13.
GENESIS.
15
iHeb.
fee/or hlmiclf.
'-' Or, ac- cording to many ;;ncieiit :iiitliori- ties. 6t'- hold a •Heb. <jne)rani caught ■' That is, The
IMRD
iciU see, or, pro- vide. i Or, Tie shall be seen
22 And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto limi, Altraham ; and )ie said,
•iHere am I. And he said, Talce now thy son, thine onlj- son, whom thon htvest, even Isaac, and pet thee uito the hind of Moriah ; and oifer liini there for a bm-nt oU'eriiif,' npon one of the mountains whie}i I will tell thee of.
;J.\nd Abraham rose early in the morn- ing, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his sou ; and he clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which
•i God had told liim. Oil the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
5 the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men. Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder ; and we will \vorship, and come
6 again to you. And Abraham took the Avood of the burnt oifering, and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and he took in his hand the iii-e and tlie knife ; and they
7 went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. My father : and he said. Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold, the lire and the >vood : but where is the
8 lamb for a burnt oifering ? And Abra- ham said, God will i provide hunself the lamb for a bm-nt oifering, my son: so they went both of them together.
y And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his sou, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lokd called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham. Abraham: and he said. Here am I.
12 And he said. Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I knoAv that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not with- held thy son, thine only son, from me.
13.'uid Abraham lifted up 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
1 1 in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place " Jehovah- jireh: as it is said to this day. In the mount of the Loed -it sliall be pro-
15vided. And the angel of the Lord called mito Abraham a second tune out
16 of heaven, and said, By uiyseK have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with-
17 held thy son, thine oidy son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multi- plymg I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his
18 enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the natitms of the earth ^ be blessed; be- lt) cause thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abi-aham returned uTito his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, say- iiig. Behold, Milcali, she also hath borne children luito thy brother Na-
21 hor ; Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kenniel the father of
22 Aram ; and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Kebekah : these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abra-
24 ham's brother. And his concubine, whose name was Remnah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacali.
23 And the life of Sarah v>'as an hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron ) , in the land of Canaan : and Abraham came to mourn fen- Sarah,
Sand to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake unto the children of Heth, say-
4ing, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burjingplace with you, that I may
5 bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of Heth answered Abraham,
(3 saying unto him. Hear us, my lord: thou art c a mighty prmce among us: in the choice of our sei^ulchres bra-y thy dead ; none of us shall with- hold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed hunself to the people of the land, even
8 to the children of Heth. And he comnumed ■v^ith them, saying. If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of
if Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, wiiich he hath, which is in the end of his field ; for the full price let him give it to uie in the midst of you for a jjossession of a
10 buryingidace. Now Ephron was sittmg in the midst of the children of Heth : and Eplu-ou the Hittite answered Abra- ham ui the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at
11 the gate of his city, sayuig, Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is thereui, I give it thee ; m the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee : bury thy dead.
12 And Abraham bowed himself down
13 before the people of the land. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the jieople of the land, saying. But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field ; take it
"Or.WcM
them-
selves
n Heb. a prince uf God.
16
GENESIS.
23. 13.
i Or, /or an the good) of his
master were in hia hand
of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14Aiid Epliron answered Abraham, say- 15ing nnto hmi. My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hun- dred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore
16 thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron ; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the children of Hetli, four hundred shekels of silver, current mo net/ with the mer-
17 chant. So the field of Eplu-on, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure
18 unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his
19 city. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingi)lace by the children of Heth.
24 And Abraham was old, and well stricken m age: and the Lord had
2 blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said unto bis servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had. Put, I pray thee, thy
3 hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites,
4 among whom I dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him, Per- adventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him. Beware thou that thou bring not my son
7 thither again. The Lord, the God of heaven, that took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativ- ity, and that spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying. Unto thy seed will I give this land ; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take
8 a wife for my son from thence. And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath ; only thou shalt not bring
9 my son thither agam. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abra- ham his master, and sware to him
10 concerning this matter. And the serv- ant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; ^having all goodly thmga of his master's in his hand : and he arose, and went to
2 Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
11 And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that
12 women go out to draw water. And he said, 0 Lord, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and shew kindness
13 unto my master Abraham. Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city
1-1 come out to draw water: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let do\vn thy i)itcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast ajipointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I laiow that thou hast shewed kind-
ISness unto my master. And it came to pass, before he had done speakmg, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoiilder.
16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a "virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher,
17 and came up. And the servant ran to meet her, and said. Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of
18 thy pitcher. And she said. Drink, my lord : and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave
19 him drink. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I wUl draw for thy camels also, until they
20 have done drinking. And she hast- ed, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran agam unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
21 And the man looked stedfastly on her ; holding his peace, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous
22 or not. And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of ^half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of
23 gold; and said. Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to
24 lodge in ? Ajid she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
2.') She said moreover unto him. We have both straw and provender enough, and
26 room to lodge in. And the man bowed his head, and worshipiied the Lord.
27 And he said. Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his mercy and his truth toward my master: as for me, the Lord hath led me in the way to the
28 house of my master's brethren. And the damsel ran, and told her mother's
29 house according to these words. And
24. 65.
GENESIS.
Eebekah had a brother, and liis name was Labaii : and Laban ran out unto HOtho man, unto tho fomitain. And it came to pass, wheii he saw the rm^, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and wlien he heard the words of Eebekah his sister, saying. Thus spake tlie man unto me ; that he came unto tho man ; and, behold, he stood by tho camels at tlie fountain.
31 And he said. Come in, thoit Idessed of tho Lord ; wherefore standest thou without? for I have ]5repared the house, and room for the camels.
32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded tho camels; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that were with him.
33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. Aiid
34 he said. Speak on. And he said, I
35 am Abraliam's servant. And the Lord hath blessed my master gi-eat- ly ; and he is become gi-eat : and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and menservants and maidservants, and camels and
36 asses. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old : and unto him hath he given
37 all that ho hath. And my master made me swear, saying. Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
38 land I dwell: but thou shalt go luito my father's house, and to my kindred,
39 and take a wife for my son. Aiid I said unto my master, Peradventure
40 the woman will not follow me. And he said unto me. The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
41 then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kind- red ; and if they give her not to thee,
4'2 thou shalt be clear from my oath. And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my
43 way which I go: behold, I stand by the fountain of water ; and let it come to pass, that the maiden which cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
44 of thy pitcher to drink ; and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed for my master's
45 son. And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Eebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder ; and she went down tmto the fount- ain, and drew: and I said unto her,
46 Let me drink, I pray thee. And she
made haste, and let down her i)itcher from her slioulder, and said. Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also : so I dranlc, and she made the camels
47 drink also. Ajid I asked her, and said. Whose daughter art thou ? And she said. The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him : and I put tlie ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
48 And I bowed my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the (xod of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for
49 his son. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me : and if not, tell me ; that I may turn to the right hand, or to
50 the left. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said. The thing pro- ceedeth from the Lord : we cannot
51 speak unto thee bad or good. Behold, Eebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's
52 wife, as the Lord hath spoken. And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth mito the
53 Lord. And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Ee- bekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were witli huu, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send
55 me away unto my master. And her brother and her mother said. Let the damsel abide with us a fern days, at the least ten ; after that she shall go.
56 And he said unto them. Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may
57 go to my master. And they said. We will call the damsel, and inquu-e at
58 her mouth. And they called Eebekah, and said unto her. Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
59 And they sent away Eebekah theu* sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's
60 servant, and his men. And they blessed Eebekah, and said unto her. Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the
61 gate of those which hate them. And Eebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode ui)on the camels, and fol- lowed the man: and the servant took
62 Eebekah, and went his way. And Isaac came ifrom the way of Beer-lahai-roi ; for he dwelt in the land of the South.
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the fleld at the eventide : and he lifted uj) his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
64 were camels coming. And Eebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
65 Isaac, she lighted off the camel. And
iThe Sept. lu« throxitjli the wil- derness.
18
GENESIS.
24. 65.
lOr, si-ttlvd Heb./cH. 2 Or, over agahist
she said rmto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the fiekl to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master : and she took her veil, and
66 covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
67 And Isaac Ijrought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Kebekah, and she became his wife ; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
25 And Aln-aham took . another wife,
2 and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zinnan, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midiau, and Ishbak, and
3 Shuah. And Jokshan ))egat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshmim, and Letushiin, and
4Leuuuuim. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, aiid Ejiher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eklaah. All these were
5 the children of Keturah. And Abra- ham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
6 But luito the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac bis son, while he yet lived,
7 eastward, unto the east countrj'. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hmidred threescore and fifteen years.
8 And Abraham gave vq) the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and fuU of years ; and \\as gathered to his
9 people. And Isaac and Islmiael his sons buried hun in the cave uf Machpelah, in the field of Ejjhron the son of Zoliar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth: tliere was Abra-
11 ham buried, and Sarah his v.ife. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son ; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's hanchnaid, bare
13 unto Abraham : and these are the names of the sous of Isluuael, by then- names, accorduig to their generations : the iu'stboi'n of Islunael. Nebaioth ; and
14Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and
Mislmia, and Dumah, and Massa;
l.T Hadad, and Tenia, Jetm% Na2)hish, and
16 Kedemah: these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments ; twelve princes according to their ua-
17 tious. And these are the j-ears of the life of Islunael, an hundred and thirty and seven years : and he gave up the ghost and died ; and was gathered unto
18 his people. And they dwelt from Havi- lah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward AssjTia : he i abode 2 in the presence of aU his brethren.
19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat
20 Isaac: and Isaac was forty years old
when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the ^Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Liban the ^ Syrian, to be
21 his wife. And Isaac intreated the Lord for his \vife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of hun, and Rebekah his wife con-
22ceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said. If it be so, * wherefore do I live? And
23 she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said mito her,
Two nations are in thy womb.
And two i)eoples shall be separated even from thy bowels :
And the one people shall be stronger than the other jjeople ;
And the elder shall serve the young- er.
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in
25 her womb. And the first came forth "red, all over like an hau-y garment;
26 and they called his name Esau. And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel ; and his name was called ^ Jacob : and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare
27 them. And the boj's grew : and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a ''plain man,
28 dwelling in tents. Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison:
29 and Rebekah loved Jacob. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came in from
30 the field, and he was faint: and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with *^that same redpattage ; for I am faint: therefore was his name called
31 '-'Edom. And Jacob said. Sell me i^this
32 day thy birthright. And Esau said. Behold, I am at the point to die: and what iirofit shall the birthright do to
33 me? And Jacob said, Swear to me 10 this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthi-ight unto Jacob.
34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pot- tage of lentils; and be did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way : so Esau desiused his birthright.
26 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abunelech king of the
2 Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared mito him, and said. Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee ; for mito thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
4 father ; and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth i^be
5 blessed ; because that Abraham obey- ed my voice, and ke])t my charge, my
■■> Heb. A rnvl- ean.
J Or,
where- fore a^n I thus I
5 Or, ruddy
6 That is, One tfutt takes by the heel or sup- pla nis. ^ Or, quiet Or,
harm- less Hel). per/ecC.
»Heb. thf red pottajie, this red pottage. « That is, Jlcd. wOr, first (if all
11 Or, liless the77i- selves
27. 10.
GENESIS.
19
iHeb. liviwj.
2 That is,
Conten- tion.
3 That is, Enmity.
■> That is, Broad places, 01, Room.
8
10
11
12 13
14
15
16
17 18
19 20
21 5'2
23 24
coimiiaiidments, my statutes, and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: and the men of the place asked him of his wife ; and he said, Slie is my sister : for he feared to say, My wife; lest, .laid he, the men of the iilace should kill me for Rebekah : because she was fair to look upon. And it came to l)ass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Phil- istines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Eebekah his wife. And Abunel- ech called Isaac, and said. Behold, of a surety she is thj- wife : and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. And Abimelech said, "What is this thou hast done unto us ? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guilthiess upon us. And Abimelech charged all tlie people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. And Isaac sowed in that land, and fomid ill the same year an hundredfold : and tlie LoKD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: and he had possessions of Hocks, and possessions of herds, and a great house- hold: and the Philistines envied him. Now all the w^ells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abra- ham his father, the Philistines had stop- ped them, and tilled them with earth. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Ahraham his father ; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abranam : and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And Isaac's servants digged in the val- ley, and found there a well of ^ spruig- ing water. And the herchnen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmeu, sayhig, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well s'Esek; because they contended with him. And they digged another well, and they strove for that also : and he called the name of it ^Sitnah. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it ^Eehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. And he went uji from thence to Beer-sheba. And the Lord apjieared unto huu the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father : fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy
seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
2.") And he buikhsd an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there
2(5 Isaac's servants digged a well. Then AIninelech went to him from Gerar, and Abuzzath his friend, and Phicol the
27 captain of his host. And Isaac said unto them. Wherefore are ye come unto nie, seeing j-e hate me, and have sent me
28 away from you? And they said. We saw plainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said. Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a coven-
29 ant with thee; that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothuig but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed
30 of the Lord. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they de-
32 parted from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concern- ing the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found
3o water. And he called it *Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer- sheba unto this day.
34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 and they were "a gi-ief of mmd unto Isaac and to Eebekah.
27 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him. My son:
2 and he said unto him. Here am I. And he said. Behold now, I am old, I know
3 not the day of my death. Now there- fore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the
4 field, and take me venison; and make me savour}' meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before
51 die. And Eebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for
G venison, and to bring it. And Eebekah spake unto Jacob her son, sajing. Be- hold, I heard thy father speak unto
7 Esau thj' brother, saying. Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before
8 the Lord before my death. Now* there- fore, my son, obey my voice according
9 to that which I command thee. Go no"w to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats ; and I wiU make them savom-y meat for thy
10 father, such as he loveth: and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he
5 See ch. xxi.
ul.
B Heb. bitter- Ttcss of apirit.
20
GENESIS.
27. 10.
lOr,
mocker
may eat, so that he may bless thee
11 before liis death. And Jacob said to Eebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a
12 smooth man. My fatlier peradventui'e will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a 1 deceiver; and I shall bring a ciu'se upon me, and not a blessing.
13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son : only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his
15 father loved. And Eebekah took the goodly raiment of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger
16 son : and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and
17 upon the smooth of his neck: and she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
18 of her son Jacob. And he came unto his father, and said. My father: and he said, Here am I ; who art thou,
19 my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless
20 me. And Isaac said unto his son. How is it that thou hast found it so quick- ly, my son? And he said. Because the Lord thy God sent me good speed.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son
22 Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt hun, and said. The voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's
24 hands : so he blessed him. And he said. Art thou my very son Esau? And he
25 said, I am. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's veni- son, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he
26 drank. And his father Isaac said mito him, Come near now, and kiss me, my
27 son. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smeUed the smeU of his raiment, and blessed him, and said.
See, the smell of my son Is as the smeU of a field which the LoED hath blessed :
28 And God give thee of the dew of
heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And i^lenty of corn and wine :
29 Let peoples serve thee.
And nations bow down to thee :
Be lord over thy brethren,
And let thy mother's sons bow down
to thee : Cursed be every one that cui'seth thee,
And blessed be every one that bless- eth thee.
30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came
31 in from his hunting. And he also made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father. Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul
32 may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto him. Who art thou? Aiad he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn,
33 Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceed- ingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou earnest, and have blessed him? yea,
34«HfZ he shaU be blessed. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father. Bless me, even
35 me also, 0 my father. And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath
36 taken away thy blessing. And he said. Is not he rightly named 2 Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birtlu-ight ; and, be- hold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said. Hast thou not
37 reserved a blessing for me ? And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for serv- ants; and with coi'n and wine have I sustained him: and what then shall
38 1 do for thee, my son ? And Esau said unto his fatlier. Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, 0 my father. And Esau lifted
39 ui) his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him.
Behold, ^ of the fatness of the earth
shall be thy dweUmg, And 'of the dew of heaven from above;
40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and
thou shalt serve thy brotbar ; And it shall come to pass when thou
shalt break loose. That thou shalt shake his yoke from
off thy neck.
41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart. The days of mom-ning for my father are at hand ; then will I slay my brother Ja-
42 cob. And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Eebekah ; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him. Behold, thy bro- ther Esau, as touching thee, doth com-
43 fort himself, 7Jj(?po.si»(/ to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother
44 to Haran; and tarry with hun a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
45 away ; until thy brother's anger turn
2 See ch. XXV. 26,
3 Or,
away
from
29. 12.
GENESIS.
21
iHeb. El Shad- dai.
2Heb.
Aram- tan.
3Heb.
the
jAace.
i Or, be- side him
SHeb.
break forth.
away from tlieo, and he forget that which thou hast done to him : tlien I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be bereaved of you both in one day ?
46 And llebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daugh- ters of Heth : if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what
28 good shall my life do me ? And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him. Thou shalt not take a wife of the
2 daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of
3 Laban thy mother's brother. And i God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou
4 mayest be a company of peoples ; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest mherit the land of thy sojouruings, which God gave
5 unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the ^Syrian, the brother of Piebekah, Jacob's and
6 Esau's mother. Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a ■wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave hun a charge, say- ing. Thou shalt not take a wife of the
7 daughters of Canaan ; and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and
8 was gone to Paddan-aram: and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan
9 pleased not Isaac his father ; and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba,
11 and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon ^a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set ; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descend-
13ing on it. And, behold, the Lord stood *above it, and said, I am the LoiiD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and
14 to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt ^ spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth
15 be blessed. And, behold, I am with
thee, and wiU keep thee wliitherso- ever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that
16 which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and lie said. Surely the Loud is in this place;
17 and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this i>lace ! this is none other but the house of God,
18 and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had i)ut under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and jioured oil upon the
19 top of it. And he called the name of that place '•Beth-el: but the name
20 of the city was Luz at the first. And Jacob vowed a vow, sayiug, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to jiut
21 on, so that I come again to my fa- ther's house in peace, '^then shall the
22 Lord be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I wiU surely give the tenth unto thee.
29 Then Jacob ^went on his journey, and came to the land of the children
2 of the east. And he looked, and behold a "^^■eU in the field, and, lo, tlu-ee flocks of sheep lying there by it ; for out of that well they watered the flocks : and the stone upon the well's mouth was
3 great. And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.
4 Ajid Jacob said unto them. My breth- ren, whence be ye? And they said,
5 Of Haran are we. And he said unto them. Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?
6 Aaid they said. We know him. And he said unto them, Is it well with him ? And they said. It is well : and, behold, Eachel his daughter cometh with the
7 sheep. And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
8 And they said. We camiot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
9 While he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheej); for
10 she kept them. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Eachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's bro- ther, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's
11 brother. And Jacob kissed Piachel, and lifted iip his voice, and wejit.
12 And Jacob told Eachel that he was
6 That is, The
house of Uod.
'Or. and the Lord wilt be my God, then this stone «t-c.
«Heb. lifted up his feet.
22
GENESIS.
29. 12.
iHeb.
rafih beont/i.
2Heb.
ihatna.
her father's brother, and that he was Rehekah's son: and she ran and told
13 her father. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidmgs of Ja- cob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these
14 things. And Laban said to liim, Sm-ely thou ait my bone and my flesh. And he abode v.itli him the space of a
15 month. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, should- est tliou therefore serve me for nought?
16 tell me, what shall thy wages be '? And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder wasLeah. and the name of
17 the younger was Rachel. And Leah's ej'es were tender; but Rachel was
18 beautiful and weU fa\'ovu'ed. And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Racliel
19thj' younger daughter. And Laban said. It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to
20 another man: abide with me. Ajid Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few
'21 days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that
'221 may go in unto her. And Laban gathered together all the men of the
2:*) place, and made a feast, ibid it came to pass in the eveniiig, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in mito her.
24 And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid imto his daughter Leah for au hand-
25 maid. And it came to pass in tlic morning that, behold, it was Leali: and he said to Lalian, YvTiat is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve •^'sith thee for Rachel ? wherefore
'20 then hast thou beguiled me ? And Lalmn said. It is not so done in oui' l^lace, to give the younger before the
27 firstborn. Fulfil the week of this one, and we will g\\e tliee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve
28 with me j'et seven other years. Aiid Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter
29 to v>'ife. And Laban gave to Rachel his da'aghter Bilhali his handmaid to
30 be her liandmaid. And he went in also mito Rachel, and he loved also Rachel m.ore than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
31 And the Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he ojiened her womb: but
32 Rachel was barren. And Leah con- ceived, and bare a, son, and she called his name Reuben : for she said. Because the Lord ihath looked upon my afflic- tion ; for now my husband will love me.
33 And she conceived again, and bare a son ; and said, Because the Loed 2 hath heard that I am hated, lie hath there-
fore given me this son also: and she
34 called his name •'' Simeon. And she con- ceiA'ed again, and bare a son ; and said. Now this time will my husband be ^joined imto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his
35 name called Levi. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said. This time ■n'iU I Upraise the Lord: therefore she called his name " Judah; and slie left bearing.
30 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister ; and she said unto Jacob, Give
2 me chilch-en, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel : and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hatli withheld from thee the fruit of the
3 womb ? jVnd she said. Behold my maid Bilhah, go in imto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may
4'? obtain children bj' her. And she gave him Bilhah her hanchuaid to wife : and
5 Jacob went in unto her. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
6 And Rachel said, God hath ^ judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son : therefore called
7 she his name Dan. And Bilhah Ra- chel's handmaid conceived again, and
8 bare Jacob a second son. And Rachel s?id, Trith y mighty wrestlmgs have I lOvvrestled v.'ith my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name
9 Naphtali. When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to
10 wife. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid
11 bare Jacol) a son. And Leah said, iiFortmiate! and she called his name
12 12 Gad. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid
13 bare Jacob a second son. And Leah said, isHappj'am I! for the daughters will i^call me happy: and she called
14 his name Asher. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found i-"'mandi'akes in the field, and brought them imto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray
15 thee, of thy son's mandrakes. And she said mito her, Is it a small m.atter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's nianehakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night
IGfor thy son's man(h-akes. And Jacob came from the field in the evenmg, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandi'akes. And he lay with
17 her that night. And God hearkened luito Leah, and she conceived, and
18 bare Jacob a fifth sou. And Leah said, God hath given me my iGliiro, because I gave my handmaid to my husband : and she called his name Issachar.
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare
20 a sixth son to Jacob. And Leah said,
3Heb. Shimeon.
iFrom the root lavah.
^ From tlie Heb. hotlah.
6 Heb. Jehu- dtih.
■Heb. be build- ed by her.
a Heb. dan, he judged.
0 Heb. urest- lings of God. 10 Heb. niphtal, he wrestled.
u Heb. With
fortune/ Another reading is. For- tune is come.
12 That is. For- tune.
13 Heb. With my happi- ness I
H Heb.
ash^ry to
call
happy.
IS Or,
love-
apples
le Heb. saehfir.
31. 14.
GENESIS.
23
iHcb. tabal, ho dwelt.
! Hob.
jottt'ph.
3Heb. broken forth. * Heb. ac ^nif foot.
5 Or.
ttortix free
(toiT liath ondowed mo V\-illi n, good dowry; now will my husband idwell with nie, because I have bonio him six sous: and she called his name
21 Zel)uluu. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name JJinah.
22 And God remembered Ivachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened
'2;iher womb. And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken
24awaj' my reproach: and she called liis name Joseph, saying. The Lokd -add to me another son.
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my coun-
26 try. Gi\e me my wives and iny child- ren for whom I have served thee, and let me go : for thou knowest my service
27 wherewith I liave served thee. And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, /«rn/ : for I have divined that the Lokd hath
28 blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appttint me thy v.ages, and I will give
29 it. And he said unto him, Thou knov/- est how I have served thee, and liow
I 30 thy cattle hath fared with me. For it was little which tlioii hadst before I came, and it hath ^ increased unto a multitude ; and the Lord hath blessed thee ■* whithersoever I turned : and now when shall I provide for mine own .'51 house also ? And he said, VHiat shall I give thee ? And Jacob said. Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thuig for me, I will again feed thy
32 flock and keep it. I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats : and of such shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me hei'eafter, when thou shalt come concerning mj- hire that is before thee : every one that is not speckled and spot- ted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that if found with me shall
3'4be counted stolen. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according
35 to tlij- word. And he removed tliat day the he-goats that were riugstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, e^■ery one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave
36 them into the hand of his sons; and he set thi-ee days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob : and Jacob fed the
37 rest of Labau's docks. And Jacob took him rods of fresh ^ poplar, and of the almond and of the plane tree; and peeled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which
38 was in the rods. Aiid he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering
troughs where the flocks came to drink; and tliey conceived when they
31) came to drink. And the flocks con- ceived l)efore the rods, and llu^ flocks brought forth riugstraked, speckled,
■10 and spotted. And .tacob separated tlie land)s, and set the faces of the flocks toward the riugstraked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and ho put his own droves apart, and put
41 them not imto Labau's flock. And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might
42 conceive among the rods; l)ut when the flock were feeble, he put them not in : so the feebler were Labau's,
43 and the stronger Jacob's. And tlu' man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.
31 And he heard the words of Labau's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that v.as our father's ; and of that which was our father's hath he 2 gotten aU this ''glory. And Jacob be- held the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as 3beforetime. Arid the Lord said unto Jacob, Eeturu unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kinth-ed; and I
4 will be with thee. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field
5 unto his flock, and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, th.at it is not toward me as bef oretime ; but the God of my father hath been
6 with me. And ye know that with all my power I have served your fathei-.
7 And your father hatli deceived me, and changed my wages ten times ; but
8 God suffered him not to hm-t me. If he said thus. The speckled shall be thy wages ; then aU the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus. The I'ingstraked shall be thy wages ; then bare all the
9 flock riugstraked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father.
10 and given them to me. And it came to pass at the time that the flock con- ceived, that I lilted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he- goats which leajied upon the flock were
11 ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. And the angel of God said unto me in the di-eam, Jacob : and I sai<l. Here am I.
12 And he said. Lift up now thine ej'es, and see, all the he-goats wliicli leap up- on the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that
13 Laban doeth unto thee. I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thoii vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and retm-n unto the land
14 of thy nativity. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him. Is there yet any portion or inlieritance
6 Or,
Wt'Kjth
24
GENESIS.
31. 14.
1 Or, the price paid fur un
2 .See vv. 3(1, 34, Judg. xvii. 5, 1 Sam. xix. 13, .ind Hos. iii. 4.
■■< Heb. stole the heart of Laban the Ar- a7nea>u J That is, the Eu- phrates.
s Heb,
rlitlst
steal me.
15 for us in our father's house ? Are we not counted of Lim strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite
16 devoured loui- money. For all the riches -which God hath taken away from om- father, that is ours and our chUdreu's : now then, whatsoever God
17 hath said unto thee, do. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives
18 ui)on the camels ; and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his gettuig, which he had gathered in Paddau-aram, for to go to Isaac his father unto the laud of Canaan.
19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheei): and Eachel stole the ^teraphim
20 that T.'ere her father's. And Jacob ■''stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that
21 he fled. So he fled with all that he had ; and he rose up, and passed over *the Eiver, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
22 And it was told Laban on the tliird
23 day that Jacob was fled. And he t.iok his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the momitain of
24 Gilead. And God came to Laban the Syi'ian tu a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either
25 good or bad. And Laban came vq> with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethi-en pitched in the mount-
26aiu of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives
27 of the sword? "WTierefore didst thou flee secretly, and ^ steal away from me ; and didst not tell rue, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with haiiJ ;
28 and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ? now hast thou
29 done foolishlj'. It is in the jiower of my hand to do you hm-t : but the God of yom- father spake unto me yester- night, saying. Take heed to thyself that thou sj)eak not to Jacob either good or
30 bad. And now, thouf/h thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore long- edst after thy father's house, yci where-
31 fore hast thou stolen mj' gods ? And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Be- cause I was afraid: for I ,said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from
32 me by force. With whomsoever thou findest thj' gods, he shall not live : be- fore our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Eachel had stolen
33 them. Aiid Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants ; but he found them not. And he went out of
Leah's tent, and entered into Eachel's
34 tent. Now Eachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's furuitiu-e, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but
35 found them not. And she said to her father. Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise uj) before thee ; for the mamier of Vvomen is vipon me. And he searched, but found not the
36 teraphim. And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban : and Jacob answer- ed and said to Laban, What is my tre,sj)ass? what is my sin, that thou
37 hast hotly pursued after me? ^Vliereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff ? Set it here before mj' brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge
38 betwixt us two. This twenty years have I been with thee ; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks
39 have I not eaten. Tliat which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether
40 stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was ; in the day the drought con- sumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from miue eyes.
41 These twenty years have I been in thy house ; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast
42 changed my wages ten times. Except the God of my father, the God of A- braham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mme affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
43 And Lal)au answered and said unto Ja- cob, The daughters are my daughters, and the chiklren are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mme : and what can I do this day unto these my daugh- ters, or unto their chilth-en which they
44 have borne? And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou ; and let it be for a witness between me and
45 thee. And Jacob took a stone, and set
46 it up for a xiillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren. Gather stones ; and they took stones, and made an heap: and
47 they did eat there by the heap. And Laban called it ^ Jegar-sahailutha : but
48 Jacob called it ''Galeed. And Laban said. This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the
49 name of it called' Galeed : and * Mizpah, for he said. The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are ^ absent one
50 from another. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take T.ives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt
51 me and thee. And Laban said to
6 That is. The heap of wit- ness, in Aramaic.
" That is, T>te heap of ivit- tiess, in Hebrew.
8 That is, The watcJi- tower.
0 Heb. hidden.
33. 1.
GENESIS.
25
" Thnt is. Hosts, or, Com-
3Heb. / am Uxs than at I
Jacob, Behold this heap, and Lcliold the pillar, which I have set betwixt
52 me and thee. This heap be witness, and the pillar bo witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over tliis heap and this pillar unto nie, for
58 harm. The God of Abraham, and the (rod of Nahor, the i (lod of their father, judge betwixt us. Aiid Jacob sware by
54 the Fear of his father Isaac. And Ja- cob offered a sacritice in the mountain, and called liis brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried
55 all night in the mountain. And early ill the morning Labaii rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed,
32 and returned unto his place. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels
2 of (iod met him. And Jacob said when he saw them. This is God's host : and he called the name of that plr.ce '•^Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land
4 of Seir, the field of Edoin. ^Vnd he commanded them, saying. Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau ; Thus saith thy h'ervant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:
5 and I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and menservants and maidservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I
6 may find grace in thy sight. And the messengers returned to Jacob, say- ing. We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometli to meet thee, and four huii(b-ed men with him.
7 Then Jacob was gi-eatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the jieople that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels,
8 into two companies; and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it. then the company which is 9 left shall escape. And Jacob said. 0 (jod of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, 0 Lord, which saidst unto me. Return unto thy coun- try, and to thy kindred, and I will do
10 thee good: ^I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed un- to thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
11am become two companies. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau : for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the
12 mother with the children. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multi-
13 tude. And he lodged there that night ; and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother;
14 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-
goats, two hundred ewes and twenty 15 rams, thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty IG she-asses and ten foals. And he de- livered them into the hand of his serv- ants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and
17 drove. And he commanded the fore- most, saying. When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying. Whose art thou? and whither goest thou ? and whose are these before thee ?
18 then thou shalt say. The;/ he thy serv- ant Jacob's ; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau : and, behold, he also is
19 behind us. And he commar.ded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau,
20 when 3'e find him; and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said. I will aji- pease him with the present that goetli before me, and afterward I will see his face; iieradventure he will accept me.
21 So the iiresent jiassed over before him : and he himseK lodged that night in the companj-.
22 Aiid he rose up that night, and took his tv.o wives, and his tvvo handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed
23 over the ford of Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the stream,
24 and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and there ■wi-estled a man with limi until the breaking of
25 the daj'. And when he saw that he jirevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he
26 wrestled with liinl. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou
27 bless me. And he said unto bun, What is thy name'? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said. Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but "* Israel : for ^ thou hast •'striven with God and irifh men,
29 and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said. Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said. Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name ?
30 And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place ■? Peniel : for, said he, I have seen God face to
31 face, and my life is preserved. And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he halted upon his
32 thigh. Therefore the children of Is- rael eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day : because he touched the hol- low of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
33 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hiuidred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and
1 That is.
//(■ who
sfrii'cfh
u'Uh God,
or, (rod
striveth.
5 The
Sei>t.and
Vulgate
have,
thou hast
had
power
with
God, and
thou
shalt
prevail
at/ainst
^nen.
e Or, had
power
with
"That is.
The/arc
of God.
26
GENESIS.
33. 1.
1 Or, far there- fore have I seen 2Heb. blessing.
3Heb. all.
i That is, Booths. 5 Or, to Slialem, a city
6Heb. kesitah.
7 That is, God, the Ood of Jariip'h
unto Rachel, and unto the two hand-
"2 maids. And he put the handmaids
and their childi-en foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and
3 Joseph hindermost. Aiid he himself passed over hefore them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and em- braced him, and fell on his neck, and
5 kissed him: and they wejjt. And he lifted u^) his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "V^Tro are these with thee? And he said, The childi-en which God hath jri-aciously
6 given thy servant. Then the hand- maids came near, they and their child-
7 ren, and they bowed themselves. Aiid Leah also and her childi-en came near, and bowed themselves : and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
8 bowed themselves. And he said, What meanest thou by all this company wliich I met ? And he said, To find gi-ace in
9 the sight of my lord. And Esau said, I have enough; my brother, let that
10 thou hast be thme. And Jacob said. Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my jjre- sent at my hand : i forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
11 Take, I pray thee, my ^gift that is brought to thee ; because God hath dealt gi-aciously with me, and because I have ■^enough. Arid he urged him, and he
12 took it. And he said. Let us take cm- journey, and let us go, and I will go be-
13 fore thee. And he said unto bun. My lord knoweth that the children are ten- der, and that the flocks and herds with me give suck: and if they overdi'ive
14 them one daj', all the flocks will die. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly, according to the pace of the cattle that is before me and according to the pace of the chikh-en, until I come unto my
15 lord unto Seir. And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are ■with me. And he said, What needeth it ? let me And grace in
16 the sight of my lord. So Esau retmiied
17 that day on his way unto Sen*. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle : therefore the name of the place is called * Succoth.
18 And Jacob came ^in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan- aram; and encamped before the city.
19 And he bought the parcel of gromid, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the childi'en of Hamor, Shecheni's father, for an huncb-ed
20 fi pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it 'El-elohe- Israel.
34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out
2 to see the daughters of the land. And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the i^rince of the land, saw her ; and he took her, and lay with her, and
3 humbled her. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake * kindly
4 unto the damsel. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get
5 me this damsel to wife. Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter ; and his sons were with his cattle m the field : and Jacob held his
G peace until they came. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto
7 Jacob to commune with hun. And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it : and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daugh- ter ; which thing ought not to be done.
8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for j'our daughter: I jiray
9 you give her unto him to wife. And make ye marriages with us ; give your daughters imto us, and take our daugh-
10 ters mito you. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get
11 you possessions therein. And Shechem said luito her father and unto her brethren. Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me
121 will give. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I wiU give accord- ing as ye shaU say luito me : but give me
13 the damsel to wife. And the sons of Ja- cob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and sjiake, because
14 he had defiled Dmah their sister, and said unto them. We camiot do this thuig, to give oiu' sister to one that is imcu'cumcised; for that were a rejiroach
15 unto us : only on this condition will we consent mito you : if ye wiU be as we be, that everj' male of j'ou be cir-
16 cumcised ; then wiU we give our daugh- ters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we ivill become one people.
17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circmncised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
18 And their words pleased Hamor, and
19 Shechem Hamor's son. And the young man deferred not to do the thing, be- cause he had delight in Jacob's daugh- ter: and he was honoured above all
20 the house of his father. And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with
21 the men of their city, saying, These men are peaceable with us ; thei'e- fore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein ; for, behold, the land is
8 Heb. to theheart of the damsel.
35. 29.
GENESIS.
27
lOr, boldlu
2 Or, tere- binth
3 Heb. a terror of God.
large enough for them ; let us take their (laughters to us for wives, and let us
'22 give them our daughters. Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised,
2.Sas they are circumcised. Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent imto them, and they will dwell
24 with us. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circimicised, all that
25 went out of the gate of his city. And it came to pass on the third day, when
^ they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city i unawares,
26 and slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth.
27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because
28 they had deiiled their sister. They took theii- flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field ;
29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they caj)- tive and spoiled, even all that was in
30 the house. And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the inhabit- ants of the land, among the Canaan- ites and the Perizzites : and, I being few in number, they will gather them- selves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and
31 my house. And they said. Should he deal with om- sister as with an har- lot?
35 And God said unto Jacob, Ai-ise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there : and make there an altar unto God, who appeared mito thee when thou fleddest from the
2 face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him. Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yom-selves, and change your gai-ments :
3 and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar mito God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the
4 way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in then- hand, and the rings which were in their ears ; and Jacob hid tliem mider the ^oak which was by
5 Shechem. And they jom-neyed: and '' a great terror was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did
6 not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.
7 And he built tliere an altar, and call- ed the place ^El-beth-el : because there God was revealed unto liim, when he
8 fled from the face of his brother. And Deborah Rebekah's imrse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak : and the name of it was called ^Allon-bacuth.
9 And God api^eared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram,
10 and blessed huu. And God said tmto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name : and he
11 called his name Israel. And God said imto him, I am ''God Ahnighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins ;
12 and the land which I gave unto Abra- ham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the
13 land. And God went uj) from him in the iilace where he sjiake with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the iilace where he spake with him, a pillar of stone : and he poui'ed out a di'mk offer- ing thereon, and i^oured oil there-
15 on. And Jacob called the name of the idace where God spake with him, Beth-
16 el. And they journeyed from Beth-el ; and there was still some way to come to Ejihrath : and Rachel travailed, and
17 she had hard labour. Aiul it came to j)ass, when she was in hard labom*, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not ; for now thou shalt have another son.
18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departmg (for she died), that she call- ed his name 'Ben-oni: but his father
19 caUedhim^Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was bm-ied in the way to Ephrath
20 (the same is Beth-lehem). Aiid Jacob set uj) a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's gi-ave
21 unto this day. And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower
22 of Eder. And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that laud, that Reuben went and lay with BiUiah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve :
23 the sons of Leah ; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and
24 Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun : the sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benja-
25 min : and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's
26 handmaid ; Dan and Naphtali : and the sons of ZUpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad and Asher : these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Pad-
27 dan-aram. And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Ku'iath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham
28 and Isaac sojourned. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore
29 years. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his
« That is, 'ihc. Hod of ISelh-el.
5 That is, Tlie oak of weep- ing.
BHeb. El Shad- dau
1 That is, The son of rny sorrow,
s That is, The son of the right hand.
28
GENESIS.
35. 29.
1 Some ancient authori- ties have. »o?(. See ver. 24.
2Heb.
Edom.
3 In
1 Chr. i. 3li, Zeph i.
4 Or.
cltiffa
people, old and full of days ; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him. 36 Now these are the generations of
2 Esau (the same is Edom). Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan ; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the i daughter of
3 Zibeon the Hivite ; and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz;
5 and Basemath bare Eeuel ; and Oholibamah bare Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born luito him
6 in the land of Canaan. And Esau took his wives, and his sous, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan ; and went mto a land away from his
7 brother Jacob. For their substance was too gi-eat for them to dwell to- gether; and the land of their sojom-n- ings could not bear them because of
8 their cattle. And Esau dwelt in mount 9Seir: Esau is Edom. And these are the
generations of Esau the father of 2 the
10 Edomites in mount Seir : these arc the names of Esau"s sons ; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Eeuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, ^Zeplio, and Gatam, and Ke-
12uaz. And Tiuuia was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek : these are the sons of
13 Adah Esau's wife. And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerali, Shammah, and Mizzah : these were the
14 sons of Basemath Esau's wife. And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife : and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
15 These are the * dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar,
16 duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, ditke Korah, duke Gatam, duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the laud of Edom; these are the sons
17 of Adah. And these are the sons of Eeuel Esau's son ; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah : these are the dulses that came of Eeuel in the land of Edom; these are the
18 sons of Basemath Esau's wife. And these are the sonsof OhohbamahEsau's wife; duke Jeush. duke Jalam, dnke Korah : these are the dukes that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah,
19 Esau's wife. These are the sons of Esau, and these are their dukes: the same is Edom.
20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land ; Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
21 and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the dukes that came of the Horites, the children of Sen- in the
22 land of Edom. And the children of Lotan were Hori and ■''Heniam; and
23Lotan's sister was Timna. And these are the children of Shobal; ^Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, ''Shepho
24 and Ouam. And these are the child- ren of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah: this is i\juah who found the hot spi-ings in the wilderness, as he fed the asses
25 of Zibeon his father. And these are the children of Anah; Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
26 And these are the children of * Dishon ; ■'Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran
27 and Cheran. These are the children of Ezer; Bilhan and Zaavan and
28ioAkan. These are the children of
29 Dishan; Uz and Ai-an. These are the
dukes that came of the Horites ; duke
Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke
30 Anah, duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of the Horites, according to their dukes ui the land of Seir.
31 And these are the kings that reign- ed in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children
32 of Israel. And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of
33 his city was Duihabah. And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah
34 of Bozrah reigned in his stead. And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead : and
36 the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekali
37 reigned ui his stead. And Samlah died, and Shaul of Eehoboth by the Eiver
38 reigned in his stead. And Shaul dietl , and Baal-hanan the sou of Achbor
39 reigned in his stead. And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and "Hadar reigned m his stead: and the name of his city was ^^^Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the datighter of Hatred, the daughter of Me-zahab.
40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to tlieu* families, after their j)laces, by their names; duke Timnah, duke i^Alvah,
41 duke Jetheth ; duke Oholibamah, duke
42 Elah, duke Pinon ; duke Kenaz, duke
43 Teman, duke Mibzar; duke Magdiel, duke Ii'am : these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations ui the land of then- possession. This is Esau the father of ^the Edomites.
37 And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournmgs, in the 2 land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, beuig seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was
■'In
1 Chr. i. 39, I!o-
niain.
sjn
1 Chr. i. 40,
Alian. "In
1 Chr. i. 40, A'/fe/>7f7.
8Heb. Dishan,
nin 1 Chr. i.
41, Ham- ran.
10 In 1 Chr. i.
42, Jaa- kau.
ninl Chr. i. 60, and some an- cient au- thorities, Hadad. 12 In 1 Chr. i. SO, Pal.
"In 1 Chr. i. 51, Allah.
38. 3.
GENESIS.
29
lOr, a long garment wth sleeves
2Heb.
master
of
dreams.
a lad with the sons of Billiah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of
3 them unto their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his cliild- ren, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him i a coat of many
4 colours. And his lirethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably mito
Shim. And Josejih dreamed a dream, and he told it to his bretlu-en: and
6 they hated hun yet the