LXX Genesis

1 In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. 2 But the earth was invisible and unformed,⁠a and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water. 3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water,⁠b and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.⁠c 7 And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day. 9 And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so.⁠d And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years. 15 And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also. 17 And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, 18 and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so. 21 And God made the great sea monsters, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind, and God saw that they were good. 22 And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. 25 And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. 26 And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness,⁠e and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth. 27 And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.⁠f 28 And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth,⁠g and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. 29 And God said, Look, I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. 30 And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. 31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and, look, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them. 2 And God finished⁠a on the⁠b sixth day his works⁠c which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.⁠d 3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do. 4 This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which God made the heaven and the earth, 5 and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it. 6 But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth. 7 And God formed the man of dust of the earth,⁠e and breathed upon his face the breath of life,⁠f and the man became a living soul. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and placed there the man whom he had formed. 9 And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river proceeds out of Eden to water the garden, from there it divides itself into four heads. 11 The name of the one, Pishon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the third river is Tigris, this is that which flows forth over against the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden, to cultivate and keep it. 16 And the Lord God gave a charge to Adam, saying, Of every tree which is in the garden you may freely eat, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat, but in whatever day you eat of it, you shall surely die. 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.⁠g 19 And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it. 20 And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a help like to himself. 21 And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead of it. 22 And the Lord God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.⁠h 25 And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

1 Now the serpent was the wisest of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made,⁠a and the serpent said to the woman, Why has God said, Do not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, for fear that you might die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die. 5 For God knew that in whatever day you should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and you would be as gods,⁠b knowing good and evil. 6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. 7 And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them. 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. 9 And the Lord God called Adam and said to him,⁠c Adam, where are you? 10 And he said to him, I heard your voice as you walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself. 11 And he said to him, Who told you that you were naked, unless you have eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it alone not to eat? 12 And Adam said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate. 13 And the Lord God said to the woman, Why have you done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate. 14 And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this you are cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on your breast and belly you shall go, and you shall eat earth all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed, he shall watch against your head, and you shall watch against his heel.⁠d 16 And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pains and your groanings; in pain you shall bring forth children, and your return shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.⁠e 17 And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat, cursed is the ground in your labors,⁠f in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat your bread until you return to the earth out of which you were taken, for earth you are and to earth you shall return. 20 And Adam called the name of his wife Life,⁠g because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them. 22 And God said, Look, Adam has become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now for fear that at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live forever... 23 So the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Delight⁠h to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken. 24 And he cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight,⁠i and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that turns about⁠j to keep the way of the tree of life.

1 And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.⁠a 2 And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,⁠b 5 but Cain and his sacrifices he did not regard, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his face fell. 6 And the Lord God said to Cain, Why have you become very sorrowful and why is your face fallen? 7 Have you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still,⁠c to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.⁠d 8 And Cain said to Abel his brother,⁠e Let us go out into the plain; and it happened that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.⁠f 9 And God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? and he said, I do not know, am I my brother's keeper? 10 And God said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me out of the ground. 11 And now you are cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you till the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to you: you shall be groaning and trembling on the earth. 13 And Cain said to the Lord, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.⁠g 14 If you cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from your presence, and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that any one that finds me shall kill me. 15 And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that kills Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might kill him. 16 So Cain went forth from the presence of God and lived in the land of Nod over against Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad fathered Mehujael; and Mehujael fathered Methuselah; and Methuselah fathered Lamech. 19 And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah. 20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle. 21 And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the lute and harp. 22 And Zillah also bore Tubal; he was a smith, a manufacturer both of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal was Naamah. 23 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, you wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have killed a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief. 24 Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain's behalf, on Lamech's it shall be seventy times seven.⁠h 25 And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain killed. 26 And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enosh: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.⁠i

1 This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him: 2 male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called their name Adam, in the day in which he made them. 3 And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and fathered [a son] after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth. 4 And the days of Adam, which he lived after he fathered Seth, were seven hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters. 5 And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. 6 Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and fathered Enosh.⁠a 7 And Seth lived after he fathered Enosh, seven hundred and seven years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9 And Enosh lived one hundred and ninety years, and fathered Kenan. 10 And Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. 12 And Kenan lived one hundred and seventy years, and he fathered Mahalalel. 13 And Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel, seven hundred and forty years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 15 And Mahalalel lived one hundred and sixty and five years, and he fathered Jared. 16 And Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died. 18 And Jared lived one hundred and sixty and two years, and fathered Enoch: 19 and Jared lived after he fathered Enoch, eight hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died. 21 And Enoch lived one hundred and sixty and five years, and became the father of Methuselah. 22 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after he fathered Methuselah, two hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years. 24 And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.⁠b 25 And Methuselah lived one hundred and sixty and seven years, and fathered Lamech. 26 And Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech eight hundred and two years, and fathered sons and daughters.⁠c 27 And all the days of Methuselah which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died. 28 And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty and eight years, and fathered a son. 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah, five hundred and sixty and five years, and fathered sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died. 32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and he fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 And it happened when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the [angels] of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.⁠a 3 And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh,⁠b but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years. 4 Now the giants were upon the earth in those days;⁠c and after that when the sons of God used to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them,⁠d those were the giants of old, the men of renown. 5 And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually, 6 then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered it deeply.⁠e 7 And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am angry that I have made them.⁠f 8 But Noah found grace before the Lord God. 9 And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noah was well-pleasing to God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth. 11 But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity. 12 And the Lord God saw the earth, and it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, A period of all men has come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, look, I destroy them and the earth. 14 Make therefore for yourself an ark of square timber; you shall make the ark in compartments, and you shall pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And thus you will make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it. 16 You shall narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above you shall finish it, and the door of the ark you shall make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories you shall make it. 17 And look, I bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatever things are upon the earth shall die. 18 And I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall enter into the ark, and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, you shall bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that you may feed them with yourself: male and female they shall be. 20 Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to you, male and female to be fed with you. 21 And you shall take to yourself of all kinds of food which you eat, and you shall gather them to yourself, and it shall be for you and them to eat. 22 And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him, so he did.

1 And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter, you and all your family, into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before me in this generation. 2 And of the clean cattle take in to you sevens, male and female,⁠a and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female. 3 And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth. 4 For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every thing that rises up, which I have made, from the face of the earth.⁠b 5 And Noah did all things whatever the Lord God commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth. 7 And then went in Noah and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood. 8 And of the flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth, 9 pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. 10 And it happened after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,⁠c on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark. 14 And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind, 15 went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him. 17 And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from the earth. 18 And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water. 19 And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven. 20 Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains. 21 And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man. 22 And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died. 23 And he blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of all the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noah was left alone, and those with him in the ark. 24 And the water was raised over the earth one hundred and fifty days.

1 And God remembered Noah, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed. 2 And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld. 3 And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after one hundred and fifty days the water was diminished. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month. And in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.⁠a 6 And it happened after forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 And he sent forth the raven to see if the water had ceased; and it went forth and did not return until the water was dried from the earth.⁠b 8 And he sent a dove after it to see if the water had ceased from the earth. 9 And the dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the earth, and he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. 10 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noah knew that the water had ceased from the earth. 12 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more. 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noah, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water subsided from the earth, and Noah opened the covering of the ark which he had made, and he saw that the water had subsided from the face of the earth. 14 And in the second month the earth was dried, on the twenty-seventh day of the month. 15 And the Lord God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Come out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. 17 And all the wild beasts as many as are with you, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: and increase and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him. 19 And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah built an altar to God, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar. 21 And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said,⁠c I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more strike all living flesh as I have done. 22 All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and have dominion over it. 2 And the dread and the fear of you shall be upon all the wild beasts of the earth, on all the birds of the sky, and on all things moving upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, I have placed them under your power. 3 And every reptile which is living shall be to you for food, I have given all things to you as the green herbs. 4 But flesh with blood of life you shall not eat. 5 For your blood of your lives I will require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man. 6 He that sheds man's blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man. 7 But increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and multiply upon it. 8 And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, 10 and with every living creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come out of the ark. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you and all flesh shall not any more die by the water of the flood, and there shall no more be a flood of water to destroy all the earth. 12 And the Lord God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations. 13 I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud. 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh. 16 And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant⁠a between me and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth. 17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon the earth. 18 Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan. 19 These three are the sons of Noah, of these were men scattered over all the earth. 20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house. 22 And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers outside. 23 And Shem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they did not see the nakedness of their father. 24 And Noah recovered from the wine, and knew all that his younger son had done to him. 25 And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, a slave he will be to his brothers. 26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his bond-servant. 27 May God make room for Japheth, and let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, and let Canaan be their servant. 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,⁠a and Elishah, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, Rhodians. 5 From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations. 6 And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah, Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush fathered Nimrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth. 9 He was a giant hunter before the Lord God;⁠b therefore they say, As Nimrod the giant hunter before the Lord. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.⁠c 11 Out of that land came Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, 12 and Dasem between Nineveh and Calah: this is the great city. 13 And Mizraim fathered the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim, 14 and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim (from where came forth Philistines) and the Caphtorim. 15 And Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and the Hittite, 16 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, 17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, 18 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and after this the tribes of the Canaanites were dispersed. 19 And the boundaries of the Canaanites were from Sidon till one comes to Gerar and Gaza, till one comes to Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha. 20 These were the sons of Ham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 21 And to Shem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Japheth the elder. 22 Sons of Shem, Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Cainan. 23 And sons of Aram, Uz, and Hul, and Gather, and Meshech. 24 And Arphaxad fathered Cainan, and Cainan fathered Shelah. And Shelah fathered Heber. 25 And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Joktan. 26 And Joktan fathered Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, 27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, 28 and Abimael, and Sheba, 29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab, all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, till one comes to Sephar, a mountain of the east. 31 These were the sons of Shem in their tribes, according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 32 These are the tribes of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

1 And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all. 2 And it happened as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.⁠a 3 And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen. 4 And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.⁠b 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built. 6 And the Lord said, Look, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do. 7 Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand⁠c each the voice of his neighbor. 8 And the Lord scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower. 9 On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and from there the Lord God scattered them upon the face of all the earth. 10 And these are the generations of Shem: and Shem was a son of one hundred years when he fathered Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.⁠d 11 And Shem lived, after he had fathered Arphaxad, five hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died.⁠e 12 And Arphaxad lived one hundred and thirty-five years, and fathered Cainan.⁠f 13 And Arphaxad lived after he had fathered Cainan, four hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered Shelah; and Cainan lived after he had fathered Shelah, three hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 14 And Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and fathered Heber. 15 And Shelah lived after he had fathered Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 16 And Heber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and fathered Peleg. 17 And Heber lived after he had fathered Peleg three hundred and seventy years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 18 And Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after he had fathered Reu, two hundred and nine years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 20 And Reu lived one hundred thirty and two years, and fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he had fathered Serug, two hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 22 And Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after he had fathered Nahor, two hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters, and died. 24 And Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he had fathered Terah, one hundred and twenty-nine years, and fathered sons and daughters, and he died. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, and Nahor, and Haran. 27 And these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram and Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcah, daughter of Haran, and he was the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai was barren, and did not bear children. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran, and he lived there. 32 And the days of Terah in Haran were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

1 And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of your land and out of your kindred, and out of the house of your father, and come into the land which I will show you.⁠a 2 And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed. 3 And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.⁠b 4 And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and they came into the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Shechem, to the high oak, and the Canaanites then inhabited the land. 7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to your seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord who appeared to him. 8 And he departed from there to the mountain eastward of Bethel, and there he pitched his tent in Bethel near the sea, and Ai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness. 10 And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there, because the famine prevailed in the land. 11 And it happened when Abram drew near to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sarai his wife, I know that you are a fair woman. 12 It will happen then that when the Egyptians shall see you, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall kill me, but they shall save you alive. 13 Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of you, and my soul shall live because of you. 14 And it happened when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful, 15 that the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh and brought her into the house of Pharaoh. 16 And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and donkeys, and menservants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels. 17 And God tried Pharaoh with great and severe trials, and his house,⁠c because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh having called Abram, said, What is this you have done to me, that you did not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, look, your wife is before you, take her and go quickly away. 20 And Pharaoh gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had,⁠d and Lot with him.

1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold. 3 And he went to the place from which he came, into the wilderness as far as Bethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bethel and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar, which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the Lord. 5 And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, and tents. 6 And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great; and they could not live together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites then inhabited the land. 8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are relatives. 9 Look! is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me; if you go to the left, I will go to the right, and if you go to the right, I will go to the left. 10 And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country all around Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of God, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zoar. 11 And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. 12 And Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in a city of the neighboring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.⁠a 13 But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God. 14 And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with your eyes, and look from the place where you now are northward and southward, and eastward and seaward; 15 for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your seed for ever. 16 And I will make your seed like the sand of the earth; if any one is able to number the sand of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered. 17 Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for I will give it to you. 18 And Abram having removed his tent, came and lived by the oak of Mamre, which was in Hebron, and he there built an altar to the Lord.

1 And it happened in the reign of Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, 2 made war with Balla king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, and with Shinar, king of Admah, and with Shemeber king of Zeboyim and the king of Balak, this is Zoar. 3 All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the sea of salt. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they revolted. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Ashtaroth Karnaim, and strong nations with them, and the Emim in the city Save. 6 And the Horites in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Paran, which is in the desert. 7 And having turned back they came to the well of judgment; this is Kadesh, and they cut in pieces all the princes of Amalek, and the Amorites dwelling in Hazazon Tamar. 8 And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrah, and king of Admah, and king of Zeboyim, and king of Balak, this is Zoar, and they set themselves in array against them for war in the salt valley, 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five. 10 Now the salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country. 11 And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and departed. 12 And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he lived in Sodom. 13 And one of those who had been rescued came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he lived by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Onan, who were confederates with Abram. 14 And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan. 15 And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he struck them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus.⁠a 16 And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, to the valley of Save; this was the plain of the king. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth loaves and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth, 20 and blessed be the most high God who delivered your enemies into your power. And Abram gave him the tithe of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, and take the horses to yourself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the most high God, who made the heaven and the earth, 23 that I will not take from all your goods from a string to a shoe-strap, for fear that you should say, I have made Abram rich. 24 Except what things the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Eshcol, Onan, Mamre, these shall take a portion.

1 And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram, I shield you, your reward shall be very great. 2 And Abram said, Master, what will you give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is my heir. 3 And Abram said, Since you have given me no seed, my home-born servant shall succeed me. 4 And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come out of you shall be your heir. 5 And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if you shall be able to number them fully, and he said,⁠a Thus shall your seed be. 6 And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.⁠b 7 And he said to him, I am God that brought you out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land to inherit. 8 And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said to him, Take for me a heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon. 10 So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide. 11 And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them,⁠c and Abram sat down by them. 12 And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and look! a great gloomy terror falls upon him. 13 And it was said to Abram, You shall surely know that your seed shall be a temporary resident in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years. 14 And the nation which they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth here with much property. 15 But you shall depart to your fathers in peace, buried in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now. 17 And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and look, a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces. 18 In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates. 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

1 And Sarai the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Look, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that you may get children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 So Sarai the wife of Abram having taken Hagar the Egyptian her female servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonored before her. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, I am injured by you; I gave my female servant into your bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. May God judge between me and you. 6 And Abram said to Sarai, Look, your female servant is in your hands, use her as it may seem good to you. And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her face. 7 And an angel of the Lord found her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And the angel of the Lord said to her, Hagar, Sarai's maid, where do you come from, and where are you going? and she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands. 10 And the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply your seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the Lord said to her, Look, you are with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael, for the Lord has listened to your humiliation. 12 He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers. 13 And Hagar called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You are God who sees me; for she said, For I have openly seen him that appeared to me. 14 Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; look, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram called the name of his son which Hagar bore to him, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

1 And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God,⁠a be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless. 2 And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying, 4 And I, look! my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a multitude of nations. 5 And your name shall no more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 And I will increase you very exceedingly, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and the God of your seed after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land in which you stay, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God. 9 And God said to Abraham, You also shall fully keep my covenant, you and your seed after you for their generations. 10 And this is the covenant which you shall fully keep between me and you, and between your seed after you for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised. 11 And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you. 12 And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of your seed. 13 He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with money shall be surely circumcised, and my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant. 15 And God said to Abraham, Sarai your wife, her name shall not be called Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her, and give you a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him. 17 And Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed; and spoke in his heart, saying, Shall there be a child to one who is one hundred years old, and shall Sarah who is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said to God, Let this Ishmael live before you. 19 And God said to Abraham, Yes, look, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 20 And concerning Ishmael, look, I have heard you, and, look, I have blessed him, and will increase him and multiply him exceedingly; twelve nations he will father, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time, in the next year. 22 And he left off speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him. 24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 And at the period of that day, Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son, 27 and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations, he circumcised them.

1 And God appeared to him by the oak of Mamre, as he sat by the door of his tent at noon. 2 And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and look! three men stood before him; and having seen them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and bowed in respect to the ground. 3 And he said, Lord, if indeed I have found grace in your sight, do not pass by your servant. 4 Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and refresh yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will bring bread, and you shall eat, and after this you shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment you have turned aside to your servant. And they said, So do, as you have said. 6 And Abraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said to her, Hasten, and knead three measures of fine flour, and make cakes. 7 And Abraham ran to the cattle, and took a young calf, tender and good, and gave it to his servant, and he hastened to dress it. 8 And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed; and he set them before them, and they ate, and he stood by them under the tree. 9 And he said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he answered and said, Look! in the tent. 10 And he said, I will return and come to you according to this period seasonably, and Sarah your wife shall have a son; and Sarah heard at the door of the tent, being behind him. 11 And Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarah. 12 And Sarah laughed in herself, saying, The thing has not as yet happened to me, even until now, and my lord is old.⁠a 13 And the Lord said to Abraham, Why is it that Sarah has laughed in herself, saying, Shall I then indeed bear? but I am grown old. 14 Shall anything be impossible with God? At this time I will return to you seasonably, and Sarah shall have a son. 15 But Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said to her, No, but you did laugh. 16 And the men having risen up from there looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah. And Abraham went with them, attending them on their journey. 17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham my servant what things I intend to do? 18 But Abraham shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. 19 For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all things whatever he has spoken to him. 20 And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has been increased toward me, and their sins are very great. 21 I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know. 22 And the men having departed from there, came to Sodom; and Abraham was still standing before the Lord. 23 And Abraham drew near and said, Would you destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked? 24 Should there be fifty righteous in the city, will you destroy them? will you not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it? 25 By no means shall you do as this thing is so as to destroy the righteous with the wicked, so the righteous shall be as the wicked: by no means. You that judge the whole earth, shall you not do right? 26 And the Lord said, If I should find in Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes. 28 But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, will you destroy the whole city because of the five lacking? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. 29 And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty's sake. 30 And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there thirty. 31 And he said, Since I am able to speak to the Lord, what if there should be found there twenty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. 33 And the Lord departed, when he left off speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

1 And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom, and Lot having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshiped with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, Look! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you shall depart on your journey. And they said, No, but we will lodge in the street. 3 And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they ate. 4 But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people together. 5 And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to you this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them. 6 And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him, 7 and said to them, By no means, brothers, do not act villainously. 8 But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and use them as it may please you, only do no injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof. 9 And they said, Stand back there, you came in to stay, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm you more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew near to break the door. 10 And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house. 11 And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door. 12 And the men said to Lot, Have you here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if you have any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place. 13 For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law. 15 But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take your wife, and your two daughters whom you have, and go forth; for fear that you also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city. 16 And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him. 17 And it happened when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life by all means; do not look round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country all around, escape to the mountain, for fear that perhaps you be overtaken together with them. 18 And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord, 19 since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do toward me that my soul may live, but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, for fear that perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die. 20 Look, this city is near for me to escape there, which is a small one, and there I shall be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of you. 21 And he said to him, Look, I have had respect to you also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which you have spoken. 22 Hasten therefore to escape there, for I shall not be able to do anything until you are come there; therefore he called the name of that city, Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar. 24 And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew these cities, and all the country all around, and all that lived in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground. 26 And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward the surrounding country, and saw, and look, a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it happened that when the Lord destroyed all the cities of the region all around, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot lived. 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. 31 And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth. 32 Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father. 33 So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he did not know when he slept and when he rose up. 34 And it happened on the next day, that the elder said to the younger, Look, I slept last night with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father. 35 So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he did not know when he slept, nor when he arose. 36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father. 37 And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day. 38 And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.

1 And Abraham removed from there to the southern country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, She is my sister,⁠a for he feared to say, She is my wife, for fear that at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 3 And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Look, you die for the woman, whom you have taken, whereas she has lived with a husband. 4 But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, will you destroy an ignorantly sinning and just nation? 5 Did he not say to me, She is my sister, and did she not say to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands I have done this. 6 And God said to him in sleep, Yes, I knew that you did this with a pure heart, and I spared you, so that you should not sin against me, therefore I did not allow you to touch her. 7 But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and shall pray for you, and you shall live; but if you do not restore her, know that you shall die and all yours. 8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and he spoke all these words in their ears, and all the men feared exceedingly. 9 And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What is this that you have done to us? Have we sinned against you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me a deed, which no one ought to do. 10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What have you seen in me that you have done this? 11 And Abraham said, For I said, Surely there is not the worship of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. 12 For truly she is my sister by my father, but not by my mother, and she became my wife. 13 And it happened when God brought me forth out of the house of my father, that I said to her, This righteousness you shall perform to me, in every place into which we may enter, say of me, He is my brother. 14 And Abimelech took a thousand pieces of silver, and sheep, and calves, and servants, and maidservants, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned him Sarah his wife. 15 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Look, my land is before you, dwell wherever it may please you. 16 And to Sarah he said, Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver, those shall be to you for the price of your face, and to all the women with you, and speak the truth in all things. 17 And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his women servants, and they bore children. 18 Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

1 And the Lord visited Sarah, as he said, and the Lord did to Sarah, as he spoke. 2 And she conceived and bore to Abraham a son in old age, at the set time according as the Lord spoke to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised Isaac on the eighth day, as God commanded him. 5 And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, The Lord has made laughter for me, for whoever shall hear⁠a shall rejoice with me. 7 And she said, Who shall say to Abraham that Sarah suckles a child? for I have borne a son in my old age. 8 And the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the day that his son Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah having seen the son of Hagar the Egyptian who was born to Abraham,⁠b sporting with Isaac her son, 10 then she said to Abraham, Cast out this enslaved woman and her son, for the son of this enslaved woman shall not inherit with my son Isaac. 11 But the word appeared very hard before Abraham concerning his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, Let it not be hard before you concerning the child, and concerning the enslaved woman; in all things whatever Sarah shall say to you, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall your seed be called. 13 And moreover I will make the son of this enslaved woman a great nation, because he is your seed. 14 And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath. 15 And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree. 16 And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I can’t see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.⁠c 17 And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Hagar? do not fear, for God has heard the voice of your child from the place where he is. 18 Rise up, and take the child, and hold him in your hand, for I will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of springing water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the child drink. 20 And God was with the child, and he grew and lived in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. 22 And it happened at that time that Abimelech spoke, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the chief captain of his host, to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all things, whatever you may do. 23 Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not injure me, nor my seed, nor my name, but according to the righteousness which I have performed with you you shall deal with me, and with the land in which you have stayed. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away. 26 And Abimelech said to him, I do not know who has done this thing to you, neither did you tell it to me, neither did I hear it but only today. 27 And Abraham took sheep and calves, and gave them to Abimelech, and both made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe-lambs which you have set alone? 30 And Abraham said, You shall receive the seven ewe-lambs from me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well. 31 Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore. 32 And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 And Abraham planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. 34 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

1 And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Look! I am here.⁠a 2 And he said, Take your son, the beloved one, whom you have loved, Isaac,⁠b and go into the high land, and offer him there for a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of. 3 And Abraham rose up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole burnt offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him, 4 on the third day; and Abraham having lifted up his eyes, saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his servants, Sit here with the donkey, and I and the lad will proceed thus far, and having worshiped we will return to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood of the whole burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took into his hands both the fire and the knife, and the two went together. 7 And Isaac said to Abraham his father, Father. And he said, What is it, son? And he said, Look, the fire and the wood, where is the sheep for a whole burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, God will provide himself a sheep for a whole burnt offering, my son. And both having gone together, 9 came to the place which God spoke of to him; and there Abraham built the altar, and laid the wood on it, and having bound the feet of Isaac his son together, he laid him on the altar upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife to kill his son. 11 And an angel of the Lord called him out of heaven, and said to him, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Look, I am here. 12 And he said, Do not lay your hand upon the child, neither do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, and for my sake you have not spared your beloved son.⁠c 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and look! a ram caught by his horns in a plant of Sabec;⁠d and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a whole burnt offering in the place of Isaac his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place, The Lord has seen; that they might say today, In the mount the Lord was seen. 15 And an angel of the Lord called Abraham the second time out of heaven, 16 saying, I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and on my account have not spared your beloved son, 17 surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies. 18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have listened to my voice.⁠e 19 And Abraham returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to the well of the oath; and Abraham lived at the well of the oath. 20 And it happened after these things, that it was reported to Abraham, saying, Look, Milcah herself too has borne sons to Nahor your brother, 21 Uz the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, 22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel fathered Rebekah; these are eight sons, which Milcah bore to Nahor the brother of Abraham. 24 And his concubine whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

1 And the life of Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years. 2 And Sarah died in the city of Arba, which is in the valley, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to lament for Sarah and to mourn. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead; and Abraham spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a temporary resident and a stranger⁠a among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me. 5 And the sons of Heth answered to Abraham, saying, 6 Not so, Sir, but hear us; you are in the midst of us a king from God; bury your dead in our choice tombs, for not one of us will by any means withhold his tomb from you, so that you should not bury your dead there. 7 And Abraham rose up and bowed in respect to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth. 8 And Abraham spoke to them, saying, If you have it in your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me, and speak for me to Ephron the son of Zohar. 9 And let him give me the double cave which he has, which is in a part of his field, let him give it to me for the money it is worth for possession of a burying-place among you. 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham and spoke in the hearing of the sons of Heth, and of all who entered the city, saying, 11 Attend to me, my lord, and hear me, I give to you the field and the cave which is in it; I have given it you before all my countrymen; bury your dead. 12 And Abraham bowed in respect before the people of the land. 13 And he said to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, Since you are on my side, hear me; take the price of the field from me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 But Ephron answered Abraham, saying, 15 No, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land is worth four hundred silver didrachmas, but what can this be between me and you? but bury your dead. 16 And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred didrachmas of silver approved with merchants. 17 And the field of Ephron, which was in Double Cave, which is opposite Mamre, the field and the cave, which was in it, and every tree which was in the field, and whatever is in its borders all around, were made sure 18 to Abraham for a possession, before the sons of Heth, and all that entered into the city. 19 After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the Double Cave of the field, which is opposite Mamre, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 20 So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraham for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Heth.

1 And Abraham was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will adjure you by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them. 4 But you shall go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and you shall take from there a wife for my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back your son to the land from which you came forth, if perhaps the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land? 6 And Abraham said to him, Take heed to yourself that you do not carry my son back there. 7 The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land from which I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to you and to your seed, he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son Isaac from there. 8 And if the woman should not be willing to come with you into this land, you shall be clear from my oath, only do not carry my son there again. 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore to him concerning this matter. 10 And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor. 11 And he rested his camels outside the city by the well of water toward evening, when young women go forth to draw water. 12 And he said, Lord God of my master Abraham, prosper my way before me today, and deal mercifully with my master Abraham. 13 Look! I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of those who inhabit the city come forth to draw water. 14 And it shall be, the virgin to whom I shall say, Incline your water-pot, that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels drink, until they shall have done drinking, even this one you have prepared for your servant Isaac, and by this I shall know that you have dealt mercifully with my master Abraham. 15 And it happened before he had done speaking in his mind, that look, Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, and the same the brother of Abraham, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders. 16 And the virgin was very beautiful in appearance, she was a virgin, a man had not known her; and she went down to the well, and filled her water-pot, and came up. 17 And the servant ran up to meet her, and said, Give me a little water to drink out of your pitcher; 18 and she said, Drink, Sir; and she hastened, and let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him to drink, 19 till he ceased drinking. And she said, I will also draw water for your camels, till they shall all have drunk. 20 And she hastened, and emptied the water-pot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels. 21 And the man took great notice of her, and remained silent to know whether the Lord had made his way prosperous or not. 22 And it happened when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands,⁠a their weight was ten pieces of gold. 23 And he asked her, and said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me if there is room for us to lodge with your father. 24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. 25 And she said to him, We have both straw and much animal feed, and a place for resting. 26 And the man being well pleased, worshiped the Lord, 27 and said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master Abraham, who has not allowed his righteousness to fail, nor his truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord. 28 And the young woman ran and reported to the house of her mother according to these words. 29 And Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to meet the man, to the well. 30 And it happened when he saw the ear-rings and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the man, as he stood by the camels at the well. 31 And he said to him, Come in here, you blessed of the Lord, why do you stand outside, whereas I have prepared the house and a place for the camels? 32 And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and animal feed, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him. 33 And he set before them loaves to eat; but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And they said, Speak on. 34 And he said, I am a servant of Abraham; 35 and the Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he is exalted, and he has given him sheep, and calves, and silver, and gold, servants and servant-maids, camels, and donkeys. 36 And Sarah my master's wife bore one son to my master after he had grown old; and he gave him whatever he had. 37 And my master caused me to swear, saying, You shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I stay in their land. 38 But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and you shall take from there a wife for my son. 39 And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not go with me. 40 And he said to me, The Lord to whom I have been acceptable in his presence, himself shall send out his angel with you, and shall prosper your journey, and you shall take a wife for my son of my tribe, and of the house of my father. 41 Then you will be clear from my curse, for whenever you shall have come to my tribe, and they shall not give her to you, then you shall be clear from my oath. 42 And having come this day to the well, I said, Lord God of my master Abraham, if you prosper my journey on which I am now going, 43 look, I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come forth to draw water, and it shall be that the young woman to whom I shall say, Give me a little water to drink out of your pitcher, 44 and she shall say to me, You also drink, and I will draw water for your camels, this shall be the wife whom the Lord has prepared for his own servant Isaac; and hereby I will know that you have performed mercy with my master Abraham. 45 And it happened before I had done speaking in my mind, at once Rebekah came forth, having her pitcher on her shoulders; and she went down to the well, and drew water; and I said to her, Give me to drink. 46 And she hastened and let down her pitcher on her arm from her head, and said, Drink, and I will give your camels drink; and I drank, and she gave the camels drink. 47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are you? and she said, I am daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him; and I put on her the ear-rings, and the bracelets on her hands. 48 And being well-pleased I worshiped the Lord, and I blessed the Lord the God of my master Abraham, who has prospered me in a true way, so that I should take the daughter of my master's brother for his son. 49 If then you will deal mercifully and justly with my lord, tell me, and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left. 50 And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, This matter has come forth from the Lord, we shall not be able to answer you bad or good. 51 Look, Rebekah is before you, take her and go away, and let her be wife to the son of your master, as the Lord has said. 52 And it happened when the servant of Abraham heard these words, he bowed himself to the Lord down to the earth. 53 And the servant having brought forth jewels of silver and gold and clothing, gave them to Rebekah, and gave gifts to her brother, and to her mother. 54 And both he and the men with him ate and drank and went to sleep. And he arose in the morning and said, Send me away, that I may go to my master. 55 And her brothers and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart. 56 But he said to them, Do not hinder me, for the Lord has prospered my journey for me; send me away, that I may depart to my master. 57 And they said, Let us call the young woman, and inquire at her mouth. 58 And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will you go with this man? and she said, I will go. 59 So they sent forth Rebekah their sister, and her goods, and the servant of Abraham, and his attendants. 60 And they blessed Rebekah their sister, and said to her, You are our sister; become thousands of myriads, and let your seed possess the cities of their enemies. 61 And Rebekah rose up and her maidens, and they mounted the camels and went with the man; and the servant having taken up Rebekah, departed. 62 And Isaac went through the wilderness to the well of the vision, and he lived in the land toward the south. 63 And Isaac went forth into the plain toward evening to meditate; and having lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and saw Isaac; and she alighted briskly from the camel, 65 and said to the servant, Who is that man that walks in the plain to meet us? And the servant said, This is my master; and she took her veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all that he had done. 67 And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted for Sarah his mother.

1 And Abraham again took a wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan fathered Sheba, and Teman, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Reuel, and Adbeel, and the Asshurim, and the Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher, and Enoch, and Abida, and Elraga; all these were sons of Keturah. 5 But Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac his son. 6 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the east into the country of the east. 7 And these were the years of the days of the life of Abraham as many as he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years. 8 And Abraham failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people. 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is opposite Mamre: 10 even the field and the cave which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth; there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. 11 And it happened after Abraham was dead, that God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac lived by the well of the vision. 12 And these are the generations of Ishmael the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian the female servant of Sarah bore to Abraham. 13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, according to the names of their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Massa, 14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 and Hadad, and Teman, and Jetur, and Naphish, and Kedemah. 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their tents and in their dwellings, twelve princes according to their nations. 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he failed and died, and was added to his family. 18 And he lived from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt, until one comes to the Assyrians; he lived in the presence of all his brothers. 19 And these are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac. 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took as wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebekah his wife, because she was barren; and God heard him, and his wife Rebekah conceived in her womb. 22 And the babes leaped within her; and she said, If it will be so with me, why is this to me? And she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your belly, and one people shall excel the other, and the greater shall serve the lesser.⁠a 24 And the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered, and she had twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau. 26 And after this came forth his brother, and his hand took hold of the heel of Esau; and she called his name Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah bore them. 27 And the lads grew, and Esau was a man skilled in hunting, dwelling in the country, and Jacob a simple man, dwelling in a house. 28 And Isaac loved Esau, because his venison was his food, but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 And Jacob cooked stew, and Esau came from the plain, fainting. 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste of that red stew, because I am fainting; therefore his name was called Edom. 31 And Jacob said to Esau, Sell me this day your birthright. 32 And Esau said, Look, I am going to die, and for what good does this birthright belong to me? 33 And Jacob said to him, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him; and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. 34 And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and stew of lentils; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; so Esau slighted his birthright.

1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine, which was in the time of Abraham; and Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines to Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt, but dwell in the land, which I shall tell you of. 3 And stay in this land; and I will be with you, and bless you, for I will give to you and to your seed all this land; and I will establish my oath which I swore to your father Abraham. 4 And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven; and I will give to your seed all this land, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in your seed. 5 Because Abraham your father listened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes. 6 And Isaac lived in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place questioned him concerning Rebekah his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, for fear that at any time the men of the place should kill him because of Rebekah, because she was fair. 8 And he remained there a long time, and Abimelech the king of Gerar leaned to look through the window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said to him, Is she then your wife? why have you said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, For I said, I was afraid that I die on her account. 10 And Abimelech said to him, Why have you done this to us? one of my kindred within a little had lain with your wife, and you would have brought a sin of ignorance upon us. 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Every man that touches this man or his wife shall be liable to death. 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found in that year barley one hundred-fold, and the Lord blessed him. 13 And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great. 14 And he had cattle of sheep, and cattle of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him. 15 And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Depart from us, for you have become much mightier than we. 17 And Isaac departed from there, and rested in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. 18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them. 19 And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water. 20 And the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him. 21 And having departed from there he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity. 22 And he departed from there and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth. 23 And he went up from there to the well of the oath. 24 And the Lord appeared to him in that night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father; do not fear, for I am with you, and I will bless you, and multiply your seed for the sake of Abraham your father. 25 And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well. 26 And Abimelech came to him from Gerar, and so did Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the commander-in-chief of his army. 27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me? whereas you hated me, and sent me away from you. 28 And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with you, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and we will make a covenant with you, 29 that you shall do no wrong by us, as we have not abhorred you, and according as we have treated you well, and have sent you forth peaceably; and now you are blessed of the Lord. 30 And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. 31 And they arose in the morning, and swore each to his neighbor; and Isaac sent them forth, and they departed from him in safety. 32 And it happened in that day, that the servants of Isaac came and told him of the well which they had dug; and they said, We have not found water. 33 And he called it, Oath: therefore he called the name of that city, the Well of Oath, until this day. 34 And Esau was forty years old; and he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beer the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hivite. 35 And they were provoking to Isaac and Rebekah.

1 And it happened after Isaac was old, that his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see; and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him, My son; and he said, Look, I am here. 2 And he said, Look, I have grown old, and do not know the day of my death. 3 Now then take the weapons, both your quiver and your bow, and go into the plain, and get me venison, 4 and make me food, as I like it, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you, before I die. 5 And Rebekah heard Isaac speaking to Esau his son; and Esau went to the plain to procure venison for his father. 6 And Rebekah said to Jacob her younger son, Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying, 7 Bring me venison, and prepare me food, that I may eat and bless you before the Lord before I die. 8 Now then, my son, listen to me, as I command you. 9 And go to the cattle and take for me from there two kids, tender and good, and I will make them into food for your father, as he likes. 10 And you shall bring them in to your father, and he shall eat, that your father may bless you before he dies. 11 And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill-intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing. 13 And his mother said to him, On me be your curse, son; only listen to my voice, and go and bring them to me. 14 So he went and took and brought them to his mother; and his mother made food, as his father liked it. 15 And Rebekah having taken the fine clothing of her elder son Esau which was with her in the house, put it on Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put on his arms the skins of the kids, and on the bare parts of his neck. 17 And she gave the food, and the loaves which she had prepared, into the hands of Jacob her son. 18 And he brought them to his father, and said, Father; and he said, Look, I am here; who are you, son? 19 And Jacob said to his father, I, Esau your firstborn, have done as you told me; rise, sit, and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me. 20 And Isaac said to his son, What is this which you have quickly found, son? And he said, That which the Lord your God presented before me. 21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Draw near to me, and I will feel you, son, if you are my son Esau or not. 22 And Jacob drew near to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And he did not know him, for his hands were as the hands of his brother Esau, hairy; and he blessed him, 24 and he said, Are you my son Esau? and he said, I am. 25 And he said, Bring it here, and I will eat of your venison, son, that my soul may bless you; and he brought it near to him, and he ate, and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 And Isaac his father said to him, Draw near to me, and kiss me, son. 27 And he drew near and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Look, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed. 28 And may God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and wine. 29 And let nations serve you, and princes bow down to you, and be lord of your brother, and the sons of your father shall do you reverence; the one who curses you is cursed, and the one who blesses you is blessed. 30 And it happened after Isaac had ceased blessing his son Jacob, it even happened, just when Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made food and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your firstborn son Esau. 33 And Isaac was amazed with very great amazement, and said, Who then is it that has procured venison for me and brought it to me? and I have eaten of all before you came, and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed. 34 And it happened when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac, he cried out with a great and very bitter cry, and said, Bless, Please, me also, father. 35 And he said to him, Your brother has come with subtlety, and taken your blessing. 36 And he said, Rightly was his name called Jacob, for look! this second time he has supplanted me; he has both taken my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing; and Esau said to his father, Have you not left a blessing for me, father? 37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, If I have made him your lord, and have made all his brothers his servants, and have strengthened him with grain and wine, what then shall I do for you, son? 38 And Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, father? Bless, Please, me also, father. And Isaac being troubled, Esau cried aloud and wept. 39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Look, your dwelling shall be away from the fatness of the earth, and away from the dew of heaven from above.⁠a 40 And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be a time when you shall break and loosen his yoke from your neck. 41 And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw near, that I may kill my brother Jacob. 42 And the words of Esau her elder son were reported to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Look, Esau your brother threatens you to kill you. 43 Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Haran. 44 And dwell with him certain days, until your brother's anger 45 and rage depart from you, and he forget what you have done to him; and I will send and fetch you from there, for fear that at any time I should be bereaved of you both in one day. 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Heth; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, why should I live?

1 And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites. 2 Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself from there a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 3 And may my God bless you, and increase you, and multiply you, and you shall become gatherings of nations. 4 And may he give you the blessing of my father Abraham, even to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your stay, which God gave to Abraham. 5 So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife from there, and that he charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites; 7 and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria. 8 And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Canaan were evil before his father Isaac, 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, a wife in addition to his other wives. 10 And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Haran. 11 And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place, 12 and dreamed, and look, a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it. 13 And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the Lord the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; do not fear, the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed. 14 And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed. 15 And look, I am with you to preserve you continually in all the way in which you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you. 16 And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it. 19 And Jacob called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Ulam-luz. 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, 21 and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then the Lord will be a God to me. 22 And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatever you shall give me, I will tithe a tenth for you.

1 And Jacob started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau. 2 And he looks, and look! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well. 3 And there were all the flocks gathered, and they used to roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flocks, and set the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well. 4 And Jacob said to them, Brothers, where are you from? and they said, We are of Haran. 5 And he said to them, Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor? and they said, We do know him. 6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And look, Rachel his daughter came with the sheep. 7 And Jacob said, It is yet high day, it is not yet time that the flocks be gathered together; water the flocks, and depart and feed them. 8 And they said, We shall not be able, until all the shepherds be gathered together, and they shall roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, then we will water the flocks. 9 While he was yet speaking to them, Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father's sheep, for she fed the sheep of her father. 10 And it happened when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob came and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and cried with a loud voice and wept. 12 And he told Rachel that he was the near relative of her father, and the son of Rebekah; and she ran and reported to her father according to these words. 13 And it happened when Laban heard the name of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced and kissed him, and brought him into his house; and he told Laban all these sayings. 14 And Laban said to him, You are of my bones and of my flesh; and he was with him a full month. 15 And Laban said to Jacob, Surely you shall not serve me for nothing, because you are my brother; tell me what your reward is to be. 16 Now Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel. 17 And the eyes of Leah were weak.⁠a But Rachel was beautiful in appearance, and exceedingly fair in face. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. 19 And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me. 20 And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were before him as a few days, by reason of his loving her. 21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a marriage-feast. 23 And it was evening, and Laban took his daughter Leah, and brought her in to Jacob, and Jacob went in to her. 24 And Laban gave to his daughter Leah, Zilpah his female servant, as a female servant for her. 25 And it was morning, and look, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, What is this that you have done to me? did I not serve you for Rachel? and why have you deceived me? 26 And Laban answered, It is not done thus in our country, to give the younger before the elder.⁠b 27 Fulfill then her sevens, and I will give to you her also in return for your labor, which you labor with me, yet seven other years. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her sevens; and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as wife. 29 And Laban gave to his daughter Rachel his female servant Bilhah, for a female servant to her. 30 And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years. 31 And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. 32 And Leah conceived and bore a son to Jacob; and she called his name, Reuben; saying, Because the Lord has looked on my humiliation, now then my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bore a second son to Jacob; and she said, Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given to me this one also; and she called his name, Simeon. 34 And she conceived yet again, and bore a son, and said, In the present time my husband will be with me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore she called his name, Levi. 35 And having conceived yet again, she bore a son, and said, Now yet again this time I will give thanks to the Lord; therefore she called his name, Judah; and ceased bearing.

1 And Rachel having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die. 2 And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of the womb? 3 And Rachel said to Jacob, Look, my female servant Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her maid, for a wife to him; and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God has given judgment for me, and listened to my voice, and has given me a son; therefore she called his name, Dan. 7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived yet again, and bore a second son to Jacob. 8 And Rachel said, God has helped me, and I contended with my sister and prevailed; and she called his name, Naphtali. 9 And Leah saw that she ceased from bearing, and she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife. 10 And Jacob went in to her, and Zilpah the maid of Leah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, It is happily: and she called his name, Gad. 12 And Zilpah the maid of Leah conceived yet again, and bore Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, I am blessed, for the women will pronounce me blessed; and she called his name, Asher. 14 And Reuben went in the day of wheat harvest, and found apples of mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah; and Rachel said to Leah her sister, Give me of your son's mandrakes. 15 And Leah said, Is it not enough for you that you have taken my husband, will you also take my son's mandrakes? And Rachel said, Not so: let him lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes. 16 And Jacob came in out of the field at evening; and Leah went forth to meet him, and said, You shall come in to me this day, for I have hired you for my son's mandrakes; and he lay with her that night. 17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 And Leah said, God has given me my reward, because I gave my maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar, which is, Reward. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 And Leah said, God has given me a good gift in this time; my husband will choose me, for I have borne him six sons: and she called his name, Zebulun. 21 And after this she bore a daughter; and she called her name, Dinah. 22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and he opened her womb. 23 And she conceived, and bore Jacob a son; and Rachel said, God has taken away my reproach. 24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, Let God add to me another son. 25 And it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my land. 26 Restore my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, that I may depart, for you know the service with which I have served you. 27 And Laban said to him, If I have found grace in your sight, I would augur well, for God has blessed me at your coming in. 28 Appoint me your wages, and I will give them. 29 And Jacob said, You know in what things I have served you, and how many cattle of yours are with me. 30 For it was little you had before my time, and it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord has blessed you since my coming; now then, when shall I set up also my own house? 31 And Laban said to him, What shall I give you? and Jacob said to him, You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again tend your flocks and keep them. 32 Let all your sheep pass by today, and separate from there every gray sheep among the rams, and every one that is speckled and spotted among the goats; this shall be my reward. 33 And my righteousness shall answer for me tomorrow, for it is my reward before you: whatever shall not be spotted and speckled among the goats, and gray among the rams, shall be stolen with me. 34 And Laban said to him, Let it be according to your word. 35 And he separated in that day the spotted and speckled he-goats, and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, and every one that was white among them, and all that was gray among the rams, and he gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 And he set a distance of a three days' journey between them and Jacob. And Jacob tended the cattle of Laban that were left behind. 37 And Jacob took to himself green rods of storax tree and walnut and plane tree; and Jacob peeled in them white stripes; and as he drew off the green, the white stripe which he had made appeared alternate on the rods. 38 And he laid the rods which he had peeled, in the hollows of the watering-troughs, that whenever the cattle should come to drink, as they should have come to drink before the rods, 39 the cattle might conceive at the rods; and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-colored spots. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set before the sheep a speckled ram, and every variegated one among the lambs, and he separated flocks for himself alone, and did not mingle them with the sheep of Laban. 41 And it happened in the time in which the cattle became pregnant, conceiving in the belly, Jacob put the rods before the cattle in the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods. 42 But he did not put them in indiscriminately whenever the cattle happened to bring forth, but the unmarked ones were Laban's, and the marked ones were Jacob's. 43 And the man became very rich, and he had many cattle, and oxen, and servants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys.

1 And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property he has gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and look, it was not toward him as before. 3 And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your father, and to your family, and I will be with you. 4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the plain where the flocks were. 5 And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me. 6 And you too know that with all my might I have served your father. 7 But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me. 8 If he should say thus, The speckled shall be your reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be your reward, then would all the cattle bear white. 9 So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me. 10 And it happened when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I saw with my eyes in sleep, and look, the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots. 11 And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it? 12 And he said, Look up with your eyes, and look at the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to you. 13 I am God that appeared to you in the place of God⁠a where you anointed a pillar to me, and vowed to me there a vow; now then arise and depart out of this land, depart into the land of your nativity, and I will be with you. 14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Have we yet a part or inheritance in the house of our father? 15 Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money. 16 All the wealth⁠b and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children's; now then do whatever God has said to you. 17 And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels; 18 and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images. 20 And Jacob hid the matter from Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away. 21 And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Gilead. 22 But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob had fled. 23 And having taken all his relatives with him, he pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on Mount Gilead. 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to yourself that you do not speak at any time to Jacob evil things. 25 And Laban overtook Jacob; and Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban stationed his brothers in the mount Gilead. 26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? why did you run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword? 27 Whereas if you had told me, I would have sent you away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp. 28 And I was not counted worthy to embrace my children and my daughters; now then you have acted foolishly. 29 And now my hand has power to hurt you; but the God of your father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to yourself that you do not speak evil words to Jacob. 30 Now then go on your way, for you have earnestly desired to depart to the house of your father; why have you stolen my gods? 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, For I said, I was afraid that you should take away your daughters from me, and all my possessions. 32 Take notice of what I have of your property, and take it; and he observed nothing with him; and Jacob said to him, With whoever you shall find your gods, he shall not live in the presence of our relatives; but Jacob did not know that his wife Rachel had stolen them. 33 And Laban went in and searched in the house of Leah, and did not find them; and he went out of the house of Leah, and searched in the house of Jacob, and in the house of the two maidservants, and did not find them; and he went also into the house of Rachel.⁠c 34 And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camel's packs, and sat upon them. 35 And she said to her father, Do not be indignant, Sir; I can’t rise up before you, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and did not find the images. 36 And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that you have pursued after me, 37 and that you have searched all the furniture of my house? what have you found of all the furniture of your house? set it here between your relations and my relations, and let them decide between us two. 38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep, and your she-goats have not failed in bearing; I did not devour the rams of your cattle. 39 That which was taken of beasts I did not bring to you; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night. 40 I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes. 41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years among your sheep, and you did falsely rate my wages for ten lambs. 42 Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now you would have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you yesterday. 43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the cattle are my cattle, and all things which you see are mine, and the property of my daughters; what shall I do to them today, or their children which they bore? 44 Now then come, let me make a covenant, both I and you, and it shall be for a witness between me and you; and he said to him, Look, there is no one with us; look, God is witness between me and you. 45 And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his relatives, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate and drank there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and you today. 47 And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap. 48 And Laban said to Jacob, Look at this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and you; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, the Heap witnesses. 49 And the vision of which he said, Let God look to it between me and you, because we are about to depart from each other. 50 If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. 51  52 For if I should not cross over to you, neither should you cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar. 53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.

1 And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place. 2 And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him. 3 And Jacob said, when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place, Encampments. 4 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom. 5 And he charged them, saying, Thus you will say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob; I have stayed with Laban and tarried until now. 6 And there were born to me oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, and menservants and women-servants; and I sent to tell my lord Esau, that your servant might find grace in your sight. 7 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and look! he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him. 8 And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the sheep, into two camps. 9 And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and strike it, the other camp shall be in safety. 10 And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Lord, you are he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of your birth, and I will do you good. 11 Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which you have done with your servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 12 Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him, for fear that perhaps he should come and strike me, and the mother upon the children. 13 But you said, I will surely do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude. 14 And he slept there that night, and took of the gifts which he carried with him, and sent out to Esau his brother, 15 two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred sheep, twenty rams, 16 milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty donkeys, and ten colts. 17 And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove. 18 And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet you, and he ask you, saying, Whose are you? and where would you go, and whose are these possessions advancing before you? 19 You shall say, Your servant Jacob's; he has sent gifts to my lord Esau, and look! he is behind us. 20 And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus you will speak to Esau when you find him; 21 and you shall say, Look, your servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his face with the gifts going before his presence, and afterwards I will see his face, for perhaps he will accept me. 22 So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp. 23 And he rose up in that night, and took his two wives and his two servant-maids, and his eleven children, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok. 24 And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions. 25 And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning. 26 And he saw that he did not prevail against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him. 27 And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me. 28 And he said to him, What is your name? and he answered, Jacob. 29 And he said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have shown strength with God, and are mighty with men.⁠a 30 And Jacob asked and said, Tell me your name; and he said, Why do you ask after my name? and he blessed him there. 31 And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved. 32 And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he limped upon his thigh. 33 Therefore the children of Israel will by no means eat of the sinew which was benumbed, which is on the broad part of the thigh, until this day, because the angel touched the broad part of the thigh of Jacob, even the sinew which was benumbed.

1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and saw, and look! Esau his brother coming, and four hundred men with him; and Jacob divided the children to Leah and to Rachel, and the two handmaidens. 2 And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 But he advanced himself before them, and did reverence to the ground seven times, until he drew near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and fell on his neck; and they both wept. 5 And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to you? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed your servant. 6 And the maidservants and their children drew near and did reverence. 7 And Leah and her children drew near and did reverence; and after this drew near Rachel and Joseph, and did reverence. 8 And he said, What are these things to you, all these companies that I have met? And he said, That your servant might find grace in your sight, my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep your own. 10 And Jacob said, If I have found grace in your sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore I have seen your face, as if any one should see the face of God, and you shall be well-pleased with me. 11 Receive my blessings, which I have brought you, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them. 12 And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward. 13 And he said to him, My lord knows, that the children are very tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are with young; if then I shall drive them hard one day, all the cattle will die. 14 Let my lord go on before his servant, and I shall have strength on the road according to the ease of the journey before me, and according to the strength of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir. 15 And Esau said, I will leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why so? it is enough that I have found favor before you, my lord. 16 And Esau returned on that day on his journey to Seir. 17 And Jacob departs to his tents; and he made for himself there habitations, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of that place, Booths. 18 And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan,⁠a when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and took up a position in front of the city. 19 And he bought the portion of the field, where he pitched his tent, of Hamor the father of Shechem, for one hundred lambs. 20 And he set up there an altar, and called on the God of Israel.

1 And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants. 2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Horite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her. 3 And he was attached to the soul of Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman, and he spoke kindly to the young woman. 4 Shechem spoke to Hamor his father, saying, Take for me this young woman as a wife. 5 And Jacob heard that the son of Hamor had defiled Dinah his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came from the plain; and when they heard, the men were deeply pained, and it distressed them greatly, because the man committed folly in Israel, having lain with the daughter of Jacob, and so it must not be. 8 And Hamor spoke to them, saying, Shechem my son has chosen in his heart your daughter; give her therefore to him for a wife, 9 and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons. 10 And dwell in the midst of us; and, look, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it. 11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, I would find grace before you, and we will give whatever you shall name. 12 Multiply your demand of dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as you shall say to me, only you shall give me this young woman for a wife. 13 And the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dinah their sister. 14 And Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, and sons of Leah, said to them, We shall not be able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for it is a reproach to us. 15 Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if you also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised. 16 And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take of your daughters for wives to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will be as one race. 17 But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised,⁠a we will take our daughters and depart. 18 And the words pleased Hamor, and Shechem the son of Hamor. 19 And the young man did not delay to do this thing, for he was much attached to Jacob's daughter, and he was the most honorable of all in his father's house. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying, 21 These men are peaceful, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and look, the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters. 22 Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised. 23 And shall not their cattle and their possessions, and their four-footed beasts, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us. 24 And all that went in at the gate of their city listened to Hamor and Shechem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male. 25 And it happened on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and killed every male. 26 And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of the house of Shechem, and went forth. 27 But the sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and ravaged the city in which they had defiled Dinah their sister. 28 And their sheep, and their oxen, and their donkeys they took, and all things whatever were in the city, and whatever were in the plain. 29 And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house. 31 And they said, No, but shall they treat our sister as a harlot?

1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to the place, Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God that appeared to you, when you fled from the face of Esau your brother. 2 And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes. 3 And let us rise and go up to Bethel, and let us there make an altar to God who listened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went. 4 And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the ear-rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Shechem,⁠a and destroyed them to this day. 5 So Israel departed from Shechem, and the fear of God was upon the cities all around them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel. 6 And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Bethel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau. 8 And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and was buried below Bethel under the oak; and Jacob called its name, The Oak of Mourning. 9 And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luz, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him. 10 And God said to him, Your name Jacob shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name. 11 And God said to him, I am your God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come from your own body. 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I have given it to you; and it will happen that I will give this land also to your seed after you. 13 And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God spoke with him, even a pillar of stone; and offered a libation upon it, and poured oil upon it. 15 And Jacob called the name of the place in which God spoke with him, Bethel. 16 And Jacob removed from Bethel, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader; and it happened when he drew near to Chabratha, to enter into the land of Ephrath, Rachel gave birth; and in her delivery she was in hard labor. 17 And it happened in her hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Be of good courage, for you shall also have this son. 18 And it happened in her giving up her soul (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin. 19 So Rachel died, and was buried in the way of Ephrath, this is Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob set up a pillar on her tomb; this is the pillar on the tomb of Rachel, until this day. 21  22 And it happened when Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father Jacob; and Israel heard, and the matter distressed him. And the sons of Jacob were twelve. 23 The sons of Leah, the firstborn of Jacob; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun. 24 And the sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin. 25 And the sons of Bilhah, the female servant of Rachel; Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah; Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria. 27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to a city of the plain; this is Hebron in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Isaac stayed. 28 And the days of Isaac which he lived were one hundred and eighty years. 29 And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

1 And these are the generations of Esau; this is Edom. 2 And Esau took to himself wives of the daughters of the Canaanites; Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Oholibamah, daughter of Anah the son of Zibeon, the Hivite; 3 and Basemath, daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebaioth. 4 And Adah bore to him Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel. 5 And Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, which were born to him in the land of Canaan. 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had got, and all things whatever he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Canaan, from the face of his brother Jacob. 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their stay could not bear them, because of the abundance of their possessions. 8 And Esau lived in mount Seir; Esau, he is Edom. 9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the mount Seir. 10 And these are the names of the sons of Esau. Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, wife of Esau. 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zophar, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau; and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau. 13 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Some, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau. 14 And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon, the wife of Esau; and she bore to Esau, Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. 15 These are the chiefs of the son of Esau, even the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau; chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zophar, chief Kenaz, 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Idumea; these are the sons of Adah. 17 And these are the sons of Reuel, the son of Esau; chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Some, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel, in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, wife of Esau. 18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah, wife of Esau; chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah. These are the chiefs of Oholibamah. 19 These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs; these are the sons of Edom. 20 And these are the sons of Seir, the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 21 and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horite, the son of Seir, in the land of Edom. 22 And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and the sister of Lotan, Timna. 23 And these are the sons of Shobal; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24 And these are the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Onan; this is the Anah who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Zibeon. 25 And these are the sons of Anah; Dishon, and Oholibamah was daughter of Anah. 26 And these are the sons of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Haran. 27 And these are the sons of Ezer; Balaam, and Zucam, and Jucam, and Akan. 28 And these are the sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aram. 29 And these are the chiefs of Hori; chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of Hori, in their principalities in the land of Edom. 31 And these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before a king reigned in Israel. 32 And Balak, son of Beor, reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 33 And Balak died; and Jobab, son of Zerah, from Bozrah reigned in his place. 34 And Jobab died; and Husham, from the land of the Temanites, reigned in his place. 35 And Husham died; and Hadad son of Bered, who cut off Midian in the plain of Moab, ruled in his place; and the name of his city was Getthaim. 36 And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 37 Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his place. 38 And Saul died; and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 39 And Baal Hanan the son of Achbor died; and Arad the son of Bered reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Peor; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, son of Mezahab. 40 These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, in their tribes, according to their place, in their countries, and in their nations; chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jether, 41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 43 chief Magdiel, chief Zaphoin. These are the chiefs of Edom in their dwelling-places in the land of their possession; this is Esau, the father of Edom.

1 And Jacob lived in the land where his father stayed, in the land of Canaan. 2 And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brothers, being young; with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father an evil reproach. 3 And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors. 4 And his brothers having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceful to him. 5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brothers. 6 And he said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed. 7 I thought we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and my sheaf stood up and was erected, and your sheaves turned round, and bowed in respect to my sheaf. 8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words. 9 And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brothers, and said, Look, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence. 10 And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which you have dreamed? shall indeed both I and your mother and your brothers come and bow before you to the earth? 11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying. 12 And his brothers went to feed the sheep of their father to Shechem. 13 And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed their flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them; and he said to him, Look, I am here. 14 And Israel said to him, Go and see if your brothers and the sheep are well, and bring me word; and he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15 And a man found him wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What do you seek? 16 And he said, I am seeking my brothers; tell me where they feed their flocks. 17 And the man said to him, They have departed from here, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan; and Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. 18 And they spied him from a distance before he drew near to them, and they wickedly took counsel to kill him. 19 And each said to his brother, Look, that dreamer comes. 20 Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be. 21 And Reuben having heard it, rescued him out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill him. 22 And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood; cast him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay your hands upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father. 23 And it happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat that was upon him. 24 And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had no water. 25 And they sat down to eat bread; and having lifted up their eyes they saw, and look, Ishmaelite travelers came from Gilead, and their camels were heavily loaded with spices, and resin, and myrrh; and they went to bring them to Egypt. 26 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother, and conceal his blood? 27 Come, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, but let not our hands be upon him, because he is our brother and our flesh; and his brothers listened. 28 And the men, the merchants of Midian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of gold;⁠a and they brought Joseph down into Egypt. 29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and does not see Joseph in the pit; and he tore his garments. 30 And he returned to his brothers and said, The boy is not; and I, where am I yet to go? 31 And having taken the coat of Joseph, they killed a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood. 32 And they sent the coat of many colors; and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this; know if it be your son's coat or not. 33 And he recognized it, and said, It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph. 34 And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35 And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him. 36 And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Potiphar, the eunuch of Pharaoh, captain of the guard.

1 And it happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and came as far as to a certain man of Adullam, whose name was Hirah. 2 And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanite man, whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her. 3 And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name, Er. 4 And she conceived and bore a son again; and called his name, Onan. 5 And she again bore a son; and called his name, Shelah: and she was in Chezib when she bore them. 6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. 7 And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked before the Lord; and God killed him. 8 And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to your brother. 9 And Onan, knowing that the seed should not be his, it happened when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it upon the ground, so that he should not give seed to his brother. 10 And his doing this appeared evil before God; and he killed him also. 11 And Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Sit as a widow in the house of your father, until Shelah my son be grown; for he said, for fear that he also might die as his brothers; and Tamar departed, and sat in the house of her father. 12 And the days were fulfilled, and Shua the wife of Judah died; and Judah, being comforted, went up to those who sheared his sheep, himself and Hirah his shepherd the Adullamite, to Timnah. 13 And it was told Tamar his daughter-in-law, saying, Look, your father-in-law goes up to Timnah, to shear his sheep. 14 And having taken off the garments of her widowhood from her, she put on a veil, and ornamented her face, and sat by the gates of Enaim, which is in the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown; but he gave her not to him for a wife. 15 And when Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she covered her face, and he did not recognize her. 16 And he went out of his way to her, and said to her, Let me come in to you; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law; and she said, What will you give me if you should come in to me? 17 And he said, I will send you a kid of the goats from my flock; and she said, Well, if you will give me an earnest, until you send it. 18 And he said, What is the earnest that I shall give you? and she said, Your ring, and your bracelet, and the staff in your hand; and he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 19 And she arose and departed, and took her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his shepherd the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman; and he did not find her. 21 And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Enaim by the wayside? and they said, There was no harlot here. 22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here. 23 And Judah said, Let her have them, but let us not be ridiculed; I sent this kid, but you have not found her. 24 And it happened after three months, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter-in-law has severely played the harlot, and look, she is with child by prostitution; and Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burnt. 25 And as they were bringing her, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose these things are; and she said, See whose is this ring and bracelet and staff. 26 And Judah knew them, and said, Tamar is cleared rather than I, since I gave her not to Shelah my son: and he did not sleep with her again. 27 And it happened when she was in labor, that she also had twins in her womb. 28 And it happened as she was bringing forth, one thrust forth his hand, and the midwife having taken hold of it, bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one shall come out first. 29 And when he drew back his hand, then immediately came forth his brother; and she said, Why has the barrier been cut through because of you? and she called his name, Perez. 30 And after this came forth his brother, on whose hand was the scarlet thread; and she called his name, Zerah.

1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar the eunuch of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hands of the Ishmaelites, who brought him down there. 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house with his lord the Egyptian. 3 And his master knew that the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospers in his hands whatever he happens to do. 4 And Joseph found grace in the presence of his lord, and was well-pleasing to him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into the hand of Joseph. 5 And it happened after he was set over his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all his possessions in the house, and in his field. 6 And he committed all that he had into the hands of Joseph; and he did not know of anything that belonged to him, save the bread which he himself ate. And Joseph was handsome in form, and exceedingly beautiful in appearance. 7 And it happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me. 8 But he would not; but said to his master's wife, If because of me my master knows nothing in his house, and has given into my hands all things that belong to him: 9 and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but you, because you are his wife; how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God? 10 And when she talked with Joseph day by day, and he did not listen to her to sleep with her, so as to be with her, 11 it happened on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house to do his business, and there was no one of the household within. 12 And she caught hold of him by his clothes, and said, Lie with me; and having left his clothes in her hands, he fled, and went forth. 13 And it happened, when she saw that he had left his clothes in her hands, and fled, and gone forth, 14 that she called those that were in the house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew servant to mock us; he came in to me, saying, Lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 15 And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, having left his clothes with me, he fled, and went forth out. 16 So she leaves the clothes by her, until the master came to his house. 17 And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you brought in to us, came in to me to mock me, and said to me, I will lie with you. 18 And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, having left his clothes with me, he fled and departed forth. 19 And it happened, when his master heard all the words of his wife, that she spoke to him, saying, Thus did your servant to me, that he was very angry. 20 And his master took Joseph, and cast him into the prison, into the place where the king's prisoners are kept, there in the prison. 21 And the Lord was with Joseph, and poured down mercy upon him; and he gave him favor in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison. 22 And the chief keeper of the prison gave the prison into the hand of Joseph, and all the prisoners as many as were in the prison, and all things whatever they do there. 23 Because of him the chief keeper of the prison knew nothing, for all things were in the hand of Joseph, because the Lord was with him; and whatever things he did, the Lord made them to prosper in his hands.

1 And it happened after these things, that the chief cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the chief baker trespassed against their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two eunuchs, with his chief cupbearer, and with his chief baker. 3 And he put them in ward with the keeper of the prison, into the prison, into the place into which Joseph had been led. 4 And the chief keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph, and he stood by them; and they were some days in the prison. 5 And they both had a dream, each his own dream, in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this. 6 Joseph went in to them in the morning, and saw them, and they had been troubled. 7 And he asked the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in the prison with his master, saying, Why is it that your faces are sad today? 8 And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through God? tell them then to me. 9 And the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and said, In my dream a vine was before me. 10 And in the vine were three stems; and it budding shot forth blossoms; the clusters of grapes were ripe. 11 And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand; and I took the bunch of grapes, and squeezed it into the cup, and gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 12 And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three stems are three days. 13 Yet three days and Pharaoh shall remember your office, and he shall restore you to your place of chief cupbearer, and you shall give the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to your former high place, as you used to be cupbearer. 14 But remember me of yourself, when it shall be well with you, and you shall deal mercifully with me, and you shall make mention of me to Pharaoh, and you shall bring me forth out of this dungeon. 15 For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit. 16 And the chief baker saw that he interpreted rightly; and he said to Joseph, I also saw a dream, and I thought I took up on my head three baskets of mealy food. 17 And in the upper basket there was the work of the baker of every kind which king Pharaoh eats; and the fowls of the air ate them out of the basket that was on my head. 18 And Joseph answered and said to him, This is the interpretation of it; The three baskets are three days. 19 Yet three days, and Pharaoh shall take away your head from you, and shall hang you on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat your flesh from you. 20 And it happened on the third day that it was Pharaoh's birth-day, and he made a banquet for all his servants, and he remembered the office of the chief cupbearer and the office of the chief baker in the midst of his servants. 21 And he restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 22 And he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

1 And it happened after two full years that Pharaoh had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river. 2 And look, there came up as it were out of the river seven cows, fair in appearance, and choice of flesh, and they fed on the sedge. 3 And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river. 4 And the seven ill-favored and lean cows devoured the seven well-favored and choice-fleshed cows; and Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he dreamed again. And, look, seven ears came up on one stalk, choice and good. 6 And other seven ears, thin and blasted with the wind, grew up after them. 7 And the seven thin ears and blasted with the wind devoured the seven choice and full ears; and Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream. 8 And it was morning, and his soul was troubled; and he sent and called all the interpreters of Egypt, and all her wise men; and Pharaoh related to them his dream, and there was no one to interpret it to Pharaoh. 9 And the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I this day remember my fault: 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker. 11 And we had a dream both in one night, I and he; we saw, each according to his dream. 12 And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard; and we related to him our dreams, and he interpreted them to us. 13 And it happened, as he interpreted them to us, so also it happened, both that I was restored to my office, and that he was hanged. 14 And Pharaoh having sent, called Joseph; and they brought him out from the prison, and shaved him, and changed his dress, and he came to Pharaoh. 15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have seen a vision, and there is no one to interpret it; but I have heard say concerning you that you hear dreams and interpret them. 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh and said, Without God an answer of safety shall not be given to Pharaoh. 17 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, In my dream I thought I stood by the bank of the river; 18 and there came up as it were out of the river, seven cows well-favored and choice-fleshed, and they fed on the sedge. 19 And look, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, evil and ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such that I never saw worse in all the land of Egypt. 20 And the seven ill-favored and thin cows ate up the seven first good and choice cows. 21 And they went into their bellies; and it was not perceptible that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ill-favored, as also at the beginning; and after I awoke I slept, 22 and saw again in my sleep, and as it were seven ears came up on one stem, full and good. 23 And other seven ears, thin and blasted with the wind, sprang up close to them. 24 And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven fine and full ears: so I spoke to the interpreters, and there was no one to explain it to me. 25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; whatever God does, he has shown to Pharaoh. 26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream of Pharaoh is one. 27 And the seven thin cows that came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years; there shall be seven years of famine. 28 And as for the word which I have told Pharaoh, whatever God intends to do, he has shown to Pharaoh: 29 look, for seven years there is coming great plenty in all the land of Egypt. 30 But there shall come seven years of famine after these, and they shall forget the plenty that shall be in all Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land. 31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine that shall be after this, for it shall be very severe. 32 And concerning the repetition of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it is because the saying which is from God shall be true, and God will hasten to accomplish it. 33 Now then, look out a wise and prudent man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 And let Pharaoh make and appoint local governors over the land; and let them take up a fifth part of all the produce of the land of Egypt for the seven years of the plenty. 35 And let them gather all the food of these seven good years that are coming, and let the grain be gathered under the hand of Pharaoh; let food be kept in the cities. 36 And the stored food shall be for the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; and the land shall not be utterly destroyed by the famine. 37 And the word was pleasing in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh said to all his servants, Shall we find such a man as this, who has the Spirit of God in him? 39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has shown you all these things, there is not a wiser or more prudent man than you. 40 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be obedient to your word; only in the throne will I excel you. 41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Look, I set you this day over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took his ring off his hand, and put it on the hand of Joseph, and put on him a robe of fine linen, and put a necklace of gold about his neck. 43 And he mounted him on the second of his chariots, and a herald made proclamation before him; and he set him over all the land of Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; without you no one shall lift up his hand on all the land of Egypt. 45 And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph, Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis,⁠a as a wife. 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt. 47 And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, whole handfuls of grain. 48 And he gathered all the food of the seven years, in which was the plenty in the land of Egypt; and he laid up the food in the cities; the food of the fields of a city all around it he laid up in it. 49 And Joseph gathered very much grain as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it. 50 And to Joseph were born two sons, before the seven years of famine came, which Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore to him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh; for God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father's house. 52 And he called the name of the second, Ephraim; for God, said he, has increased me in the land of my humiliation. 53 And the seven years of plenty passed away, which were in the land of Egypt. 54 And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph said; and there was a famine in all the land; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 And all the land of Egypt was hungry; and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph, and do whatever he shall tell you. 56 And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians. 57 And all countries came to Egypt to buy from Joseph, for the famine prevailed in all the earth.

1 And Jacob having seen that there was a sale in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you indolent? 2 Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die. 3 And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain out of Egypt. 4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, with his brothers; for he said, I am afraid that disease happen to him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, bowing with the face to the ground. 7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, he knew them, and estranged himself from them, and spoke hard words to them; and said to them, Where have you come from? And they said, Out of the land of Canaan, to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not recognize him. 9 And Joseph remembered his dreams, which he himself saw; and he said to them, You are spies; to observe the marks of the land you have come. 10 But they said, No, Sir, we your servants have come to buy food; 11 we are all sons of one man; we are peaceful, your servants are not spies. 12 And he said to them, No, but you have come to observe the marks of the land. 13 And they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, in the land of Canaan; and, look, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not. 14 And Joseph said to them, This is it that I spoke to you, saying, you are spies; 15 you shall be revealed by this; by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not depart from here, unless your younger brother come here. 16 Send one of you, and take your brother; and you go to prison, till your words be clear, whether you speak the truth or not; but, if not, by the life of Pharaoh, truly you are spies. 17 And he put them in prison three days. 18 And he said to them on the third day, This do, and you shall live, for I fear God. 19 If you be peaceful, let one of your brothers be detained in prison; but you go, and carry back the grain you have purchased. 20 And bring your younger brother to me, and your words shall be believed; but, if not, you shall die. And they did so. 21 And each said to his brother, Yes, indeed, for we are in fault concerning our brother, when we disregarded the anguish of his soul, when he implored us, and we did not listen to him; and therefore has this affliction come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not hurt the boy, and you did not hear me? and, look, his blood is required. 23 But they did not know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. 24 And Joseph turned away from them, and wept; and again he came to them, and spoke to them; and he took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes. 25 And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with grain, and to return their money to each into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and it was so done to them. 26 And having put the grain on their donkeys, they departed from there. 27 And one having opened his sack to give his donkeys fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack. 28 And he said to his brothers, My money has been restored to me, and look, this is in my sack. And their heart was wonder-struck, and they were troubled, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us? 29 And they came to their father, Jacob, into the land of Canaan, and reported to him all that had happened to them, saying, 30 The man, the lord of the land, spoke harsh words to us, and put us in prison as spies of the land. 31 And we said to him, We are men of peace, we are not spies. 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan. 33 And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I shall know that you are peaceful; leave one brother here with me, and having taken the grain you have purchased for your family, depart. 34 And bring to me your younger brother; then I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are men of peace: and I will restore you your brother, and you shall trade in the land. 35 And it happened as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid. 36 And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will you take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me. 37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons, if I bring him not to you; give him into my hand, and I will bring him back to you. 38 But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and suppose it will happen that he is afflicted by the way by which you go, then you shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.

1 But the famine prevailed in the land. 2 And it happened, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food. 3 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man positively testified to us, saying, You shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you. 4 If, then, you send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy you food; 5 but if you do not send our brother with us, we will not go: for the man spoke to us, saying, You shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you. 6 And Israel said, Why did you harm me, inasmuch as you told the man that you had a brother? 7 And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have you a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother? 8 And Judah said to his father Israel, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you, and our store. 9 And I engage for him; at my hand require him; if I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty toward you for ever. 10 For if we had not tarried, we should now have returned twice. 11 And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts. 12 And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, for fear that perhaps it is a mistake. 13 And take your brother; and arise, go down to the man. 14 And my God give you favor in the sight of the man, and send away your other brother, and Benjamin, for I accordingly as I have been bereaved, am bereaved. 15 And the men having taken these presents, and the double money, took in their hands also Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16 And Joseph saw them and his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said to the steward of his household, Bring the men into the house, and kill beasts and make ready, for the men are to eat bread with me at noon. 17 And the man did as Joseph said; and he brought the men into the house of Joseph. 18 And the men, when they perceived that they were brought into the house of Joseph, said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first; even in order to inform against us, and lay it to our charge; to take us for servants, and our donkeys. 19 And having approached the man who was over the house of Joseph, they spoke to him in the porch of the house, 20 saying, We ask you, Sir; we came down at first to buy food. 21 And it happened, when we came to unload, and opened our sacks, there was also this money of each in his sack; we have now brought back our money by weight in our hands. 22 And we have brought other money with us to buy food; we do not know who put the money into our sacks. 23 And he said to them, God deal mercifully with you; do not be afraid; your God, and the God of your fathers, has given you treasures in your sacks, and I have enough of your good money. And he brought Simeon out to them. 24 And he brought water to wash their feet; and gave animal feed to their donkeys. 25 And they prepared their gifts, until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was going to dine there. 26 And Joseph entered into the house, and they brought him the gifts which they had in their hands, into the house; and they did him reverence with their face to the ground. 27 And he asked them, How are you? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom you spoke, well? Does he yet live? 28 And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God; and they bowed, and did him reverence. 29 And Joseph lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, born of the same mother; and he said, Is this your younger brother, whom you spoke of bringing to me? and he said, God have mercy on you, my son. 30 And Joseph was troubled, for his heart yearned over his brother, and he sought to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face and came out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. 32 And they set on bread for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his seniority, and the younger according to his youth; and the men looked with amazement every one at his brother. 34 And they took their portions from him to themselves; but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as the portions of the others. And they drank and were filled with drink with him.

1 And Joseph charged the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put the money of each in the mouth of his sack. 2 And put my silver cup into the sack of the youngest, and the price of his grain. And it was done according to the word of Joseph, as he said. 3 The morning dawned, and the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 4 And when they had gone out of the city, and were not far off, then Joseph said to his steward, Arise, and pursue after the men; and you shall overtake them, and say to them, Why have you returned evil for good? 5 Why have you stolen my silver cup? is it not this out of which my lord drinks? and he divines augury with it; you have accomplished evil in that which you have done. 6 And he found them, and spoke to them according to these words. 7 And they said to him, Why does our lord speak according to these words? far be it from your servants to do according to this word. 8 If we brought back to you out of the land of Canaan the money which we found in our sacks, how should we steal silver or gold out of the house of your lord? 9 With whoever of your servants you shall find the cup, let him die; and, moreover, we will be servants to our lord. 10 And he said, Now then it shall be as you say; with whoever the cup shall be found, he shall be my servant, and you shall be clear. 11 And they hastened, and took down every man his sack on the ground, and they opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, beginning from the oldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin's sack. 13 And they tore their garments, and laid each man his sack on his donkey, and returned to the city. 14 And Judah and his brothers came in to Joseph, while he was yet there, and fell on the ground before him. 15 And Joseph said to them, What is this thing that you have done? do you not know that a man such as I can surely divine? 16 And Judah said, What shall we answer to our lord, or what shall we say, or in what should we be justified? whereas God has revealed the unrighteousness of your servants; look, we are slaves to our lord, both we and he with whom the cup has been found. 17 And Joseph said, Far be it from me to do this thing; the man with whom the cup has been found, he shall be my servant; but go up with safety to your father. 18 And Judah drew near him, and said, I pray, Sir, let your servant speak a word before you, and do not be angry with your servant, for you are next to Pharaoh. 19 Sir, you asked your servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother? 20 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and he has a son of his old age, a young one, and his brother is dead, and he alone has been left behind to his mother, and his father loves him. 21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, and I will take care of him. 22 And we said to my lord, The child will not be able to leave his father; but if he should leave his father, he will die. 23 But you said to your servants, Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again. 24 And it happened, when we went up to your servant our father, we reported to him the words of our lord. 25 And our father said to us, Go again, and buy us a little food. 26 And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother goes down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man's face, our younger brother not being with us. 27 And your servant our father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons; 28 and one has departed from me; and you said that he was devoured by wild beasts, and I have not seen him until now. 29 If then you take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happens to him by the way, then you will bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave. 30 Now then, if I should go in to your servant, and our father, and the boy should not be with us, (and his life depends on this lad's life) 31 it shall even come to pass, when he sees the boy is not with us, that he will die, and your servants will bring down the old age of your servant, and our father, with sorrow to the grave. 32 For your servant has received the boy in charge from his father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty toward my father for ever. 33 Now then I will remain a servant with you instead of the lad, a domestic of my lord; but let the lad go up with his brothers. 34 For how shall I go up to my father, the lad not being with us? for fear that I might see the evils which will happen to my father.

1 And Joseph could not refrain himself when all were standing by him, but said, Dismiss all from me; and no one stood near Joseph, when he made himself known to his brothers.⁠a 2 And he uttered his voice with weeping; and all the Egyptians heard, and it was reported to the house of Pharaoh. 3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him, for they were troubled. 4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Draw near to me; and they drew near; and he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now then do not be grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that you sold me here, for God sent me before you for life. 6 For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing. 7 For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you. 8 Now then you did not send me here, but God; and he has made me as a father of Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt. 9 Hasten, therefore, and go up to my father, and say to him, These things says your son Joseph; God has made me lord of all the land of Egypt; come down therefore to me, and do not wait. 10 And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia; and you shall be near me, you and your sons, and your sons' sons, your sheep and your oxen, and whatever things are yours. 11 And I will nourish you there: for the famine is yet for five years; for fear that you might be consumed, and your sons, and all your possessions. 12 Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 13 Report, therefore, to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all things that you have seen, and make haste and bring down my father here. 14 And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept on him; and Benjamin wept on his neck. 15 And he kissed all his brothers, and wept on them; and after these things his brothers spoke to him. 16 And the report was carried into the house of Pharaoh, saying, Joseph's brothers have come; and Pharaoh was glad, and his household. 17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this; fill your wagons, and depart into the land of Canaan. 18 And take up your father, and your possessions, and come to me; and I will give you of all the goods of Egypt, and you shall eat the marrow of the land. 19 And charge them thus; that they should take for them wagons out of the land of Egypt, for your little ones, and for your wives; and take up your father, and come. 20 And do not be sparing in regard to your property, for all the good of Egypt shall be yours. 21 And the children of Israel did so; and Joseph gave to them wagons, according to the words spoken by king Pharaoh; and he gave them provision for the journey. 22 And he gave to them all two sets of clothing apiece; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of gold, and five changes of clothing. 23 And to his father he sent presents at the same rate, and ten donkeys, bearing some of all the good things of Egypt, and ten mules, bearing bread for his father for the journey. 24 And he sent away his brothers, and they went; and he said to them, Do not be angry by the way. 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. 26 And they reported to him, saying, Your son Joseph is living, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt; and Jacob was amazed, for he did not believe them. 27 But they spoke to him all the words uttered by Joseph, whatever he said to them; and having seen the chariots which Joseph sent to take him up, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. 28 And Israel said, It is a great thing for me if Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.

1 And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spoke to Israel in a night vision, saying, Jacob, Jacob; and he said, What is it? 3 And he says to him, I am the God of your fathers; do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make you there a great nation. 4 And I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will bring you up at the end; and Joseph shall put his hands on your eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath; and the sons of Israel took up their father, and the baggage, and their wives on the wagons, which Joseph sent to take him. 6 And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him. 7 The sons, and the sons of his sons with him; his daughters, and the daughters of his sons; and he brought all his seed into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the sons of Israel that went into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. The firstborn of Jacob, Reuben. 9 And the sons of Reuben; Enoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10 and the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Saul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron, and Jemuel. 13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Puah, and Jashub, and Shimron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun, Sered, and Allon, and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, which she bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, and Dinah his daughter; all the souls, sons and daughters, thirty-three. 16 And the sons of Gad; Zephon, and Haggi, and Shuni, and Ezbon, and Aedis, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher; Imnah, Ishvah, and Jeul, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, which Laban gave to his daughter Leah, who bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls. 19 And the sons of Rachel, the wife of Jacob; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 And there were sons born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, even Manasseh and Ephraim. And there were sons born to Manasseh, which the Syrian concubine bore to him, even Machir. And Machir fathered Gilead. And the sons of Ephraim, the brother of Manasseh; Shuthelah, and Taam. And the sons of Shuthelah; Eden. 21 and the sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Heber, and Ashbel. And the sons of Bela were Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim. And Gera fathered Arad. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which she bore to Jacob; all the souls eighteen. 23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali; Asiel, and Guni, and Izhar, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, who bore these to Jacob; all the souls, seven. 26 And all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his own descendants, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, even all the souls were sixty-six. 27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were nine souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob who came with Joseph into Egypt, were seventy-five souls.⁠a 28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to meet him at Heroonpolis, into the land of Rameses. 29 And Joseph having made ready his chariots, went up to meet Israel his father, at Heroonpolis; and having appeared to him, fell on his neck, and wept with abundant weeping. 30 And Israel said to Joseph, After this I will gladly die, since I have seen your face, for you are yet living. 31 And Joseph said to his brothers, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32 And the men are shepherds; for they have been feeders of cattle, and they have brought with them their cattle, and their oxen, and all their property. 33 If then Pharaoh calls you, and says to you, What is your occupation? 34 You shall say, We your servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

1 And Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father, and my brothers, and their cattle, and their oxen, and all their possessions, have come out of the land of Canaan, and look, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took of his brothers five men, and set them before Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said to the brothers of Joseph, What is your occupation? and they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. 4 And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to stay in the land, for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, for the famine has prevailed in the land of Canaan; now then, we your servants will dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are among them able men, make them overseers of my cattle. So Jacob and his sons came into Egypt, to Joseph; and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, heard of it. And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father, and your brothers, have come to you. 6 Look, the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best land. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of your life? 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, in which I stay, are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they stayed. 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from him. 11 And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded. 12 And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brothers, and to all the house of his father, grain for each person. 13 And there was no grain in all the land, for the famine prevailed greatly; and the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, fainted for the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, in return for the grain which they bought, and he distributed grain to them; and Joseph brought all the money into the house of Pharaoh. 15 And all the money failed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan; and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread, and why do we die in your presence? for our money is spent. 16 And Joseph said to them, Bring your cattle, and I will give you bread for your cattle, if your money is spent. 17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in return for their horses, and for their sheep, and for their oxen, and for their donkeys; and Joseph maintained them with bread for all their cattle in that year. 18 And that year passed, and they came to him in the second year, and said to him, Must we then be consumed from before our lord? for if our money has failed, and our possessions, and our cattle, brought to you our lord, and there has not been left to us before our lord more than our own bodies and our land. 19 In order, then, that we may not die before you, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of the Egyptians, for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold their land to Pharaoh; for the famine prevailed against them, and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And he brought the people into bondage to him, for servants,⁠a from one extremity of Egypt to the other, 22 except only the land of the priests; Joseph did not buy this, for Pharaoh gave a portion in the way of gift to the priests; and they ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land. 23 And Joseph said to all the Egyptians, Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh; take seed for you, and sow the land. 24 And there shall be the fruits of it; and you shall give the fifth part to Pharaoh, and the four remaining parts shall be for yourselves, for seed for the earth, and for food for you, and all that are in your houses. 25 And they said, You have saved us; we have found favor before our lord, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. 26 And Joseph appointed it to them for an ordinance until this day; to reserve a fifth part for Pharaoh, on the land of Egypt, except only the land of the priests, that was not Pharaoh's. 27 And Israel lived in Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they gained an inheritance upon it; and they increased and multiplied very greatly. 28 And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob's days of the years of his life were one hundred and forty-seven years. 29 and the days of Israel drew near for him to die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If I have found favor before you, put your hand under my thigh, and you shall execute mercy and truth toward me, so as not to bury me in Egypt. 30 But I will sleep with my fathers, and you shall carry me up out of Egypt, and bury me in their tomb. And he said, I will do according to your word. 31 And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel did reverence, leaning on the top of his staff.⁠b

1 And it happened after these things, that it was reported to Joseph, Your father is ill; and, having taken his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, he came to Jacob. 2 And it was reported to Jacob, saying, Look, your son Joseph comes to you; and Israel having strengthened himself, sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said to me, Look, I will increase you, and multiply you, and will make of you multitudes of nations; and I will give this land to you, and to your seed after you, for an everlasting possession. 5 Now then your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they shall be mine. 6 And the children which you shall father hereafter shall be yours; they shall be called in the name of their brothers in their inheritances. 7 And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, your mother, died in the land of Canaan, as I drew near to the horse-course of Chabratha of the land of Canaan, so as to come to Ephrath; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem. 8 And when Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he said, Who are these to you? 9 And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God gave me here; and Jacob said, Bring me them, that I may bless them. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim through age, and he could not see; and he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said to Joseph, Look, I have not been deprived of seeing your face, and look! God has showed me your seed also. 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and they did reverence to him, with their face to the ground. 13 And Joseph took his two sons, both Ephraim in his right hand, but on the left of Israel, and Manasseh on his left hand, but on the right of Israel, and brought them near to him. 14 But Israel having stretched out his right hand, laid it on the head of Ephraim, and he was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, guiding his hands crosswise. 15 And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day; 16 the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth. 17 And Joseph having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh. 18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, father; for this is the firstborn; lay your right-hand upon his head. 19 And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make you as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 And Israel said to Joseph, Look, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers. 22 And I give to you Shechem, a select portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow.

1 And Jacob called his sons, and said, Assemble yourselves, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear me, sons of Jacob; hear Israel, hear your father. 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, you my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, hard and self-willed. 4 You were insolent like water, do not burst forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch on which you went up. 5 Simeon and Levi, brothers, put an end to injustice of their own choice.⁠a 6 Let not my soul come into their counsel, and let not my inward parts contend in their conspiracy, for in their fierce anger they killed men, and in their passion they hamstrung a bull.⁠b 7 Cursed be their fierce anger, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, may your brothers praise you; your hands shall be on the back of your enemies; your father's sons shall do you reverence. 9 Judah is a lion's cub: from the tender plant, my son, you have gone up, having couched you lie as a lion, and as a cub; who shall stir him up? 10 A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a prince from his own body, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.⁠c 11 Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his donkey to the branch of it, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape. 12 His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. 13 Zebulun shall dwell on the coast, and he shall be by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon. 14 Issachar has desired that which is good; resting between the inheritances. 15 And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labor, and became a farmer. 16 Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel. 17 And let Dan be a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward), 18 I wait for the salvation of the Lord. 19 Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder them, pursuing them closely. 20 Asher, his bread shall be fat; and he shall yield dainties to princes. 21 Naphtali is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit. 22 Joseph is a son increased; my dearly loved son is increased; my youngest son, turn to me. 23 Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached him, and the archers pressed hard upon him. 24 But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; from there is he that strengthened Israel; 25 from the God of your father; and my God helped you, and he blessed you with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb, 26 the blessings of your father and your mother, it has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains, and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead. 27 Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food. 28 All these are the twelve sons of Jacob; and their father spoke these words to them, and he blessed them; he blessed each of them according to his blessing. 29 And he said to them, I am added to my people; you shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the double cave which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a tomb. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah; 32 in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, purchased of the sons of Heth. 33 And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.

1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the embalmers to embalm his father; and the embalmers embalmed Israel. 3 And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. 4 And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharaoh, saying, If I have found favor in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father adjured me, saying, In the tomb which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, bury your father, as he constrained you to swear. 7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh went up with him, and the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And all the household of Joseph, and his brothers, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they mourned him with a great and very severe lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11 And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan. 12 And thus his sons did to him, and buried him there. 13 So his sons carried him up into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraham bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father. 15 And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, Let us take heed, for fear that at any time Joseph remember evil against us, and repay us for all the evils which we have done against him. 16 And they came to Joseph, and said, Your father adjured us before his death, saying, 17 Thus say to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, since they have done you evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him. 18 And they came to him and said, We, these persons, are your servants. 19 And Joseph said to them, Do not fear, for I am God's.⁠a 20 You took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and many people might be fed. 21 And he said to them, Do not fear, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them. 22 And Joseph lived in Egypt, he and his brothers, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on the sides of Joseph. 24 And Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25 And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then you shall carry up my bones from here with you. 26 And Joseph died, aged one hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.